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A27223	Magnalia naturæ, or, The philosophers-stone lately exposed to public sight and scale being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus, the late famous projection-maker at the emperours court at Vienna, came by and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection by projecting with it before the emperour and a great many witnesses, selling it &c. for some years past / by John Joachim Becher : published at the request, and for the satisfaction of several curious, especially of Mr. Boyl &c.	Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682.	1680 (1680)	Wing B1643; ESTC R28897	23,850	38

cast suspition upon all extraordinary Assistances that so he may make them useless but says he it is as great a Sin not to accept of things when offered as to abuse them when they are accepted As for my self saith he I have no great reason to be a Friend to Chymistry having suffered so much less by it as your Imperial Majesty well knows neither did I ever find any Truth in the Art save only in this Pouder of F. Wenceslaus and the transmutation made thereby But as in referrence to that Tryal he dared pawn his Credit it would succeed and if his Majesty would not believe his word yet he might depute some persons to see a Trial made for his part he thought he was bound in Conscience to discover the whole business to his Majesty referring it wholy to him whether he would graciously accept the Proposal and protect the person that made it or else discard them both still hoping nevertheless that his Majesty would not take his good Intention in ill part nor exclude him from his Favour wishing for a Conclusion That he would cause one Trial to be made under the Inspection of some persons unprejudiced that so his Impertal Majesty might be satisfied at least in this one thing that he had not made the Proposition to him without sufficient reason Thus he concluded his Harangue The Emperor as he is gratious to all Suitors so he gave favourable attention to the Counts discourse and commended him for it Only saies he to the Count Alchymy is a subtil Imposture and though you your self may mean honestly yet perhaps you also may be deceived thereby otherwise I do not adds he at all despise the wonderful Works of God but do highly value them and accept of his Gift with all hearty thankfulness and I do well know how long my Father took very great pains in that Art and how highly he prized that little which was shewed him by the Baron Chaos and rewarded him for it besides I know full well how to make a distinction between the Art and the life of its Professors Only least he should expose himself and shew himself too easy he gave the Count order to make another Tryal and to procure the Presence of other skilful Persons both of the Clergy and Laity That so he might make him a more exact Relation of the Matter with all the Circumstan e and receive further order of his Majesty concerning it Count Paar being return'd home from his Audience The very same day he sent to Father Spies and Dr. Becher to invite them to Dine with him the next day adding these Words in his Message That he had a Business to communicate to them from the Emperour The next day they all accordingly met F. VVenceslaus being present where after Dinner Count Paar made known his Commission and forthwith caused an ounce of Schlachenwald Tin and a new Crucible to be bought which Materials being prepared and tried and for fear of Inchantment ex abundanti cantesa sprinkled with Holy water The Trial began and was finished within a quarter of an hour one part Tinged ten Thousand parts into Gold which was so graduated by the Tincture that it was almost Friable and was striated and distinguished with red Veines interspersed of which as likewise of the Tin before it was tinged both the Count de Paar and also Father Spies and Dr. Becher each of them took a little piece for a perpetual Memorial of the thing The rest was sealed up with their three Seals and the same quantity of the Powder as this Projection was made with was enclosed with it and the thing was by all three suscribed to The next day Count Paar went to his Imperial Majesty and delivered it to him making also a full Relation of all the particular Circumstances in the Trial. Hereupon the Emperour enjoyned him to treat Fr. Wenceslaus kindly and to assure him of his Favour moreover advising him to refrain his ill and scandalous life and to satisfy the Clergy that he would reassume the Monastical Habit and for the rest he would take Care and till he had enquired further into the the thing he would for his Security send him into some private place The Count returned home very joyful with this