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The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The praise in Part III: benefits and their rank · unit 2 places happiness, bodily health and good fortune within the perfected stone's temporal benefits. The qualification 'temporal' matters beside the volume's many uses of blessedness for salvation. The saying attributed to Morienus presents possession as sufficient for all earthly need, a sweeping testimonial claim rather than a definition of eternal life. The English distinguishes 'happiness' from 'good fortune', reflecting a cluster of welfare and success rather than one narrow emotion. Read with the article on life, this earthly abundance does not cancel the treatise's express acknowledgment of bodily death.
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- Part III: benefits and their rank · unit 2The stone is praised as supreme earthly happiness containing temporal welfare.
- Opening explanation · unit 2Temporal well-being is bounded by the introduction’s denial that the body can be freed from death.
Attested forms
glücksälgkeit; zeitliche glücksälgkeit; glück