Explanation of the Center in the Triangle of the Center through a Dream

the greedy are never satisfied until the earth covers them, according to the proverb: They will be content with the sarcophagus original Latin: "Sarcophago contenti erunt"; they do not stop until their eyes are pressed shut;

Much is said of the Jews—that they are beyond all measure money-hungry, usurious, and exploitative original: "schinderisch," referring to financial "skinning" or ruthless extortion, lying and deceitful—let no one wonder at this, for they are a heathen people The author characterizes them as "heathen" in the historical sense of being outside the established Christian church of his time who now no longer know what they believe, and the deceit that occurs through them is not their fault, but the fault of the authorities who tolerate them; Among us Christians, however, there is a race or kind of people called smoke-selling chemists original Latin: "fumivendulos Chymicos"; "selling smoke" was a common Early Modern idiom for selling empty promises or fraudulent schemes, or chemical sophists, alchemical gold-beetles original: "Gold-Käfer," a derogatory term for those obsessively pursuing gold through false means, and deceitful smoke-sellers; these act even worse, and are by no means equal to the Jews, but are to be esteemed as something even higher The author uses "higher" ironically here to mean "more advanced in their villainy"; these same people can handle matters much more artfully and, in the eyes of many, more sincerely than all others. They have learned the art so exceedingly well that one does not see oneself to be deceived and led astray until they have become invisible, and no one knows where they have gone; these promise the people how they wish to teach them [to make] gold