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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Author’s Appendix

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German & Latin

1619 pp. 147–148 · scans ER151, ER152

Im Fall du dich solcher dir von Gott hohen verliehenen Gabe / würdest vbernähmen vnd darmit stolzieren / oder aber den Geitz / im schein einer heußlichen fürsehung bey dir beherbrigen / vnd dadurch dich also allgemach von GOTT abwenden woltest / dir solche Kunst vnder den Händen mißlingen / zerrinnen / ja verschwinden würde / das du wohl selbst (wie dir geschehen) nicht wissen soltest: welches dann wol mehr als einem / solcher gestalt / wider alles verhoffen / widerfahren ist.

1619 pp. 147–148 · scans ER151, ER152

The Sophic Hydrolith: The Author’s Appendix

1619 pp. 147–148 · scans ER151, ER152

If you should presume upon this high gift granted to you by God and grow proud of it, or harbour greed under the appearance of prudent provision for your household and so gradually turn away from God, this art would fail in your hands, dissolve and indeed vanish, so that you yourself would not even know what had happened to you. This has happened in this way to more than one person, contrary to every expectation.

1619 pp. 147–148 · scans ER151, ER152

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.