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Good and Evil Angels · Manuscript 59r · Scan 145
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Ms. 59rIls sont suivis des esprits antimoniaux, qui sont opposés à la planète de Saturne, et aux anges du 3e ordre dans toutes leurs fonctions, et leurs bons offices et s'accordent avec les esprits infernaux pour être les inventeurs de tous les maux et de tous les arts pernicieux. C'est ce qui fait qu'on les appelle vases d'iniquités, ou réservoirs de toutes les malignités; sous l'apparence de procurer quelque bien ou quelque avantage ils détruisent et ruinent toutes les choses avec lesquelles ils sont mêlés; ils les dépouillent de leurs forces et leur cruauté est telle, qu'ils ne font rien en leur présence et que ces autres choses se trouvent dénuées de leurs propriétés. Ces esprits exercent surtout leur violence contre Mars, prince des dieux et des métaux qui met les armes bas devant eux, c'est pourquoi on les regarde comme des supplices et des bourreaux exterminateurs.
Cet esprit est le Dragon qui de son haleine fait mourir tous les animaux et emplit et infecte de son venin toute la région supérieure de l'air; c'est un glaive très aigu des deux côtés, c'est-à-dire qu'il brûle et corrompt les corps par la combustibilité du soufre
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels
Ms. 59rThey are followed by antimonial spirits, opposed to the planet Saturn and the angels of the third order in all their functions and good offices. They agree with infernal spirits in inventing every evil and pernicious art. This is why they are called vessels of iniquities or reservoirs of all malignities. Under the appearance of bringing some good or advantage, they destroy and ruin everything with which they are mixed, stripping it of its powers. Their cruelty is such that those things can do nothing in their presence and find themselves deprived of their properties. These spirits exercise their violence especially against Mars, prince of gods and metals, who lays down his arms before them. They are therefore regarded as torments and exterminating executioners.
This spirit is the Dragon whose breath kills all animals and fills and infects the whole upper region of the air with its venom. It is a sword very sharp on both sides: that is, it burns and corrupts bodies through sulfur's combustibility
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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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