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The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters · Manuscript 34v · Scan 92
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Ms. 34vqui avait cent yeux, sinon la mortification du même vif-argent tremblant, qui brille de tous les côtés comme un miroir ou comme un œil ? Que prétendent-ils signifier par l’oiseau consacré à Mars en lequel fut changé le jeune Gallas, de crainte que le Soleil ne s’aperçût des embrassements de Mars qui était couché avec Vénus, sinon son esprit mâle et germinatif qui fasse non pas les amours illégitimes du Soleil et de Vénus, mais leurs chastes amours ? Que veulent-ils dire par le coq qui lui est consacré aussi bien qu’au Soleil, que les physiciens assurent qui dévore les serpents, si ce n’est son soufre intérieur qui a une très grande force pour coaguler son humidité ? Plusieurs le cherchent, les uns dans les plantes, et les autres dans les végétaux, les autres dans les animaux et au milieu des entrailles de la terre et dans les minéraux, et personne ne reconnaît votre eau, excepté un qui la connaît non pas à la vue, mais par l’odeur ou le poids. Est-il rien de plus ridicule que de chercher ce qu’on a entre les mains ? Est-il rien de plus absurde que de ne pas voir devant ses yeux une fontaine dont la source fait couler des eaux cristallines
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Garden and the Spiritualization of Waters
Ms. 34vwho had a hundred eyes, if not the mortification of that same trembling quicksilver, which shines on every side like a mirror or an eye? What do they intend to signify by the bird consecrated to Mars, into which the young Gallas was transformed lest the Sun discover the embraces of Mars as he lay with Venus, if not its male and germinative spirit, bringing about not the illicit loves of the Sun and Venus but their chaste loves? What do they mean by the cock, consecrated to him as well as to the Sun, which natural philosophers affirm devours serpents, if not its inward sulfur, which has exceedingly great power to coagulate its moisture? Many seek it: some in plants, others in vegetable things, others in animals, in the midst of the bowels of the earth, and in minerals. Yet no one recognizes your water except one who knows it not by sight but by smell or weight. Is anything more ridiculous than seeking what one holds in one’s hands? Is anything more absurd than failing to see before one’s eyes a spring whose source pours forth crystalline waters
Socrates
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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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