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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Philosophical Summary

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The Sophic Hydrolith: Philosophical Summary

p. 190

A Short Treatise Called Philosophical Summary

Ein kurtzer Tractat genant Summarium Philosophicum, Nicolai Flamelli

Chapter Outline

The metallic seeds and their four elementary constituents

Winged and wingless dragons and the flying lion

Mercury as mother of the metals and the problem of killing it

Fixed grains in lead ore and the fruit tree analogy

Living conjunction contrasted with the treatment of common metals

The philosophers’ garden and the nourishment of warmth and dew

The assistance of art and the royal Saturnian herb

One practice for white and red and the hatching of the chick

Prayer and the purpose of the summary

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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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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.