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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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Part Four

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1619 pp. 87–88 · scans ER091, ER092

Dann gleich wie das obberührte vnnd bißher zubereitete Subiectum im Philosophischen Werck ohne ferner præparation/ zu der leiblichen Medicin/ dir viel mehr schedlich als nutzlich: Also auch Christus/ wann du jhn nicht besser vnd völliger erkennst zu der geistlichen medicin deiner Seelen/ dir noch wenig dienstlich/ ja viel mehr/ zur verdammnus gereichen würde. Darumb du dann im fall du anderst seine/ auch seiner himlischen Schätz vñ Güter frölich geniessen will/ in seiner persönlicher Erkantnus fürder fortfahren vnd jhn nicht/ als einen purlautern Gott dir fürstellen vnd einbilden/ sondern auff die Erfüllung der Zeit/ so von Gott darzu bestimmt Galat.4.In welcher er seinen Zusatz bekommen/ das ist/ zu gleich Gott vnd Mensch/ ja menschen Sohn worden ist/ achtung geben vnd haben must.

1619 pp. 87–88 · scans ER091, ER092

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 87–88 · scans ER091, ER092

For just as the subject already described and thus far prepared in the philosophical work is, without further preparation, more harmful than useful to you as a bodily medicine, so too Christ, unless you know him better and more fully as the spiritual medicine of your soul, would be of little service to you, indeed would rather conduce to your condemnation. Therefore, if you wish to enjoy him and his heavenly treasures and goods with gladness, you must advance further in knowledge of his person. You must not represent or imagine him to yourself as God alone, but must attend to the fulfilment of the time appointed by God, Galatians 4, in which he received his addition: that is, became at once God and man, indeed the Son of Man.

1619 pp. 87–88 · scans ER091, ER092

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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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.