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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part Two

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German & Latin

1619 pp. 25 · scans ER029

Man find ein Gut getheilt in drey Ist doch nur eins das glaub mir frey Ein ding das die Welt nicht hoch helt Ihm auch darumb nit fast nachstellt / Hats vor augen / offt bey der hand / Vnd doch vor blindheit solches nit kent Ja wirt bey dem diß nicht verstehn So gering geacht / daß sie drüber gehn / Welches doch ist der grösste werth Der hie mag sein auff gantzer Erde Wers kent vnd hat das mittel Wort Der kan reich werden hie vnd dort.

1619 pp. 25 · scans ER029

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Two

1619 pp. 25 · scans ER029

A good is found divided into three, Yet it is only one—believe me freely. A thing the world holds in no great esteem And therefore scarcely seeks. It has it before its eyes, often at hand, Yet in its blindness does not know it. Those who do not understand it Think so little of it that they walk over it. Yet it is the greatest treasure To be found upon the whole earth. Whoever knows it and has the mediating word Can become rich here and there.

1619 pp. 25 · scans ER029

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.