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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 First Figure and Preparation · Manuscript 14v · Scan 46

French

Ms. 14v

caché dans cette chose vous sera sans doute découvert par une autre; c'est ainsi qu'une chose découvre toujours l'autre et l'indique quoique cachée, selon cette pensée d'Hermès: que tout ce qui est au-dessus est comme ce qui est au-dessous, avec cette différence néanmoins que les choses célestes sont sur la terre, non pas d'une manière céleste, mais terrestre, et que les choses terrestres ne sont pas dans le ciel d'une manière terrestre mais céleste.

De là, nous pouvons conclure que tout ce qui est dans le monde élémentaire, se trouve aussi dans le monde céleste, que tout ce qui est dans le monde céleste, se trouve aussi dans le monde intelligible, et que tout ce qui se rencontre dans le monde intelligible, se trouve aussi dans le modèle, par une liaison harmonieuse et simple, quoique par l'ajustement et la convenance. Outre cela, de même que le modèle contient l'intelligible, le raisonnable, le raisonnable le céleste, et le céleste le microcosme ou petit monde élémentaire, de même le monde céleste et des planètes est contenu dans le règne animal, l'animal dans le végétal, le végétal dans le minéral, et le métallique, dans le monde de notre

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The First Figure and Preparation

Ms. 14v

hidden from you in this thing will undoubtedly be disclosed by another. Thus one thing always discloses another and indicates it, however hidden, in accordance with this thought of Hermes: everything above is like what is below—with this difference, however, that celestial things are upon earth in a terrestrial, rather than celestial, manner, and terrestrial things are in heaven in a celestial, rather than terrestrial, manner.

From this we may conclude that everything in the elemental world is also found in the celestial world; everything in the celestial world is also found in the intelligible world; and everything encountered in the intelligible world is also found in the model, through a harmonious and simple connection, although by fitting together and correspondence. Furthermore, just as the model contains the intelligible and the rational, the rational contains the celestial, and the celestial contains the microcosm or little elemental world, so the celestial world and the planets are contained in the animal kingdom, the animal in the vegetable, the vegetable in the mineral, and the metallic in the world of our

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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.