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The First Figure and Preparation · Manuscript 13r · Scan 43
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Ms. 13ret génération.
Il y a eu jusqu'ici peu de personnes qui aient expliqué les premiers principes de cet art très secret, excepté les juifs qui ont laissé à leurs successeurs cette tradition cabalistique, tracée avec beaucoup d'art et de subtilité; de sorte qu'à peine personne y pourra-t-il rien comprendre, s'il n'a fait plusieurs épreuves dans leur cabale, et sur les premiers agents de la nature qui sont les clefs et la porte de toute la magie naturelle et de la religion chrétienne.
La première voie royale qui se présente à l'entrée pour connaître toutes les sciences des Égyptiens, est l'alchimie, qui découvre d'abord les secrets les plus cachés de la nature, et ensuite, conduit à la magie et à la cabale chrétienne. Nous devons donc commencer par la nature, ensuite, passer à la magie, et nous reposer dans la cabale chrétienne, car la nature nous instruira de la chimie; les anges ou quelque
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The First Figure and Preparation
Ms. 13rand generation.
Until now few people have explained the first principles of this most secret art, except the Jews, who left to their successors this cabalistic tradition, drawn with great art and subtlety. Thus scarcely anyone will be able to understand anything of it unless he has made several trials in their cabala and upon the first agents of nature, which are the keys and the gateway to all natural magic and the Christian religion.
The first royal road presented at the entrance to the knowledge of all the sciences of the Egyptians is alchemy. It first discloses nature's most hidden secrets, then leads to magic and Christian cabala. We must therefore begin with nature, then proceed to magic, and find our rest in Christian cabala, for nature will instruct us in chemistry; the angels or some
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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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