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The Flower on the Mountain and Solution · Manuscript 19r · Scan 57
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Ms. 19rleur résolution, et de tous les deux qui sont remplis de beaucoup de venin et de bile noire, l’on fait la fameuse thériaque très utile dans plusieurs maladies comme l’on dira en son lieu.
Ce soufre d’or signifié par le Dragon ou griffon sans ailes et très plein d’un feu fixe, né du côté de l’orient, de même que le mercure doux et volatil du côté de l’occident. Il nous est représenté par les Dragons et griffons ailés que vous voyez battus et mis en pièces par de plus grands qui ont des ailes, sur le côté de la montagne, parce qu’ils sont jeunes, petits et sans défense ; mais ils parviendront à une telle grandeur et à une telle force qu’ils domineront sur tout, et qu’ils se plairont, se réjouiront et prendront leur croissance dans le feu qui deviendra leur bien et leur propre nourriture dans le temps de leur domination. Si vous joignez un dragon froid avec un aigle ou un griffon et qu’ils brûlent du feu d’enfer, alors on tirera d’eux un esprit de feu qui brûlera les ailes de l’aigle et fondra les neiges des montagnes en eau. C’est pour cette raison qu’on dit que
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Flower on the Mountain and Solution
Ms. 19rtheir dissolution; and from both, filled as they are with much venom and black bile, the celebrated theriac is made, very useful in several diseases, as will be explained in its place.
This sulfur of gold is signified by the wingless dragon or griffin, filled with fixed fire and born in the east, just as sweet and volatile mercury is born in the west. It is represented to us by the winged dragons and griffins that you see beaten and torn to pieces by larger winged creatures upon the side of the mountain, because they are young, small, and defenseless. Yet they will attain such size and strength that they will rule over everything, and will take pleasure, rejoice, and grow in the fire that will become their good and their own nourishment in the time of their dominion. If you join a cold dragon with an eagle or griffin, and they burn with the fire of hell, a fiery spirit will then be drawn from them, burning the eagle’s wings and melting the mountain snows into water. This is why it is said that
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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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