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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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dans la confection du régule de Mars. Or, comme les éléments sont très purs dans les métaux même et mêlés fortement et analytiquement, et multipliés à l’infini ; ils renferment en eux plus d’esprits germinatifs, ce qui fait que leur rénovation, régénération et glorification se change plus aisément et plus promptement en une forme plus excellente et plus parfaite, ce qui est un secret dans l’art qui ne mérite pas d’être méprisé.

Pour remplir entièrement tous les esprits d’une philosophie chrétienne et naturelle, et pour les tirer de ce labyrinthe de rénovation, régénération et résurrection, nous allons entreprendre d’expliquer leur différence, et l’expliquerons selon le sentiment de Lucrèce et d’Ovide qui, en plusieurs endroits ont assez expliqué cette vérité en ces termes.

Lucrèce

Ce qui était sorti de la terre auparavant, rentre de plein gré dans la terre, et ce qui a été

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being

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in the preparation of the regulus of Mars. Now, since the elements are exceedingly pure within metals themselves, strongly and analytically mixed, and multiplied infinitely, metals contain more germinative spirits. This causes their renewal, regeneration, and glorification to change more easily and swiftly into a more excellent and perfect form—a secret of the art that does not deserve contempt.

To fill every mind entirely with a Christian and natural philosophy, and to lead them out of this labyrinth of renewal, regeneration, and resurrection, we shall undertake to explain the difference between them. We shall explain it according to the judgment of Lucretius and Ovid, who in several places have sufficiently explained this truth in these terms.

Lucretius

‘What had previously come forth from the earth returns willingly into the earth, and what was

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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.