Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

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

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English Introduction · Branch 18 of 251

Dedication to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar

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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Dedication to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar

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Dedication to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar

A Monseigneur le Duc de Lorraine et de Bar

Chapter Outline

Nuysement praises François de Candale’s exposition of the Pimander and recalls his own intellectual debt.

Legends of Hermes support an account of philosophy as recovered ancient wisdom.

The Emerald Table and the Pimander are presented as mutually illuminating accounts of creation and the universal spirit.

The compiler places his work under the Duke’s patronage.

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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