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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2 The Conversion of This Spirit Into Earth and How Its Power Remains Entire in That Earth

De la conversion de cet Esprit en terre: & comment en cette terre sa vertu demeure entiere.

Chapter Outline

Embodiment begins with an earthly coagulation rather than the extraction of every volatile substance.

Salt serves as the first tangible body of the world spirit and as a model for the separation of primordial waters.

The author distinguishes vital central heat from ordinary destructive fire and the external heat of the sun.

Celestial powers converge in the earth and remain active within its generative matter.

The purified matter unites heavenly and earthly powers without losing the virtues that caused its embodiment.

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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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