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The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone · Manuscript 89r · Scan 209
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Ms. 89ret maritale de substances, l’esprit fixe de l’or étant devenu volatil reçoit toutes les conditions et qualités de l’esprit mercuriel, et qu’alternativement l’espèce volatile et argentée de mercure devient d’or solaire permanente et incorruptible, d’une manière à peu près semblable quoique sous un exemple grossier et qui a fort peu de rapport à Dieu, parce que Dieu n’entre aucunement en comparaison avec son ouvrage à moins que la comparaison ne soit légère. Dieu par l’association de sa divinité sans tache avec notre humanité a pris dans les entrailles de sa mère un corps sujet et exposé à tous les traits de la chaleur, du froid, de la disette d’aliments, de la douleur, de la langueur, de la crainte et de la mort même.
Que doit-on attendre de plus de cette source inépuisable de l’amour de Dieu envers nous qu’aucun des mortels ne peut tarir ? Qui peut, je vous prie, pénétrer ces mystères cachés s’il n’est éclairé des lumières de notre physique ? C’est d’elle d’où les Rabbins ont puisé toute leur science ; toute la
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone
Ms. 89rand marital union of substances, gold’s fixed spirit, having become volatile, receives all the conditions and qualities of the mercurial spirit; conversely, mercury’s volatile, silvery species becomes permanent, incorruptible solar gold. The manner is somewhat similar, although the example is coarse and bears very little relation to God: God can in no way be compared with his work unless the comparison is slight. Through the association of his unstained divinity with our humanity, God took within his mother’s womb a body subject and exposed to every assault of heat, cold, lack of food, pain, languor, fear, and death itself.
What more should we expect from this inexhaustible source of God’s love for us, which no mortal can drain? Who, I ask you, can penetrate these hidden mysteries unless enlightened by our natural philosophy? From it the Rabbis drew all their knowledge; the whole
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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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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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