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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 95–96 · scans ER099, ER100

Vnd gleich wie die Philosophi melden/ daß solche kochung vnd verfaulung in obgedachtem jrdischen Werck gemeiniglich innerhalb40.Tag geschehe vnnd verrichtet werde: also vnnd gleicher gestalt seind auch durch solche Zahl in H.Schrifft viel vnd mancherley Wunder vnd Theoten von Gott beschrieben vñ auffgezeichnet worden/ als da fürnemlich vnd sonderlich seind: Daß die Kinder Israel in der Wüsten Ps.59.(40.jar) geblieben/ vnd das Elend haben bawen müssen Deut.8.Item daß Moses auff dem Berg Sinai Exod.34.Elias in der Flucht vor Achab1.Reg.19.Christus in der Wüsten40.Tag vnd nacht gefastet hat/ wie auch40.monat auff Erden gepredigt/ vnnd Wunder gethan/40.stund im Grab gelegen: auch40.Tag zwischen seiner Aufferstehung vnnd Himmelfart bey seinen Jüngern vnd Aposteln vmbgewandelt vnd sich von jhnen lebendig hat sehen lassen Act.1.Die Statt Jerusalem im40.Jahr/nach deß Herrn Himmelfart von den Römern ist geschleifft vnnd zerstöret worden.

1619 pp. 95–96 · scans ER099, ER100

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 95–96 · scans ER099, ER100

And just as the philosophers report that this cooking and putrefaction in the earthly work described above generally takes place and is accomplished within forty days, so too holy Scripture records and describes many and various divine wonders and deeds through this number. Foremost and particular examples are that the children of Israel remained in the wilderness for forty years, Psalm 59, and had to endure their misery, Deuteronomy 8; that Moses upon Mount Sinai, Exodus 34, Elijah in his flight from Ahab, 1 Kings 19, and Christ in the wilderness fasted for forty days and nights; that Christ also preached and performed wonders upon earth for forty months, lay in the grave for forty hours, and walked among his disciples and apostles for forty days between his resurrection and ascension, allowing them to behold him alive, Acts 1; and that the city of Jerusalem was razed and destroyed by the Romans in the fortieth year after the Lord’s ascension.

1619 pp. 95–96 · scans ER099, ER100

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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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.