Baron Pröck

# Wilhelm Lebrecht Baron von Pröck

29 giugno 1708 - 3 marzo 1788

Johann Seifert, *J. U. C. Genealogie Hoch-Adelicher Eltern Eltern und Kinder ...*, Regensburg: Johann Conrad Peetz, 1724

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Christoph Becmann, *Historie des Fürstenthums Anhalt*, Principality of Anhalt: Samuel Tietzen, 1710.

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Another source mentions Wilhelm's brothers and sisters:

> *.... government councillor Reich, whose daughters married into one of the Cobens, who died without heirs, and the councillor of the Prince of Zerbst von Pröck, who left three sons and a daughter, the latter of whom married in Denmark.*
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A more recent research mentions only one sister and one brother: Magdalene Helene Augusta and Christian Lebrecht. And it concludes the family history:

> *The father Christian later became a private councillor in Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth and died before 1740; the mother Gedske (Gesille) Reich (daughter of Royal Councillor in Gluckstadt Joakim Reich and Drude von Bruggemann, married on September 20, 1683, in Itzehoe) moved to Denmark after her husband's death and acquired the properties of Bonderup in 1740 (sold in 1743), Ordrupgaard called Tangerman or Sophie-Hauge in 1752 (sold in 1779), and in 1774, Hjortespring Damsgaard. She died on September 4, 1778, at Ordrupgaard.*
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Regarding the sister, named probably in honor of Countess Magdalene Augusta of Saxony, for whom the father had composed an ode on the occasion of her birthday in 1715, it is known only that in Denmark, where she had evidently moved with her mother, she found a husband: Carl Christian Sponeck. Born on November 13, 1706, he led a military life like his father and elder brother before him and reached the venerable age of seventy. He married Baroness Magdalene Helene Augusta von Proeck at the age of forty-one, on March 24, 1747, in the church of Brønshøi. They had two children, neither of whom survived their parents.

The only identified brother bore the same name as his father and gained some fame. Born in 1718, he entered Danish military service in 1736. In 1740, he began his career at the Court, eventually being appointed in 1755 as the Governor General of the West Indies. However, he was deposed in 1766 due to inefficiency and recalled to his homeland. In 1768, he was appointed Stiftsamtman for Iceland and the Faroe Islands. He had been instructed to go to Iceland in the spring, but seemingly lacked the desire to do so. Thus, he requested permission to postpone his departure by a year, and it was granted. A year later, he was appointed county commissioner in the Copenhagen area and practically never set foot in Iceland. The Minister of the Private Cabinet, Struensee, removed him in 1771 due to his reluctance or laziness in executing royal decrees. No further assignments were granted to him, but in 1774, it was decided that he would receive a pension from the day he was dismissed. He died in Copenhagen in 1780.

For young Wilhelm Lebrecht there is no information about his education or the career he pursued, but this gap is filled by some unexpected testimonies.

In Caspar Friedrich von Grone's album amicorum, there is a dedication:

Which places Wilhelm Lebrecht in Gotha in 1725, where Magdalena Augusta, the daughter of the Prince of Zerbst-Anhalt, for whom his father had worked, was at the time. She had married Duke Frederick II of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in 1696 and had several children around the same age as Wilhelm. Such as the brothers Johann August (1704–1767) and Christian Wilhelm (1706–1748), who in 1725 traveled to Italy, first to the royal court of Turin, then to the princely courts of Modena and Parma, and later to Naples and Rome, where they spent Easter of 1726. They then moved on to Florence, Lucca, and Milan. There, the brothers separated. Johann August enlisted in a regiment of dragoons in the imperial service and stayed to fight in Italy. Christian Wilhelm, on the other hand, continued his journey to Turin, then Lyon and Strasbourg, reaching Lunéville, where he visited the exiled King Stanislaus of Poland. In June 1727, he returned to Gotha.

Il medico e botanico tedesco Johann Jakob Lerche studiò medicina ad Halle, si laureò nel 1730 e l'anno successivo si trasferì in Russia. Dal 1731 prestò servizio come medico militare e nel 1733 fu nominato ufficiale medico del corpo di Astrachan'. Nel suo diario di viaggio da Mosca ad Astrachan' attraverso i paesi della sponda occidentale del Mar Caspio, racconta di aver conosciuto il barone Proeck, un tenente dell'esercito russo nel 1734, quando il suo reggimento si unì ad altri sul Mar Caspio, per dirigersi verso Baku. Lo reincontrò due anni dopo, quando fu testimone di un curioso incidente:

