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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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à la nature mortelle dans un même sujet, comme nous avons dit plus haut. Au contraire dans la mort de Jésus-Christ, qui précède sa résurrection ce qu’il y a de passager, de caduc et de mortel dans l’humanité divine est effacé par la mort et il s’y introduit la forme la plus noble d’un corps glorifié, qu’il accorde aux corps qui doivent être bienheureux au dernier jour, et celui qui semble se cacher dans ce mystère de la nativité semble aussi se manifester dans sa résurrection. Dans le premier mystère cependant il s’est présenté aux hommes d’une manière si aisée à être connu que nous le voyons exposé et sujet à tous les sens et au contraire dans le second qui est sa résurrection il s’est rempli de tant d’éclat et de lumière qu’à peine laisse-t-il voir à nos yeux mortels, qui ne peuvent supporter la lumière du soleil, ne pouvant soutenir la foudre et la lumière du soleil de justice. On peut voir la même chose dans la mort et la résurrection du pécheur, quoique sous un différent rapport si nous la comparons à la mort et à 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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to mortal nature in one and the same subject, as we said above. Conversely, in the death of Jesus Christ preceding his resurrection, what is passing, perishable, and mortal in the divine humanity is effaced by death, and the noblest form of a glorified body is introduced there, which he grants to the bodies that are to be blessed on the Last Day. He who seems to hide in the mystery of the Nativity also seems to manifest himself in his Resurrection. In the first mystery, however, he presented himself to human beings in a manner so easy to recognize that we see him exposed and subject to all the senses. In the second, his Resurrection, he filled himself with such brilliance and light that he scarcely allows himself to be seen by our mortal eyes, which cannot bear sunlight, being unable to endure the thunderbolt and light of the sun of justice. The same thing can be seen in the sinner’s death and resurrection, although under a different relation if we compare it with the death and

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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.