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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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homme mortel ne pouvait de lui-même faire un si grand miracle. L'esprit métallique ne peut de lui-même se délivrer des impuretés dont il fourmille et se clarifier de telle sorte qu'il puisse glorifier et clarifier les corps. Il a besoin de l'art et de la main d'un artiste industrieux pour faire de si grands prodiges et de si grandes merveilles. De même dans le trait de la mort que les hommes présentaient, il ne paraissait aucun remède au poison du péché commis, et l'homme n'y apercevait aucune espérance de sa future glorification, si notre réparateur et médiateur, après avoir fait notre réconciliation et effacé ou nettoyé la tache de nos crimes, n'eût réveillé et réchauffé le germe de l'immortalité qui était presque mort en eux, pour produire la vie éternelle qui ne finira jamais, de l'âme lavée dans le sang de l'agneau, qui est l'élixir analogue ou — médecine universelle. Qui est-ce qui peut rendre pur ce qui est conçu d'une femme impure? C'est l'ouvrage du tout-puissant, cela n'appartient qu'à lui seul et non pas à un homme mortel cela est attribué à

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

Ms. 93v

mortal human being could not accomplish so great a miracle by himself. The metallic spirit cannot by itself free itself from the impurities with which it teems and clarify itself so as to glorify and clarify bodies. To work such great prodigies and wonders, it needs art and the hand of an industrious practitioner. Likewise, in the stroke of death that human beings presented, no remedy appeared for the poison of committed sin, and humanity saw no hope of future glorification, unless our restorer and mediator, after reconciling us and effacing or cleansing the stain of our crimes, had awakened and warmed the germ of immortality almost dead within them, to produce the eternal life that will never end, of the soul washed in the Lamb's blood, which is the analogous elixir or — universal medicine. Who can make pure what is conceived of an impure woman? This is the Almighty's work: it belongs to him alone, and not to a mortal human being. It is attributed to

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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.