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Part Three
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1619 pp. 57–58 · scans ER061, ER062Vnnd du solt in Warheit wissen, daß weme der Höchste solche Gabe verleihet, derselbige alles Geld vnnd Gut vnnd anders zeitlich auff dieser Erden, gegen den himmlischen Gütern, nichts anders als wie Koth auff der Gassen belieben thut. Dann sein Hertz vnnd verlangen sich nur dahin sehnet, daß er im ewigen Leben daßjenige, was er allhier jrdischer figürlicher weise oder gestalt gesehen, auch himlischer weiß in der That vnd Warheit schawen vnnd geniessen möge. Wie dann solches der hochweise König Salomon in libro Sapient. cap. 7, auch bezeuget, da er spricht: Ich hielte die Weißheit thewrer dann Königreich vnd Fürstenthumb vnnd Reichthumb hielte ich nichts gegen sie, wie geringer Sand vnd Silber ist wie Koth gegen sie zuachten.
The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Three
1619 pp. 57–58 · scans ER061, ER062You should know truly that anyone to whom the Most High grants this gift regards all money, possessions and other temporal things upon this earth as no more than mud in the street compared with heavenly goods. His heart and longing are directed only towards this: that in eternal life he may behold and enjoy in a heavenly manner, in deed and truth, what he has seen here in an earthly figure or form. The most wise King Solomon likewise testifies to this in the Book of Wisdom, chapter 7, saying: I prized wisdom above kingdom and principality, and accounted riches as nothing beside her, as mere sand; silver is to be regarded as mud beside her.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · Part Three · Part Three · Unit 13
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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