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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. 203–204 · scans HAB00209, HAB00210

XIV. Bey dieser Tinctur findet jhr alle Edelgesteine, die auf der Welt zu bedencken sind. Jhr sollet aber davon selbst nichts nehmen; Sondern allerdings zufrieden seyn mit denjenigen, das euch der Wegweiser davon mittheylen wird, jhme dafür allezeit hertzlich dancken, vnd euch fleissig hüten, damit für der Welt zu prangen, oder sonsten es anzuwenden, da es Gott zuwider wäre, hingegen aber wohl zu gebrauchen, vnd zu besitzen als hättet jhr nichts. Ferner seyd mäßig, still vnd eingezogen, vnd hütet euch, so viel jmer möglich ist, für allen Sünden, sonsten wird ewer Bruder, der Läytsmann, sich von euch wenden, vnd jhr werdet dieser Glückseligkeit wieder verlustig werden. Darum nützt dieses zu guter Ermahnung: Wer dieser Tinctur mißbraucht, für der Welt nicht Exemplarisch, vnd für Gott rein vnd aufrichtig lebet, derselbe verleuret sie, vnd hat wenig Hoffnung dieselbe wiederumb zu erwecken.

1661 pp. 203–204 · scans HAB00209, HAB00210

The Sophic Hydrolith: First Response · 1661

1661 pp. 203–204 · scans HAB00209, HAB00210

XIV. Beside this tincture you will find every precious stone imaginable in the world. Take none of them for yourselves, but be entirely content with what the guide gives you. Always thank him heartily, and take great care not to flaunt it before the world or use it in any way contrary to God. Use it well and possess it as though you possessed nothing. Be temperate, quiet and reserved, and guard yourselves as far as possible against all sins; otherwise your brother, the conductor, will turn away and you will lose this happiness again. Take this as a sound admonition: whoever misuses the tincture, failing to live as an example before the world and purely and uprightly before God, loses it and has little hope of awakening it again.

1661 pp. 203–204 · scans HAB00209, HAB00210

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.