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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Nature’s Demonstration

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The Sophic Hydrolith: Nature’s Demonstration

p. 168

Nature’s Demonstration to the Erring Alchemist

Beweiß der Natur / welchen sie den jrrenden Alchimisten thut

Chapter Outline

Nature rebukes the furnace worker and distinguishes her matter

Mineral being, plant growth and animal sensation

First matter, privation, form and celestial influence

Planetary movements and the formation of sulphur and Mercury

The elemental qualities and the fifth being

Nature’s exclusive power and the limits of mechanical imitation

Gold, the Stone and claims of medicine

One matter, one vessel, one furnace and one regimen

Human generation and the partnership of art and Nature

Philosophical study, authorities and the cost of the work

The alchemist answers and questions Nature’s account

Matter, potentiality and the three visible colours

The fruit of natural generation and the failure of destroying gold

The impossibility of separating and recombining elemental proportions

Three effects of alchemy and the father and son analogy

Repentance, gratitude and commitment to follow Nature

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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.