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Multiplication and the Eucharist · Manuscript 133r · Scan 301
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Ms. 133rune chose quand on ne me croirait pas, et je l’assure volontiers, que ceux qui ont fait l’expérience méritent fort qu’on les croie et qu’ils sont dignes d’avoir fait une si grande merveille, et je jure très religieusement que je n’avance et n’avancerai rien que ce que j’ai fait de mes mains, oui je jure que j’ai fait une liqueur qui sentait l’ambre, qui ressemblait assez en couleur et en épaisseur à de l’huile dont une seule petite goutte avait converti quatre onces de plomb en véritable et très bon or ; comme quelques philosophes de notre cabale en doutaient je leur confiai cet or afin qu’ils en fissent un examen qui pût en donner une preuve plus certaine, et tous le trouvaient beaucoup meilleur que l’or des mines.
Si vous ne croyez ces choses, ô hérétique, qui ont été vues jusqu’ici par des hommes même de la lie du peuple et qui ont été écrites, vous êtes hérétique en tous points et il vaudrait mieux douter de la lumière du soleil, mais peut-être ne révoquez-vous pas en doute que la création de tout l’univers a été faite de rien par le Dieu Tout-Puissant et encore moins qu’il y a en tout une vertu séminale pour perpétuer les espèces, et n’oserez
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist
Ms. 133rone thing even if I am not believed, and willingly assert it: those who have performed the experiment greatly deserve belief and are worthy of having accomplished so great a wonder. I swear most religiously that I neither assert nor shall assert anything beyond what I have done with my own hands. Yes, I swear that I made a liquor smelling of amber, resembling oil in color and thickness, a single small drop of which converted four ounces of lead into genuine, very good gold. Because certain philosophers of our cabala doubted it, I entrusted this gold to them for examination that might provide more certain proof; all found it much better than mined gold.
If you do not believe these things, O heretic, which have hitherto been seen even by men from the dregs of society and recorded in writing, you are a heretic in every respect, and it would be better to doubt the Sun’s light. Yet perhaps you do not call into doubt that Almighty God created the entire universe from nothing, still less that everything contains a seminal power to perpetuate its species; and you will not dare
Socrates
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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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