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The Second Operation and the Death of Christ · Manuscript 101r · Scan 235
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Ms. 101rcourant dans une nuée, mais comme mercure est composé de différentes substances, sa partie la plus volatile, la plus fugitive et la plus spirituelle, marque ce cavalier qui tient son arc et lance une flèche, et le cheval blanc qui est l'air, car, à cause de sa partie volatile qui est éthérienne et perçante comme une flèche d'air, on la compare aux oiseaux Stymphalides qui voltigent dans le vaisseau de part et d'autre. On lui accorde une couronne d'or parce qu'il est sorti vainquant pour vaincre, car c'est à lui qu'il appartient de vaincre les parties fixes de la matière, c'est-à-dire de les rendre volatiles et de les élever au haut de la tête du vaisseau; par rapport au second on peut comprendre tout ce que nous avons dit ci-dessus du lion de la forêt de Némée, du sanglier d'Erymanthe, montagne d'Arcadie, des taureaux furieux qui ravageaient toute la Crète, du Dragon de Colchide et de Cadmus ou des deux serpents étouffés par Hercule, et l'ignéité de notre eau mercurielle, par le cheval rouge qui est dans le nuage, et sa vertu dissolutive par le sabre; par le troisième, monté sur
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Second Operation and the Death of Christ
Ms. 101rrunning within a cloud. But since mercury is composed of different substances, its most volatile, fugitive and spiritual part signifies this rider holding his bow and shooting an arrow, and the white horse, which is air. Because of its volatile part, ethereal and piercing like an arrow of air, it is compared to the Stymphalian birds fluttering to and fro within the vessel. A golden crown is granted him because he went forth victorious to conquer: it belongs to him to overcome matter's fixed parts, that is, to make them volatile and raise them to the top of the vessel's head. Concerning the second, one can understand everything we have said above of the lion of Nemea's forest, the boar of Erymanthus, a mountain of Arcadia, the furious bulls ravaging all Crete, the dragon of Colchis and of Cadmus, or the two serpents strangled by Hercules. Our mercurial water's fieriness is signified by the red horse within the cloud, and its dissolving power by the sword. The third, mounted upon
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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.
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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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