M. Samuels, pp. 56, 57 (1827).
- Letter to the Jewish Chronicle, September 1, 1922, quoting Henrietta Herz.
- Goethe was initiated into Freemasonry on St. John's Eve, 1780. The Royal Masonic Cyclopædia observes: "There exist two great classical Masonic writers, Lessing and Goethe." Dr. Stauffer, in New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (p. 172), points out further that Goethe's connexion with the Illuminati is fully established by both Engel (Geschichte des Illuminatenordens, pp. 355 and following) and by Le Forestier (Les Illuminés de Baviére, pp. 396 and following). It is possible that Faust may be the history of an initiation by a disillusioned Illuminatus.
- Henri Martin, Histoire de France, Vol. XVI. p. 531.
- Historie de la Monarchie prussienne, V. 73.
- *Ars Quatuor