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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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Book One · Chapter 4

French

1621 pp. 25–26 · scans FR045, FR046

Mais (me dira quelqu'un) puisque toutes choses procedent d'une mesme matiere, comment se peut il faire que le Soleil soit pere de la matiere, veu que d'icelle il a esté creé luy mesme? Pour respondre à cette question il faut entendre que si on regarde cette primeraine & prejacente matiere de toutes choses on la trouvera invisible, & qui ne peut estre comprise que par profonde & vive imagination: du Soleil & vital feu de laquelle, en elle naturellement inné, le Soleil celeste sortit & s'esleva plein de lumiere & de pareille vigueur ignee, qui desployant par apres cette chaleur interne & essentielle, accompagnee de cette chaleur naturelle, espart les rayons de son feu par toute la rondeur du monde; illuminant en haut les astres, & vivifiant toutes choses en bas. Or pource que la terre est comme la matrice commune de toutes choses, le Soleil agit principalement en elle comme au receptacle de toutes influences: au sein de laquelle sont cachees les semences de toutes choses, qui agitees & menees par la chaleur des rayons solaires sortent en lumiere.

1621 pp. 25–26 · scans FR045, FR046

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book One · Chapter 4

1621 pp. 25–26 · scans FR045, FR046

But someone will say to me: since all things proceed from one and the same matter, how can the sun be the father of matter, seeing that it was itself created from it? To answer this question, we must understand that if we consider this primordial matter, which precedes all things, we shall find it invisible and comprehensible only through deep and vivid imagination. From its sun and vital fire, naturally innate within it, the celestial sun came forth and rose up full of light and like fiery vigour. Afterwards, unfolding this inward and essential heat, accompanied by this natural heat, it scatters the rays of its fire throughout the whole sphere of the world, illuminating the stars above and vivifying all things below. Now because the earth is like the common womb of all things, the sun acts chiefly upon it as the receptacle of all influences. Hidden in its bosom are the seeds of all things, which, stirred and impelled by the heat of the solar rays, come forth into the light.

1621 pp. 25–26 · scans FR045, FR046

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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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