History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

philosophical Dictionary, tells the following historiettes: " the number of those which
believed in the transmutations is extraordinary; that of the rascals was proportioned with that
of the credulous ones. We saw in Paris the lord Dammi, marquis de Conventiglio, who
drew a few hundreds from louis of several large lords to make them the value of two or
three ecus out of gold. " the best turn than one ever made in alchemy was that of a
Rosicrucian brotherhood which went to find Henri Ier, duke of Bubble, of the house of
Turenne, sovereign prince of Sedan, about year 1620: " You do not have, says him it, a
sovereignty proportioned with your great courage; I want to return to you richer than the
emperor. I then to remain only two days in your States; it is necessary that I will hold in
Venice the large assembly of the Brothers. Maintain only the secrecy. Send to seek litharge
in the first apothecary of your city; there throw a grain alone of the red powder that I give
you; put the whole in a crucible and, in less than one fifteen minutes, you will have gold ". "
the prince made the operation and repeated it three times in the presence of the virtuoso.
This man had made to buy before all the litharge which was in the apothecaries of Sedan
and had then made it resell in charge of a few ounces of gold. The follower, while leaving,
made present of all his powder transmuting at the duke of Bubble " the prince did not doubt
that having made three ounces of gold with three grains, it did not make of them three
hundred and thousand ounces with three hundred and thousand grains, and that,
consequently, he was not soon owner in the week of thirty seven thousand five hundred
marcs, without counting what he would do in the continuation. II were necessary three
months at least to make this powder. The philosopher was in a hurry to leave; there
remained to him nothing any more, he had very given the prince; it was necessary current
currency for him to hold in Venice the States of hermetic philosophy. It was a man very
moderate in his desires and its expenditure; he asked only twenty thousand ecus for his
voyage. The duke of Bubble, ashamed of little, gave him forty thousand of them. When it
had exhausted all the litharge of Sedan, it did not make any more gold; it does not revive
any more its philosopher and was for its forty thousand ecus ". *** Hargrave Jennings tells,
according to the best authorities, the following history. A foreigner arrived to Venice, a
summer of the end of XVIIe century. Its splendid way of life, its elegant manners made it
soon admit in the best company, although nobody knew anything of his antecedents. Its
figure was perfect proportions, the oval face, the broad and prominent face; the black, long
and floating hair; its smile was a enchantor though melancholic person, and sometimes the
major glare of its eyes seemed to reflect the disappeared times. Its conversation was
extremely interesting, though it was discrete and little talker; one knew it under the name of
Gualdi. There remained a few months in Venice; the people called it " Sober Signor "
because of the simplicity in his manners and his costume. It was noticed that it had a small
collection of splendid paintings of which it made the honors with all those which wished it;
that it was versed in all sciences and all arts, speaking about all things as if it had been
present there; finally he did not write nor never accepted any letter and did not have of
account in any banker; he paid always in cash and disappeared from Venice as he had
come there. II bound with a Venetian, widowed lord and father of a remarkably beautiful and
intelligent girl. This gentleman wished to see paintings of Gualdi. This last made the father
and the girl the honors of her collection; they admired in detail all the parts of them, and they
were going to be withdrawn when the gentleman, raising the eyes, saw a portrait of Gualdi
that with certain characteristics it recognized being of Titien. However Titien had died, at that
time, since nearly two hundred years, and the foreigner just seemed to have reached forty.
The Venetian one announced its remark with Gualdi, which answered rather coldly that many
things were difficult to include/understand. This incident was told in the city, and, when some
people wanted to see this strange portrait, the signor Gualdi had left Venice by carrying the
key of the gallery of the tables. *** Dr. Robert Plot (51) tells the following history: A
peasant, by trenching in a field, ran up against pickaxe against a small depth a large
rectangular stone which, removed of grasses and foam, let see a large iron ring rivetted in its
center. Believing to discover the hiding-place of a treasure, it raised this stone, after many
efforts, and discovered a broad excavation in which was inserted a stone staircase. It