Commission and the very same Evening he caused F. VVenceslaus to be re-vested with his Monks Habit by two English Fathers of the Augustine Order Father Dun●ll and Father Vostaller A Letter was also writ to his Abbot at Bruna informing him that he might set his mind at rest concerning him because he had laid aside his Monks habit and cloathed himself with other Apparel for no other Reason but because he would free himself from the hardship of a Prison and make a Journey to Vienna to discover a great Secret which he had to his Imperial Majesty which being now done he had again resumed his Monks habit All this was done to perswade him that they meant him nothing but good to make him call again for all the Tincture from his Comrade and to keep him from conversing any longer with those which before were his most intimate Aquaintance as counting himself sufficiently secured against all Violence by the Emperors Protection and his Monks Habit So that Count Paar was as a Father to him and he on the other side as his adopted Son These two new Friends undertook a Voyage together to a Country-house of the Count's adjoyning to a certain Lake which he had in Hungary distant about a dayes Journey from Vienna Being come thither the very same night they two being alone in a Chamber The Count pluck'd out a Decree of the Emperor's as he pretended which was sealed up adding these words My Son Into what Gulf of Misery art thou cast Here I have a Command in writing from the Emperor to demand the Tincture of Thee and if thou refusest to deliver it then to my great Grief I must execute upon Thee the Sentence contained in this sealed Decree Fryer Wenceslaus desired to read the Decree but the Count replyed If it be opened it must be immediately executed and withal plucking a Pistol out of his Pocket he directed it to his Breast Sighing and breaking forth in these Words Into what miserys are we both Cast Yet notwitstanding if thou wilt harken to my Counsel from whence thou maist gather my Love and Fatherly Care and free both of us from this great Misfortune and make our Condition very happy I will give it to thee Nothing was more grateful to Fr. VVenceslaus than to hear this Condition and having given him his hand that he would follow it The Count began thus 'T is certain said he That you and I do both stand in need of the Emperours Protection and 't is as certain That we shall be forc'd to deliver the Tincture to him My Advice then is which I refer to you for your approbation and consent I will pretend that being injoyn'd to make a stricter

Magnalia Naturae OR THE PHILOSOPHERS-STONE Lately expos'd to publick Sight and Sale BEING A true and exact Account of the Manner HOW WENCESLAUS SEILERUS The late Famous Projection-maker at the Emperours Court at Vienna came by and made away with a very great Quantity of Pouder of Projection by projecting with it before the Emperor and a great many VVitnesses selling it c. for some years past Published at the Request and for the Satisfaction of several Curious especially of Mr. Boyl c. BY John Joachim Becher One of the Council of the Emperor and a Commissioner for the EXAMEN of this Affair Minut. Felix Quid igitur ingrati sumus Cur invidemus si veritas divinitatis quae per ea quae fiunt sat intelligi potest Rom. 1. 20. nostri temporis aetate maturuit LONDON Printed by Tho. Dawks His Majesties British Printer living in Black-fryers Sold also by La. Curtiss in Goat Court on Ludgate hill 1680. Advertisement BOoks and single sheets Printed and sold by Tho. Dawks in Black fryers and by La. Curtiss in Goat Court on Ludgate-hill where may alwayes be had 1. Godfreys Murder made visible and the Papists Cruelty therein 2. A Chronology of Popery shewing When and Who brought in their idle foolish Foperys 3. The only Historical Plot Cards with a Book illustrating the PLOT by greatly satisfying the Protestant Reader 4. The Beggars Petition to H. S. shewing Reasons enough why he threw Popery off and we not now befoold into it 5. The 3 Prime Discoverers their Pictures with Verses shewing their Reasons why they discovered this Hellish Popish Plot. 6. Romes Hunting-Match for 3 Kingdoms 7. England 's Calamity foreshewn from the growth of Popery in Gemanys Misery 8. A Seasonable Caution to Apostatizing Protestants or Gods eminent Judgment upon Protestants that turn'd Papists to save their Lives but perished 8. The Resurrection proved in a Relation of what hapned to Mris Ann Atherton who lay 7 dayes in a Trance declared in an astonishing Speech when she came to life 9. A great Truth The Jesuit a down-right Compleat Atheist proved such and condemn'd for such by the Famous Faculty of Sorbonne well known to be the best Divines of all the Catholick Party and by the