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Multiplication and the Eucharist · Manuscript 133v · Scan 302
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Ms. 133vvous nier la nutrition, la conservation et l’augmentation de ces espèces. Qu’est-ce que, je vous prie, que la conservation, nutrition, augmentation et propagation si ce n’est une création multipliée et étendue d’une chose une fois créée sans laquelle l’espèce périrait et retournerait en son chaos. Tout le monde l’avoue et il n’y a point à disputer là-dessus ; si vous l’accordez j’espère que vous ne me refuserez pas ce qui peut être prouvé par l’expérience. J’ai fait une poudre et l’ai tenue en mes mains ; j’ai aussi eu et éprouvé et plusieurs fois tenu une liqueur mercurielle en mes mains qui non seulement se pouvait multiplier à l’infini en vertu mais même en quantité, de sorte qu’en ajoutant du mercure elle se régénérait continuellement, de même que le levain ou la vertu germinative des semences par la corruption et la génération perpétue l’espèce à l’infini en la conservant ; vous croyez que Dieu a accordé ce privilège à ces viles créatures et qu’il se le soit refusé à lui-même. Si du moins vous admettez la création faite de rien, que n’admettez-vous la multiplication de son corps en divers lieux en même temps qui est un ouvrage de moins de conséquence comme nous
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist
Ms. 133vdeny the nourishment, preservation, and increase of these species. What, I ask you, are preservation, nourishment, increase, and propagation except a multiplied, extended creation of something once created, without which the species would perish and return to its chaos? Everyone admits it, and there is no disputing it. If you grant this, I hope you will not refuse me what experience can prove. I made a powder and held it in my hands; I also possessed, tested, and repeatedly held in my hands a mercurial liquor that could be multiplied indefinitely, not only in power but even in quantity. By adding mercury it continually regenerated, just as leaven or seeds’ germinative power perpetuates and preserves the species indefinitely through corruption and generation. Do you believe that God granted this privilege to these lowly creatures yet denied it to himself? If you at least admit creation from nothing, why do you not admit the multiplication of his body in different places at the same time—a work of lesser consequence, as we
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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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