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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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sacrement du baptême on commence premièrement à purifier la tache du péché originel avec l’eau.

Nous savons cela sans en douter, qui empêche présentement qu’instruits de cette philosophie nous ne puissions conclure de la divine connaissance de notre pierre, qui n’était pas inconnue à nos pères, tout ce qui arrivera dans ce dernier jour, ou du moins en pressentir quelque chose ? Certainement la première purification des choses et leur renouvellement par la régénération ne commence pas autrement ; de même leur résurrection et glorification veut être fait par le feu, c’est pourquoi dans cet emblème sacré et mystérieux on dépeint l’image d’un roi dont les yeux sont comme la flamme du feu, et qui a plusieurs couronnes sur sa tête, qui a une robe blanche couverte de sang, avec une grosse armée de sa bouche sortait un glaive tranchant pour en frapper les nations, et le serpent qui avait fait des préparatifs de guerre contre lui, et il les précipite dans un étang de feu et de soufre, et les oiseaux se remplissent de leurs chairs comme cet

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

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sacrament of baptism one first begins to purify the stain of original sin with water.

We know this without doubting it. What now prevents us, instructed in this philosophy, from concluding through the divine knowledge of our stone—which was not unknown to our fathers—everything that will happen on that Last Day, or at least anticipating something of it? Certainly the first purification of things and their renewal through regeneration begin in no other way. Likewise, their resurrection and glorification call for being effected through fire. That is why this sacred and mysterious emblem depicts a king whose eyes are like fiery flame, with many crowns upon his head, wearing a white robe covered with blood, and accompanied by a great army. From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike the nations and the serpent that had made preparations for war against him; he casts them into a lake of fire and sulfur, and the birds fill themselves with their flesh, as this

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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.