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Good and Evil Angels · Manuscript 58r · Scan 143
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Ms. 58rpère, dévore les enfants qu'il engendre, et à l'imitation d'un tigre, ou comme un lion, met à mort et fait périr par un sanglant carnage ce que son premier créateur a fait naître. Je dis plus, quoique ce soit quelque chose d'horrible à dire, plus venimeux qu'un basilic, il tue de sa vue et de son haleine, et répand un mortel poison sur tout ce qu'il touche et engendre toutes les espèces de maladies dont il pullule en ce monde; s'il est mêlé avec des esprits cruels, comme des sels et des soufres, il machine des pertes encore plus grandes, et médite des carnages plus sanglants.
Qu'y a-t-il je vous prie, de pire que le vif-argent commun avec le soufre comme il se trouve dans les métaux imparfaits, ou avec des sels, comme on peut voir dans l'air sublimé?
Les princes des mensonges suivent immédiatement après les Esprits tartariens; ils peuvent s'enflammer et brûler, étant d'un soufre commun et d'un esprit vulgaire, et par leur antipathie naturelle, ils résistent en tout aux esprits des astres du second ordre qui pré-
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels
Ms. 58rfather, devours the children he engenders and, imitating a tiger or like a lion, kills and destroys in bloody slaughter what his first creator brought to birth. I say more: though it is horrible to say, more venomous than a basilisk, he kills with his sight and breath, spreads deadly poison over everything he touches, and generates all the kinds of diseases with which he teems in this world. If he is mixed with cruel spirits such as salts and sulfurs, he contrives even greater losses and plans bloodier slaughters.
What, I ask you, is worse than common quicksilver with sulfur, as it is found in imperfect metals, or with salts, as can be seen in sublimed air?
The princes of lies immediately follow the Tartarean Spirits. They can catch fire and burn, being of common sulfur and a vulgar spirit. Through their natural antipathy they resist in everything the spirits of the heavenly bodies of the second order that preside
Socrates
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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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