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The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The Via's jugglery and foolery are accusatory names for practices it rejects as sophistical. Way of Truth · unit 10 opposes elaborate named operations to plain natural coction. Way of Truth · unit 19 calls the addressee's cherished regimen foolery for improving metals, yet allows that it can sometimes help barbers, bathkeepers and physicians. Way of Truth · unit 25 turns from ineffective alchemy to dangerous medical pretension, attacking boastful chatter and ignorance that substitutes poisons for remedies. The English preserves these different stakes. A practice's rejection for transmutation is not automatically a denial of every medical use, while rhetorical confidence is explicitly no substitute for medical understanding.
Places to read
- Way of Truth · unit 10Condemned operational repertoire is called jugglery.
- Way of Truth · unit 19False regimen is foolery, sometimes medically useful but not true metallic art.
- Way of Truth · unit 25Pretenders’ boastful speech substitutes for understanding.
Attested forms
Gauckelspiel; Narrenspiel; Plapperey; hochtrabenden Worten