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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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4 How Hermes Calls the Sun the Father of the Spirit of the World and of Matter

Comme le Soleil est dit par Hermes pere de l'Esprit du monde, & de la Matiere.

Chapter Outline

The celestial sun arises from primordial matter, then nourishes and vivifies it.

The earth receives solar influences as the common womb of generation.

The particular chymical stone is distinguished from the universal spirit on which its action depends.

Hermetic sayings are read at both the universal and the particular levels.

The general mercury requires solar animation to realise its threefold generative power.

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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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