The German physician and botanist Johann Jakob Lerche studied medicine at Halle, graduated in 1730, and the following year moved to Russia. From 1731, he served as a military doctor and in 1733 was appointed medical officer of the Astrakhan Corps. In his travel diary from Moscow to Astrakhan through the countries along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, he recounts meeting Baron Proeck, a lieutenant in the Russian army in 1734, when his regiment joined others on the Caspian Sea, heading towards Baku. Lerche encountered him again two years later and witnessed a curious incident:

> *He was a Silesian, a Lutheran by religion, well-versed in Latin, French, and Italian. He had accompanied a prince of Gotha on a journey and later pursued a military career, rising to the rank of an officer. However, his outspoken nature prevented him from receiving any promotions. I spoke with him about Derbent, Bunak, and Sulak. When I returned to Astrakhan, he had met Catholic priests and regularly visited Pastor Weise to discuss religion. The pastor passed on to him a manuscript from a college containing accounts of the journeys of the blessed Dr. Anton through Catholic countries with King Augustus II of Poland. It documented quotes from various conversations with Catholic scholars, adding his personal refutation. This manuscript proved to be poison for Proeck, as he later claimed it made him even more ignorant about the truth of the Catholic religion, greatly offending the pious sage. He had me read the manuscript, and I assured him that there was nothing offensive, calming his mind. In short, Proeck wrote his confession of faith in Latin, read it in church, and became a Catholic. Then he bid farewell and retired to the Oliva Monastery.*
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I have no idea how long this impromptu novitiate lasted, but he certainly left the Cistercian monastery near Gdansk without taking vows, as I find him a few years later in Hamburg, still described as an officer and engaged in Masonic activities.
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> *The Grand Master of the Absalom Lodge, along with seven Grand Officers and a Supervisor, met in a special room in the house of Arbien with Mr. Guillaumot and his Adlatus von Proeck, a major in the Russian army, although originally Prussian. Guillaumot claimed that, not being proficient in German, he brought the major along as an interpreter. He then explained that Sauer had received him as a Master in the presence of another master and five apprentices. It was responded that "Sauer was considered the greatest swindler in England" and therefore his admission could not be considered valid. If anything, he had to be duly accepted by Absalom as a Freemason "but without compensation." This occurred on August 20 on the condition that, until he was properly constituted by the Provincial Grand Lodge, he would not be allowed to hold any lodge or have any communion with its former members. Worthy members of his association could present themselves to the new lodge for reception; they should initiate a new protocol and erase everything that happened before. After the reception, several brothers from the Absalom Lodge, including Guillaumot, submitted a request to establish a lodge.*
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> *On August 30, four members of the irregular lodge applied for admission to Absalom: Michael Zunberg Preuser, Wilhelm Leberecht Baron v. Proeck, Julius Baron de Strahlheim, Hyeronimus Bernegatt, who were admitted under the same conditions as Guillaumot.*
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> 1. *A Baron v. Proeck was also active as a Rosicrucian around 1780. Taute, Bücherkunde, 857.*
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In 1743 in Hamburg, at François Guillaumot's Kaiserhof sul Ness inn, some knights and officers of various nationalities and armies, passing through the city, gathered for Masonic-style work. They were of the opinion, proven by their own oral tradition, that the Kaiserhof had been the cradle of Freemasonry in Hamburg since at least 1733. Although the only regular lodge, recognized by the Grand Lodge of England, was that which met at the Taverne d Jens Arbien's Angleterre on Bäckerstraße, founded in 1737.

On 5 August 1743, in the official lodge, which did not yet have a distinctive name, during the works presided over by Master Georg Ludwig von Hattorf, a figure who introduced himself as Colonel von Osten, "Grand Master" of the Loge auf dem Kaiserhof, burst in, ordering that those brothers should join his oldest lodge. The master of the chair was of the opinion that it was a matter for the Provincial Lodge, but that he wanted to discuss the request within the brotherhood.

The following day, the Provincial Grand Master Luttmann informed the brothers of the regular lodge (according to Kneissner in the minutes of 26 July 1743, the lodge is mentioned for the first time as the Most Venerable Ordinary Absalom Lodge precisely to distinguish itself from the one found at the Kaiserhof) that Colonel von Osten had not been able to identify himself as a true Freemason, but the will of the other brothers to regularize their works should have been accepted.

The members of the Kaiserhof did not hesitate to disown von Osten, electing the innkeeper Guillaumot as their Master. His first act was a letter dated August 11, 1743 to formally and more humbly obtain a license to form a lodge.

As described above by Wiebe, on 16 September 1743 Wilhelm Leberecht Baron von Proeck was duly initiated into Freemasonry by a recognized lodge.

