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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

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le miracle de tous les miracles qui nous fournit une preuve certaine et évidente que toute la puissance divine est entièrement occupée à remplir cet admirable mystère. Dans ce sacrement les forces des éléments sont interdites de leurs fonctions, la nature se fait violence, on fait obéir à la parole de son créateur toutes les créatures, enfin à l’exception de l’homme font des choses inouïes et qu’on n’a point vu pratiquer jusqu’ici pour honorer, louer et glorifier pour ainsi dire en leur manière la présence si élevée et si immense de J. C. qui se trouve bornée. L’impie ne sait peut-être pas que malgré les efforts et les opérations des furies infernales Dieu a renfermé dans cette petite hostie consacrée tous les moyens où l’homme mortel peut voir son créateur des yeux de la foi, le contempler, le connaître, l’aimer, l’honorer et s’entretenir avec lui familièrement ; il ne le sait peut-être pas, mais comme ce sacrement est au-dessus de l’intelligence fine et pénétrante des anges et de toute la subtilité des Démons, il a voulu laisser sur la terre dans ce sacrement admirable et plus que divin une image parfaite de

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

Ms. 135v

the miracle of all miracles, furnishing certain, evident proof that the entire divine power is wholly occupied in accomplishing this admirable mystery. In this sacrament the elements’ powers are forbidden to exercise their functions; nature does violence to itself; every creature is made to obey its Creator’s word. Finally, all creatures except humanity do unheard-of things, never hitherto seen, to honor, praise, and glorify, each in its own manner, Jesus Christ’s exalted and immense presence, which finds itself bounded. The impious person may not know that, despite the infernal furies’ efforts and operations, God enclosed within this small consecrated host every means by which mortal humanity can see its Creator with faith’s eyes, contemplate, know, love, and honor him, and converse familiarly with him. He may not know it. But because this sacrament surpasses angels’ keen, penetrating intelligence and all demons’ subtlety, God wished to leave upon earth, within this admirable and more than divine sacrament, a perfect image 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.