[595.] "Foresight indicates," says Falk, "that an end must be made to the whole of the present scheme of Freemasonry [dem ganzen jetzigen Schema der Freimaurerei ein Ende zu machen]," and he goes on to show that this must be done by picked men in the secret societies who know the true secrets of Masonry. This is precisely Weishaupt's idea.
[596.] In 1779 Spartacus writes to Marius and Cato suggesting that instead of Illuminati the Order should be called the "Order of Bees [Bienenorden oder Bienengesellschaft]," and that all the statutes should be clothed in this allegory--Originalschriften, p. 320.
[597.] Nachtrag von ... Originalschriften, II. 81.
[598.] My italics.
[599.] Where are they called this? The Cabala distinctly states that Israel alone is to possess the future world (Zohar, section Vayschlah, folio 177b), whilst the Talmud even excludes the lost tribes: "the ten tribes have no share in the world to come" (Tract Sanhedrim, Rodkinson's translation, p. 363).
[600.] Memoirs of Moses Mendelssohn, by M. Samuels, pp. 56, 57 (1827).
[601.] Letter to the Jewish Chronicle, September 1, 1922, quoting Henrietta Herz.
[602.] 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.
[603.] Henri Martin, Histoire de France, Vol. XVI. p. 531.
[604.] Historie de la Monarchie prussienne, V. 73.