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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Way of Truth

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German & Latin

1619 pp. 244–245 · scans ER248, ER249

Diese scheidung mustu nun gar wol betrachten, dann aus dieser scheidung seind die alten Weisen verursachet, daß sie den dreyen Naturen, als Vegetabilischen, Animalischen vnd Mineralischen, haben nach getrachtet, vnnd darauß befunden, das der vnderscheid der Naturen nichts anders, denn eine mangelung der kochung in der Natur gewesen.

1619 pp. 244–245 · scans ER248, ER249

The Sophic Hydrolith: The Way of Truth

1619 pp. 244–245 · scans ER248, ER249

You must consider this separation very carefully, for it gave the ancient sages occasion to investigate the three natures—vegetable, animal and mineral. From this they found that the difference between the natures was nothing but a deficiency of coction in Nature.

1619 pp. 244–245 · scans ER248, ER249

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.