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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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dans les dépouilles de la mort et de la corruption. À quoi eût servi le mystère de l'incarnation, si Jésus-Christ ne fût pas mort, de quelle utilité eût été sa mort s'il ne fût ressuscité de la mort en la surmontant? Avant la naissance de Jésus-Christ, les devins sacrés ont pronostiqué d'un esprit prophétique, les oracles ont prédit, la nature publié cette vérité que Jésus-Christ a confirmée de sa propre bouche, si le grain ne meurt pas, il reste seul et de cette bénite semence de la glorification de la résurrection et de l'immortalité il ne pousse aucun germe, et le grain de la vie éternelle ne pullule point et n'opère point en nous le jour de la gloire.

Nous avons déjà dit comment l'esprit incorruptible de l'or se revêtit du corps du vif-argent, par le moyen duquel il est résolu, altéré et corrompu, afin de rapporter dans son temps cette moisson d'or abondante. Nous avons pareillement fait voir comment Jésus-Christ revêtu de notre mortalité en payant les peines dues à nos crimes a satisfait à son père courroucé pour nous mériter la vie éternelle, car un

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Second Operation and the Death of Christ

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within the spoils of death and corruption. What use would the mystery of incarnation have served if Jesus Christ had not died? What benefit would his death have brought if he had not risen from death by overcoming it? Before Jesus Christ's birth, sacred seers foretold through a prophetic spirit, oracles predicted, and nature proclaimed this truth, which Jesus Christ confirmed with his own mouth: unless the grain dies, it remains alone. No germ sprouts from this blessed seed of glorification, resurrection and immortality, and the grain of eternal life neither multiplies nor works within us on the day of glory.

We have already said how gold's incorruptible spirit clothed itself in quicksilver's body, through which it is dissolved, altered and corrupted, so as to bring forth this abundant harvest of gold in its season. We have likewise shown how Jesus Christ, clothed in our mortality and paying the penalties due to our crimes, satisfied his angered Father to merit eternal life for us. For a

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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.