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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Anges ou demons occur in an exclusivity claim which the author rejects: knowledge of the embodied spirit is not to be reserved for such beings while humans are left wholly ignorant. They are not the agents carrying out the natural operation in this passage, and their mention is not an instruction to invoke them. The rejection prepares the search for an accessible bodily subject through which natural knowledge can be gained. It belongs with the author’s criticism of theories that cannot explain how spirit becomes earth or how a merely inaccessible origin can guide human work.
Places to read
- Book Two · Chapter 2 · Unit 1Named in a rejected exclusivity claim about access to knowledge, not as operating agents here.
Attested forms
Anges ou demons; Anges; demons