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Spirits of Armoniac · Manuscript 64v · Scan 156
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Ms. 64vmieux exprimer la même chose, mais ces esprits, au contraire et par un mouvement opposé éloignent tous les traits de l’amour et ne donnent aux choses que de faibles passions et de molles et vaines inclinations de volupté. C’est pourquoi ils donnent à Vénus Anthée pour fils à la place d’Adonis, et à elle-même le nom de Méduse si connue chez les poètes, et lui attribuent aussi sa très mauvaise origine, puisqu’elle sort du géant Typhon, c’est-à-dire du soufre et d’un monstre qui avait trois corps [quatre signes alchimiques].
Esprits d’armoniac.
Les esprits des forêts, des sels de mercure et de la lune planètes humides sont d’une nature humide ; ces esprits sont fluides, et pour cela n’ont pas les bonnes qualités de leur planète, parce qu’ils sont les causes essentielles de l’altération, de la mort et de la corruption. Tout ce qui ne peut être corrompu par toute autre vertu élémentaire, peut sans difficulté être résolu et altéré par les humidités de ces sels, mais comme ils sont les ennemis les plus déclarés de toute notre vie, ils ne corrompent pas la matière, afin que la génération s’ensuive, parce
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Spirits of Armoniac
Ms. 64vexpress the same thing more clearly. But these spirits, on the contrary and by an opposing movement, repel every dart of love and impart to things only feeble passions and soft, empty inclinations toward pleasure. Therefore they give Venus Antheus as her son in place of Adonis, and give her herself the name of Medusa, so familiar among the poets. They also attribute to her a most evil origin, since she springs from the giant Typhon—that is, from sulfur—and from a monster with three bodies [four alchemical signs].
Spirits of armoniac.
The spirits of forests, of the salts of mercury and the moon—moist planets—are of a moist nature. These spirits are fluid and therefore lack the good qualities of their planet, because they are the essential causes of alteration, death, and corruption. Whatever cannot be corrupted by any other elementary power can readily be dissolved and altered by the moistures of these salts. But as they are the most declared enemies of all our life, they do not corrupt matter so that generation may follow, because
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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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