The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Name: The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Author: Attributed to Abraham the Jew

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Ms. 130r

des miracles d’Élisée, de Moïse et de Jésus-Christ même qui étaient alors les figures et les images de ce sacrement comme si elles ont été ou peuvent être appelées figures des figures ? Ne savent-ils pas que toute la nature créée est le caractère et le type visible et sensible des choses invisibles et n’est pas Jésus-Christ même ? Que doit-on conclure sinon que J. C. ne peut pas être le sacrement et la figure du sacrement ? Outre cela si ce sacrement est le précis et l’abrégé de tous les miracles de Jésus-Christ, tout n’était donc qu’ombre et que figure, même notre église ou plutôt la vôtre car ce ne sera donc plus qu’une idée certaine et un certain énigme sacré conçu seulement dans les esprits des hérétiques ; mais s’il vient que J. C. ait eu ce pouvoir, qu’ils envisagent du moins ce que J. C. fils de Dieu avec le père et le Saint-Esprit a pu faire d’une seule parole, lui qui est le verbe de la très Sainte Trinité indivisible et la sagesse qui n’est qu’esprit et que vie selon ces paroles : Je suis la voie et la vérité de la vie, qu’ils voient donc combien les paroles de J. C. sont pleines d’esprit et de vie

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist

Ms. 130r

of the miracles of Elisha, Moses, and Jesus Christ himself, which were then figures and images of this sacrament—as though they have been or could be called figures of figures? Do they not know that all created nature is the character and visible, sensible type of invisible things, and is not Jesus Christ himself? What must one conclude but that Jesus Christ cannot be both the sacrament and the figure of the sacrament? Moreover, if this sacrament is the epitome and abridgment of all Jesus Christ’s miracles, then everything was merely shadow and figure, even our Church—or rather yours; for it would then be no more than a certain idea and a certain sacred enigma conceived only in heretics’ minds. But if it comes about that Jesus Christ had this power, let them at least consider what Jesus Christ, Son of God, with the Father and Holy Spirit, could accomplish with a single word. He is the Word of the indivisible Most Holy Trinity and the wisdom that is wholly spirit and life, according to these words: ‘I am the way and the truth of life.’ Let them therefore see how full of spirit and life Jesus Christ’s words are

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.