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Discourse on the Universal · Passage 12
German
Nachmals solte man haben Aquam Cœli, so im Donnerwetter colligiret oder gesam̃let (Ros Cœli Mense Majo collectus) und solches in der Sonnen putrificiren lassen / biß es lebendige Würmlein bekäme / denn solte man es destilliren / so klar / als ein Augenzähr / in diesen solte man die collectam materiam auslaugen / und davon das subjectum scheiden und zuwege bringen / das heist denn / aus Erden Aschen / Lauge / ▽ machen / dieses wäre nun der ludus puerorum (Kinderspiel). Nun kommt das opus mulierum (Weiber Arbeit) quale welche ist coquere (kochen) nun müsse diese materia resolvirt, coagulirt, und so lange depurirt werden / biß ein fix Crystallinisch Saltz draus würde / so flüssig als ein Wachs gantz Crystallinisch durchscheinend / dieses müsse nun ins Erdreich begraben werden / unter dem freyen Himmel / doch zugedeckt / dieses würde sich von sich selber in Aquam nubis (ein Wolcken-Wasser) solviren / die Krafft des Untern und Obern an sich nehmen / und den Spiritum procreationis, (der Erschaffung) der im Erdreich solida corpora in die gröste Felsen / und ad Centrum usque penetrirt (weiter denn 2. Armbrust-Schüsse) nach sich und in sich nehmen; Spiritum illorum Vegetabilem sagt Bernhardus / qui à solo Deo vivo venit, & in terrâ habitat substantia virtutis bonum vel malum semen assumens, & juxta naturam illius multiplicans, qui assimilatur ☿io, sicuti in firmamento omnibus stellis, in Centro terræ omnibus Metallis. Sic ille omnibus rebus totius Mundi associatur, qui animalis, vegetabilis & mineralis, tam intra quam extra Corpus esse, erit atque manebit, est, erit atque fuit, vel desiit esse per orbem virtus rerum.
English
Afterwards one should have heavenly water, collected or gathered in a thunderstorm—“dew of heaven collected in the month of May.” This should be left to putrefy in the sun until living little worms appeared in it, and then distilled as clear as a tear. In this one should leach the collected matter, separate out its subject, and obtain it. This is called making ashes, lye, and water from earth; that is the children’s play. Now comes the women’s work, which is cooking. This matter must be dissolved, coagulated, and purified until it becomes a fixed crystalline salt, as fusible as wax and entirely crystalline and transparent. It must then be buried in the earth under the open sky, though covered over. It will dissolve of itself into cloud-water, taking to itself the power of the lower and upper and drawing into itself the spirit of procreation or creation, which penetrates solid bodies in the earth, into the greatest rocks and right to the centre—further than two crossbow shots. Bernard calls it their vegetative spirit, “which comes from the living God alone and dwells in the earth as a substance of power, taking up good or bad seed and multiplying it according to its nature. It is likened to Mercury, as to all stars in the firmament and all metals at the centre of the earth. Thus it is associated with all things in the whole world, as animal, vegetable, and mineral, both within and outside the body: it will be and remain, is, will be and was, or has ceased to be, the power of things throughout the world.”
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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.
Historical Text and Translation
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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