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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

French

1621 pp. 315–316 · scans FR315, FR316

C'est pourquoy Dieu le crea, sa face & la veuë eslevee vers le Ciel, non pas inclinee & flechissant vers la Terre, ainsi qu'aux autres animaux desnuez de raison, qui n'ont soin que de la mangeaille. De sorte que rien ne manque à sa perfection qu'une vie plus longue, & moins traversee d'ennuis & maladies, pour pouvoir atteindre l'entiere cognoissance des choses, & faire valloir cet impreciable joyau d'intelligence dont il est seul gratifié par un special privilege. Cette imagination feist naistre l'audace à Paracelse de murmurer contre Nature, l'accusant d'inconsideration en ce qu'elle a donné à quelques animaux irraisonnables & inutiles l'usufruit d'une tres longue & saine vie, combien que cette grace leur soit indifferente: & qu'elle a desnié aux hommes ce bien tant desiré & necessaire, veu que c'estoit le seul moyen de les rendre accomplis aux plus rares sciences.

1621 pp. 315–316 · scans FR315, FR316

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Three

1621 pp. 315–316 · scans FR315, FR316

For this reason God created him with his face and gaze raised towards Heaven, rather than inclined and bent towards the earth like the other animals, which lack reason and care only about eating. Thus his perfection lacks nothing but a longer life, less beset by troubles and diseases, so that he may attain full knowledge of things and make use of that priceless jewel of intelligence with which he alone has been endowed by special privilege. This thought gave Paracelsus the boldness to complain against Nature, accusing her of thoughtlessness for granting some irrational and useless animals the enjoyment of a very long and healthy life, although this favour is a matter of indifference to them, while denying human beings a good so desired and necessary, since it was the only means of bringing them to accomplishment in the rarest sciences.

1621 pp. 315–316 · scans FR315, FR316

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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.

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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