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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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German & Latin

1619 pp. 145–146 · scans ER149, ER150

Zu dem will ich dich auch mit warheit berichten daß der Kosten/ so vngefährlich in allem/ auff das gantze vniuersal Werck verlauffen möchte/ (außgenommen der täglichen Narung/ vnnd vnterhaltung des Feuwers) vber drey Floren nicht gestehen thut. Dann die Materia/ wie oben auch gehört/ zum theil vnachtsam vnnd gering/ vnd vberall/ der Notturfft nach genug/ ohne grosse Mühe zu bekommen. Die Arbeit ist leicht vnnd geringthätig. In Summa die gantze Kunst/ dem Frommen vnd von Gott darzu erwehlten auffs schlechtest/ vnd einfältigest/ dem Gottlosen aber vnd bösen/ auffs schwerst vnd vnmüglichst zufassen vnnd zu erforschen ist.

1619 pp. 145–146 · scans ER149, ER150

The Sophic Hydrolith: Conclusion

1619 pp. 145–146 · scans ER149, ER150

I will also truthfully inform you that the total expense which the whole universal work may approximately incur, apart from daily food and maintaining the fire, does not exceed three florins. For the matter, as already heard above, is in part disregarded and base and may everywhere be obtained in sufficient quantity for one’s need without great difficulty. The labour is easy and slight. In sum, the whole art is most plain and simple for the devout and those chosen by God for it, but hardest and most impossible to grasp and investigate for the godless and wicked.

1619 pp. 145–146 · scans ER149, ER150

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.