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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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The Original Chapter Tables

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TABLE DU SECOND Traicté. Que l'Esprit du Monde prend corps, & comment il se corporifie, Chap. 1. fol. 63. De la Conversion de cet Esprit en terre, & comment en cette terre sa vertu demeure entiere, Chap. 2. fol. 79. De la separation du feu d'avec la terre, du subtil d'avec l'espais, & par quelle industrie elle se doit faire, Chap. 3. fol. 125. Troisiesme livre ou traicté dernier pour conclusion de l'œuvre. fol. 305.

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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: The Original Chapter Tables

1621 Unnumbered preliminary tables · scans FR008

TABLE OF THE SECOND Treatise. That the spirit of the world takes a body, and how it is embodied. Chapter 1, page 63. Of the conversion of this spirit into earth, and how its power remains entire in this earth. Chapter 2, page 79. Of the separation of fire from earth, of the subtle from the thick, and by what skill it should be accomplished. Chapter 3, page 125. Third book, or final treatise concluding the work. Page 305.

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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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