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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The verbs name making gold and making silver, but I.4 locates the relevant capacity before its realization. Both ordinary and hidden metallic bodies are said to possess a faculty that cannot vegetate or pass from power into effect without the universal spirit. The passage therefore does not present metal alone as a self-sufficient producer. It expressly says Nature does not produce itself and requires an agent with matter capable of receiving its action.
II.2 consequently directs the search toward the maternal source rather than completed metallic offspring. The author's claim is about the cause enabling metallic development, not a record of a successful transmutation. The later coloured fusion's failure remains a separate control against mistaking impressive appearance for achieved gold- or silver-making.
Places to read
- Book One · Chapter 4 · Unit 6Metallic bodies are said to possess a faculty of becoming or making gold/silver, but the universal spirit must bring it from potentiality into effect.
- Book Two · Chapter 2 · Unit 3Gold formation sought within mines, not an actual visible discovery certified here.
- Book Two · Chapter 2 · Unit 9The hoped-for metallic metamorphosis did not occur in the narrated coloured fusion.
Word family
Aurifier and argentifier: gold-making and silver-making powers. Exact historical spellings are listed separately.
Attested forms
aurifier ou d'argentifier; de puissance en effect; aurification; aurifier; argentifier