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Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being · Manuscript 118r · Scan 271
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Ms. 118rperpétuer les espèces s’est retiré d’elle avec ses propriétés et facultés, et ce n’est qu’en elles que l’on voit l’image et l’ombre de la première forme ; comme cet esprit est incorruptible et constitue les espèces des choses qui ne peuvent se changer n’étant pas sujettes aux choses sensibles, ils ne se corrompent et ne s’éteignent point mais s’éloignent seulement de la matière qu’ils désirent de rejoindre, de là il suit que l’une étant détruite, il s’en introduit une autre qui participe beaucoup de l’élément, en est plus composée, ou qui du moins, autant qu’elle peut, tâche de revêtir de quelques qualités par lesquelles elle puisse se défendre de l’anéantissement, et afin que cela n’arrivât pas dans les choses créées (autrement ce serait sa perte irréparable) la nature sage et prévoyante a planté en elles dès le commencement du monde certaines semences fixes et éternelles de l’immortalité, afin que celles de formes accidentelles fussent résolues ou élevées par la corruption et anéantissement de ces esprits incorruptibles qui pourrait survenir après donc la destruction de tout ce qui n’a pu résister à la violence du feu, tout ce qui
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being
Ms. 118rperpetuating species has withdrawn from it with its properties and powers; and only in these is the image and shadow of the first form seen. Since this spirit is incorruptible and constitutes the species of things, which cannot change, not being subject to sensible things, they are neither corrupted nor extinguished, but merely withdraw from the matter they desire to rejoin. It follows that when one has been destroyed, another is introduced that partakes greatly of the element and is more composed of it; or that at least, so far as it can, endeavors to clothe itself in qualities through which it may defend itself against annihilation. So that this should not happen in created things—otherwise it would be its irreparable loss—wise and provident nature planted within them, from the beginning of the world, certain fixed and eternal seeds of immortality, so that those of accidental forms might be dissolved or raised through the corruption and annihilation of these incorruptible spirits that might occur. After, therefore, the destruction of everything unable to resist the violence of fire, everything that
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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.
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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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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.
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