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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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en égard à la fragilité de la matière et dans les intelligences même, et dans les choses intelligibles par rapport à la violation du précepte divin et aux aiguillons de l'orgueil.

Outre cela, si nous cherchons à fond le secret de la nature, et la dissémination de l'esprit universel et ses fonctions, nous pourrons aisément apercevoir qu'il s'est glissé dans le monde un mouvement continuel d'altération, de corruption et de mort, selon lequel l'esprit de l'antéchrist se répand sur la différence et universelle multiplicité de tout l'univers d'où la contrariété, l'altération et la mort ont semé de tous côtés cette malheureuse moisson de mortalité, de passage, et de corruptibilité, ce qui est expliqué tout au long dans le livre que nous appelons le seul Monas des hiéroglyphes de la physique de la magie et de la cabale chrétienne.

Mais la bonté infinie du Tout-puissant a eu pitié de notre misère et de notre infirmité, et se chargeant du remède propre à nos faiblesses, nous a envoyé son fils unique pour médecin et pour

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

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with regard to matter's frailty, and even among intelligences and intelligible things, with regard to violating the divine command and the goads of pride.

Moreover, if we thoroughly investigate nature's secret and the dissemination and functions of the universal spirit, we shall easily perceive that a continual movement of alteration, corruption and death has slipped into the world. According to it, the spirit of Antichrist spreads over the difference and universal multiplicity of the whole universe. From this, contrariety, alteration and death have sown everywhere this unhappy harvest of mortality, transience and corruptibility. This is explained at length in the book we call the sole Monas of the hieroglyphs of physics, magic and Christian Kabbalah.

But the Almighty's infinite goodness took pity on our misery and infirmity. Taking responsibility for the remedy suited to our weaknesses, he sent us his only Son as physician and as

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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.