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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 32–33 · scans ER036, ER037

Hierzwischen soltu aber auch nothwendig darbey fleissig erinnert sein / daß du gute merckung gebest auff die werck / wie nemblich die Natur mit der zeit sich in ihrer operation verhalte / daß du dich derselben in allen dingen in diesem deinem laboriren auch ja richten thuest: Wann du solches weist / so nehme als dann der obgemeinen præparirten Wassermaterien 2.theil / auß demselbigen widerumb nacher vnterschiedlich 3.theil. Die 2.theil thue fleissig verwaren vnd auffhalten. Zu dem vorigen 3.theil mustu dann erst wider / eine andere materialische materien / welches dann auch das allerschönste vnd von Gott erschaffene höchste begabte Goldt Corpus (daß der primæ materiæ am nehesten verwandt vnd am ahnemblichsten ist) einen theil gegen dem zwölfften theil / zurechten / zu der ersten fermentation besetzen / vnd mit jhm vereinigen thuen / dann beyde als die vorigen gleichsam / Geistliche vnd Himmlische præparirte wasser Materia / vnnd diß jrrdische Corpus solis, zusammen coniungirt, vnd zu einem Leib gemacht werden müssen.

1619 pp. 32–33 · scans ER036, ER037

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Two

1619 pp. 32–33 · scans ER036, ER037

Before doing so, however, you must be diligently reminded to pay close attention to the works: observe how nature conducts its operation over time, and direct yourself by it in every aspect of your labour. Once you know this, take two parts of the prepared watery matter described above, and divide from it again three distinct parts. Carefully preserve and keep back the two parts. To the former third part you must first add another material matter: the most beautiful and most highly endowed body of gold created by God, which is most closely related and most acceptable to the first matter. Prepare one part against the twelfth part for the first fermentation, and unite it with the water. For the prepared watery matter, which is as it were spiritual and heavenly, and this earthly body of the sun must both be conjoined and made into one body.

1619 pp. 32–33 · scans ER036, ER037

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.