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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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French

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puissant et en plus grande quantité, comme la pureté des parties l’homogénéité et l’incorruptibilité est plus grande dans les métaux que dans toutes les autres choses ; ils ont plus d’esprit germinatif que tout le reste, c’est pourquoi ils sont le centre central, d’où il se répand sur tout, comme nous dirons en son lieu.

Tout ce qui est dans les spermes et dans ces semences coule de cette source universelle et ne peut couler d’aucune autre, quelque différente qu’elle soit, soit dans les végétaux, soit dans les animaux, quoique la nature ait établi son propre domicile dans le sperme des animaux et dans les semences des végétaux, les parties des autres corps n’en sont pas privées pour cela, autrement elles ne pourraient ni être nourries, ni augmenter comme dans les arbres transplantés, et parce qu’elle est cause de leur germination, elle est aussi le principe de leur nutrition. Or, la nutrition n’est autre chose qu’une génération étendue et amplifiée. Si nous examinons comment elle se fait en eux, elle

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

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powerful and in greater quantity. Since purity of parts, homogeneity, and incorruptibility are greater in metals than in all other things, they have more germinative spirit than everything else. They are therefore the central center, from which it spreads over everything, as we shall explain in its place.

Everything in the sperms and these seeds flows from this universal source and can flow from no other, however different it may be, whether in plants or animals. Although nature has established its own dwelling in animal sperm and vegetable seeds, the parts of other bodies are not thereby deprived of it; otherwise they could neither be nourished nor increase, as in transplanted trees. Because it causes their germination, it is also the principle of their nutrition. Now nutrition is nothing other than generation extended and amplified. If we examine how it takes place in them, it

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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.