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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Ms. 99v

Quelques scrupuleux nous objecteront peut-être que Dieu ne nous a pas présenté ces prodiges comme nécessaires au salut, parce que tout le monde doit quitter cette théologie sacrée et naturelle, et qu'ainsi il y aurait autant de Docteurs que de chrétiens ce qui ne s'ensuit pas, car personne n'est obligé de divin précepte d'étudier la théologie et cette science naturelle; il suffit d'avoir une foi, qui fasse fermement établir, croire du cœur sans aucun doute, garder avec une grande piété, professer à haute voix, et même signer de son sang contre tous les ennemis de Jésus-Christ et les enfers même, tout ce que la vérité orthodoxe de l'Église apprend soit révélé par Dieu même immédiatement, soit révélé immédiatement par les anges ou par la nature. Enfin donc que personne ne soit épouvanté de ce nom de nature qu'ils croient peu propre en parlant des choses divines, afin qu'ils le désapprouvent encore moins, qu'ils apprennent avant tout que ces choses ont été infuses et révélées par la nature, et non pas par une autre voie, et que rien de ce qui

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

Ms. 99v

Some scrupulous people will perhaps object that God did not present these prodigies to us as necessary for salvation, because everyone must leave this sacred and natural theology, and thus there would be as many Doctors as Christians. This does not follow, for no one is obliged by divine command to study theology and this natural science. It is enough to have faith: firmly to establish and believe from the heart, without doubt; to guard with great piety; to profess aloud; and even to sign with one's blood, against all Jesus Christ's enemies and hell itself, everything taught by the Church's orthodox truth—whether revealed immediately by God himself or revealed immediately through angels or nature. Finally, let no one be frightened by this name of nature, which they consider ill-suited to speaking of divine things. So that they disapprove of it still less, let them learn above all that these things have been infused and revealed through nature, and through no other way, and that nothing which

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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.