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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part Three

German & Latin

1619 pp. 55–56 · scans ER059, ER060

Derowegen man dann erstlich einen theil der offtermelten medicin nehmen soll, zu diesem theil sollen drey theil am gewicht deß besten vnd fürnembsten Gold, daß durch den Antimonium getrieben, vnnd durchläutert worden, auch hernach dünnst so möglich geschlagen ist, genommen, vnd zusammen in ein schmeltz Tiegel gethan, vnd ins Fewer gesetzt werden, desselben wol schmeltzen vnnd fliessen lassen, in massen einem jeden artisten wie solches wohl zugericht, zunot wolwüsslig sein werden. Wann nun solches geschehen, so wird als dann das eingesetzte Compositum auch zu einer lautern vnd kräfftigen Tinctur, vnd kan man hernach mit einem solchen theil Tinctur auff schlechte vnnd geringe metallen 1000. theil tingiren vnnd zu pur lauterm Goldt machen. Merck aber je näher die Metallen der Materien verwand, vnd je reiner sie seind, je leichter es auch solche annimbt, vnd die Multiplication desto höher vnnd ersprießlicher sich erzeigen thut. Dann alles vnreines vnnd vngeschicktes, was sich allhie befindet, abgeschieden, vnd als ein Schlacken hinweg geworffen wirdt.

1619 pp. 55–56 · scans ER059, ER060

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Three

1619 pp. 55–56 · scans ER059, ER060

First take one part of the medicine already mentioned. To this part add three parts by weight of the best and finest gold, which has been refined and purified through antimony and afterwards beaten as thin as possible. Put them together in a melting crucible and set it in the fire, allowing them to melt and flow thoroughly. Every practitioner will doubtless know how to arrange this properly. Once this has been done, the compound placed within becomes a pure and powerful tincture. One part of this tincture can then tinge a thousand parts of base and inferior metals and make them pure, refined gold. Observe, however, that the more closely the metals are related to the matter and the purer they are, the more readily it receives them, and the higher and more productive the multiplication proves. Everything impure and unsuitable present here is separated and cast away as slag.

1619 pp. 55–56 · scans ER059, ER060

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.