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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part One

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1619 pp. 15–16 · scans ER019, ER020

Zu demselben auch sollu bey dir solche gedanckẽ machẽ / vñ dieselbẽ wol erwegen / daß du bey leib / ja bey verlust deines heyls vnd seligkeit / solchs Geheimnuß keinem vnwürdigen od’ Gottlosen nicht offenbahren / viel weniger mittheilen oder geniessen lassen / In summá nicht mißbrauchen / allein / wie vorgemeldet / zu Gottes Ehr / vnd gar nicht / zu deinem selbsteigenem Ruhm anwenden wollst. Darneben auch gedencken / daß wann du solches nicht thest / sondern mit gefahr vberschrittest / du als dann von Gott vngestrafft nicht bleiben würdest / vnd es wol tausentmahl besser gewesen / daß du niemals etwas davon gewust oder erfahren hettest.

1619 pp. 15–16 · scans ER019, ER020

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part One

1619 pp. 15–16 · scans ER019, ER020

You must also form and carefully weigh this resolve: on your life—indeed, on pain of losing your salvation and blessedness—you will not reveal this secret to anyone unworthy or godless, still less communicate it to them or allow them to enjoy its benefits. In sum, you will not misuse it, but apply it solely to God’s honour, as already said, and in no way to your own glory. Remember also that if you fail to do this and rashly transgress, you will not escape God’s punishment. It would have been a thousand times better for you never to have known or learned anything of it.

1619 pp. 15–16 · scans ER019, ER020

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.