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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World
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Book Two · Chapter 4
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1621 pp. 207–209 · scans FR227, FR228, FR229Car sçachant que par l'esprit & le corps l'homme participoit du Ciel & de la terre, il a voulu que le remede eust semblable participation. Ce qui s'est trouvé en Jesus-Christ nostre unique sauveur, restaurateur, & conservateur, descendu du Ciel en terre, lequel retenant toutefois sa deité entiere, s'est miraculeusement fait homme avec un mystere incompris & incomprehensible au sens commun, d'autant que le salut ne pouvoit provenir de la terre seule où regnoit la corruption; ains estoit necessaire que l'eau en decoulast d'enhaut où est la fontaine de pureté. Il est donc venu en terre pour habiter en nous & avec nous, afin de nous renfermer dans les barrieres de justice & temperance, en nous regenerant à une vie nouvelle, par un changement d'esprit & de corps; mortifiant ceux de corruption & peché, pour donner la naissance à ceux de netteté & vertu. Ce qui ne pouvoit arriver que par luy seul à cause des extremitez des deux natures qu'il convenoit prendre, se faisant divin & humain, afin de moyenner l'alliance des choses basses avec les hautes, esloignees l'une de l'autre par cette distance incompatible de mort & de vie, de corruption & de pureté. La terre a receu ce tresor inestimable & trop excedant son merite, par un moyen qu'elle n'a sceu comprendre: d'où, apres la regeneration projetee par l'eau de purification, & le feu du sainct Esprit, il est remonté au Ciel, entierement despouillé des accidents & passions corporelles seulement, & non pas du corps qu'il a emporté incorruptible & glorieux, ayant acquis immortalité par sa mort. Et de la dextre du pere il redescendra en terre apres l'universelle conflagration pour renouveller le monde & separer les bons exaltez & destinez à la vie, d'avec les mauvais deprimez & condamnez à la mort.
Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Two · Chapter 4
1621 pp. 207–209 · scans FR227, FR228, FR229For, knowing that through spirit and body humanity partook of heaven and earth, he wished the remedy to have the same participation. This was found in Jesus Christ, our sole saviour, restorer and preserver, who descended from heaven to earth. While retaining his entire divinity, he miraculously became human through a mystery beyond the understanding and comprehension of ordinary sense. Salvation could not proceed from the earth alone, where corruption reigned; the water had to flow down from above, where the fountain of purity is. He therefore came to earth to dwell in us and with us, to contain us within the bounds of justice and temperance, regenerating us into a new life by a change of spirit and body: putting to death those of corruption and sin, and bringing forth those of cleanness and virtue. This could be accomplished by him alone, because of the extremes of the two natures he had to assume, becoming divine and human in order to mediate the union of lower things with higher, separated from one another by that incompatible distance between death and life, corruption and purity. The earth received this inestimable treasure, far beyond its deserts, by a means it could not comprehend. From there, after the regeneration set forth through the water of purification and the fire of the Holy Spirit, he ascended again into heaven, entirely stripped only of bodily accidents and passions, and not of the body itself, which he took with him incorruptible and glorious, having acquired immortality through his death. From the Father’s right hand he will descend to earth again after the universal conflagration, to renew the world and separate the good, exalted and appointed to life, from the wicked, cast down and condemned to death.
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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.
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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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