Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World

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Book Two · Chapter 2

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1621 pp. 121–122 · scans FR141, FR142

Je suis Amour le grand maistre des Dieux, Je suis celuy qui fait mouvoir les Cieux, Je suis celuy qui gouverne le monde: Qui le premier hors de la masse éclos, Donnay lumiere, & fendy le cahos, Dont fut basty cette machine ronde.

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Two · Chapter 2

1621 pp. 121–122 · scans FR141, FR142

I am Love, the great master of the Gods, I am he who makes the Heavens move, I am he who governs the world: Who, first hatched out of the mass, Gave light and split apart chaos, From which this round machine was built.

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The complete French text of 1621 with a new English translation, all three books, preliminary texts, nine concluding sonnets, original errata, 299 annotations and the complete supplied study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement, Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution generalle du vray sel, secret des Philosophes, & de l’Esprit universelle du Monde. Paris: Jérémie Périer and Abdias Buisard, 1621. The governing witness is the BnF/Gallica reproduction, ark:/12148/bpt6k656273. The reproduced privilege is dated 6 November 1620; the separate eighty-page Poème philosophic of 1620 is outside this edition.

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