On 24 September the second just and perfect lodge in Hamburg and Lower Saxony was officially established according to the London register as Lodge St. George, Emperor's Court, Hamburgh, No.196. On Luttmann's proposal, Brother Molinié was elected as Master of the Chair and after a year he was replaced by Pierre Texier, also from the Absalom lodge.

The Baron probably had not yet found an answer to his needs for mystical and spiritual knowledge and had therefore turned to latomistic teachings. It is plausible that he also joined the Judica Lodge established in 1745 as the Scottish chapter of Absalom.

The first Scottish lodge was La très Vénérable et très Respectable Loge Écossaise de l'Union, founded in Berlin on 30 November 1742 and at its creation it seemed to practice and transmit only one degree, that of Scottish Master. Candidates had to have been raised to the rank of Master to be initiated into "Scottish work" through a form of catechism with a romantic style and decidedly Catholic content. Of supposed British origin, it could represent the Stuart component of freemasonry of the time, as opposed to the Hanoverian one practiced in the blue lodges of the first three degrees.

The Baron, however, never seems to stay for long in any one place, his traces lead after a few years to Regensburg and seem to indicate that from there he had asked the Elector of Cologne to transfer the Primae Preces for the church of San Gereon to a certain Beywegh.

The *AT-OeStA/HHStA RHR Grat Feud Primae preces 3-36* document is preserved in the Austrian State Archives*.*

> *Title: Pröck, Wilhelm Lebrecht; Beywegh, Nikolaus Ferdinand Joseph; Primae preces betreffend Köln, St. Gereon.*
> *Pröck's request to transfer the primae preces to Beywegh after the approval of the Elector of Cologne, Regensburg 1748 03 26.*
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After which, from a source already consulted previously, he moves to another city in Bavaria, for much more prosaic reasons:

> *... he moved into the Drei Mohren hotel in Augsburg in 1750, went into debt and pretended to be a monk, although he had made a vow of marriage to Mrs. Lautenburg in Regensburg.*
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In his certainly credible interpretation, he still failed to avoid justice. In the LandesArchiv Schleswig-Holstein which preserves the files of the German Chancellery in Copenhagen, there is a folder entitled *Noble families: von Proeck*, referring to the years 1750-51, which contains:

> *Baron Wilhelm Lebrecht von Proeck, arrested in Augsburg for debts.*
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He may not have spent much time in prison, but once released he seems to disappear from public life. His name no longer appears. No official document in the administrative archives, never cited by the press, no official position held, not even participation in subscriptions or cultural societies. Nothing at all.

Time leap of over twenty-five years, in 1777, when a work was published that revealed to the world the existence of the Order of the Rose and Golden Cross of the Ancient System:

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>  Carl Hubert Lobreich von Plumenök, *Geoffenbarter Einfluss in das allgemeine Wohl der Staaten der ächten Freymäurerey : aus dem wahren Endzweck ihrer ursprünglichen Stiftung erwiesen; und der Schrift des Königl. Dän. Etaatsraths Johann Jacob Mosers, von Geduldung der Freymäurergesellschaften, besonders in Absicht auf den Westphälischen Frieden, entgegen gesezt; samt dem klar- und deutlichen Unterricht, das wahre Rosenkreutzerische Astrapulver ächt zu bereiten, und zum Besten des gemeinen Wesens wider fast alle Krankheiten zu gebrauchen*, Amsterdam (Nuremberg?).
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The author, whose pseudonym is an almost perfect anagram of Wilhelm Lebrecht Baron von Pröck (corresponding the two U's in Hubert and Plumenök to Wilhelm's W) takes the pretext of replying to a writing by Johann Jacob Moser (*von Geduldung der Freymaurer-Gesellschaften; besonders in Rücksicht auf den Westphälischen Friden*, published in 1776 without printing indications) to argue a controversy on the degeneration of his era and provide the solution to the problem: the doctrines of the Rosicrucians.

What is interesting is that in the preface he anticipates the true history of the Order written by brother **Phöbron Chlun** on the basis of new original sources, which will subsequently be published in another work commissioned directly by the Superiors, *Der Compaß der Weisen*.

The editor speaks of Plumenök and Phöbron as two distinct individuals, but from the study of available documents the situation is not so clear:

- in *Starke Erweise aus den eigenen Schriften des hochheiligen Ordens Gold- und Rosenkreutzer für die Wahrheit* (published in Rome in 5555, to be understood more likely as Leipzig: Göschen, 1788) there are extracts from original internal documents of the last General Assembly of the Order of 1777, the ordinances of the Vice-Generalate are signed by the secretary **Kalo**.