French Bishops Pope Alexander 7. Shewing how they make a Mock at Sin deny God and overthrow all Religion Their Design being to Debauch Mankind wherein they as a Judgment from God upon us have succeeded pretty well but speedy Judgment attends its Promoters 10 Famous Master Rich's Absence supply'd by a KEY to his Short-hand TABLE entituled The PENS Dexterity Allowed and Approved by both Vniversities Fully discovering the whole Art to the Meanest Capacity in that Method he Taught his Scholars with the reserved Rules in their proper Places by T. Dawks a quandam Scholar of his the like never publickly discovered before all Books and sheets relating to this Hand has been Abuses to the Publick the Buyers of them much deceiv'd for the Table alone was ne'er design'd by Mr. Rich to teach the whole A R T but to bring Scholars to him And for the Truth of what I say as well in relation to this Key as to other spurious Books I refer my self to Mr. Rich's Scholars as fittest Judges knowing not where else to appeal Also I have added since it came to my hand beside the Key to distinguish this from all false Tables Directions concerning the place of Vowels which he gave me in writing among the private Rules wherefore all old Tables without the Key are false ones beware of them These true ones are sold by T. Basset at the George by S. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet by Fr. Smith at the Elephant by the Exchange in Cornhil 11. Also Dr. Salmons New London Dispensatory end his Soul of Astrology are always to be had at the places abovesaid As for his Synopsis or Praxis Medicinae the vast labour it hath taken up is the Cause of its not coming forth expect it spedily the Compleatness of the Work make it exceed in thickness his Dispensatory besides the 21 Plates There is in the Press A packet of Popish Delusions False Miracles and Lying Wonders Together with many grand Divisions among Papists notwithstanding their seeming Vnity The TRANSLATOR To the READER THere is no ingenious man that is not unacquainted with the Curiosities to be met with in the World who hath not either seen som Transmutation of Metals or at least heard so many witness that they have seen it as to be perswaded that there is such Thing as the Philosophers-Stone or Powder of Projection Only there he some great men as his Highness Prince Rupert who hath seen the Projection at Frankfort in Germany who seem to question whether such Pouder or Tincture is prepared with Profit But this Doubt is hereby now fully cleared and resolv'd from the great quantity of this Tincture left buried by the Abbot Founder of the Church it was found in as this Relation informs you for it is not credible that the Abbot was Master before he had done the Work of such an immense Treasure as he must needs have had to draw so much Tincture from which could not be extracted if the Preparation thereof is without profit from a lesser quantity of Gold than it gives or yield again in the Projection so that the same quantity of Gold as it yields again must have bin spoiled to make it which it is not credible an Abbot of Germany was Master of as is said And for the Truth of this Relation besides that it is attested by many men of great Quality good parts Probity and Modesty by the Emperor himself by Count Wallestein who was Resident here a year ago and by Dr. Becher at present in this City It is so publickly known through all parts of Germany chiefly about Vienna where this was transacted that to doubt or deny it were as absurd as if one denyed that the West-Indies have bin found out of late years or that there be ships at Sea because he hath seen neither But among the many remarkable Passages in this Relation one thing is most worthy of Observation viz. the Honesty of F. Fra. Preyhausen who deserves to be chronicled for his Faithfulness Truth to F. Wenceslaus the Finder of this Pouder for he wanted neither frequent Opportunities nor specious Pretences to effect what som Princes could not forbear to attempt i. to rob Wenceslaus of his Powder tho without a certainty of Success tho he was himself sure of Success for he was thrice for a good while each time entrusted with the Box might find Excuses enough for it yet he not only did not succomb to the Temptation of getting All as they did but did not so much as deny purloin or withhold the least part of the Pouder from F. Wenceslaus even when seeing how he squandred it away he had a good pretence to keep back some for his use and might justly have

