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Part One
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1619 pp. 16–17 · scans ER020, ER021Wann du nun solches wohl betrachtet vnnd dich gleichsam gegen Gott (der seiner nicht spotten lest) in solchem verlobt / vnnd dich selbst als das Ziel gesteckt / vnd gesetzt hast: So fange als dann an / vnnd lerne erstlich wie Gott / der Drey einig / im anfang die allgemeine Natur verordnet / wer dieselbe sey / was sie vermöge vnd könne / auch wie dieselbe in allen dingen noch täglich vnd sichtbar wircke / vnd allein in dem Willen Gottes bestehe vnd jhre Wohnung habe / dann ohne wahre Erkäntnus der Natur solch Werck sehr mißlich vnnd gefehrlich dir anzufahen sein will. Der Natur qualitet vnd eigenschafft aber ist / daß sie einig / wahr / schlecht / vnd in jrem wesen vollkommẽ sey / vnd auch ein verborgener Geist in jhr verborgen vnnd verschlossen sey. Wiltu nuhn solche erkennen / so mustu auch eben also / wie die Natur ist / als warhafftig / schlecht / gedüldig vnd bestendig / ja Gottsförchtig / vnd dem nehesten vnschedtlich / in summá ein widergebohrner vnnd newe Mensch sein. Wann du dich nuhn also erkennest vnd befindest / so wirdt als dann die Natur zu der Natur sich bald schicken vnnd finden / darneben auch der vnaußsprechliche nutz an Leib vnd Seel sich ersprießlich bey dir sehen lassen.
The Sophic Hydrolith: Part One
1619 pp. 16–17 · scans ER020, ER021When you have considered this well, pledged yourself in this matter to God, who will not be mocked, and set yourself this aim, begin. Learn first how God, the Three-in-One, ordained universal nature in the beginning: what nature is, what it can accomplish and do, how it still works visibly in all things every day, and how it exists and has its dwelling solely in God’s will. For without a true knowledge of nature, undertaking this work will be very uncertain and dangerous for you. The quality and character of nature is that it is one, true, simple and perfect in its being; a hidden spirit is also concealed and enclosed within it. If you wish to know nature, you too must be as nature is: truthful, simple, patient and steadfast, indeed God-fearing and harmless towards your neighbour—in sum, a regenerated and new person. When you recognise and find yourself to be such, nature will soon adapt and join itself to nature, and its inexpressible benefit for body and soul will fruitfully become evident in you.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · Part One · Part One · Unit 6
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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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