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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 110–111 · scans ER114, ER115

Vnd gleich wie im offt erwehnten Philosophischen werck hiebevor auch ist vermeld worden/ das nemblich zu solcher fermentation vnnd multiplication des einigen jrdischen Königs/ oder der purlautren tinctur3.einbare theil oder stück deß sein feinsten durchleutertsten golds/ so durch den Antimonium getrieben/ nicht zwar auß einigem mangel des steins oder vnvollkommenheit seiner tinctur sondern auß vnvermögen vnnd blödigkeit der metallen selbs erfordert/ dieselben genommen vnd damit projicirt muß werden. Vnd damit ichs klärlicher sage/ ob woll die Tinctur oder Stein an jhm selbsten vollkommlich zubereitet/ auffs höchst gebracht/ vnnd also plusquam perfect ist gemacht worden/ so können doch die groben vnd vnvollkommene metallen wegen jhrer natürlichen schwachheit vnnd vnvermögen solche des steins oder der Tinctur (also zu reden) engelische perfection vnnd subtiligkeit zu sich nicht ziehen oder ergreiffen/ es sey dann das obgemelte füegliche erforderung/ auch an die hand genommen/ damit sie desto fähiger darzu gemacht werden.

1619 pp. 110–111 · scans ER114, ER115

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 110–111 · scans ER114, ER115

And just as it was also stated earlier in the often-mentioned philosophical work that, for this fermentation and multiplication of the one earthly king or completely pure tincture, three pure parts or pieces of its finest, most thoroughly purified gold, refined through antimony, are required, taken and projected with it—not because of any defect in the stone or imperfection in its tincture, but because of the incapacity and weakness of the metals themselves. To say it more clearly: although the tincture or stone has in itself been perfectly prepared, brought to the highest degree and thus made more than perfect, the coarse and imperfect metals, because of their natural weakness and incapacity, cannot draw to themselves or grasp the stone’s or tincture’s, so to speak, angelic perfection and subtlety unless the appropriate requirement mentioned above is also undertaken, in order to make them more capable of receiving it.

1619 pp. 110–111 · scans ER114, ER115

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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.