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Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being · Manuscript 117r · Scan 269
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Ms. 117rempêchent la résolution du cadavre d’où la forme du composé est dissipée ? C’est pourquoi il est besoin d’admettre ici quelque différence entre la mort que Dieu seul peut réanimer comme nous avons dit ailleurs et la mortification qui est un ouvrage de la nature. La mort étant donc la résolution entière tant du cadavre où l’esprit est renfermé, que du corps où réside l’âme tout ce qui reste après elle n’est rien, et la mortification n’étant que la séparation de l’âme et du corps, il reste encore dans ce cadavre quelque esprit qui le défend de la corruption, car le baume où est renfermée la vie, le principe de la génération, de la nutrition et de l’augmentation qui ne conçoit point la mort parce qu’il est incorruptible et qui est cependant le principe de toute altération et de toute corruption comme nous avons dit ci-dessus.
Qui est-ce qui peut se dispenser de reconnaître toutes les preuves de la résurrection de nos corps par les esprits germinatifs qui se régénèrent eux-mêmes pour perpétuer les fragiles choses ; par les formes matérielles et individuelles qui renaissent et ne meurent point ; par les idées des formes essentielles qui restent après la mort qui ne peuvent
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being
Ms. 117rprevent the dissolution of the corpse from which the compound’s form has been dispersed? We must therefore admit a distinction here between death—which God alone can reanimate, as we have said elsewhere—and mortification, which is a work of nature. Death is thus the complete dissolution both of the corpse enclosing the spirit and of the body in which the soul resides; everything remaining after it is nothing. Mortification, being only the separation of soul and body, leaves within the corpse some spirit that protects it from corruption: the balm in which life is contained, the principle of generation, nutrition, and increase, which knows no death because it is incorruptible, yet is the principle of all alteration and corruption, as we have said above.
Who can fail to recognize all the proofs of our bodies’ resurrection: through germinative spirits regenerating themselves to perpetuate fragile things; through material and individual forms reborn and never dying; through ideas of essential forms remaining after death, which cannot
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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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