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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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Sonnet 4

French

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 4 · scans FR330

Dieu, la Nature, & l'Art, Triade incomparable, Ravissent tout esprit en l'admiration Du dessein, du labeur, de la perfection, Où reluit de tous Trois la puissance incroyable. Bien qu'en ses hauts projets Dieu soit inimitable, Nature en ses progrés suit son intention: Et puis l'Art qui adjouste à la simple action, Fait admirer Nature, & se rend admirable. Qui contemple, & comprend, d'un jugement profond, Dieu, la Nature, & l'Art, void & sçait comme ils font Ordonnans, produisans, & parfaisans les choses: Car Dieu, Nature, & l'Art, d'un Triangle divin, Sont le commencement, le milieu, & la fin, De tout ayant en eux toutes vertus encloses.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 4 · scans FR330

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Sonnet 4

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 4 · scans FR330

God, Nature and Art, incomparable triad, Transport every mind into admiration Of design, labour and perfection, In which the incredible power of all three shines. Though God is inimitable in his lofty purposes, Nature in her progress follows his intention; Then Art, adding to the simple action, Makes Nature admired and itself admirable. Whoever contemplates and understands with profound judgement God, Nature and Art sees and knows how they act, Ordering, producing and perfecting things. For God, Nature and Art, in a divine triangle, Are the beginning, middle and end Of everything, enclosing within themselves all powers.

1621 Unnumbered sonnet leaf 4 · scans FR330

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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