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Good and Evil Angels · Manuscript 61v · Scan 150
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Ms. 61vles esprits vitaux de l’air, les esprits motifs, sensitifs et animaux qu’il ne tâche de détruire comme leur ennemi le plus animé il remplit Ευρυχωριας, c’est-à-dire la vaste région de l’air, de la frigidité de son mercure et de la calidité ignée et volatile du soufre, et de vapeurs sèches ou de météores qui par l’antipathie de leurs qualités vomissent tant d’éclairs et de foudres et qu’ils semblent renverser et détruire l’univers de fond en comble c’est pourquoi les poètes les représentent armé du tonnerre et comme dit Claudien : Tout l’univers se tait au seul bruit de sa voix.
Il prépare ses armes contre son propre père, savoir Saturne, et lève la tête contre lui et voulant s’emparer de son trône souverain, comme par droit héréditaire imitant l’orgueil du prince des ténèbres, et s’élevant au-dessus des autres esprits, il s’attribue arrogamment la gloire et le nom de Roi, et il n’y a aucun de ces esprits qui ne tâche, et qui ne se glorifie d’avoir les premières places, ce qui fait entre ces esprits une guerre éternelle et qui ne finira jamais, qui se répand ensuite parmi toutes les choses créées. C’est par un prodige si
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels
Ms. 61vthe vital spirits of the air, the motive, sensitive, and animal spirits, that it does not seek to destroy as their most bitter enemy. It fills euruchōrias—that is, the vast region of the air—with the coldness of its mercury, the fiery and volatile heat of sulfur, and dry vapors or meteors whose opposing qualities make them vomit forth so much lightning and so many thunderbolts that they seem to overturn and destroy the universe from top to bottom. This is why the poets represent them armed with thunder; and, as Claudian says, ‘The whole universe falls silent at the mere sound of his voice.’
It prepares its weapons against its own father, namely Saturn, and raises its head against him. Wishing to seize his sovereign throne as if by hereditary right, imitating the pride of the prince of darkness and exalting itself above the other spirits, it arrogantly claims the glory and name of King. Not one of these spirits fails to strive for, or boast of possessing, the foremost places. This produces among them an eternal and unending war, which afterward spreads through all created things. It is through so
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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.
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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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