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The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The mirror is an explanatory image for what the art allows the main author to contemplate. Trinity, Christ’s incarnation and exaltation, purification of original sin and the believer’s passage towards new life are said to be represented ‘as in a mirror’, or otherwise depicted. The passage anticipates the fourth part’s extended allegory.
The English keeps ‘as in’ and the alternative ‘depicted’, preserving a representational claim rather than literal identity. The mirror is not an optical instrument required by the process, nor evidence that every detail of the material work has a uniquely determined theological counterpart. It expresses the claimed intelligibility of heavenly things through a visible pattern.
Places to read
- Part III: benefits and their rank · unit 9The art is said to display Christian mysteries and the believer’s passage to new life as in a mirror.
Attested forms
Spiegl; fürgestellt; abgemahlet