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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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TABLE DES CHAPITRES du premier Traicté de l'Esprit general du monde. Que le monde est vif, & plein de vie, Chap. 1. fol. 1. Que le monde puisqu'il vit, a Esprit, Ame & Corps, Chap. 2. fol. 17. Que tout ce qui a essence & vie, est fait par l'Esprit du monde, & de la premiere matiere, Chap. 3. fol. 21. Comme le Soleil est dit par Hermes pere de l'Esprit du monde, & de la matiere, Ch. 4. fol. 25. Comment la Lune est mere de l'Esprit du monde, & de la matiere universelle, Ch. 5. fol. 37. Que la racine de l'Esprit du monde est en l'Air, Chap. 6. fol. 43. Comment la terre nourrit cet Esprit universel, Chap. 7. fol. 48. Que cet Esprit du monde est cause de la perfection en tous, Chap. 8. fol. 51. De la specification de l'Esprit universel aux Corps, Chap. 9. fol. 57.

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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: The Original Chapter Tables

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TABLE OF CHAPTERS in the first treatise on the universal spirit of the world. That the world is living and full of life. Chapter 1, page 1. That the world, since it lives, has spirit, soul and body. Chapter 2, page 17. That everything which has being and life is made by the spirit of the world and from first matter. Chapter 3, page 21. How the sun is called by Hermes the father of the spirit of the world and of matter. Chapter 4, page 25. How the moon is the mother of the spirit of the world and of universal matter. Chapter 5, page 37. That the root of the spirit of the world is in the air. Chapter 6, page 43. How the earth nourishes this universal spirit. Chapter 7, page 48. That this spirit of the world is the cause of perfection in all things. Chapter 8, page 51. Of the specification of the universal spirit in bodies. Chapter 9, page 57.

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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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