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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 67–68 · scans ER071, ER072

Wie nun dieser jetz gemelte köstliche gesegnete vnd himlische Stein mit dem zuvor offt erwehnten jrdischen vnd leiblichen Philosophischen Stein/ sich accordire/ vnnd durch auß fein vnd artlich vbereinstimme/ soll allhie solches gründlich/ vnd nach jrer beyder beschreibung nach/ dargethan/ vnd einer gegen dem andern gehalten vnd verglichen werden/ darauß dann vnwidersprechlich zu erkennen vnd zu sehen sein wirt/ wie das der jrdische Philosophische Stein ein wahre Harmonia/ contrafactur vnnd vorbildt des wahren geistlichen vnd himlischen Steins Iesu Christi seye/ in welchem er vns von Gott auch leiblicher weiß für gestellet vnd sichtbarlicher gestalt für gewiesen wirt.

1619 pp. 67–68 · scans ER071, ER072

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 67–68 · scans ER071, ER072

How this precious, blessed, heavenly stone just mentioned accords with the earthly and bodily philosophers’ stone so often spoken of before, and how fittingly and exactly they agree in every respect, shall now be thoroughly demonstrated according to the descriptions of them both. One shall be placed beside the other and compared with it. From this it will be possible to recognise and see beyond dispute how the earthly philosophers’ stone is a true harmony, likeness and figure of the true spiritual and heavenly stone, Jesus Christ, in which God also presents him to us bodily and displays him in visible form.

1619 pp. 67–68 · scans ER071, ER072

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.