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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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Sonnet 8

French

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 8 · scans FR338

Ce grand Dieu qui à tous donne & garde la vie, Establit pour remede aux ames & aux corps Deux purificateurs de tous souillemens ords, Dont la corruption à vice les convie. Aux maux de tous les deux il pourvoit & obvie, Leur ouvrant de la terre & du Ciel les tresors: Tresors tressouverains contre les durs efforts Que fait sur l'ame & corps la mort pleine d'envie. Ce sont les deux autheurs de nos restaurations, Ayans de terre & Ciel participations: Pour aux extremitez moyenner alliance. C'est pourquoy l'un & l'autre est du Ciel devallé Bas en terre; & au Ciel derechef revolé, Pour redescendre en terre avec toute puissance.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 8 · scans FR338

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Sonnet 8

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 8 · scans FR338

The great God who gives and preserves life in all Established, as a remedy for souls and bodies, Two purifiers of every foul defilement With which corruption invites them to vice. He provides for and forestalls the ills of both, Opening to them the treasures of earth and Heaven, Treasures most sovereign against the harsh assaults Which envious death makes upon soul and body. These are the two authors of our restorations, Participating in earth and Heaven, To mediate an alliance between the extremes. Therefore each descended from Heaven Down into earth, and flew again to Heaven, To descend once more to earth with all power.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 8 · scans FR338

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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