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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. 260–261 · scans ER264, ER265

Allda betrachte nun mit fleiß, was die Metallisch Natur sey, auch auß was Vrsachen die Metallen seyn Metalle geworden, dann sie haben eben so wol jhren Anfang vnd Vrsprung als andere geschaffene Ding. Gleicher weise wie auß der Spermate deß Mannes in mütterlichem Leibe durch kochung ein Kind generiret, Auch auß dem Ey, durch die natürliche brütung der Hennen, ein junges Hünlein bereitet wirdt: Also haben die Metallen auch eine sichere Substantz, davon sie geboren seynd.

1619 pp. 260–261 · scans ER264, ER265

The Sophic Hydrolith: The Way of Truth

1619 pp. 260–261 · scans ER264, ER265

Consider carefully, then, what metallic Nature is and for what reasons metals have become metals. Like other created things, they have their own beginning and origin. Just as a child is generated by coction from a man’s seed in the mother’s womb, and a young chick is formed from an egg through the hen’s natural incubation, so metals too have a definite substance from which they are born.

1619 pp. 260–261 · scans ER264, ER265

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.