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Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being · Manuscript 126v · Scan 288
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Ms. 126vétang plein de feu et de soufre. Par cette clef, ils ont entendu la multiplication de la pierre, car c’est à elle que convient la puissance de lier ou de délier. Or, délier et ouvrir est la même chose que de rendre un corps humide, fluide et aqueux. De même lier et coaguler, et fermer signifient la même chose chez les philosophes. Toutes les fois que vous résolvez et coagulez cette matière, autant de fois vous l’augmentez en quantité, en qualité à l’infini, jusqu’à multiplier dix sur cent, cent sur mille, etc.
De sorte, comme le prétendent quelques-uns, s’il était possible que toute l’eau de la mer se changeât en métal, par la multiplication d’un seul grain de métal, elle se changerait en un corps très parfait et détruirait tout ce qui est combustible, incorruptible et impur ; par le Dragon qui est représenté en ce tableau et précipité dans le feu.
Le Roi n’est point représenté vêtu d’un habillement blanc comme dans l’emblème pénultième
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being
Ms. 126vlake full of fire and sulfur. By this key they understood the multiplication of the stone, for to it belongs the power of binding or unbinding. Unbinding and opening are the same as making a body moist, fluid, and watery. Likewise, binding, coagulating, and closing signify the same thing among philosophers. Every time you dissolve and coagulate this matter, you increase it in quantity and quality without limit, until multiplying ten into a hundred, a hundred into a thousand, and so forth.
Thus, as some maintain, if it were possible for all the sea’s water to change into metal through the multiplication of a single grain of metal, it would change into a most perfect body and destroy everything combustible, incorruptible, and impure—through the Dragon represented in this tableau and cast into the fire.
The King is not represented clothed in white garments as in the penultimate emblem
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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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