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Multiplication and the Eucharist · Manuscript 135r · Scan 307
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Ms. 135rTrismégiste : « La première idée des choses est Dieu » et peu après : « Ce monde visible et extérieur a été fait par Dieu souverain et tout-puissant suivant l’exemplaire divin du monde intelligible et intérieur. » Après donc avoir fortement établi et démontré les principes de la nature, les opérations les plus secrètes de sa puissance et les productions de l’art, on ne prouvera rien que la vérité même, sur les fondements de laquelle comme sur ceux de la nature qui sont des fermes appuis et qui ne s’ébranlent jamais, comme sur les paroles de J. C. qui sont la même chose que ses ouvrages, selon ses paroles : « Il a parlé et les choses ont été faites » ; toute la foi de nos mystères sera établie ainsi que tout ce qui nous reste à dire sur cette matière.
Qui sait si on doit avoir plus d’amour ou de joie que de frayeur et d’humilité en contemplant et méditant le magistère de cette pierre qui est l’image et un échantillon de l’Eucharistie ? Que sais-je si je dois me taire ou parler d’un si grand mystère qui contient miracles sur miracles et que Dieu a voulu si fort perfectionner afin qu’il devînt
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist
Ms. 135rTrismegistus: ‘The first idea of things is God’; and shortly afterward: ‘This visible, external world was made by the supreme, almighty God according to the divine exemplar of the intelligible, inward world.’ Once nature’s principles, the most secret operations of its power, and art’s productions have been firmly established and demonstrated, nothing will be proved but truth itself. Upon truth’s foundations, as upon nature’s—firm supports that never shake—and upon Jesus Christ’s words, which are the same as his works, according to the saying ‘He spoke, and things were made,’ all faith in our mysteries will be established, together with everything remaining for us to say on this matter.
Who knows whether we should feel more love and joy than fear and humility in contemplating and meditating upon this stone’s magistery, the image and a specimen of the Eucharist? How can I know whether to remain silent or speak of so great a mystery, containing miracle upon miracle, which God wished to perfect so greatly that it might become
Socrates
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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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