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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 89–90 · scans ER093, ER094

Gleich wie hierneben aber in dem fürgebildten Philosophischen Werck sonderlich auch notirt/ vnnd zu mercken eingeführt ist worden/ daß gleich wie nemblich diß gemeine Gold Corpus zu solchem Werck nicht tüglich/ sondern wegen seiner vnvollkommenheit/ vnnd mancherley mängel (so es an vnd in jhm hat) sehr vnmächtig vnd gleichsam todt zu achten sey: vnd demnach ein purlauteres (so da ohne alle vnreinigkeit vnd mängel vnnd mit einigem Betrug niemals gefelschet/ auch an seinem jnnerlichen Schwefel vnd Kräfften noch vngeschwechet ist) zu handen gebracht werden muß: Also auch viel weniger zu dem Göttlichen Wesen des Sohns Gottes/ seine allgemeine menschliche Natur/ als die da in Sünden empfangen/ mit der erbsünd durchgangen/ vnnd noch täglich mit wircklichen Sünden/ vnd vnnatürlichen schwachheiten (wie sonsten alle Menschen auff Erden in gemein seind) verunreiniget/ einverleibt müssen worden/ oder jhr anzunehmen gebühren mögen/ sondern ein purlauter/ sündloser vnd vollkommener menschheit.

1619 pp. 89–90 · scans ER093, ER094

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 89–90 · scans ER093, ER094

Yet, as was particularly noted and set forth for consideration in the foregoing philosophical work, the common body of gold is not fit for this work. Because of its imperfection and the many defects it has upon and within itself, it is to be regarded as very powerless and, as it were, dead. Therefore a completely pure gold must be obtained, free from every impurity and defect, never adulterated by any fraud, and still unweakened in its inward sulphur and powers. So too, still less could the divine being of God’s Son have taken into itself or fittingly assumed ordinary human nature as it is conceived in sins, permeated with original sin and daily defiled with actual sins and unnatural infirmities, as human beings upon earth commonly are. It had to assume a wholly pure, sinless and perfect humanity.

1619 pp. 89–90 · scans ER093, ER094

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.