page_title: Ali Puli
hierarchical_section_title: Ali Puli
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Ali Puli 'Ali Puli een asiatische Moor' by Burghard de Groot. (1735)
context_page_description: Ali Puli, also known as Alipili, is the attributed author of a number of 17th-century alchemical and hermetic texts. However, his historical existence is doubtful, and A.E. Waite went as far as to describe the work attributed to him as "forgery pure and simple in respect of age and authorship [which] may be left to stand at its value in the matter of content."
  He is described as a Mauretanian Christian of Asiatic extraction - also variously as an Arab, and a Moor.
  Most probably, Ali Puli is the pseudonym of Johann Otto von Helwig, a German physician, alchemist and author.
context_section_description: Ali Puli, also known as Alipili, is the attributed author of a number of 17th-century alchemical and hermetic texts. However, his historical existence is doubtful, and A.E. Waite went as far as to describe the work attributed to him as "forgery pure and simple in respect of age and authorship [which] may be left to stand at its value in the matter of content."
  He is described as a Mauretanian Christian of Asiatic extraction - also variously as an Arab (because he was said to have written in Arabic), and a Moor.
  Most probably, Ali Puli is the pseudonym of Johann Otto von Helwig (1654-1698), a German physician, alchemist and author.
caption: 18th Century depiction of Ali Puli by Burghard de Groot
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