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Part Three
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1619 pp. 50 · scans ER054Wie dann auch die Philosophi solches selbst bekennen, daß sie durch diß die sieben freyen Künst erfunden, auch jhre nahrung vnnd vnderhaltung dardurch erworben vnd gehabt, welches jhnen dann Gott zu einem vortheil verliehen, auff daß sie an jhrem Studieren vnd der Weißheit nachzutrachten, vmb armuth willen, nicht verhindert würden. Beneben auch von den Reichen vnd Gottlosen dieser Welt, jhnen zu heuchlen, oder solche Kunst vnnd heimlichkeit vmb Gelds willen zu offenbahren, sie vnd jhre weißheit bettelley halben verspottet vnd verachtet wurden.
The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Three
1619 pp. 50 · scans ER054The philosophers themselves also acknowledge that through it they discovered the seven liberal arts and acquired their food and livelihood. God granted them this advantage so that poverty would not hinder their studies and pursuit of wisdom. They would also be spared having to flatter the rich and godless of this world or reveal the art and secret for money, and having themselves and their wisdom mocked and despised on account of begging.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · Part Three · Part Three · Unit 5
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
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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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.
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