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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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Book Three

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1621 pp. 312–313 · scans FR312, FR313

Voy ce noble intellect, ce vif esprit qui volle Du Levant au Couchant, de l'un à l'autre Polle En l'instant d'un moment, sur l'aelle du penser Que Mercure ou Iris ne sçauroient devancer: Aigle qui d'un œil fixe en leur splendeur regarde Le Soleil jaunissant & la Lune blafarde, Qui a cognu leur trace, & distingué les tours Que l'un & l'autre acheve en parfaisant son cours, Qui clarissant l'ombré & les nocturnes voilles A veu des plus hauts Cieux les dernieres estoilles: Et nous a ramené les occultes raisons Pourquoy leurs tours divers vont changeant les saisons,

1621 pp. 312–313 · scans FR312, FR313

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Three

1621 pp. 312–313 · scans FR312, FR313

See that noble intellect, that lively spirit flying From east to west and from one pole to the other In a single instant, upon the wing of thought, Which Mercury or Iris could not overtake: An eagle gazing with a steady eye into the splendour Of the yellowing sun and the pallid moon, Who has learnt their paths and distinguished the circuits Which each completes in finishing its course, Who, illuminating shadow and the veils of night, Has seen the farthest stars of the highest heavens, And brought back to us the hidden reasons Why their diverse revolutions change the seasons,

1621 pp. 312–313 · scans FR312, FR313

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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