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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Prayer for the Work · Manuscript 6r · Scan 25

French

Ms. 6r

par la puissance du père qui a créé tout le monde ✝, par la sagesse du fils rédempteur ✝, par la bonté du Saint-Esprit ✝; par celui qui a accompli toute la loi ✝, qui est, ✝ qui était, ✝ qui viendra, ✝ tout-puissant, ✝ saint, ✝ immortel ✝ Τετραγράμματον, Jésus, alpha et omega ✝, le commencement et la fin. Que toute vertu diabolique soit donc chassée dans cette créature, mise en fuite par ces signes de la sainte croix et de l'invocation des anges, des archanges, des patriarches, des prophètes, des martyrs, des confesseurs, des vierges et la bienheureuse vierge, et de tous ceux qui règnent dans le ciel avec l'agneau tué dès le commencement du monde, et qui vivent bien dans l'église du Dieu saint. Retirez-vous donc, et de même que la fumée du fiel d'un poisson brûlé a chassé de Sarah l'esprit pendant l'éloignement de Raphaël, que ces bénédictions vous chassent, afin que vous n'osiez approcher de cette créature marquée du signe de la Croix, de cent mille pas, parce que mon commandement n'est pas le mien mais de celui qui a été envoyé du sein du père

Ms. 6r

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Prayer for the Work

Ms. 6r

by the power of the Father who created the whole world ✝, by the wisdom of the redeeming Son ✝, by the goodness of the Holy Spirit ✝; by him who fulfilled the whole law ✝, who is, ✝ who was, ✝ who will come, ✝ almighty, ✝ holy, ✝ immortal; ✝ Tetragrammaton; Jesus, Alpha and Omega ✝, the beginning and the end. May every diabolical power therefore be driven out within this creature and put to flight by these signs of the holy cross and by the invocation of angels, archangels, patriarchs, prophets, martyrs, confessors, virgins and the blessed Virgin, and all those who reign in heaven with the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, and who live righteously in the church of the holy God. Withdraw, then! Just as the smoke from the gall of a burned fish drove the spirit from Sarah during Raphael's absence, may these blessings drive you away, so that you dare not come within a hundred thousand paces of this creature marked with the sign of the Cross. For my command is not my own, but that of him who was sent from the Father's bosom

Ms. 6r

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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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.