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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Sophic HydrolithFirst Response · 1661

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First Response · 1661

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German & Latin

1661 pp. 203 · scans HAB00209

XII. Aber nach diesem allem, vnd nahe bey dem Morgen, wird es gantz still vnd lieblich werden, auch bald der Morgenstern aufgehen, vnd die Morgenröhte heran brechen, darauf werdet jhr dann deß grossen Schatzes gewahr werden. Dabey das fürnehmste vnd gröste ist, eine sehr hohe Tinctur, womit die gantze Welt (wans möglich vnd es Gott gefällig, sie es auch würdig wären) köndte tingiret, vnd in das höchste Gold verändert werden.

1661 pp. 203 · scans HAB00209

The Sophic Hydrolith: First Response · 1661

1661 pp. 203 · scans HAB00209

XII. After all this, as morning approaches, everything will become still and lovely. The morning star will soon rise and dawn will break. You will then become aware of the great treasure. Its foremost and greatest part is a most exalted tincture, with which the whole world—if it were possible, pleasing to God and the world worthy of it—could be tinged and changed into the highest gold.

1661 pp. 203 · scans HAB00209

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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.