The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 111–113 · scans ER115, ER116, ER117

Wie nun dieses im Chymischen werck/ sage ich/ geschicht/ vnd geschehen muß: also auch allhie in vnserm Theologischen werck der geistlichen erneuwerung vnd himlischen widergeburt des menschens/ woll in acht muß genommen werden. Dann ob wol schon auch vnser himlischer König Iesus Christus vns durch seinen völligen gehorsam/ den er seinem himlischen Vatter an statt vnser geleistet/ von aller vnreinigkeit vollkomlich erlöst/ vnnd zu kindern vnnd erben Gottes gemacht hat: so können wir doch solche seine seligmachende vnnd gantz Göttliche Tinctur (wie auch andere seine himlische schätz vnd gütter) wegen vnser angebornen schwachheit vnd blödigkeit nit allerdings ergreiffen vñ abnehmen/ oder vns diese recht steiff vnd vesti applicirn vñ zueignen/ sondern müssen auch gleichfals (sollen wir anderst derselbigen fähig vnd theilhafftig werden) durch folgende/ benante/ von Gott selbst darzu erforderte heilsame Drey einbare theil oder stück darzu kommen vnnd gelangen. Als da seind vnnd heissen fürnemlich sein H.Wort/ so da rein vñ durchleutert ist/ als Gold vnnd Silber im jrdischen Tigel bewehret7.mal Ps.12.18.Ja vber viel1000.stück Golds zu lieben ist Psalm.119.Zum andern der seligmachende Glaub/ so da eine sonderliche Gab Gottes ist Iohan.6.2.Thess.3.vnd durch das Wort Gottes herkommt Rom.10.auch die Hertzen der Menschen vereiniget Act.5.vnd im Fewer der Trübsalen bewehret wirt. Vnd dann auch vors dritte/ die vngeferbte Lieb gegen Gott vnd den Nächsten/ so da auch ein Gabe Gottes/ vnd ein erfüllung des Gesetzes ist Rom.13.ja Gott selbst ist vnd genennet wirt1.Iohann.4.durch welche Drey einbare theil/ als da sind das Wort/ der Glaub vñ die Liebe/ wann sie recht/ ordentlicher weise/ geglaubt vnd gebraucht werden/ Christus der Herr/ als dann mit seiner Göttlichen Tinctur/ vnd himlischer salbung erst recht krefftig wircken/ vnnd seinen in vns schlechte vnnd vnvollkommene metallen der Menschen/ projection vnd seligmachenden einguß verrichten kan/ ohne welchen wir jhn sonsten schwerlich ergreiffen vñ seiner Tinctur recht theilhafftig werden können.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 111–113 · scans ER115, ER116, ER117

What happens and must happen in the chemical work, I say, must also be carefully observed here in our theological work of the human being’s spiritual renewal and heavenly rebirth. Although our heavenly king Jesus Christ, through the complete obedience he rendered to his heavenly Father in our place, has perfectly redeemed us from all impurity and made us God’s children and heirs, because of our inborn weakness and frailty we cannot wholly grasp and receive his saving, entirely divine tincture, or his other heavenly treasures and goods, nor firmly and securely apply and appropriate them to ourselves. If we are to become capable of and share in them, we must attain them through the following three pure parts or pieces required for this purpose by God himself. First and foremost is his holy Word, pure and refined like gold and silver tried seven times in the earthly crucible, Psalms 12 and 18, indeed to be loved above many thousands of pieces of gold, Psalm 119. Secondly, saving faith, a particular gift of God, John 6; 2 Thessalonians 3, which comes through God’s Word, Romans 10, unites human hearts, Acts 5, and is tried in the fire of tribulation. Thirdly, unfeigned love towards God and one’s neighbour, which is also a gift of God and a fulfilment of the law, Romans 13; indeed God himself is and is called love, 1 John 4. Through these three pure parts—the Word, faith and love—when they are rightly and in due order believed and used, Christ the Lord can first work with true power through his divine tincture and heavenly anointing, accomplishing his projection and saving infusion into us poor and imperfect metals, human beings. Without them we can otherwise scarcely grasp him and rightly partake of his tincture.

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.