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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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The Second Operation and the Death of Christ · Manuscript 94v · Scan 220

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Ms. 94v

Dieu immortel pour associé et participant à toutes ses misères et langueurs, il a pris le Christ pour son frère et pour son parent, il a pris le Verbe incarné pour sa caution, et il est entré en communauté de biens avec Jésus-Christ; ainsi il est à propos et il convient de l'imiter en tout et de lui témoigner toutes sortes d'amour et de zèle; et l'appétit humain qui court à sa destruction, porte de lui-même à sa perte et à sa mort, par de continuels mouvements et les efforts qu'il fait pour renverser son arbitre crient à haute voix que le sort et la continuation de toutes choses est passager et muable. Je dis de plus que non seulement la mort de Jésus-Christ confirme ce miracle de corruption dans la nature, mais encore la solution et corruption du corps solaire et incorruptible et même de notre quintessence, qui sont au-dessus de la condition des éléments, et ont comme quelque chose de la nature céleste, que leurs altérations et corruptions, de même que les différentes idées des formes qu'ils prennent, annoncent ouvertement ce qui est arrivé dans les choses invisibles.

Ms. 94v

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Second Operation and the Death of Christ

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immortal God as associate and participant in all its miseries and infirmities. It took Christ as brother and kinsman, the incarnate Word as surety, and entered into a community of goods with Jesus Christ. It is therefore fitting and proper to imitate him in everything and show him every kind of love and zeal. Human appetite, running toward its destruction, bears itself toward its loss and death. Through its continual motions and the efforts it makes to overturn its judgment, it cries aloud that the lot and continuance of all things are passing and mutable. I say further that not only does Jesus Christ's death confirm this miracle of corruption in nature, but so do the dissolution and corruption of the incorruptible solar body and even our quintessence. These stand above the condition of the elements and have, as it were, something of celestial nature. Their alterations and corruptions, like the different ideas of forms they assume, openly announce what has happened in invisible things.

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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.