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Prayer for the Work · Manuscript 5v · Scan 24
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Ms. 5vremporté la victoire; et, si vous vous approchez, de retourner en arrière, et de ne pouvoir, sous quelque prétexte que ce soit, molester cette créature N.... ni au corps, ni hors de son corps, ni par vision ni par terreur, ni de jour ni de nuit, ni en dormant ni en veillant, ni en mangeant, ni en priant, ni en faisant quelque chose que ce soit de naturel ou de spirituel; autrement je répands sur vous toutes malédictions, excommunications, ✝ degrés et souffrances de tourments et de destruction dans l'étang de feu et de soufre, par les mains de vos ennemis, par ordre de la sainte Trinité, et par le ministère de Michel archange; car, si vous êtes tenus par quelque commandement d'adoration, d'encensement, d'inondation, d'art compilé et fabriqué pour quelque mauvaise fin que ce puisse être, soit en herbes, paroles, pierres élémentaires, soit qu'ils soient naturels ou surnaturels, ou aux noms du grand Dieu et des anges, soit en caractères, heures, minutes, années, jours, mois, et observé spirituellement avec pacte exprès ou tacite, même assuré par serment, je les casse tous, les annule, les détruis,
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Prayer for the Work
Ms. 5vwon the victory. If you approach, I command you to turn back and to have no power, under any pretext, to trouble this creature N...., either in the body or outside the body, by vision or by terror, by day or by night, asleep or awake, eating or praying, or doing anything whatsoever of a natural or spiritual kind. Otherwise I pour upon you every curse and excommunication, ✝ every degree and suffering of torment and destruction in the lake of fire and sulfur, at the hands of your enemies, by order of the Holy Trinity and through the ministry of Michael the archangel. For if you are bound by any command of worship, incense, inundation, or art compiled and contrived for any evil end whatsoever—whether in herbs, words or elemental stones, whether natural or supernatural, or in the names of the great God and the angels, or in characters, hours, minutes, years, days or months—and spiritually observed through an explicit or tacit pact, even confirmed by oath, I break them all, annul them, and destroy them,
Socrates
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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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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.
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