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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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The Sophic Hydrolith: Contextual Lexicon

p. 280

The phrase children of wisdom also defines an intended readership able to consider difficult signs without treating secrecy as a licence for arbitrary invention. Throughout the volume, true wisdom is distinguished from learned titles, empty boasting and sophistical appearances. Yet the texts still direct readers towards books, reasoning and observation. Wisdom does not abolish those means; it orders their use and gives the reader grounds for asking whether a claimed mastery has understood Nature or only repeated its vocabulary.

Passage HY_PRAYERS001: “she is mistress of all heavenly and hidden arts”

Source forms: Weißheit; Weisheit; Sapientia.

See also: Prayer, Light of Nature, Alchemy. Read with: HY_P2S028, APP_NATURES011, HY_CONCLUSIONS006.

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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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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.