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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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The Flower on the Mountain and Solution · Manuscript 15r · Scan 49

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pierre, qu’on appelle aussi un autre petit-monde et qui représente la figure de Jésus-Christ dans la physique et métaphysique, comme nous verrons en son lieu.

Explication de la deuxième figure dans la quatrième page, où est dépeinte la représentation d’une fleur agréable à la vue, sur le sommet d’une montagne contre laquelle l’aquilon etc…

Solution.

Dans cet emblème est représentée la figure d’une fleur très belle à voir, sur le haut d’une montagne, dont la tige est bleue, et les fleurs blanches et rouges, et les feuilles brodées de rayons ou filets d’or, contre laquelle l’aquilon soufflait impétueusement. Les matrices de l’arbre philosophique sont les montagnes ou les rochers, sa tige est appelée mercure, qui lui procure la vertu végétative ; les minéraux en sont les écorces, les fleurs en sont les feuilles, et les métaux en sont les fruits. Ce sont les matrices fixes et l’esprit fixatif qui leur donnent la vertu fixative. Autour de cette montagne demeurent sept dragons et autant de

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Flower on the Mountain and Solution

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stone, which is also called another little world and represents the figure of Jesus Christ in physics and metaphysics, as we shall see in its place.

Explanation of the second figure on the fourth page, depicting a flower pleasing to the sight upon the summit of a mountain, against which the north wind, etc.…

Solution.

This emblem depicts a flower very beautiful to behold upon the top of a mountain. Its stem is blue, its flowers white and red, and its leaves embroidered with rays or threads of gold; the north wind was blowing violently against it. The matrices of the philosophical tree are the mountains or rocks. Its stem is called mercury, which imparts to it the power of growth; the minerals are its bark, the flowers its leaves, and the metals its fruits. The fixed matrices and the fixing spirit give them their fixing power. Around this mountain dwell seven dragons and as many

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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.