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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3 That Everything Which Has Being and Life Is Made Through the Spirit of the World; and Concerning First Matter

Que tout ce qui a essence & vie, est fait par l'Esprit du monde: Et de la premiere matiere.

Chapter Outline

Things are nourished by the same spirit from which they are made.

The separable subtle essence is called fifth in relation to the four elements.

Solar heat vivifies seeds, with different effects according to their material disposition.

Gold illustrates the gradual perfection of purified mercury and sulphur under continuous heat.

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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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