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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 36 · scans ER040

Wann nuhn solches geschehen / so nehme als dann das erst außgezogne dritte theil solchens auch darzu / doch nicht zu einem oder auff einen tag / sondern zu vnterschiedlichen 7.mahlen / dann das eingesetzte Corpus sonstẽ gar zu feucht vnd vberschwembt / auch letztlich gar verderben werden möchte. Dann wie kein Samen / wann er in dz Erdreich gesetzet / vnnd im anfang zu viel Wasser / Regen oder nässe hat / nicht hervorkommen kan (sondern wie der Bawersman Saat ertrincken thut) also ist es auch mit diesem ebenner massen beschaffen.

1619 pp. 36 · scans ER040

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Two

1619 pp. 36 · scans ER040

When this has happened, take the third part first withdrawn and add that too, but not all at once or in one day: add it on seven separate occasions. Otherwise the body placed in the vessel might become much too wet, be flooded and finally be wholly spoiled. For just as a seed planted in the earth cannot sprout if at the beginning it has too much water, rain or moisture—the farmer’s seed drowns—so the case is exactly the same here.

1619 pp. 36 · scans 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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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.