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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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French

Ms. 130v

puisqu’elles ne sont pas la figure de Jésus-Christ mais J. C. même sur lequel est appuyée notre foi fermement établie qui pleine de vie et d’esprit ne se renversera jamais.

Qu’ils voient dis-je si on ne peut voir ce qui est au-dessus de leurs forces et si la pénétration de l’esprit à la vue de tant de merveilles qui brillent de tous côtés autour d’elle, ne se remplit pas avec avidité de tout ce que Dieu a opéré dans la nature, qui dans ce traité vous expose un symbole et une figure fidèle de ce mystère que vous devez croire, afin que vous soyez obligés (à votre honte et à votre confusion) de convenir aujourd’hui que ce que vous avez cru jusqu’ici impossible au Dieu fort, est possible à sa créature. Afin de développer la chose ouvertement et d’en convaincre les plus aveugles même il est à propos que j’étale ici les avantages et qualités qu’acquiert notre pierre dans sa multiplication, par sa résolution et corruption, lesquelles étant pour ainsi dire pénétrées par un esprit incorruptible, fixe et immortel et pleine d’une vie végétative, animale et sensitive,

Ms. 130v

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

Ms. 130v

since they are not the figure of Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ himself, upon whom our firmly established faith rests—a faith full of life and spirit that will never be overthrown.

Let them see, I say, whether what lies beyond their powers can be seen, and whether the penetrating power of the mind, at the sight of so many marvels shining around it on every side, does not greedily fill itself with everything God has wrought in nature. In this treatise nature presents you with a symbol and faithful figure of the mystery you must believe, so that today you may be obliged—to your shame and confusion—to acknowledge that what you have hitherto believed impossible for the mighty God is possible for his creature. To unfold the matter openly and convince even the blindest, it is fitting that I set forth here the advantages and qualities our stone acquires in its multiplication, through its dissolution and corruption, which, being, so to speak, penetrated by an incorruptible, fixed, immortal spirit and full of vegetative, animal, and sensitive life,

Ms. 130v

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.