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The Guarded Art · Manuscript 1r · Scan 15
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Ms. 1rNotre respectable prêtre juif ne fait pas des plus vifs et de plus fréquents avertissements et commandements, que de conserver au fond du cœur les secrets les plus cachés de l'art cabalistique, et vomit mille malédictions contre ceux qui, par une ignorance sacrilège et une témérité effrontée, les découvrent à des gens indignes pour être profanés; il fulmine contre ceux qui les expliqueront avec moins de décence et de respect qu'il ne convient, des anathèmes qu'on se fait horreur d'entendre, et que l'esprit le plus perçant a peine à comprendre. Maranatha (ce qui en grec et en arabe signifie) ✝ malédiction dans la ville et dans les campagnes ✝ Maranatha ✝ malédiction sur les enfants, sur les bestiaux, sur les troupeaux; Maranatha ✝ malédiction sur les granges, sur les maisons, si ces secrets ne sont traités avec toute la religion et piété requises. Maranatha, si on n'observe, par rapport à eux le silence de Pythagore et d'Hippocrate. Il ajoute à tout ceci la peste, la fièvre, le chaud, le froid, et les saisons infectées d'un air malin,
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Guarded Art
Ms. 1rOur venerable Jewish priest gives no warnings or commands more forceful or more frequent than those enjoining us to keep the most deeply hidden secrets of the cabalistic art in the depths of the heart. He pours out a thousand curses against those who, through sacrilegious ignorance and brazen rashness, disclose them to unworthy people to be profaned. Against those who explain them with less decorum and respect than is fitting, he thunders anathemas so dreadful to hear that even the keenest mind can scarcely understand them. Maranatha (which in Greek and Arabic means): ✝ a curse in the city and in the countryside; ✝ Maranatha; ✝ a curse upon the children, upon the cattle, upon the flocks; Maranatha; ✝ a curse upon the barns and the houses, unless these secrets are treated with all the reverence and piety required. Maranatha, unless the silence of Pythagoras and Hippocrates is observed concerning them. To all this he adds plague, fever, heat, cold, and seasons infected by a malignant air,
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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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