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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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qu’elles font des esprits visibles, et de la réception des espèces vitines [?], ne représente point du tout l’espèce de la planète, puisqu’on l’aperçoit dans le ciel sous la figure qui est dans le monde.

Nous en avons parlé dans notre cabale de la foi des chrétiens et des philosophes. Chaque espèce donc, de chaque animal, végétal, ou minéral, sera renouvelée, et glorifiée sous la forme d’un corps lumineux, incorruptible, fixe et spirituel, afin qu’ils fournissent aux esprits bienheureux, ou qui seront rendus parfaitement heureux une cause accidentelle de leur bonheur. Je dis que ceux qui admirent les ouvrages incompréhensibles de Dieu seront comblés et rendus heureux par une infinité d’ouvrages de Dieu, car il faut que chacun soit rendu heureux et félicité dans les cieux par ce dont il s’est servi comme d’instrument pour parvenir à la cause de sa glorification.

Au reste les théologiens scholastiques assurent que la séparation des bons et des mauvais se fait dans l’embrasement universel de tout en général, de

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being

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they perform of visible spirits, and of the reception of vitreous(?) species, does not represent the planet’s species at all, since it is perceived in heaven under the figure that is in the world.

We have discussed this in our Cabala of the Faith of Christians and Philosophers. Each species, therefore, of every animal, plant, or mineral will be renewed and glorified in the form of a luminous, incorruptible, fixed, spiritual body, so as to provide blessed spirits—or those who will be made perfectly blessed—with an accidental cause of their happiness. I say that those who admire God’s incomprehensible works will be filled and made happy by countless works of God; for each person must be made happy and blessed in the heavens through that which was used as an instrument for attaining the cause of glorification.

Moreover, the scholastic theologians declare that the separation of the good and the bad takes place in the universal conflagration of everything in general, just

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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.