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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part Two

German & Latin

1619 pp. 20–21 · scans ER024, ER025

Diese offt erwehnte hohe / edle Kunst haben die Philosophi in jhren Schrifften vor vnd nach der perfection nicht hoch genug erheben / vnnd mit herrlichen hohen titulis extolliren können. Derowegen sie dieselbe also angedeutet / vnd in gemein den Lapidem Philosophorum, oder den vhralten / verborgenen / vnbekanten / natürlichen vnnd vnbegreifflichen / ja den Himmlisch / gebenedeiten vnnd gesägneten / auch den allgemeinen drey einigen vniuersal Stein der Weisen genent haben. Die vrsach aber / warumb sie solchen eben einen Stein genent / vnd dergleiche / ist diese vnter andern fürnemlich / dieweil die Materia desselben im anfang / als ein minera auß der Erden warhafftig ein Stein ist / darnach dieweil es hart vnnd trucken ist / daß da wie ein Stin zerstossen vnd zerrieben / sonderlich aber / wann es in sein drey theil (so die Natur selbst zusammen gesetzt) zertheilet / es als dann selbst in dieselben wider sammentlich gantz vnnd gar / nun vnd zu einem im Fewer beständig warflüssigen Stein Natur gemöß / künstlich digerirt werden muß.

1619 pp. 20–21 · scans ER024, ER025

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Two

1619 pp. 20–21 · scans ER024, ER025

In their writings the philosophers have been unable to praise this high and noble art sufficiently, either before or after its perfection, or to exalt it with sufficiently magnificent titles. They have therefore indicated it in this way and generally called it the Lapis Philosophorum, or the ancient, hidden, unknown, natural and incomprehensible stone; indeed, the heavenly, blessed and consecrated stone, and also the common, three-in-one universal Stone of the Wise. Among their reasons for calling it a stone, and comparing it to one, the principal reason is that at the beginning its matter, as a mineral from the earth, really is a stone. Afterwards, because it is hard and dry, it can be pounded and ground like a stone. Above all, when it has been divided into its three parts, which nature itself has put together, it must itself be digested artificially, in accordance with nature, wholly and entirely back into these same parts together, until it becomes one stone that remains stable in fire and flows like wax.

1619 pp. 20–21 · scans ER024, ER025

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.