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The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone · Manuscript 90r · Scan 211
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Ms. 90rô chrétien, que des hommes profanes même, après avoir dissipé les voiles et l’ombre qui nous obscurcissent la nature, l’aient vue telle qu’elle est à nu et à découvert. Vous ne rougissez point encore une fois d’ignorer des choses que savent les païens et dans lesquelles ils sont consommés, et vous laissez aller ce que Dieu vous présente comme à son serviteur et à son fils, à ceux auxquels il les a refusés.
Ô siècle ! Ô mœurs ! Ô crime qui mérite une punition éternelle ! Vous n’ignorez pas que Dieu même a envoyé son fils unique pour les expliquer à tous les hommes du commun et les leur laisser, après les avoir découverts, ces mêmes mystères ensevelis sous les enveloppes de la nature qui n’étaient avant son arrivée connus que des sages seuls : vous ne savez pas que lui-même est la véritable pierre triangulaire sur laquelle il a établi la vérité et la foi de toute l’Église inébranlable pendant tous les siècles, qu’il a scellée du vénérable et sacré mystère de son incarnation qui est le sceau saint et sacré du Dieu Tout-Puissant et la clef, la base
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone
Ms. 90rO Christian, that even profane men, after dispelling the veils and shadow obscuring nature from us, have seen her as she is, naked and uncovered. Once more, you do not blush to be ignorant of things the pagans know and in which they are thoroughly accomplished. You let what God presents to you as his servant and son pass to those to whom he refused it.
O age! O manners! O crime deserving eternal punishment! You know that God himself sent his only son to explain these things to all ordinary people and leave them these same mysteries, once disclosed, which had been buried beneath nature’s coverings and known only to the sages before his coming. Do you not know that he himself is the true triangular stone upon which he established the truth and faith of the whole Church, unshakable through every age? He sealed it with the venerable, sacred mystery of his incarnation, the holy, sacred seal of Almighty God and the key, foundation
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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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