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The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 96–97 · scans ER100, ER101

Vnd ist auch sonderlich zu mercken daß die Philosophi solche putrefaction oder verfaulung wegen seiner schwartzen Farb/ deß caput corui/ genent haben. Dann also ist auch Christus einer gantzen heßlichen Gestalt gewesen/ vñ daß aller vngeachtst/ vnd vnwürdigste/ voller Schmertzen vnd Kranckheiten/ vnd zwar so veracht/ daß man das Angesicht vor jhm verborgen vnd seine nichts geachtet hat. Ja wie Er selbst im22.Ps.darüber klagt/ so ist er ein Wurm vnnd kein Mensch/ eine Spott der Leuth vnnd Verachtung des volcks gewesen. Wie dann dz auff Christum den Herrn sich nicht vnfüglich vergleichet/ daß solch verfault solis corpus ein zeitlang gleich einer Aschen am Boden deß Glases ohn alle Krafft erst sohnlang sich nach sterckung des Fewers seine Anima tropflicht algemach widerumb thut herunter lassen/ vnnd das verschmachte vñ gleichsam verstorbene corpus/ widerauff imbibirt/ befeucht vñ träncke vnd vor der gentzlichen zerstörung also erhalten thut bleiben.

1619 pp. 96–97 · scans ER100, ER101

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 96–97 · scans ER100, ER101

It should also be particularly noted that the philosophers have called this putrefaction, because of its black colour, the raven’s head. So too Christ was of a wholly disfigured appearance, the most disregarded and unworthy of all, full of sorrows and sicknesses, and so despised that people hid their faces from him and held him of no account. Indeed, as he himself laments in Psalm 22, he was a worm and no man, a mockery to people and the contempt of the nation. The comparison with Christ the Lord is therefore not unfitting: the putrefied body of the sun lies for a time, like ashes, powerless at the bottom of the glass, until, after the fire has been strengthened, its soul gradually descends again in drops, imbibes, moistens and gives drink anew to the exhausted and, as it were, dead body, and thus keeps it preserved from utter destruction.

1619 pp. 96–97 · scans ER100, ER101

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.