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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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sortes de supplices en toutes, et aux plus petites parties de leur corps ; ainsi, ils souffriront autant de douleurs, de peines, de maladies, qu’il y aura d’espèces d’agents et d’individus qui altèrent les choses ; ainsi dans le même espace de temps, ils pourront être glacés de froid, brûlés, être précipités dans des abîmes d’eaux être travaillés de toutes les maladies du corps et de l’esprit, et plongés dans le gouffre profond de tous les supplices, et en être accablés, sans pouvoir mourir ni payer les peines dues à leurs crimes, qui dureront pendant toute l’éternité, ni satisfaire à Dieu courroucé, dont ils éprouveront l’inimitié et la vengeance pendant une éternité de siècles, dont la source ne tarira jamais, sans pouvoir le fléchir par aucune prière, ni le toucher ou l’apaiser par l’abondance de leurs larmes.

Si présentement vous demandez comment le feu matériel agit sur les âmes immatérielles, ou si l’on admet un feu pur et immatériel comme celui qui est allumé de la main de Dieu pour punir les Démons et comment il agit sur les corps ; il faut recourir au

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Two Natures of Natural Spirits

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kind of punishment in every part, even the smallest parts of their bodies. Thus they will suffer as many pains, penalties, and diseases as there are kinds of agents and individuals that alter things. In the same span of time they can be frozen with cold, burned, cast into watery abysses, afflicted by every disease of body and spirit, plunged into the deep gulf of every punishment, and overwhelmed by it, without being able to die, discharge the penalties due for their crimes—which will endure throughout eternity—or satisfy the wrathful God. They will experience his hostility and vengeance through an eternity of ages, from a source that will never run dry, without being able to move him by any prayer, touch him, or appease him through the abundance of their tears.

If you now ask how material fire acts upon immaterial souls, or whether one admits a pure and immaterial fire such as that kindled by God’s hand to punish Demons, and how it acts upon bodies, we must have recourse to

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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.