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Milk and honey

wie Milch vnd Honig

Milk and honey describe the sweetness and attractiveness of water issuing from the first-person speaker's pores in the Second Response of 1661.

From the book

The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise

Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Milk and honey describe the sweetness and attractiveness of water issuing from the first-person speaker's pores in the Second Response of 1661. The comparison follows a fall, broken leg and healing crutch; it precedes the burning of that crutch and the fountain's golden flames. The English retains 'like', so the sweat is not simply identified as literal dairy produce and honey. The response offers an enigmatic bodily narrative without explaining an ingredient-code. It must remain distinct from the Via's dismissive catalogue of experiments with actual named milk and honey, or from the main treatise's spiritual nourishment.

Places to read

  1. Second Response · unit 3The sweat-like water is likened to milk and honey, not identified as either.
  2. Way of Truth · unit 18The Via rejects experiments with named milk and honey for transmutation, unlike the later response’s simile.
  3. Part IV: the spiritual comparison · unit 54The main treatise uses spiritual milk in its ecclesial account of nourishment, a different setting from the Second Response.

Attested forms

süsses liebliches Wasser; wie Milch vnd Honig