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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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et que tous deux sont aussi différents de l’esprit et de l’âme que les éléments sont différents du Ciel, ou bien que tous les deux se séparent de leurs manes et de leurs ombres qui ne sont que des fantômes qui les représentent. Il est constant que l’esprit qui renferme les principes de la rénovation, de la régénération n’est aucunement le corps et l’ombre, ces manes et l’âme, et on ne peut pas dire non plus qu’il est l’âme qui est immortelle, raisonnable et qui se ressent de sa nature et source céleste et divine. La chair est esprit et ombre ; qui est-ce qui pour l’ombre même voudrait prendre l’esprit l’âme et le corps dont elle est seulement l’image, ou une ombre grossière qui le représente seulement comme une forme végétative tirée de ses cendres. De même, on ne peut pas prendre pour l’âme les manes qui sont seulement des représentations et certaines manières de faire des inclinations de l’âme, qui même après la mort occupent fortement et violemment la

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

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and that both differ from spirit and soul as much as the elements differ from Heaven; or else that both separate from their manes and shadows, which are merely phantoms representing them. It is certain that the spirit containing the principles of renewal and regeneration is in no way the body and shadow, these manes and the soul; nor can it be said to be the soul, which is immortal and rational and bears the character of its heavenly and divine nature and source. Flesh is spirit and shadow. Who would wish to take, for the shadow itself, the spirit, soul, and body of which it is merely the image, or a gross shadow representing it only as a vegetative form drawn from its ashes? Likewise, one cannot take the manes for the soul: they are merely representations and certain modes of operation of the soul’s inclinations, which even after death strongly and violently occupy 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.

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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.