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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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emblème explique la famille de ce mystère et de ce magistère, nous ne croyons pas indigne de notre explication. Par ce Roi armé d’un glaive tranchant des deux côtés, fait voir que cette troupe de soldats doit être mise à mort, ensemble avec le dragon à sept têtes. Le philosophe est appelé le roi qui a une si grande puissance qu’il change toute la nature métallique en sa forme d’argent et qu’il écarte au loin tout ce qui est hétérogène, impur et corruptible, qu’il remédie aux maladies et aux défauts du corps et qu’il ne souffre rien que ce qui est de sa nature, qu’il l’emporte de beaucoup sur toutes les substances des choses animées et inanimées à la réserve de l’âme raisonnable qui enfin acquiert une si grande vertu, si on le conduit à la rougeur que sa puissance et son empire se multiplient mille fois. Or celui qui règne dans le centre commande à tout l’univers ; c’est pour cette raison que le parot [?] l’imbibe du lait solaire et simil [?] ; il a pour lors une fixité si grande que aussitôt il boit l’eau solaire, ce qui fait que

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

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emblem explains the family of this mystery and magistery, which we do not consider unworthy of our explanation. This King armed with a sword sharp on both edges shows that this troop of soldiers must be put to death together with the seven-headed dragon. The philosopher is called the king, whose power is so great that he changes the whole metallic nature into his silver form, removes far away everything heterogeneous, impure, and corruptible, remedies the body’s diseases and defects, and tolerates nothing but what belongs to his own nature. He far surpasses all substances of animate and inanimate things except the rational soul, which at last acquires such great power, if he is brought to redness, that his potency and dominion are multiplied a thousandfold. Now he who reigns in the center commands the whole universe; for this reason the parot(?) imbibes him with solar and simil(?) milk. He then has such great fixity that he immediately drinks the solar water, which causes

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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.