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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 très parfaite résolution et association; les étoiles qui tombent du ciel sont des particules du soufre solaire qui tombent sur la terre mercurielle et se plongent dans notre mer. Ce soufre d'ordinaire est pris pour le Ciel en cet art, parce qu'il contient en lui toutes les forces et vertus des étoiles et des planètes, à la manière des choses célestes: ce mouvement de terre convulsif, et ces esprits qui soufflent violemment des quatre parties du monde, de même qu'un figuier laisse tomber ses fruits lorsqu'il est agité d'un grand vent, marquent les vapeurs mercurielles qu'on dit être très chaudes, très sèches, très froides et très humides; c'est pourquoi, par rapport à leur différente nature et à leur diverse origine, on dit qu'elles soufflent des quatre coins du monde au temps de la corruption de l'esprit. Le haut du vaisseau se remplit de tant de vapeurs et de petits nuages, que les vents semblent en quelque façon souffler et agiter la terre d'un grand mouvement, de sorte que les Rois et les princes se cachent dans les cavernes, et les creux pierreux des montagnes et disent aux montagnes: tombez sur nous et cachez-nous. Les rois et les princes nous désignent les esprits solaires et lunaires,

Ms. 97r

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

Ms. 97r

and very perfect dissolution and association. The stars falling from heaven are particles of solar sulfur falling upon mercurial earth and plunging into our sea. In this art this sulfur is ordinarily taken for Heaven because it contains all the forces and powers of stars and planets, after the manner of celestial things. This convulsive movement of earth and these spirits blowing violently from the world's four quarters, as a fig tree drops its fruit when shaken by a great wind, signify mercurial vapors said to be very hot, very dry, very cold and very moist. Because of their different nature and diverse origin, they are therefore said to blow from the world's four corners at the time of the spirit's corruption. The vessel's upper part fills with so many vapors and little clouds that the winds seem, in some fashion, to blow and shake the earth with great movement. Consequently kings and princes hide in caverns and rocky hollows of mountains and say to the mountains: fall upon us and hide us. The kings and princes designate solar and lunar spirits for us,

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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.

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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.