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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. 134v

Dieu dans toutes les créatures.

Quelques-uns objecteront avec quelque apparence de raison que tout ce que j’ai dit n’est fondé et établi sur aucunes raisons autorisées des auteurs, qu’ainsi on ne doit pas y ajouter foi, mais je crois qu’ils ignorent cette pensée d’Aristote : qu’il faut que celui qui sait sache que la chose ne peut pas être autrement, parce que ce qui regarde principalement les principes de la physique et de la nature, qui ne sont presque composées que de seules démonstrations qui sont établies sur les vrais et premiers principes ou de preuves qui sont établies sur ces mêmes principes, n’ont pas besoin de preuves des auteurs ni de leurs opinions ; car nous avons résolu de ne pas proposer rien ici que ce qui dépend des sens et de l’art, quand nous avons entrepris d’expliquer quelques mystères de la foi catholique, qui sont naturels parce qu’on doit les comprendre par la foi et non pas par des preuves. C’est pourquoi nous rejetons les preuves et nous avons recours aux principes et œuvres physiques à cause de la grande convenance qu’ont les créatures avec le créateur. Selon ces paroles de

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

Ms. 134v

God in every creature.

Some will object, with a certain appearance of reason, that everything I have said rests upon no reasons authorized by the authors and should therefore not be believed. Yet I think they do not know Aristotle’s thought: whoever knows must know that the thing cannot be otherwise. What chiefly concerns the principles of natural philosophy and nature, almost wholly consisting of demonstrations established upon true first principles or proofs established upon those same principles, needs neither authors’ proofs nor their opinions. For we resolved to propose here only what depends upon the senses and art when undertaking to explain certain mysteries of the Catholic faith, which are natural because they must be understood through faith and not through proofs. We therefore reject proofs and resort to the principles and works of nature because of the great correspondence between creatures and the Creator. According to these words of

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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.