The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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Nature’s Demonstration

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1619 pp. 161–164 · scans ER165, ER166, ER167, ER168

Vnnd mein Herr der Creator hat mir befohlen / daß ich als seine Magd von der universal materi die 4. Elementa durch meine Wirckung vñ Regiment transmutire vnd bringe vnter eine allgemeine oder universal forma alle mineralische gstallt. Ingleichen führe ich durch meine natürliche Kunst / die Sonne in 24. Stunden vmb den Erdenkreiß / welche niemals nachlesset durch jhre Bewegung in einem jedern Elemente eine Wärme zu erregen: gleicher gestalt thun auch die achte Sphæra, die sieben Planeten / vñ jr Vatter / das primum mobile, welches die andern sphæras alle mit sich herumb reisset. Es nimbt seinen lauff gegen Occident, die andern aber alle thun das Widerspiel / theils in langer / teils in kurtzer Zeit: als der Saturnus durchläuffet seine sphæram in 30. Jahren / der Jupiter in zwölff / der Mars in zweyen / die Sonne durchläuffet jhre Zeichen in einem Jahr vnd sechs Stunden / die Venus in 349. Tagen / der Mercurius in 339. Tagen / die Luna durchwandert die 12. Signa in 29. vnd einen halben Tag. Durch diesen vnderschiedlichen Lauff entstehet Sommer vnd Winter / Verenderungen in den Elementen / vnnd auff Erden der dingen gebährung. Vñ mag nichts / es sey empfindlich / sichtbarlich oder vnsichtbarlich ohne mich / die Himmel vnd Gott / seyn oder stat haben. Also wircken die Himmel alle ding / so vnter dem Mond beschlossen / vnd geben jre influentz in die Krafft der Materi: vnnd diese ist begierig gleich als ein Weib gegen dem Mann / die formam zu empfangen. Allen Sternen am Himmel / so vnzehlich / synd der Materien in vnderschiedlicher Zahl / vntergeben vnd vnterworffen: vnd seyn jhr eines theils klar / eins theils dunckel / welches alles ja wunderbarlich ding ist. Sie wircken also vnderschiedliche ding / nach dem sie einen vnderschiedlichen Lauff haben / erstlich oben am Himmel / darnach herunten nach jhrer Tugend in den Elementen: von dannen die species vnd individua werden. Wisse derhalben / daß so vielerley influentzen nicht vergebentlich herunter fliessen in das Element der Erden / wiewol sie vnsichtbarlich geschehen / vnd ehe sie herunter in die Erden kommen / so hat in sich selbsten beschlossen seyn / daß sie nach einander mit gewalt eingehen / vnd biß in das centrum durchdringen / in so vnderschiedlicher weise / als sie auch in der minera vnderschiedliche generationes durch vnderschiedliche impressiones machen / vnnd die vntern den obern ohne Jrrthumb vnnd Abwege folgen. Also ist nun die Erde mit den Himmeln vmbgeben vnd gezieret / vnd nimbt von derselben die influentz vnnd beste Substantz. Darumb auch eine jede sphæra jhre Tugend von sich zu geben / vnd biß in das Centrum zu dringen begeret.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Nature’s Demonstration

1619 pp. 161–164 · scans ER165, ER166, ER167, ER168

And my lord the Creator has commanded me, as his handmaid, to transmute the four elements from universal matter through my operation and governance and to bring every mineral form under one common or universal form. Likewise, through my natural art I lead the Sun around the earth’s circuit in twenty-four hours. Through its movement it never ceases to arouse warmth in every element. The eighth sphere, the seven planets and their father, the first mover, which carries all the other spheres around with it, do the same. It takes its course towards the west, while all the others do the opposite, some in a long time and some in a short one: Saturn traverses its sphere in thirty years, Jupiter in twelve, Mars in two; the Sun traverses its signs in one year and six hours; Venus in 349 days; Mercury in 339 days; and the Moon passes through the twelve signs in twenty-nine and a half days. This differing course produces summer and winter, changes in the elements, and the generation of things upon earth. Nothing, whether capable of sensation, visible or invisible, can exist or have its place without me, the heavens and God. Thus the heavens work upon all things enclosed beneath the Moon and impart their influence to the power of matter. Matter desires to receive form as a woman desires a man. To all the countless stars in heaven, matters in their differing quantities are subject and subordinate; some of the stars are clear and others dark, all of which is indeed wondrous. Thus they produce different things according to their different courses, first above in heaven, then below according to their virtues within the elements, whence species and individuals arise. Know, therefore, that these many influences do not flow down into the element of earth in vain, although they occur invisibly. Before they descend into the earth, it has been determined within itself that they should enter successively with force and penetrate to the centre in as many different ways as they produce different generations in the ore through different impressions, and that the lower things should follow the upper without error or deviation. Thus the earth is surrounded and adorned by the heavens and receives their influence and best substance. Therefore every sphere desires to impart its virtue and penetrate as far as the centre.

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.

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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.