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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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arrive, elle se renouvelle, se régénère et se glorifie.

Qui est-ce qui a jamais considéré avec attention cette première fleur et germe de la vie où la forme du composé est renfermée ? Mais qui est-ce qui a cherché à trouver la place qu’il occupe dans le composé ? Quoique la faiblesse de l’esprit ne le permette pas, puisque les philosophes seuls peuvent en avoir la connaissance, nous tâcherons néanmoins de le faire connaître à tout le monde, afin que l’ignorant, le païen et l’infidèle comme le chrétien avouent que les fondements et appuis de cette vérité sont si fermes que le Ciel même tomberait, et que toute la machine du monde serait plutôt détruite avant qu’elle puisse branler ou être émue le moindrement.

J’entends quelques personnes qui se déchaînent et crient contre moi que cela est nouveau et inouï que cela n’a jamais été traité ni approuvé de qui que ce soit, qu’au contraire on a désapprouvé comme peu convenable à un chrétien de mêler le sacré avec le profane, qui même nieraient avec opiniâtreté qu’on puisse indiquer et montrer le sacré par le

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Third Operation and the Resurrection

Ms. 108v

occurs, it renews, regenerates, and glorifies itself.

Who has ever attentively considered this first flower and germ of life, in which the form of the compound is contained? Who has sought to discover the place it occupies within the compound? Although the weakness of the mind does not permit it, since philosophers alone can possess this knowledge, we shall nevertheless try to make it known to everyone, so that the ignorant, the pagan, and the unbeliever, as well as the Christian, may acknowledge that the foundations and supports of this truth are so firm that Heaven itself would fall and the whole mechanism of the world would sooner be destroyed than it could waver or be moved in the slightest.

I hear certain people raging and crying out against me that this is new and unheard-of; that it has never been discussed or approved by anyone; that, on the contrary, it has been disapproved as unfitting for a Christian to mingle the sacred with the profane. They would even stubbornly deny that the sacred can be indicated and shown through the

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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.