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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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composées des êtres corruptibles puissent rester ; car tout ce qui sentira leur lie sera anéanti et détruit entièrement : il n’y a que l’espèce de l’esprit germinatif et la matière fixe des choses qui sont sous le ciel sous leur propre forme, qui restera telle qu’elle est, non pas d’une manière terrestre et comme elles sont à présent, semblables aux choses corruptibles, mais d’une manière céleste et tels que sont les corps célestes, incorruptibles et glorifiés.

Que ceux qui étudient l’optique contemplent tous les planètes qu’on voit d’ici-bas, par leur figure, non pas par un mouvement végétatif et d’une manière sensible mais sous la forme d’une planète rayonnante, fixe et incorruptible c’est ce que m’a assuré un de mes amis fort expérimenté dans cet art, et qui en a fait l’expérience je l’ai vu de mes yeux et l’ai éprouvé, et à moins que quelqu’un ne veuille être trompé je veux bien qu’il sache que la représentation des planètes, telle que nous l’avons, dont les rayons brillent de toutes parts, composée de l’envoi

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

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composed of corruptible beings can remain; for everything savoring of their dregs will be annihilated and entirely destroyed. Only the species of germinative spirit and the fixed matter of things under heaven in their own form will remain as it is, in a heavenly rather than earthly manner, no longer as they now are, resembling corruptible things, but like celestial bodies, incorruptible and glorified.

Let those who study optics contemplate all the planets seen from here below through their figure, not through a vegetative movement and in a sensible manner, but in the form of a radiant, fixed, incorruptible planet. This is what one of my friends, highly experienced in this art and having performed the experiment, assured me. I have seen it with my own eyes and tested it; and unless someone wishes to be deceived, I would have him know that the representation of planets as we possess it, whose rays shine on every side, composed of the sending

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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.