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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Book Two · Chapter 1

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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Two · Chapter 1

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1 That the Spirit of the World Takes Body, and How It Is Embodied

Que l'Esprit du monde prend corps, & comment il se corporifie.

Chapter Outline

The spirit that embodies other things must itself be capable of embodiment.

Central fire and coessential moisture are the first parents of embodiment.

Generation, maturation and dissolution are successive operations of fire.

Ash and salt reveal the hidden fire that survives burning.

Vapour condenses into mercurial water and mucilage, then solidifies; the acorn supplies a concluding example.

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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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