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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Way of Truth

German & Latin

1619 pp. 235–236 · scans ER239, ER240

Darum, lieber Bruder, ist mein ernstlich vermahnung vñ befehl, dz, so du in dieser herrlichen Kunst zu suchen dich wilt begeben, das du dich in das Sophistische vnordentliche regiment, d sublimirung deß sulphuris vñ mercurii oder d soluirung der Cörpern, auch d coagulirung der Spirituum nit wollest einlassen, auch mit jhren köstlichen Offen nichts zu schaffen haben (denn sie zur rechten Kunst nicht dienlich) Daneben auch, so lange du nicht dem warhafftigen wesen der Natur nachtrachtest, wirstu wol vngetröstet bleiben, das du auch endlich wirst vermeinen, die Kunst sey nichtig, vnd gar erdichtet vnd erlogen.

1619 pp. 235–236 · scans ER239, ER240

The Sophic Hydrolith: The Way of Truth

1619 pp. 235–236 · scans ER239, ER240

My earnest admonition and injunction, dear brother, is therefore this: if you intend to search in this noble art, do not involve yourself in the sophistical and disorderly regimen of subliming sulphur and mercury, dissolving bodies or coagulating spirits. Have nothing to do with their expensive furnaces, for these do not serve the true art. Moreover, as long as you fail to consider the true being of Nature, you will remain without comfort, until at last you suppose the art to be worthless, wholly invented and false.

1619 pp. 235–236 · scans ER239, ER240

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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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.