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The Way of Truth
German & Latin
1619 pp. 250 · scans ER254Weis auch wohl, Lieber Bruder, das ich dich durch mein Schreiben nicht erfrewen werde, sondern dein Hertz wird sich erschrecken, der Vrsachen, das ich das falsche Sophistische Regiment so gantz vnnd gar vnter die Füß trette, darinnen du so fast verwurtzelt bist, vnnd vermeinest nicht anders, du wissest ein grosse Sache, vnnd doch nichts, dann ein grosse Thorheit vnnd Narrenspiel ist, welches da nit dienet zur verbesserung der Metallischen Naturen, sondern dienet allein den Balbierern vnnd Badern, auch den Medicis, so laß nun dieselben damit spielen, denn jhnen kompt es bißweilen zu nutze.
The Sophic Hydrolith: The Way of Truth
1619 pp. 250 · scans ER254I know well, dear brother, that my writing will bring you no joy. Instead, your heart will be alarmed because I so utterly trample underfoot the false sophistical regimen in which you are firmly rooted. You imagine that you know a great thing, yet it is nothing but great folly and foolery. It does not improve metallic natures; it serves only barbers, bathkeepers and physicians. Let them amuse themselves with it, for it is sometimes useful to them.
Socrates
Reading The Sophic Hydrolith · The Way of Truth · The Way of Truth · Unit 19
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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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