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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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First Response · 1661

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1661 pp. 200 · scans HAB00206

II. Ein Jeder aber begehret dieselbe nur mit guten Tagen, wenig Mühe, ohne Gefahr vnd Arbeit an sich zu bringen, vnd wo sie Gott hingelegt hat, wo Er sie gesucht haben, vnd Er sie auch zu geben versprochen, alda will Niemand darnach graben oder suchen.

1661 pp. 200 · scans HAB00206

The Sophic Hydrolith: First Response · 1661

1661 pp. 200 · scans HAB00206

II. Yet everyone wishes to acquire them only in ease, with little trouble and without danger or labour. Where God has placed them, where he wishes them to be sought and has promised to give them, no one is willing to dig or search.

1661 pp. 200 · scans HAB00206

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.