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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part Two

German & Latin

1619 pp. 35–36 · scans ER039, ER040

Wann du nuhn also beyde Wasser vnnd Goldts vngleiche theil (so nicht allein der qualitet sondern auch der quantitet nach / grosse vngleichheit seindt / dann das erste wann es præparirt / leicht / lind / subtil vnd weich ist / das ander aber gar schwer / vest vnd hart ist) in eine soluir schalen zusammen gemacht vnd gleichsam zu einem truckenen liquori oder amalgama gemacht seindt: So laß solche erstlich 6. oder 7.tag in einer gar linden Wärm stehen / daß es nur lawlecht zu spüren ist / vnd als dann ferner von den zuvorgehalten 3.theilen Wassers / widerumb ein theil genommen / solches in ein rundes vnzerbrechliches gläsern Geschirr oder Faß / gleich einem phiol oder Ey: setz den temperirten liquorem mitten darein / laß es abermals 6. oder 7.tag also stehen / so wirdt der Corpus solis algemach durch dz Wasser dissoluirt vñ auffgelöset: da als dann die Coniunction dieser beyden angehet / vnd also eines in dem andern so lieblich vnd fein wie Eiβ in einem warmen Wasser sich vermischet. Welches die Philosophi auff mancherley arth angedeutet / vnnd einer gespons vnd jhrem Breutigam (wie auch Salomon in seinem hohen lied sagt) verglichen haben.

1619 pp. 35–36 · scans ER039, ER040

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Two

1619 pp. 35–36 · scans ER039, ER040

When you have thus brought together in a dissolving dish the unequal parts of water and gold—unequal not only in quality but also greatly in quantity, for the first, when prepared, is light, gentle, subtle and soft, while the other is very heavy, firm and hard—and made them, as it were, into a dry liquor or amalgam, let this stand first for six or seven days in very gentle warmth, just perceptibly lukewarm. Then take one part from the three parts of water previously kept back and put it into a round, unbreakable glass vessel or flask, shaped like a phial or egg. Place the tempered liquor in its midst and let it stand in this way for another six or seven days. The body of the sun will gradually be dissolved and opened by the water. Then the conjunction of these two begins, and one mingles so delicately and pleasantly in the other as ice in warm water. The philosophers have indicated this in many ways and compared it to a bride and her bridegroom, as Solomon also says in his Song of Songs.

1619 pp. 35–36 · scans ER039, ER040

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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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.