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The Third Operation and the Resurrection · Manuscript 111v · Scan 258
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Ms. 111vmais pour faire voir sa pureté et la simplicité de la matière qu’il possède, il a besoin cependant de quelques qualités par le moyen desquelles il parcourt les différentes voies de l’altération pour engendrer quoiqu’il soit du devoir et des fonctions de la nature et de sa faculté de séparer ce qu’elle sépare dans les végétaux et dans les animaux, les métaux n’ont ce privilège qu’après une longue suite d’années, ainsi, comme les métaux pourraient encore mieux se purifier en aidant en cela la nature l’imitant en quelques choses, et la surpassant en d’autres ; ils ont cru tâcher de tirer de ces impuretés cette essence incorruptible où la fleur et le germe du métal est emprisonné, d’où ils ont pris les preuves de la rénovation, de la génération, et de la glorification de la race qui est à perpétuer et ont prédit ce qui arrivera à la fin des siècles de cet embrasement universel qui renouvellera et rectifiera tout.
Si nous voulons chercher les racines profondes qui poussent ces semences de l’immortalité, et
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Third Operation and the Resurrection
Ms. 111vbut to display its purity and the simplicity of the matter it possesses, it nevertheless needs certain qualities through which it traverses the different paths of alteration in order to generate. Although separating what she separates in plants and animals belongs to nature’s duty, functions, and capacity, metals enjoy this privilege only after a long succession of years. Thus, since metals might be purified still better by assisting nature in this, imitating her in some things and surpassing her in others, they thought to try to extract from these impurities the incorruptible essence in which the flower and germ of the metal is imprisoned. From this they took proofs of the renewal, generation, and glorification of the race to be perpetuated, and foretold what will happen at the end of the ages through that universal conflagration which will renew and rectify everything.
If we wish to seek the deep roots that put forth these seeds of immortality, and
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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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