Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

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 9

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9 Of the Specification of the Spirit of the Universe in Bodies

De la specification de l'Esprit de l'univers aux corps.

Chapter Outline

The world soul communicates seminal causes through the spirit, taking form according to material affinities.

Each species draws from common nourishment what accords with its own nature.

Soul, spirit and body remain united as forms are embodied in the elements.

Extraction frees the mineral spirit to operate in its own kind.

Nature originates the species which art subsequently perfects and multiplies.

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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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