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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World
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Book Three
French
1621 pp. 311–312 · scans FR311, FR312PHILON. Supprimant du procés les deux tiltres meilleurs, Tu produis l'inventaire & l'extrait des malheurs, Et pour rendre la cause obscure & my-partie, Tu nous depeints tout l'homme en sa moindre partie: Partie où luist pourtant parmy l'humanité Je ne sçay quoy de grand qui sent sa deité. Mais considere l'homme en sa forme plus digne: Forme dont estincelle une lumiere insigne Qui tout autre animal force à le redouter; A recevoir ses loix & se laisser dompter.
Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Three
1621 pp. 311–312 · scans FR311, FR312PHILON. Leaving the two strongest titles out of the case, You produce the inventory and extract of misfortunes, And, to make the cause obscure and divided, You portray the whole man in his lesser part: A part in which, even amid humanity, there shines Something great that gives a sense of his divinity. But consider man in his more worthy form, A form from which a splendid light sparkles, Compelling every other animal to fear him, To receive his laws and submit to being tamed.
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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.
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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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