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The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone · Manuscript 81r · Scan 191
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Ms. 81rqu’elle vaincrait et confondrait l’incrédulité, l’impiété et les enfers même. Aussi il a partagé l’univers entier en différents ordres ou familles par les plus basses desquelles on arrive à ce qu’il y a de plus élevé.
Tous les philosophes conviennent que tous les composés sont remplis de quelque esprit incorruptible par le moyen duquel on dit qu’ils sont nourris, qu’ils vivent, qu’ils croissent et qu’ils pullulent, parce que toute génération, nutrition et germination est l’ouvrage de l’âme qui mêle les éléments et les réduit à l’unité. C’est aussi que les métaux sont très pleins de quelque esprit volatil parce qu’on les voit vivre, croître et s’augmenter. Plus donc cet esprit ou chaleur céleste vivifiante se multiplie à l’infini dans un sujet, plus le corps est pur, subtil et incorruptible puisque c’est le propre de l’esprit d’atténuer les éléments purifiés et de les mêler fortement lorsqu’ils sont atténués et de les convertir en un corps pur et homogène, comme il arrive dans les métaux
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone
Ms. 81rthat it would overcome and confound unbelief, impiety, and even hell. Thus he has divided the entire universe into different orders or families, through whose lowest members one reaches what is highest.
All philosophers agree that every compound is filled with an incorruptible spirit through which it is said to be nourished, to live, grow, and multiply. For all generation, nourishment, and germination is the work of the soul, which mingles the elements and reduces them to unity. Metals too are thoroughly filled with a volatile spirit, since we see them live, grow, and increase. Therefore, the more this spirit or life-giving celestial heat multiplies indefinitely within a subject, the purer, subtler, and more incorruptible the body becomes. For it belongs to spirit to attenuate purified elements, bind them firmly once attenuated, and convert them into a pure, homogeneous body, as happens in metals
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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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