The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 84–86 · scans ER088, ER089, ER090

Weiter wie es nun in dem obgerührten Philosophischen Werck noch nicht gnug ist/ die Erkantnus der Materia allein haben/ vnnd für ein Dreyeiniges Wesen dieselbe erkennen: auch jhre qualitet vnd eigene Eigenschafften erlernt haben: sondern auch nothwendig zu wissen sein will/ wie man solch zur Hand bringen/ vnd jhres Nutzen fähig werden möge/ welches dann auff keine andere weiß als wann/ wie oben gemelt worden/ solche drey Ding offtermal soluirt vnd putreficirt/ da jhm dann also sein dunckler Schatten vnnd rauhes Wesen/ mit dem es anfänglich obumbrirt vnd daher in einer vnfreundlichen Gestalt anzusehen gewesen/ dadurch abgezogen vnnd benommen wirt. Hernach durch ferner sublimation sein Hertz vnd jnnerliche Seel/ so in jhm verborgen/ durch das catholische/ süsse vñ Feuchtende Meer Wasser/ auß jhme deducirt vnd gezogen/ auch in ein leiblich Wesen gebracht ist worden. Also vnd noch viel weniger können wir dieses Dreyeinige Göttlich Wesen/ Iehoua genannt/ erkennen/ es sey dann/ das zuvor dasselbige (respectu nostri) auch gleichsam dissoluirt vnd purificirt/ vnd jhm die Decke Moysis vñ zornige Gestalt/ die vns alle von Natur hindert vnd schreckt/ abgezogen: auch durch fernere Göttliche erleuchtung sein Hertz vnnd jnnerliche Seel/ so in jhm verborgen/ das ist sein Sohn/ welcher ist Christus durch hülff vnnd beystand des heyligen Geists/ der da auch/ als ein reines Wasser vnsere Hertzen reiniget Ezech.36.Esa.44.ja als ein Göttliches Fewer erleuchtet Jerem.23.Matth.3.vnnd mit süssem lieblichen Trost erfüllet vnnd erquicket Iohan.16. Auß jhme gebracht vnd erleuchtet vnd zu einem freundlichen Gott sey gemacht worden.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 84–86 · scans ER088, ER089, ER090

Further, just as in the philosophical work already discussed it is not enough merely to know the matter, recognise it as a three-in-one being, and learn its qualities and particular properties, but one must also necessarily know how to bring it to hand and become capable of benefiting from it, so this can happen in no other way than by repeatedly dissolving and putrefying those three things, as stated above. Its dark shadow and rough being, with which it was originally overshadowed and which gave it an unfriendly appearance, are thereby stripped off and removed. Afterwards, through further sublimation, its heart and inward soul, hidden within it, are led and drawn out by the universal, sweet, moistening sea-water and brought into bodily being. So too, and still less readily, can we know this three-in-one divine being called Jehovah unless it has first, in relation to us, likewise been dissolved and purified, as it were, and the veil of Moses and wrathful appearance that naturally hinder and terrify us all have been stripped away. Through further divine illumination, his heart and inward soul hidden within him—that is, his Son, who is Christ—must be brought forth from him, illuminated and made a gracious God to us, through the aid and assistance of the Holy Spirit. For the Spirit cleanses our hearts like pure water, Ezekiel 36; Isaiah 44, enlightens like a divine fire, Jeremiah 23; Matthew 3, and fills and refreshes us with sweet, gracious consolation, John 16.

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.