Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World

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Sonnet 9

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1621 pp. 332 · scans FR340

Qui cherche donc l'honneur, la gloire, & l'heur du monde, Soit Philosophe, artiste, & il en jouira; Car la Philosophie en fin le conduira Au sommet des tresors dont la Nature abonde. De luy la nuit d'erreur où vainement se fonde L'aveugle opinion elle dissipera; Et de la verité le jour esclaircira La tirant hors du sein de la machine ronde. Quand Jason eut conquis ce bien tant desiré, Qui par l'experiment le rendit asseuré De vivre riche & sain plus qu'il n'eust osé croire: Desdaignant la misere, & bravant le trespas; Egal aux demidieux ne possedoit il pas Du monde universel l'heur, l'honneur, & la gloire?

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Sonnet 9

1621 pp. 332 · scans FR340

Whoever therefore seeks the world’s honour, glory and happiness, Let him be philosopher and practitioner, and he will enjoy them; For philosophy will at last lead him To the summit of the treasures in which Nature abounds. It will dispel from him the night of error On which blind opinion vainly rests, And brighten the daylight of truth, Drawing it out from the bosom of the rounded world. When Jason had won that good so greatly desired, Which through experience assured him Of living rich and healthy beyond what he had dared believe, Disdaining misery and defying death, Equal to the demigods, did he not possess The universal world’s happiness, honour and glory?

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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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