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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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pourrions expliquer ces remarques, de sorte qu’après avoir dissipé les ombres des choses qui nous cachent des secrets si profonds, nous pourrions à la faveur de la pénétration de notre esprit mieux qu’avec des yeux de lynx, prévoir et prédire quelque chose sur l’avenir, ou du moins sur quels fondements est appuyée cette foi que nous avons sur les choses futures ; ou de quelles sources coulent les preuves des choses que nous devons croire qui arriveront dans ce dernier jour. Nous avons besoin de le couvrir tout à l’heure, mais auparavant, il y a entre la naissance, la résurrection, et l’avènement de Jésus-Christ et celle qu’il y a dans la nativité, la mort et la clarification des choses physiques, et enfin quel rapport a la mort, la vie et la résurrection du pécheur en métaphysique avec les choses susdites.

De même que dans la naissance de quelque chose que ce soit, la mort ou pour ainsi dire la corruption précède la génération, de même la corruption ou la mort précède la résurrection ou,

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

Ms. 122r

could explain these observations, so that, after dispelling the shadows of things that conceal such profound secrets from us, we could, through the penetrating power of our mind, better than with a lynx’s eyes, foresee and predict something of the future—or at least upon what foundations our faith in future things rests, or from what sources flow the proofs of the things we must believe will happen on that Last Day. We need to cover it presently, but beforehand there is between the birth, resurrection, and advent of Jesus Christ, and that which there is in the nativity, death, and making-radiant of physical things; and finally what relation the death, life, and resurrection of the sinner in metaphysics has with the aforesaid things.

Just as, in the birth of anything whatsoever, death—or, so to speak, corruption—precedes generation, so corruption or death precedes resurrection or,

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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.