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The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters · Manuscript 32r · Scan 87
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Ms. 32rle corail, et non pas en feuilles.
Développons présentement tout ce que les Poètes ont inventé là-dessus. Nous trouverons que la mère de Mercure est une certaine nymphe qu’ils ont tous voulu nommer matière. Ce Dieu n’avait pas encore vu le jour qu’il devint un insigne voleur, ne s’appliquant qu’aux vols et à la tromperie. Il prit et cacha dans son ventre les vaches d’Apollon plus blanches que le lait et qui avaient des cornes d’or. Comme Apollon s’en plaignait, il lui enleva son carquois ; il prit en cachette le trident de Neptune ; enleva le sabre du dieu Mars, qu’il tira du fourreau sans le faire voir, et enleva avec une adresse singulière les tenailles de Vulcain qu’il cacha dans ses langes ; se rendit maître de la ceinture de Vénus, et il aurait arraché la foudre des mains de Jupiter, et lui eût ôté son sceptre, qui est son ornement royal. Les Poètes disent que dans le jour il se tenait au haut de l’Olympe où l’air est pur et serein et où souffle le doux
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters
Ms. 32rcoral, rather than into leaves.
Let us now unfold everything the poets have devised on this subject. We shall find that Mercury’s mother is a certain nymph whom they all chose to call matter. This god had not yet seen the light of day before he became a notorious thief, devoting himself only to theft and deception. He took Apollo’s cattle, whiter than milk and furnished with golden horns, and hid them in his belly. While Apollo was complaining, he stole his quiver; he secretly took Neptune’s trident; carried off the sword of the god Mars, drawing it unseen from its sheath; and, with singular dexterity, stole Vulcan’s tongs and concealed them in his swaddling clothes. He made himself master of Venus’s girdle, and would have snatched the thunderbolt from Jupiter’s hands and taken away his scepter, his royal ornament. The poets say that by day he remained upon the summit of Olympus, where the air is pure and serene and where the
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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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