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Multiplication and the Eucharist · Manuscript 131r · Scan 297
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Ms. 131relle peut renouveler, glorifier et rectifier non seulement les plantes et les animaux, mais encore le corps humain et toute la nature même, c’est-à-dire conduire tout à une nature souveraine et parfaite ; ainsi afin que la matière de notre pierre agisse sur les végétaux, les animaux et les minéraux il est besoin qu’elle ait une âme végétative, animale et minérale. De plus afin qu’elle exerce sur les métaux il est à propos avant tout qu’elle ait de la subtilité, qu’elle passe au travers de toutes leurs parties, ce qui dépend de la fusibilité mercurielle ; il lui faut encore de la fixité, autrement sa teinture s’évanouirait en l’air et n’attendrait pas le temps convenable pour introduire sa nouvelle forme.
Ce sont là les qualités de notre glorieuse pierre physique qui correspondent aux qualités des corps glorifiés, quoiqu’ils aient la nature de l’esprit ou de notre quintessence, et parce qu’on n’accorde point de mouvement local au métal qu’elle a refusé il ne possède point l’agilité des corps glorieux mais à sa place on substitue la fusibilité qui
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist
Ms. 131rit can renew, glorify, and rectify not only plants and animals but also the human body and all nature itself—that is, bring everything to a supreme, perfect nature. Thus, for the matter of our stone to act upon plants, animals, and minerals, it must possess a vegetative, animal, and mineral soul. Moreover, to act upon metals it must above all possess subtlety and pass through all their parts, which depends upon mercurial fusibility. It also needs fixity; otherwise its tincture would vanish into the air without awaiting the proper time to introduce its new form.
These are the qualities of our glorious physical stone corresponding to those of glorified bodies, although they possess the nature of spirit or of our quintessence. Since local movement is not granted to the metal which it has refused, the metal does not possess glorified bodies’ agility; fusibility is substituted in its place, which
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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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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.
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