The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 91–93 · scans ER095, ER096, ER097

Allhie were zu wünschen dz dem grösten hauffen der vermeinten gelertren die Augen recht eröffnet vnnd jnen jhr finstere auffgesetzte brillen/ oder Sophistische Larven (so jnen fürgehengt) abgethan/ vnnd doch einmal sehend gemacht werden möchten. Insonderheit alle Aristotelische vnnd in Göttlichen werck blind süchtige sophiste bey denen sam vnseligen disputationes heutiges tags noch in Göttlichen Sachen vnd Christlich getrieben/ vnd des vielfältige distinguirens/ diuidirens vnnd permiscirens kein Ende nit ist/ noch sein wil von dem in H.Schrifft wol verfasseten hochheiligen articul de vnione naturarum & communicatione idiomatum in Christo wann sie Gott vnd seinem Wort sonst je keinen glauben geben wolten/ so könten vnd möchten sie/ auß deß offt gedachten Chimischen Wercks (wie oben vermeldet) geschehener Coniunction vnd vereinigung der zweyer Wasser Mercurien vnnd Solis Wesen lernen vnnd jhne gleichsam mit Fingern greiffen/ aber jhr hohe Schull Kunst der Heydnischen Philosophiæ/ vnnd in hailiger Schrifft oder Christlicher Theologia/ vngegründte ja nichts gedüntige fundamenta vnnd præcepta Aristotelica de substantia & accidentib.vnnd andere lassen sie zu solchem nit gelangen/ vnd betrachten darzu nicht/ daß der alte Tertullianus nicht vergebentlich geschrieben: Philosophos/ Patriarchas esse hæreticorum/ daß ist/ daß die natürliche weise heydnische Meister/ Ertzvätter seind aller Ketzern: aber hiervon weitläufftiger zu handeln/ woll mir nicht gebühren.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 91–93 · scans ER095, ER096, ER097

Here one might wish that the eyes of the great multitude of supposed learned men would be properly opened, that the dark spectacles they have put on, or the sophistical masks hung before their faces, would be removed, and that they might at last be made to see. This applies especially to all the Aristotelian sophists, purblind in divine matters, among whom such wretched disputations are still conducted today concerning divine and Christian things, with no end, nor any willingness to end, the manifold distinguishing, dividing and confounding of the most holy article well set forth in holy Scripture: the union of the natures and the communication of properties in Christ. Even if they refused to give any credence to God and his Word, they could and might learn from the conjunction and union already described in the chemical work—of the two waters, the mercurial water and the being of the sun—and grasp it, as it were, with their fingers. But their lofty academic art of heathen philosophy, and their Aristotelian foundations and precepts concerning substance and accidents and other matters, unfounded and indeed worthless in holy Scripture or Christian theology, prevent them from attaining it. Nor do they consider that the ancient Tertullian did not write in vain: “The philosophers are the patriarchs of heretics”; that is, the masters of natural heathen wisdom are the forefathers of all heretics. But it is not for me to treat this at greater length.

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.