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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 7
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1621 pp. 50–51 · scans FR070, FR071Elle produit toutes choses qui ont vie, les conserve, les nourrit, puis finalement les resoult & transmue en elle mesme. Or estant agitee par les actions susdites, elle jette double expiration tant dehors que dedans elle: lesquelles expirations sortent de cet Esprit terrien, empreint & eschauffé par la chaleur celeste. De l'expiration qui s'esleve dehors d'icelle terre, advenant qu'elle soit humide, seront engendrees les bruïnes ou rosées: & si elle est seiche, elle produira les vents, foudres, & autres telles impressions seiches de l'air. Mais de celle qui demeure enclose & resserree en elle, advenant qu'elle soit humide, seront faites toutes choses liquefiables, comme metaux & mineraux. Et si au contraire elle est seiche & aride, elle en produira choses non fusibles, comme pierres & autres matieres semblables. Outre cela, toutes choses vegetables en proviennent, & reçoivent aliment de cet Esprit que la terre nourrit. C'est pourquoy les poëtes antiques nommoient cette terre grande ayeulle & nourrice de toutes choses.
Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book One · Chapter 7
1621 pp. 50–51 · scans FR070, FR071She produces all things that have life, preserves and nourishes them, then finally dissolves and transmutes them into herself. Stirred by the aforesaid actions, she gives forth a double exhalation, both outside and within herself. These exhalations issue from this earthly spirit, impregnated and heated by celestial heat. From the exhalation that rises outside the earth, if it is moist, mists or dews will be generated; if dry, it will produce winds, thunderbolts and other such dry phenomena of the air. But from the exhalation remaining enclosed and confined within her, if moist, all things capable of liquefaction will be made, such as metals and minerals. If, on the contrary, it is dry and arid, it will produce things that cannot be melted, such as stones and other similar materials. Besides this, all vegetable things proceed from it and receive nourishment from this spirit which the earth nourishes. That is why the ancient poets called the earth the great grandmother and nurse of all 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.
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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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