The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 123–125 · scans ER127, ER128, ER129

Wann sich nun ein newgeborner mensch obgehörter massen/ also Christlich vnnd Gottselig in seinem leben vñ wandel zeiget vnnd verhielt/ so kan es nicht ohne frucht abgehen/ ein solcher Mensch wirt gleich dem composito im jrdischen werck/ von Gott in den ofen der trübsall gesetzt vñ mit allerley Creutz/ leiden vnd widerwertigkeit besetzt/ so lang vnd viel/ biß er dem Alten Adam vnnd fleisch abgestorben/ vnd als ein recht newer der nach Gott geschaffen ist/ in rechtschaffener gerechtigkeit vnd Heyligkeit aufferstehet/ wie ad Rom.6.wir seind sampt Christo durch die Tauff begraben in den todt. Dann gleich wie Christus ist von den todten aufferwecket/ durch die herrligkeit des Vatters/ wir auch also in einem newen leben wandeln sollen/ welches wo nun es geschehen/ daß nemblich der Mensch den sünden täglich vrlaub gibt/ daß sie nicht mehr vber jhn herrschet/ so fahet als dann bey jhm an/ die im jrdischen werck deß zugegossenen golds corporis solution/ wie verzeichnet oben/ vnd die putrefaction/ daß er geistlicher weise gantz vnd gar wirt auffgelöset/ zermalmet/ zerstöret vnd erfaulet/ welche aufflösung/ vnnd verfaulung bey einem eher/ als bey dem andern geschicht/ doch in diesem zeitlichen leben noch geschehen muß/ daß ist ein solcher Mensch wirt in dem fewer der trübsal so wol digerirt/ gekocht vnnd mürb gemacht/ daß er an allem seinem vermögen vnd kräfften verzaget/ vnd einig vnd allein der gnaden Gottes vnd seiner Barmhertzigkeit sich tröstet/ in welchem wehrenden fewer oder Creutz ofen dann der Mensch (gleich dem jrdischen gold corpori) ein rechtes schwartzes raben haupt gewinnet/ das ist heßlich vñ vngestalt/ vnd vor der welt Sapient.5.nur verachtet vnd verlachet wirt/ nicht zwar nur40.tag vnd nacht/ oder Jahr/ sondern offtermals die zeit seines lebens/ also das er mehr leiden als frewden/ mehr trawrigkeit als hertzigkeit in seinem leben haben vnnd erfahren muß.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 123–125 · scans ER127, ER128, ER129

When a person born anew shows and conducts himself in this Christian and godly manner in his life and conduct, it cannot remain without fruit. Like the compound in the earthly work, such a person is placed by God in the furnace of tribulation and beset with every kind of cross, suffering and adversity, until he has died to the old Adam and the flesh and rises as a truly new person created according to God in true righteousness and holiness. As Romans 6 says, we are buried with Christ through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Father’s glory, we too should walk in a new life. When this happens and a person daily bids farewell to sins so that they no longer rule over him, there begins within him the solution of the added body of gold, as described above in the earthly work, and the putrefaction: spiritually he is wholly dissolved, ground down, destroyed and putrefied. This solution and putrefaction happens earlier to one than another, yet must still take place in this temporal life. That is, such a person is so thoroughly digested, cooked and softened in the fire of tribulation that he despairs of all his own ability and powers and takes comfort solely in God’s grace and mercy. During this continuing fire or furnace of the cross, he acquires, like the earthly body of gold, a true black raven’s head: that is, he becomes ugly and disfigured, merely despised and mocked before the world, Wisdom 5, not merely for forty days and nights or years, but often for the length of his life. Thus he must possess and experience more suffering than joy, more sorrow than gladness in his life.

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.

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.