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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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French

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ou esprit physique qui perce et pénètre comme une lance et une épée dont nous avons assez parlé en son lieu, car la figure de l’ange sur une nuée armé d’une flèche et d’un bouclier n’exprime que trop ce que nous avons dit dans les titres précédents du sabre, de la pique ou de l’épée de Persée, d’Hercule, de Mercure, de Mars, de Pallas, de Cadmus, et le fleuve que ce monstre vomit contre cette pucelle pour la faire entraîner par les eaux est notre eau glorieuse qui, par sa vertu admirable, l’emporte sur le reste des eaux de tout le monde ; elle a la force d’attirer à elle le Roi et sa fille sans qu’ils puissent l’attirer à eux.

Par la Vierge enceinte qui a des ailes de plumes d’aigle, qui est environnée du soleil, et a la lune sous les pieds, et une couronne d’étoiles sur la tête, on peut entendre le précieux soufre blanc de nature à cause de sa convenance avec cette vierge, parce que cette terre pure et non corrompue de l’eau mercurielle ou le soufre est engrossé de l’esprit germinatif pur et incorruptible du soleil qui est l’or

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

Ms. 85v

or natural spirit, which pierces and penetrates like a lance and sword, sufficiently discussed in its place. For the figure of the angel upon a cloud, armed with an arrow and shield, amply expresses what we said in the preceding sections about the saber, pike, or sword of Perseus, Hercules, Mercury, Mars, Pallas, and Cadmus. The river that this monster vomits against the maiden to sweep her away is our glorious water, whose admirable power surpasses all the world’s other waters. It has the strength to draw the King and his daughter to itself without their being able to draw it to them.

By the pregnant Virgin with eagle-feathered wings, surrounded by the Sun, with the Moon beneath her feet and a crown of stars upon her head, one may understand nature’s precious white sulfur because of its correspondence with this virgin. For this pure, uncorrupted earth of mercurial water, or sulfur, is impregnated with the Sun’s pure, incorruptible germinative spirit, which is gold

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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.