[605.] Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. XXVI. p. 98.
[606.] "Notes on the Rainsford Papers" in A.Q.C., Vol. XXVI. p. 111.
[607.] Morning Herald for November 2, 1786.
[608.] Eckert, La Franc-Maçonnerie dans sa véritable signification, Vol. II. p. 92.
[609.] Drei merkwürdige Aussagen, etc., evidence of Grünberger, Cosandey, and Renner (Munich, 1786); Grosse Absichten des Ordens der Illuminaten, etc., Ditto, with Utzschneider (Munich, 1786).
[610.] Gustave Bord, La Franc-Maçonnerie en France, etc., p. 351 (1908). This Australian Count is referred to in the correspondence of the Illuminati more as an agent than as an adept. Thus Weishaupt writes: "I must attempt to cure him of theosophy and bring him round to our views" (Nachtrag von ... Originalschnften, I. 71); and Philo, before the Congress of Wilhelmsbad, observes: "Numenius is not yet of much use. I am only taking him up so as to stop his mouth at the Congress [um ihn auj dem Convente das Meul zu stopfen]; still, if he is well led we can make something out of him." (ibid., p. 109).
[611.] Die Neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden. p. viii (1794).
[612.] De Luchet, Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés, p. vii.
[613.] Crétineau Joly, L'Église Romaine en face de la Révolution, I. p. 93.
[614.] In my World Revolution I accepted erroneously the opinion of several well-known writers who attribute this pamphlet to Mirabeau. The fact that it was printed at the end of Mirabeau's Histoire Secrète de la Cour de Berlin and that a further edition revised by Mirabeau was published in 1792 no doubt gave rise to this supposition. But apart from the fact that Mirabeau as an Illuminatus was unlikely himself to denounce the Order, the proof that he was not the author may be found at the British Museum, where the copy of the 1792 edition bears on the title-page the words in ink "Donné par l'auteur," and Mirabeau died in the spring of the preceding year.