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Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

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

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1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 3 · scans FR329

C'est un point asseuré plein d'admiration, Que le haut & le bas n'est qu'une mesme chose: Pour faire d'une seule en tout le monde enclose, Des effects merveilleux par adaptation. D'un seul en a tout fait la meditation, Et pour parents, matrice, & nourrice, on luy pose Phœbus, Diane, l'air, & la terre, ou repose Cette chose en qui gist toute perfection. Si on la teinct en terre elle a sa force entiere: Separant par grand art, mais facile maniere, Le subtil de l'espais, & la terre du feu. De la terre elle monte au Ciel: & puis en terre, Du Ciel elle descend, Recevant peu à peu, Les vertus de tous deux qu'en son ventre elle enserre.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 3 · scans FR329

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Sonnet 3

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 3 · scans FR329

It is a certain truth, filled with wonder, That above and below are but one and the same thing, To produce, from one thing enclosed throughout the world, Marvellous effects through adaptation. The meditation of one has made all from one, And as its parents, womb and nurse are named Phoebus, Diana, air and earth, where rests That thing in which all perfection lies. If it is tinged into earth, its power is entire, Separating by great art, yet in an easy manner, The subtle from the thick, and earth from fire. From earth it rises to Heaven; then into earth It descends from Heaven, receiving little by little The powers of both, which it encloses in its womb.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 3 · scans FR329

About This Reading Edition

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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