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Discourse on the Universal · Passage 11
German
Er sagte: Ich solte die materiam, jedem bekandt (wäre wol besser 7. mal depurirt / doch wäre auch nichts dran gelegen) nehmen / so Arme und Reiche / Junge und Alte haben / und das Spiel der Kinder thun / nemlich nach den ersten Gewitter / eine Grube unter offnen Himmel ins Erdreich / so ertrocknet / und an einem hange / doch wäre es besser in einem Thon (sie wäre nicht vergebens ein rother und weißer geschaffen) machen / und mit Urin die Seiten wol begiessen / und solches thun wann schön hell Wetter wäre / auf die Grube Stroh und Laub / daß nichts unreines hinein falle / zudecken / jedoch nicht zu dichte / damit die Sonne des Tages / so wol der Mond des Nachts hinein scheinen / und die Lufft deßgleichen hinein gehen könne; Des Morgens solle man mit der Sonnen Auffgang hinzu gehen / so würde man etwas weisses ausgesprützet finden / solches solte man fein abradiren und alsofort continuiren / biß man dieses gnug hätte.
English
He said that I should take the matter known to everyone, which poor and rich, young and old possess. It would be better purified seven times, though this was not essential. I was to perform the children’s play: after the first thunderstorms, make a pit under the open sky in dried earth on a slope—clay would be better, for red and white clay were not created in vain. I should wet its sides well with urine, doing this in fine, clear weather. I should cover the pit with straw and leaves so that nothing impure fell into it, but not so closely that the sun could not shine into it by day, the moon by night, and the air likewise enter. In the morning, at sunrise, I should go to it. I would find something white sprouted out, which I should carefully scrape off, and continue doing so until I had enough.
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Reading Centrum Naturae Concentratum · Discourse on the Universal · Discourse on the Universal · Passage 11
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The complete supplied German–English edition of the 1682 collection: the main treatise attributed to Ali Puli, Helbig’s preface, distinct companion discourses, the short potable-gold preparation and the anonymous Father’s Last Testament, with four historical figures, 103 annotations and the full Diotimos study apparatus.
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The governing German witness is the complete 1682 collection in Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, shelfmark 87 B 76050, with an unnumbered title and printed pages 1–80. The historical title’s Arabic and Portuguese antecedents and its authorial persona are retained as claims, not authenticated originals. Johann Otto Helbig (Hellwig), Martin de Delle, J. J. F. and the anonymous testament retain their distinct historical roles.
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