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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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témoignage des Évangélistes, cimenté par les miracles et les preuves sensibles de la foi chrétienne, et tracé par la nature même en caractères gros et visibles sur l’écorce et dans les moelles de toutes choses, qui ne nous laisse aucun doute ni aucune incertitude, puisqu’il établit la vérité de ce qui tombe sous nos sens et la foi de ce que nous avons à croire sur des preuves si solides qu’on doit plutôt nier la clarté du Soleil que cette vérité.

Quoique ce soit un travail et une entreprise au-dessus de nos forces, qui est autant au-dessus de la nature qu’elle est au-dessus de nous, nous pouvons cependant dire que Dieu a accommodé ces mystères à la portée de la nature et de notre esprit, qu’il s’est manifesté lui-même dans son incarnation comme dans un ample volume ou comme dans le livre de la nature, où les plus secrets mystères de notre religion et les prodiges les plus cachés de la nature qui étant découverts par les opérations, Dieu se découvre et se manifeste par ses œuvres qui sont dans la nature, de sorte

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone

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testimony of the Evangelists, cemented by the miracles and palpable proofs of Christian faith, and traced by nature itself in large, visible characters upon the bark and within the marrow of all things? This leaves us no doubt or uncertainty, since it establishes the truth of what falls under our senses, and faith in what we must believe, upon proofs so firm that one ought sooner to deny the Sun’s brightness than this truth.

Although this labor and undertaking exceeds our powers, being as far above nature as nature is above us, we may nevertheless say that God has adapted these mysteries to the capacity of nature and our minds. He manifested himself in his incarnation as in a vast volume, or in the book of nature, where the most secret mysteries of our religion and nature’s most hidden wonders are disclosed by operations; God reveals and manifests himself through his works in nature, in such a way

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.