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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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French

Ms. 139r

cachées dans les accidents communs de l’eau ou de la terre élémentaire et vulgaire comme les parties des corps et leurs semences, tout ensemble et d’un coup d’œil, distinctement et sans confusion pour avoir réellement et actuellement sa forme de l’or avec tous ses accidents, c’est-à-dire sa fulgidité, sa malléabilité et son extension non pas simplement mais à l’infini. Ô prodige inconcevable ! Ces accidents ne sont pas seulement renfermés virtuellement dans notre pierre comme quelques-uns se le sont imaginé ; elle les renferme effectivement et réellement de la même manière que la pomme encore sur l’arbre et l’animal ont d’eux-mêmes dans leur semence la vertu de se régénérer. Sa nature ne diffère en rien de celle qui forme l’or dans les minières ; selon quelques-uns l’or ne mérite le nom ni le titre de véritable or s’il n’est condensé ni coagulé par le moyen du feu, et ils regardent cet or de travail comme un corps mort et inutile à l’œuvre, mais ce qui est au-dessus de la portée des esprits les plus sublimes et qui par l’éclat de la lumière

Ms. 139r

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist

Ms. 139r

hidden within the common accidents of ordinary, elemental water or earth, such as bodies’ parts and their seeds, all together and at a glance, distinctly and without confusion, so as really and actually to possess its form of gold with all its accidents: its brilliance, malleability, and extension, not merely but indefinitely. O inconceivable prodigy! These accidents are not enclosed merely virtually within our stone, as some have imagined; it contains them effectively and really, just as the apple still upon the tree and the animal possess within their seed their own power to regenerate. Its nature differs in no respect from that which forms gold in mines. According to some, gold deserves neither the name nor title of true gold unless condensed or coagulated through fire; they regard this worked gold as a dead body useless to the work. But what surpasses the reach of the most sublime minds, and by its light’s brilliance

Ms. 139r

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.