with it he would lay the Blame on their Impatience and Unskilfulness in making the Projection To others he pawned some of his Counterfeit Tincture for a great summ of Money which he pretended he had a present use for but he was loath to spend his Tincture in projecting because he hoped to augment it with a Thousand-fold advantage And that they might see the Tincture was genuine and true he took some of it and wrapt it up in a little Wax with which he mingled a little of his right Tincture which he called his Crocus or Pouder of Reduction and so tinged therewith By this means he got very many 1000's of Crowns and over and above he got P. C. de L. and C. L. to be his Assistants and Partners in these Mysteries But the Impudent sort among which A. C. P. and his Cosen C. B. are to be reckoned he gave them whole Ingots which he had cast consisting of equal parts of Gold and Silver then filing some of them and dissolving it into common Aqua forts which he brought with him he affirmed that now his Tincture was exalted into a Menstruum which would presently change Silver into Gold and that as soon as ever the price or value which was to be paid for its purchase should be put thereto it would be converted into Gold It hath been also further related to me That he grew to that Degree of Impudence as to tinge some sort of Coins after this manner into Gold before the Empress Dowager and the Emperour himself Yea this fellow was so arrogant as to cause his own Effigies to be drawn on some of those false Coins which he did attempt deceitfully to put off Yet this matter could not be kept so secret but the more prudent began to smell the Cheat and to mutter something about it which was very ill taken in the Emperours Court. For he was in such Credit there that it was not safe to impeach him as being received into the Emperors Protection both against the Clergy and the Secular Power and even against the skilful in the same Art For great men are loth to acknowledge their Error but think themselves tho under a Mistake to be as infallible as the Pope himself Those who were not much concern'd in the Matter suffered it so to pass as taking little Notice of it but some true Philosophers were very much aggriev'd That so in famous an Impostor after so many Vows and Protestations made by him to the contrary and after such evident Proofs of his former debauch'd Life after so many villanous Crimes committed and his base Prostitution openly of so noble an Art of Chymistry should yet notwithstanding that he ranted it up and down in his Coach in Masquarades before the Emperours Court be maintain'd and protected by him But others who had been cozened by him of great Summs of Money even to many thousand Ducats with his adulterate Tincture could not so rest satisfied but brought in their Action against him at common Law where after some time and much Expence they obtained Judgment against him but it never was put in Execution though all other means were try'd Now the Emperour unless he would have left his Favorite VVenceslaus to the Jurisdiction and power of his Judges and Rigor of the Law must needs interpose for the Complaints made against him for his insolent and abusive practises were so many and the Fame of them was spread so far abroad in the world That his Imp●●ial Majesty thought it more convenient to have the Noise of it altogether supprest To be short The Emperour paid all his Debts and that he might prevent his farther opportunity of Cosenage he got from him the rest of his Tincture and then advanc'd him to the most Ancient Order of Barrony in Bohemia by the Title of Baron Seyler of Seylerburgh and afterwards made him Hereditary Master of the Mint of Bohemia and having thus preferred him he sent him away from his Court to Prague where he now lives very gallantly and hath made Fryer Francis the Steward of his House having married a Second Wise called VValdes Kircheriana a handsome woman and of a Noble Family In the mean time a Rumor was spread all over Germany That the Devil had carried him away Soul and Body Which Report though it might have some good grounds yet for this time it was not true but he hath very great reason to-fear that it may prove true at last if he doth not amend his Life and the Event thereof we must expect I have described the Series of this Story both to vindicate the Truth and also to satisfy so many Curious who have despicable thoughts of Chymistry If I have mistaken in any Passage Fr. VVenceslaus is yet alive and I earnestly desire him to amend and rectify my mistakes and to vindicate himself by giving the World a more exact Account thereof that he may no longer lye under any unjust Reflection For a Conclusion I heartily wish That if God should bless any lover of this noble Art with some such like Treasure he would use it better than VVenceslaus hath done for the Glory of God the Benefit and advantage of his Neighbour and the furtherance of his own everlasting Salvation FINIS