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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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6 That the Root of the Spirit of the World Is in the Air

Que la racine de l'Esprit du monde est en l'air.

Chapter Outline

Wind is moving air, and breathing demonstrates air’s vital necessity.

Air impregnates the general spirit and strengthens its generative power.

The saying that roots are in air also admits a particular reading through volatile and fixed parts.

Distillation and return of water to earth explain the imagery of mountains and roots.

Air carries celestial influences and the forms of natural things.

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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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