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Philosophical Discourse · Passage 2
German
Homo est Mundus intermedius, hat das Superius & Inferius in ihm / absque Influentiâ divinâ ist ihm unmöglich das Superius zu ergründen / daher sehen wir / daß gar wenig die Superiora, videlicet ☿ Cabalisticum; it. Saltz Naturæ ex 🜁e; Nive ▽ erklären. Was ist aber das Inferius? Antwort: Erden / Koth / und Staub / in diesem liegt auch das Saltz Naturæ / in selbigen liegt der Spiritus Mundi / so die Anatomia offenbahret: Der Bauer und alle Menschen haben ihre Nahrung von der Erden / zur Erden werden sie wieder / nun der ☿ Cabalisticus / das Göttliche △ / Spiraculum vitæ rerum creatar: ist in allen creatis zu finden; in einigen mehr und weniger als im andern. Also auch 3. Principia, Corpus, Spiritus, Anima, aber regeneriret / clarificirt werden sie am jüngsten Tage wieder erscheinen / das Superfluum videlicet Elementum ▽ wird separirt / diesen gehen die wahren Philosophi nach / und nehmen Massam Limi vel terræ depuratæ, sive sit vegetabilis, sive mineralis, vel metallica terra, und machen aus einen 2. Spiritum & Saltz aus 2. eines / nemlich / Saltz imprægnatum suo Spiritu. Sie machen aus 2. eins / neml. mit dem Spiritu solviren sie das Saltz / das ist alsdenn das Saltz Universale Solvens.
English
The human being is an intermediate world and contains the upper and the lower. Without divine influence it is impossible to fathom the upper. We therefore see very few explain the upper things: namely Cabalistic Mercury, and the Salt of Nature from air, snow, and water. But what is the lower? Answer: earth, dirt, and dust. The Salt of Nature lies in these too, and within it the Spirit of the World, which anatomy reveals. The peasant and all human beings receive their food from the earth and return to earth. Cabalistic Mercury, the divine fire, the breath of life of created things, is found in all creatures, in some more and in others less. So too are the three principles—body, spirit, soul—but at the Last Day they will reappear regenerated and clarified. The superfluity, namely the element water, will be separated. The true philosophers follow this process. They take a mass of mud or purified earth, whether vegetable, mineral, or metallic earth, and make two from one: spirit and salt. From two they make one, namely salt impregnated with its own spirit. They make one from two by dissolving the salt with the spirit; it is then the universal dissolving salt.
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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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