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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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Diotimos Editions · 2026

A new English translation from the complete textual contents of the selected Paris printing of 1621, with a French reading text, annotations and study apparatus. All three books, nine sonnets, preliminary texts and original errata are included.

Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement.

The familiar title Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici identifies this edition with the work published in English in 1657. Its governing source is the fuller French Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution generalle du vray sel of 1621. The separate eighty-page Poeme philosophic of 1620 is outside this edition.

The historical source words are in the public domain. The new English translation and editorial contributions were prepared with AI assistance for Diotimos Editions. The universal-spirit plate referred to in the preliminaries has not been located in the governing scan and is not reproduced.

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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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The historical text printed in 1621 is in the public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading text, new English translation, introduction, notes and complete study apparatus are published with the site owner’s authorization.