DiotimosReading Desk

Diotimos Library · Esotericism & Spirituality Collection · Bilingual Edition

Anonymous

The Sophic Hydrolith

Water Stone of the Wise

Explore the Lexicon
The Sophic HydrolithPrayer

Swipe or use the arrow keys.

Facing Pages · Branch 158 of 287

Prayer

Book Mode

German & Latin

1619 pp. 148–149 · scans ER152, ER153

Allmechtiger Ewiger GOtt / der du bist ein Vatter des himlischen Liechts / von deme auch alle gute vnd vollkom̃ene gaben herab kommen: wir bitten deine grundlose Barmhertzigkeit / du wollest vns deine ewige Weißheit / die stets vmb deinen Thron ist / vnd durch welche alles geschaffen vnnd gemacht / auch noch regiert vnnd erhalten wirt / recht lassen erkennen / sende sie herab von deinem Heiligen Himmel / vnd auß dem Thron deiner Herrligkeit / daß sie mit vns sey / vnd mit vns arbeite / dieweil sie eine Meisterin ist aller Himlischen vnnd verborgenen Künsten / vnd auch alles weiß vnd verstehet.

1619 pp. 148–149 · scans ER152, ER153

The Sophic Hydrolith: Prayer

1619 pp. 148–149 · scans ER152, ER153

Almighty and eternal God, Father of the heavenly light, from whom all good and perfect gifts descend: we beseech your boundless mercy to let us rightly know your eternal Wisdom, who is always about your throne, through whom all things were created and made and are still governed and preserved. Send her down from your holy heaven and from the throne of your glory, that she may be with us and work with us, for she is mistress of all heavenly and hidden arts and knows and understands all things.

1619 pp. 148–149 · scans ER152, ER153

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.