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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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faire sur notre pierre physique, et celui qui aura les yeux pénétrants apercevra tout d’un coup les causes et moyens de sa résurrection et de celle de J. C. Ceux qui ont vu et prédit que tout le monde ou toute la nature périrait et serait entièrement détruite par un déluge universel, éclairés qu’ils étaient par cette philosophie naturelle, ont tiré ce sentiment de la réduction de notre matière en eau. Dans le principe de cette opération toute la matière est eau, ce qui fait dire à Ovide : Tout était mer la mer même n’avait point de rivage, et alors, il n’y avait aucune séparation entre la mer et la terre.

Soit qu’il ait voulu parler de cette opération qui représente les commencements des choses, soit de celle qui arrivera dans le déluge universel : il est pourtant certain que tout a tiré les commencements de sa génération et de sa corruption, de cette inondation et que rien ne peut aucunement acquérir sa première purification que par le moyen de l’eau, c’est pourquoi dans le saint

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

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make concerning our physical stone; whoever possesses penetrating eyes will perceive at once the causes and means of its resurrection and that of Jesus Christ. Those who saw and foretold that the whole world, or all nature, would perish and be entirely destroyed by a universal flood, enlightened by this natural philosophy, drew this judgment from the reduction of our matter to water. At the beginning of this operation all the matter is water, which makes Ovid say: ‘Everything was sea; the sea itself had no shore, and then there was no separation between sea and land.’

Whether he meant this operation, representing the beginnings of things, or that which will occur in the universal flood, it is nevertheless certain that everything drew the beginnings of its generation and corruption from this inundation, and nothing can acquire its first purification except through water. That is why in the holy

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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.