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Good and Evil Angels · Manuscript 57r · Scan 141
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Ms. 57rparmi les planètes, les quatrièmes intelligences du quatrième ordre parmi les anges. Il faut juger de même du reste des métaux ajustés, assignés, assujettis à leurs planètes, que des essences intellectuelles.
Comme il y a neuf ordres d'esprits spirituels qui tiennent du caractère et du bon génie des esprits glorieux et des anges, et qui imitent leur nature, de même en ce bas monde, il y a des esprits champêtres et des bois qui suivent les mauvais esprits ou les esprits infernaux qu'on appelle Cacodémons et ils s'ajustent les uns avec les autres dans leurs opérations. Les Égyptiens prétendent qu'ils sont engendrés de la lie et de la crasse des Éléments, et croient que selon la place qu'ils occupent, ils sont ignés, aqueux, terrestres et aériens. Les Centraux sont tous ceux qui du centre de la matière où ils sont enchaînés comme dans une prison ténébreuse ou une demeure de soufre, font tout ce qui peut nuire et causer de la perte, en sorte qu'ils semblent nés pour la ruine et le renversement de tout l'univers comme ceux comme ceux qui sont les auteurs de tous les maux. Quelques-uns d'eux qui même sont les premiers
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels
Ms. 57ramong the planets, and the fourth intelligences of the fourth order among angels. One must judge the remaining metals, adjusted, assigned and subjected to their planets, in the same way as the intellectual essences.
As there are nine orders of spiritual spirits sharing the character and good genius of glorious spirits and angels and imitating their nature, so in this lower world there are spirits of fields and woods following evil spirits, or infernal spirits called cacodemons. They conform to one another in their operations. The Egyptians claim they are generated from the dregs and filth of the Elements and believe that, according to the place they occupy, they are fiery, watery, terrestrial or aerial. The Central spirits are all those who, from matter's center where they are chained as within a dark prison or dwelling of sulfur, do everything capable of harming and causing loss. They seem born for the ruin and overthrow of the whole universe, as those, as those who are the authors of all evils. Some among them, who are indeed the foremost,
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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.
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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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