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Part One
German & Latin
1619 pp. 13–14 · scans ER017, ER018Erstlich soll ein jeglicher Gottliebender Chymist vnd solcher kunst Philosophus vor allen dingen diß in betrachtung nehmen / daß nemlich solch Arcanum nicht allein vor die gröste vnnd allerhöchste / sondern auch für ein heilige kunst (dieweil das allerhöchste himlische Gut / vnd das allerheiligste des Allmächtigen darinnen angebildet vnd abgemahlet wirdt) zu achten vnd zu halten ist. Darumb wer zu diesem hohen vnd vnaußsprechlichen geheimnuß gelangen oder kommen will / der soll wissen / das solche kunst nicht in gewalt deß Menschen / sondern in dem gnedigen willen Gottes sey / vnd beruhe / vnd nit das wollen oder verlangen / sondern das erbarmen deß Allmächtigen darzu helffe vnd fordere. Darumb du dann zu forderst Gottsförchtig sein / dein Hertz allein zu Gott erheben / vnnd mit einem rechten inbrünstigen vnd glaubigen Gebett / jn vmb solche Gab allein bitten / dann sie allein von jm gegeben werden vnd herkommen muß.
The Sophic Hydrolith: Part One
1619 pp. 13–14 · scans ER017, ER018First, every chymist who loves God and every philosopher of this art should consider above all that this arcanum is to be esteemed and regarded not only as the greatest and highest art, but also as a holy art, because the highest heavenly good and the holiest mystery of the Almighty are represented and portrayed within it. Whoever wishes to reach this high and inexpressible secret should therefore know that the art is not subject to human power, but rests upon God’s gracious will. Neither willing nor desiring brings it forward: the mercy of the Almighty assists and furthers it. Before all else, then, you must fear God, lift your heart to God alone, and ask him alone for this gift in true, fervent and believing prayer, for it must be given by him alone and come from him.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · Part One · Part One · Unit 2
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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.
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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