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Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being · Manuscript 114r · Scan 263
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Ms. 114rfantaisie ou l’imagination, parce que la faculté imaginative est un milieu entre l’âme et les sens et retient quelque chose du corps de ses espèces et représentations, et s’ajustant pour recevoir les images et les fantômes des choses, d’où il arrive que ces espèces fortement imprimées dans l’imagination l’occupent même après la mort et durent éternellement ; c’est pourquoi elles contribueront à rendre heureux si elles sont bonnes, et à rendre malheureux si elles sont mauvaises, et tourmenteront ceux qui y penseront comme les poètes disent de la faim de Tantale, du désir de Midas, des honteux embrasements de Sardanapale et des supplices de Sisyphe et d’Ixion. Alors l’âme comme obscurcie par la faculté végétative est livrée à la domination de la fantaisie et à la tyrannie des passions. C’est ainsi que les damnés sont tourmentés par une infinité d’horribles fantômes et d’affections épouvantables, à cause de la rouille des taches de leurs corps selon que leur caractère est imprimé à cette
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being
Ms. 114rfantasy or imagination. For the imaginative faculty is intermediate between soul and senses and retains something of the body, its species and representations, fitting itself to receive the images and phantoms of things. Thus these species, strongly impressed upon imagination, occupy it even after death and endure eternally. They will therefore contribute to happiness if good, and unhappiness if bad, and torment those who think upon them, as the poets tell of Tantalus’s hunger, Midas’s desire, Sardanapalus’s shameful fires, and the punishments of Sisyphus and Ixion. Then the soul, as if darkened by the vegetative faculty, is delivered to the rule of fantasy and the tyranny of the passions. In this way the damned are tormented by countless horrible phantoms and dreadful affections, because of the rust of the stains of their bodies, according as their character is impressed upon this
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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.
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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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