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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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et l’appui de ces mystères que nous devons respecter avec crainte et frayeur, honorer avec joie et amour, traiter avec respect et humilité, et croire enfin avec une ferme foi.

Que ceux donc se taisent qui cherchent de quelle manière la virginité reste sans tache avec la maternité dans un même sujet, de quelle manière une épouse conçoit sans époux, comment un enfant est engendré sans corruption, comment une femme enfante sans douleur et sans corruption, comment Dieu s’est fait homme et l’homme Dieu, etc., puisque cela se découvre non seulement dans l’œuvre de la nature mais même de l’art, du moins à tous les philosophes chimistes, et paraît plus clair que le jour et le soleil.

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Incarnation and the Birth of the Stone

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and support of these mysteries, which we must revere with fear and awe, honor with joy and love, approach with respect and humility, and finally believe with firm faith.

Let those therefore be silent who ask how virginity remains unstained together with motherhood in a single subject; how a wife conceives without a husband; how a child is generated without corruption; how a woman gives birth without pain or corruption; how God became man and man God; and so forth. For these things are disclosed in the work of nature and even of art—at least to all philosophical chemists—and appear clearer than daylight and the Sun.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.