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The Third Operation and the Resurrection · Manuscript 112r · Scan 259
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Ms. 112rexaminer combien les formes séminales sont plongées avant dans les moelles de la matière, il faut avoir recours à l’expérience ; ainsi on s’apercevra qu’il n’y a point d’esprit qui puisse l’effacer et l’éteindre ; nous avons vu et plusieurs personnes ont vu ces formes renaître des cendres des choses après l’incinération de la matière ; c’est ce qu’ont éprouvé les inquisiteurs de cette science, gens graves, et par la distillation ont tiré de l’eau des chancres et des vipères jusqu’à ce que la matière qui restait fût réduite en cendres et qui ont produit une infinité de chancres et de vipères par un arrosement fait de cette eau sur la chaux, par une digestion convenable. Une personne de notre cabale a fait l’expérience en présence d’une assemblée de gens dignes de foi et a fait voir par quel moyen on attirait les formes renaissantes des cendres des végétaux, je l’ai faite moi-même, et ai éprouvé que les métaux résolus par notre eau végétative recevaient la forme des étoiles, et tout le monde l’aperçoit
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Third Operation and the Resurrection
Ms. 112rexamine how deeply seminal forms are plunged into the marrow of matter, we must have recourse to experience. We shall then perceive that no spirit can efface or extinguish it. We have seen, and several people have seen, these forms reborn from the ashes of things after the incineration of matter. This is what the investigators of this science, men of weight, have tested: by distillation they drew water from chancres and vipers until the remaining matter was reduced to ashes, and produced countless chancres and vipers by sprinkling this water upon the calx and applying a suitable digestion. A person of our cabala performed the experiment before an assembly of trustworthy people and showed by what means forms reborn from the ashes of plants were attracted. I have performed it myself, and have found that metals dissolved by our vegetative water received the form of stars; everyone perceives this
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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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