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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. 313–314 · scans FR313, FR314

Comment ces yeux divins pleurent leurs influences, Pour animer les corps de celestes essences. Comment du plus subtil de ces perleuses pleurs Se fait l'email exquis des printannieres fleurs, Du moins subtil la feuille, & du plus gros l'escorce: Qui malgré les saisons maintient l'arbre en sa force: Comment l'Esprit du monde unique & general Produit un triple-germe, & en tous est égal: Comme en sa pureté les gemmes il procreë, Et l'Or dans les boyaux de la terre il concreë, Puis comment cet esprit de tous corps est extraict Pour l'opposer aux coups de l'homicide traict.

1621 pp. 313–314 · scans FR313, FR314

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Three

1621 pp. 313–314 · scans FR313, FR314

How those divine eyes weep their influences To animate bodies with heavenly essences; How from the subtlest of those pearly tears The exquisite enamel of spring flowers is made, From the less subtle the leaf, and from the grossest the bark, Which keeps the tree strong despite the seasons; How the one universal spirit of the world Produces a threefold seed, yet is equal within all; How in its purity it brings forth precious stones, And forms gold within the bowels of the earth; Then how this spirit is extracted from every body To oppose the blows of the death-dealing dart.

1621 pp. 313–314 · scans FR313, FR314

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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