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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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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book One · Chapter 8

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8 That This Spirit of the World Is the Cause of Perfection in Everything

Que cet Esprit du monde est cause de perfection en tout.

Chapter Outline

The same universal spirit operates differently in animal, vegetable, mineral and celestial things.

Its balanced constitution makes it the beginning and end of natural perfection.

Three operations correspond to vivification, coagulation and gathering together.

Glass, salt and mercury are argued to form a triad through examples of hardness and cohesion.

The author answers the objection that salt alone could account for hard shells and bones.

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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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