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The Second Operation and the Death of Christ · Manuscript 91r · Scan 213
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Ms. 91rvolatil et incorruptible, éternel, dans le sein pur et sans tache de notre mercure céleste, on pourra comprendre que l'incréé naît, que l'impassible souffre et que l'immortel est sujet à la mort.
Quoique cela soit difficile, et presque impossible parce qu'il y a contradiction; si cependant nous rappelons dans notre mémoire ce que nous avons déjà dit, vous verrez que la chose n'a besoin ni de preuves ni de démonstrations.
Mais quelle connexion a la mort avec la vie, la lumière avec les ténèbres, la perfection avec les vices et l'impassibilité avec la corruption: ces choses ont été réunies et ajustées dans une même matière et dans un même sujet, afin que nous fussions frappés de l'éclat de la connaissance d'aussi grands mystères et pour nous découvrir la concorde et l'harmonie des choses invisibles avec celles qui sont visibles; avant de passer outre, il faut se ressouvenir de notre quintessence qui, toute pure, toute spirituelle et toute incorruptible qu'elle est, est cependant sujette à toutes les imperfections de la corruption et
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Second Operation and the Death of Christ
Ms. 91rvolatile and incorruptible, eternal, within the pure and spotless womb of our celestial mercury, one will be able to understand that the uncreated is born, the impassible suffers, and the immortal is subject to death.
Although this is difficult and almost impossible because it contains a contradiction, if we nevertheless recall what we have already said, you will see that the matter requires neither proofs nor demonstrations.
But what connection has death with life, light with darkness, perfection with vices, and impassibility with corruption? These things have been united and adjusted within one matter and one subject so that we might be struck by the splendor of knowing such great mysteries, and so that the concord and harmony of invisible things with visible ones might be disclosed to us. Before proceeding, we must recall our quintessence, which, pure, spiritual and incorruptible though it is, remains subject to every imperfection of corruption and
Socrates
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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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