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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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First Response · 1661

German & Latin

1661 pp. 202 · scans HAB00208

VIII. Zu diesem Berg müsset jhr gehen bey Nacht, vnd zwar wann sie am längsten vnd finstersten ist. Darumb machet euch dazu mit einem andächtigen Gebät fein gefast, von Hertzen gestärckt vnd fertig. Fraget nach dem Weg, wo der Berg außzuspüren vnd zu finden sey, keinen Menschen; Sondern folget getrost dem Ductorem oder Läytsmann, der sich bey euch befinden, vnd euch auf dem Weg begegnen wird, Wiewol jhr jhn nicht sehen werdet, der wird euch vngefähr in der Nacht, wann alles still vnd finster ist, dazu bringen. Aber jhr müsset euch mit einem Helden vnd Mannhafften Gemüht waffnen, damit jhr für den, der euch auf dem Weg begegnen wird, nicht erschröcket oder zurück weichet. Jedoch bedörffet jhr dazu keines leiblichen Schwerdes oder Waffen, nur ruffet Gott immer fleissig vnd andächtig an, sprecht die Wort, die euch der Ductor vorsagt, fleissig nach.

1661 pp. 202 · scans HAB00208

The Sophic Hydrolith: First Response · 1661

1661 pp. 202 · scans HAB00208

VIII. You must go to this mountain by night, when the night is longest and darkest. Prepare yourselves with devout prayer, strengthened at heart and ready. Ask no one for the way, or where the mountain can be traced and found. Follow confidently the guide or conductor who will be with you and meet you on the path, although you will not see him. He will bring you there at an unexpected moment in the night, when everything is still and dark. But arm yourselves with a heroic and courageous spirit, so that you do not take fright or turn back before the one who meets you on the way. You need no bodily sword or weapon: continually call upon God diligently and devoutly, and faithfully repeat the words the guide says to you.

1661 pp. 202 · scans HAB00208

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.