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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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créateur et gouverner le monde sous ses ordres et être comme un milieu et un lien entre le créateur et les créatures, l'immortel et les mortels, l'infini et les bornes finis, etc., quoiqu'il y ait différents genres d'esprits, et qu'il y en ait diverses espèces qui sortent de ces intelligences immatérielles, comme nous l'allons expliquer plus au long.

L'École de nos ancêtres établit trois sortes d'anges; les premiers d'eux sont au-dessus des célestes, exempts de toute matière, et n'ayant aucun commerce avec les inférieurs; ils jouissent uniquement de la vue de Dieu et sont rassasiés de l'abondante source de son nectar, ce qui fait que quelques-uns les ont nommés animaux de la sainteté ou anges de la face.

Les seconds sont les intelligences célestes, ainsi nommées parce qu'ils régissent les astres, auxquels ils président dans la sphère où ils sont nommés. Ils croient qu'ils tirent leur origine de la partie la plus pure et la plus fixe de notre mercure, mais ils ont pris les corps des astres, ou planètes, ou des étoiles pour les intelligences qui les font agir et les gouvernent. Après eux viennent en troisième lieu les intelligences qui sont comme maîtres et dispensateurs des

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels

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creator, govern the world under his commands, and form an intermediary and bond between creator and creatures, the immortal and mortals, the infinite and finite bounds, and so forth. There are, however, different genera of spirits and various species issuing from these immaterial intelligences, as we shall explain at greater length.

Our ancestors' school establishes three kinds of angels. The first stand above the celestial ones, exempt from all matter and having no commerce with inferiors. They enjoy only the sight of God and are satisfied by the abundant source of his nectar, which has caused some to name them the living creatures of holiness, or angels of the face.

The second are celestial intelligences, so called because they rule the heavenly bodies over which they preside in the sphere in which they are named. They believe these derive their origin from the purest and most fixed part of our mercury. But they have taken the bodies of the heavenly bodies, planets or stars for the intelligences that cause them to act and govern them. After these come, in third place, the intelligences that are like masters and dispensers of

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About This Reading Edition

The first manuscript in the Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Getty Research Institute: the Book of Hieroglyphic Figures, presented in French and English with 463 explanatory notes, 13 manuscript plates, 25 source details, an introduction, chapter outline, glossary, bibliography, and register of readings.

Historical Text and Translation

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures (Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques), attributed in the witness to Abraham the Jew. Getty Research Institute, Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, accession 950053, Box 1, Hogart manuscript 3; French witness catalogued circa 1800. Manly Palmer Hall is the collector, not the author.

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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The circa 1800 source manuscript is public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, outline, glossary, register, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. Source photographs are credited to the Getty Research Institute and Internet Archive in the supplied edition.