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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Sophic HydrolithFirst Response · 1661

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First Response · 1661

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1661 pp. 201–202 · scans HAB00207, HAB00208

VI. Demnach wird dann ewer Beyder Fleyß vnd Eyfer, welche jhr auf das rechte Erkäntnuß Gottes vnd Lehre der heiligen Bibel wendet, schon längst (wiewol es euch verborgen) auß ewerem Schreiben vernommen, so haben wir auch euch für viel tausenden dieser Antwort würdigen sollen. Vnd vermelden euch demnach auß Göttlicher Zulassung, vnd deß heyligen Geistes Ermahnung, dieses: Da ligt inmitten der Erden, oder Centro Mundi, ein Berg, der ist klein vnd groß, mild vnd weich, auch über die massen festigt vnd hart, einem jeglichen nahe vnd ferne, aber auß Göttlichem Raht vnsichtbar.

1661 pp. 201–202 · scans HAB00207, HAB00208

The Sophic Hydrolith: First Response · 1661

1661 pp. 201–202 · scans HAB00207, HAB00208

VI. Your diligence and zeal, which you both devote to the true knowledge of God and the teaching of the Holy Bible, have long been perceived in your writings, although you did not know it. We have therefore chosen to deem you worthy of this answer before many thousands. With divine permission and at the Holy Spirit’s prompting, we tell you this: in the midst of the earth, or at the centre of the world, lies a mountain. It is small and great, gentle and soft, yet exceedingly firm and hard, near to everyone and far away, but invisible by divine counsel.

1661 pp. 201–202 · scans HAB00207, HAB00208

About This Reading Edition

The anonymous Water Stone of the Wise of 1619, with German text, a new English translation, 240 annotations, three companion treatises from the original volume, two separately identified responses of 1661, and the complete supplied study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Wasserstein der Weysen. Frankfurt: Lucas Jennis, 1619. The governing e-rara copy belongs to the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung, Zürich (DOI 10.3931/e-rara-8968). The work is traditionally attributed to Johann Siebmacher; this remains an attribution, not a name printed in the anonymous witness. The separately sourced First and Second Responses use the 1661 Wolfenbüttel witness, qun-642-1s, pp. 200–206.

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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

Historical texts printed in 1619 and 1661 are in the public domain. The supplied 2026 German reading text, new English translation, introduction, notes and complete study apparatus are published with the site owner’s authorization. The original triangle is credited to the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung, Zürich, and e-rara, Public Domain Mark.