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The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters · Manuscript 34r · Scan 91
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Ms. 34rpour cette raison est emprisonné dans les cavités des rochers par son pesant volume, et roulant sa pierre par un mouvement continuel de circulation comme un autre Sisyphe, il est fixé en forme de parfait métal. Qu’ont-ils voulu dire par le trident de Neptune, le sabre de Mars, la ceinture d’or de Vénus, les tenailles de Vulcain, sinon la triple substance de mercure ou de cette eau, savoir la vertu incisive et celle de dissoudre et enfin la propriété qu’il a de faire germer, comprise par la ceinture d’or de Vénus. Qu’entendent-ils par les tenailles de Vulcain, sinon un instrument chaud avec lequel la nature opère tout ce qui se crée dans l’univers ? Ils ont prétendu avec juste raison qu’il se météorise dans le centre de la terre, tout ce que Jupiter météorise dans les cieux où se font les premières mixtions des choses et leurs épousailles ; c’est pourquoi il tâche de dérober à Jupiter sa foudre et son sceptre, mais il était enflé d’un feu trop [céleste, biffé] terrestre et trop épais pour pouvoir recevoir son impression. Que signifie la noirceur ou blancheur de son casque, sinon l’éclat argentin, volatil et versatile de mercure obscurci par quelque noirceur ? Que veulent-ils exprimer par la mort d’Argus le surveillant,
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters
Ms. 34rfor that reason is imprisoned within the cavities of rocks by its weighty bulk; and, rolling its stone in a continual movement of circulation like another Sisyphus, it is fixed in the form of a perfect metal. What did they mean by Neptune’s trident, Mars’s sword, Venus’s golden girdle, and Vulcan’s tongs, if not the triple substance of mercury, or of this water: its cutting power, its power to dissolve, and finally its capacity to cause germination, represented by Venus’s golden girdle? What do they understand by Vulcan’s tongs, if not a hot instrument with which nature performs everything created in the universe? They have rightly maintained that within the center of the earth it turns into a meteor everything that Jupiter turns into meteors in the heavens, where the first mixtures and marriages of things take place. This is why it attempts to steal Jupiter’s thunderbolt and scepter; but it was swollen with a fire too terrestrial and too dense to receive his impression. What does the blackness or whiteness of its helmet signify, if not mercury’s silvery, volatile, and changeable brilliance, darkened by some blackness? What do they wish to express through the death of watchful Argus,
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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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