The Sophic Hydrolith

Name: The Sophic Hydrolith
Author: Anonymous

Water Stone of the Wise

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1619 pp. 102–103 · scans ER106, ER107

Dann obgleich die Tolle vnd blinde welt durch betrug vñ blendung deß argen Thymisten vnd bösen feindes/ viel vnd mancherley mittel/ weg vnd weise/ die seligkeit vnd perfection zu erlangen gesuchet/ vnnd sich hefftig darinnen bemühet hat/ vnnd noch bemühen thut/ so ist vnd bleibet doch nur ein einiger Heilandt vnd Mittler Iesus Christus in vnd durch welchen/ wir allein für Gott gerecht vnd selig seind/ vnd von vnserm geistlichen Außsatz der Sünden gereiniget werden. Gleich wie da auch nur ein einiger jrdischer heiland vnnd Chymischer König/ durch den alle imperfecta metalla/ jhre perfection vnñ vollkommenheit erlangen vnd bekommen/ auch alle Kranckheiten/ insonders der vnheilsame leibliche Außsatz geheilet werden/ gefunden wirt/ vnd seind alle andere mittel vnd selbst erwehlte menschen fündlin/ so da von Türcken/ Juden/ Heyden vnd andern Ketzern auff die bahn gebracht vñ für nothwendige mittel darzu defendirt werden vielmehr vnnd eigentlich davon zu reden/ eine rechte Geistlose/ falsche vnnd Sophistische alchmisterei durch welche wir menschen nicht purificirt/ sondern impedirt/ nicht viuificirt/ sondern debilitirt/ ja endlich gantz vnnd gar mortificirt vnnd getödtet werden. In massen dann die falsch genannte Alchmisterey/ so vielmehr Archimia zu nennen ist/ viel vnd mancherley Tincturen vnnd Farben erfunden/ vnnd die Leuth dadurch belogen vnd betrogen/ ja vmb hauß vnnd gut/ auch leib vnnd leben/ wie solche die tägliche erfahrung/ leider mehr als zu viel bezeuget/ vnd außweiset/ offtermals gebracht werden.

The Sophic Hydrolith: Part Four

1619 pp. 102–103 · scans ER106, ER107

For although the foolish and blind world, deceived and deluded by the wicked chemist and evil enemy, has sought and still seeks many and various means, ways and methods of attaining salvation and perfection, labouring strenuously in them, there is and remains only one Saviour and mediator, Jesus Christ, in and through whom alone we are righteous and saved before God and cleansed of our spiritual leprosy of sins. Likewise only one earthly saviour and chemical king is found, through whom all imperfect metals attain their perfection and completeness, and all diseases, especially the pernicious bodily leprosy, are healed. All other means and self-chosen human inventions advanced by Turks, Jews, heathens and other heretics and defended as necessary means to this end are rather, properly speaking, a truly spiritless, false and sophistical alchemy. Through them we human beings are not purified but impeded, not made alive but weakened, and finally wholly mortified and killed. In the same manner the falsely named alchemy, which ought rather to be called archimia, has invented many and various tinctures and colours and thereby lied to and deceived people, often depriving them of house and property, indeed of body and life, as daily experience, alas, only too abundantly testifies and demonstrates.

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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.