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The Way of Truth
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1619 pp. 270–271 · scans ER274, ER275Derhalben laß dich in der Kochung fleiß zu thun nit verdrüssen, weil alle Arbeit, da die Alchimisten so viel Sudlerey mit haben, allein durch diese schlechte Kochung vollnbracht wird, durch die Kochung reiniget es sich selber, erhöhet vnnd sublimirt sich selber, löset sich selber auff, alle Ding geschehen durch die Kochung. Derowegen ist dir zu rahten, so ist dir auch zu helffen, laß alle andere putrefact. sol. coagul. vnnd calc. oder sublimat. fahren, dann sie keinen Vortheil sondern Schaden bringen, führen auch dabeneben manchen Menschen ins Verderben, dafür du dich wol forthin wirst zu hüten wissen, weil ich dir auß einfältigem getrewen hertzen diesen Vnterricht vnd Meinung habe zugeschrieben, verhoffend du werdest diese meine Meinung, auch was du nehmen sollest, damit du das Werck vollbringen, vnd der Natur in der Kochung bequemlich folgen könnest, wol verstehen. Denn ich dir klärlicher vnd offenbahr die rechte, schlechte, warhafftige Warheit ohne einige Fabeln vnd Parabeln habe erkläret vnd beschrieben, vnnd meine es gut mit dir, so war mir Gott helffe.
The Sophic Hydrolith: The Way of Truth
1619 pp. 270–271 · scans ER274, ER275Do not grow weary of applying yourself diligently to coction, for all the work over which alchemists bungle so much is accomplished by this plain coction alone. Through coction it purifies itself, exalts and sublimes itself, and dissolves itself; everything happens through coction. My advice, by which you can be helped, is therefore to abandon all other putrefaction, solution, coagulation, calcination and sublimation. They bring harm rather than advantage and lead many people to ruin. You will know how to guard against them in future, since I have written this instruction and opinion for you from a plain and faithful heart. I hope you will understand my meaning, and what you should take to accomplish the work and follow Nature fittingly in coction. For I have clearly and openly explained and described to you the proper, plain and genuine truth, without any fables or parables. I mean well by you, as surely as God helps me.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · The Way of Truth · The Way of Truth · Unit 35
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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.
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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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