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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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lui-même qui fût connue de tout le monde, des païens et des hérétiques et même des disciples de J. C., afin que personne ne désespérât de son salut et n’appréhendât de l’aimer et que chacun pût jouir de lui quand il lui plairait et dans le besoin ; nous nous élevons donc comme par degrés de la créature au créateur, car c’est ainsi que Dieu se manifeste aux hommes qui sans cela ne pourraient soutenir sa majesté et son éclat. C’est ainsi qu’on dit qu’il parla autrefois à Moïse et à ses serviteurs dans le buisson ardent, et d’autres fois dans un nuage du milieu des éclairs afin que nous connussions qu’on ne peut arriver à Dieu sans un milieu ; c’est ainsi que Dieu a fait le mystère de la pierre sur la terre au travers de laquelle comme au travers d’un nuage, du buisson ardent et de la parole qui le figurent nous puissions voir ses ouvrages sacrés et divins. Est-il rien, je vous prie, plus digne de notre admiration que de voir en un même temps la même chose végétale, animale et minérale ? Qu’elle soit

Ms. 136r

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

Ms. 136r

himself, known to everyone—to pagans, heretics, and even Jesus Christ’s disciples—so that no one might despair of salvation or fear to love him, and everyone might enjoy him whenever desired and in time of need. Thus we rise, as by degrees, from creature to Creator; for this is how God manifests himself to people who otherwise could not endure his majesty and brilliance. Thus he is said formerly to have spoken to Moses and his servants in the burning bush, and at other times in a cloud amid lightning, so that we might know that God cannot be reached without an intermediary. In this way God made the stone’s mystery upon earth, through which, as through a cloud, burning bush, and word representing him, we might see his sacred, divine works. Is anything, I ask you, worthier of our admiration than seeing the same thing simultaneously vegetable, animal, and mineral? That it should be

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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.