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The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone · Manuscript 88r · Scan 207
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Ms. 88rdes embrassements de son époux, il n’est rien là qui soit au-dessus de la portée de la nature ni dont on doive s’étonner, mais qu’une vierge enfante sans coucher avec un époux et sans être corrompue, c’est ce qui jusqu’ici a été au-dessus de tout entendement humain, qu’elle reste vierge avant son enfantement, dans son enfantement et après son enfantement, sans aucune corruption de sa virginité, c’est ce qui épouvanterait les anges mêmes s’ils ne connaissaient les secrets d’un si grand mystère imprimés sur les choses créées, et si un chrétien doit croire qu’elle a été exempte de la tache de nos premiers pères, tous les mortels ne doivent-ils pas en être saisis d’admiration, puisque les intelligences célestes auraient bien de la peine à en convenir s’il n’était ridicule d’assurer avec opiniâtreté que cette grâce qui a été accordée aux choses sensibles eût été refusée à la mère du Tout-Puissant. Aucun chimiste ne doute que notre esprit mercuriel qui est la figure de la mère de Dieu n’ait été engendré de parents souillés de l’ordure et de la corruption originelle des éléments, de sorte qu’on a peine à croire qu’une substance
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone
Ms. 88rthrough her spouse’s embraces is nothing beyond nature’s capacity or cause for astonishment. But for a virgin to give birth without lying with a spouse and without being corrupted has hitherto exceeded all human understanding. That she remains a virgin before, during, and after childbirth, without any corruption of her virginity, would terrify even angels if they did not know the secrets of so great a mystery imprinted upon created things. If a Christian must believe that she was exempt from our first parents’ stain, should not all mortals be seized with admiration? Even the celestial intelligences would find it difficult to assent, were it not absurd to insist obstinately that this grace, granted to perceptible things, had been refused to the Almighty’s mother. No chemist doubts that our mercurial spirit, the figure of the Mother of God, was generated from parents defiled by the filth and original corruption of the elements, so that one can hardly believe a substance
Socrates
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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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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.
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