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The Sun Moon and Mercury · Manuscript 103v · Scan 240
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Ms. 103vau moyen d'un feu tempéré de sorte que l'humide est tempéré par le sec, et le sec pareillement par l'humide ce qui fait qu'elle fuit cette superficie plate et ne s'attache point à cause de sa fixité, et qu'enfin, ou elle fuit toute échauffée du feu, ou reste toute accoutumée avec le feu parce que, ou elle a de la peine à être corrompue, ou qu'étant tant soit peu corrompue, ou étant éloignée de cette analipticité des éléments, on ne s'en sert pas utilement pour l'œuvre; il faut donc apporter beaucoup de soin et d'attention de peur que dans la préparation elle ne s'écarte de cette complexion d'éléments, et pour arriver à ce but, il faut que nous cherchions un feu qui attire doucement l'esprit de notre eau plongée dans plusieurs hétérogénéités de la matière: car tout feu ni artificiel ni élémentaire tel qu'il est dans les mixtes, ou actuel ou potentiel ne parfait cet œuvre, parce que s'il a plus d'intention qu'il ne faut ou plus de rémission, il s'animera cruellement contre elle comme un tyran et un vainqueur, qui fait plier tout; ou n'aura point ou seulement peu d'empire sur elle, car toute (la)
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Sun Moon and Mercury
Ms. 103vthrough a tempered fire, so that moisture is tempered by dryness and dryness likewise by moisture. This causes it to flee this flat surface and not adhere because of its fixity. Finally, either it flees thoroughly heated by fire or remains thoroughly accustomed to fire. Because it is either difficult to corrupt, slightly corrupted, or removed from this analipticité of the elements, it cannot usefully serve the work. Much care and attention are therefore required lest it depart from this complexion of elements during preparation. To attain this end, we must seek a fire gently drawing out the spirit of our water, immersed within many heterogeneous parts of matter. For not every fire—artificial or elemental, as it exists in compounds, actual or potential—perfects this work. If it has more intensification than needed, or more relaxation, it will rage cruelly against it like a tyrant and conqueror bending everything to his will; or it will have no dominion, or very little, over it. For all the
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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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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.
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