- according to Abafi-Aigner, some circulars from 1780 are signed by **Verbum Electri**, secretary of the Gross-Priorat;

- in a propaganda work of the Order, published in 1779

> *Freymäurerische Versammlungsreden der Gold- und Rosenkreutzer des alten Systems. Mit zwölf eingedruckten Vignetten.*
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edited by v. S., printed in Amsterdam (probably in Hof, by Johann Gottlieb Vierling) with illustrations by Frater Hejonagogerus Nugir, the speeches of the Hannan brothers, Philortus and **Verbum Electri**, are published.

- in the third volume of *Der Freymaurer, oder cömpendiose bibliothek alles Wissenswürdigen über geheime Gesellschaften* (edited by Christian Carl André, in Eisenach and Halle by Johann Jakob Gebauer in 1795) the admission form to the Order for the first degree Iunior is published, as foreseen by the Principal Plan of 1767, signed by Rosarius in a prominent position and by Philortus and **Verbum Electri** in the background.

- in the accusatory pamphlet *Der Rosenkreuzer in seiner Blösse. Zum Nutzen der Staaten hingestellt durch Zweifel wider die wahre Weisheit der so genannten ächten Freymäurer oder goldnen Rosenkreutzer des alten Systems*, Amsterdam (Nuremberg), 1781, the author Magister Pianco indicates **Phöbron** as a member of the German directory together with Stopen and Minnerino and believes so the author of both *Geoffenbarter Einfluss* and *Der Compaß der Weisen*;

- il manoscritto *Rituale und Istruktionen fur den 4-7 Grad der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer*, conservato nel Freimaurer-Museum di Bayreuth è una copia del segretario Arnoldus Bison, tratta parzialmente dagli originali di Minnerino e in parte da quelli di **Phoebron**;

- in the response that Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Echoffen publishes to defend himself from the accusation of being Magister Pianco, he specifies that the name of the Director General is **Phoebron Chlun**;

- the manuscript *Rituale und Istruktionen fur den 4-7 Grad der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer*, preserved in the Freimaurer-Museum in Bayreuth, is a copy of the secretary Arnoldus Bison, taken partly from Minnerino's originals and partly from those of **Phoebron**.

Since the composition of the Triumvirate has never changed, as reported in Du Bosc's 1778 admission certificate:

> *…through the cooperating grace of Heaven, Triumvirate relatives and colonel heads of a High German Generalate, recently confirmed for this decade by the seven Most Reverend and Wise Masters…*
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and considering the order in which they are mentioned to be of some importance it could be deduced that:

Rosarius = Hannan = Minnerino

Philortus = Stopen

Phöbron Chlun = Verbum Electri = Kalo

and therefore conclude that the full name of the last of the three members of the Triumvirate, the alleged secretary, was **Phöbron Chlun Verbum Electri Kalo**, which, incredible coincidence, is another anagram of Wilhelm Lebrecht Baron von Pröck.

Given that Pröck is both Phöbron and Plumenöck, his role remains undefined. Simple secretary and therefore in theory the least influential of the three supreme leaders, self-styled Magi. From other sources things appear differently. In theory, the members of the Order should have known the identity only of their direct superior and the other members of their circle, but discretion certainly could not be total and so some rumors began to circulate, especially among the Polish brothers. After a trip to Poland, Georg Forster wrote to Sömmerring on 7 January 1788:

> *The founders of the whole order are Keller in Regensburg, and Phoebron (whose entire expulsion was mirrored to end all traces) and Eckard's father-in-law. I also knew the age-old name of Phoebron, but I forgot it.*
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The expulsion to which Forster refers is the one supposedly following the unauthorized response to Magister Pianco.

In the preface of *Der Compaß der Weisen* of 1779 it is explained that although it was announced that the definitive history of the Order would be compiled by brother Phoebron, he, due to important obstacles, could not take responsibility for it and therefore it was entrusted to brother Ketmia Vere.

Something had happened to Phoebron, perhaps more an illness than an exclusion from the Order. Which would also explain why in 1782 the Gross-Prioren Geronni and Crucihonor informed the OberHauptDirektor of Vienna Beocunus of a collection in favor of the old Phoebron, who had fallen into disgrace.

After the attack on the Order of *Der Rosenkreuzer in seiner Blösse*, the following year was published:

> *Der im Lichte der Wahrheit strahlende Rosenkreuzer allen lieben Mitmenschen auch dem Magister Pianco zum Nußen hingestellt von Phoebron*, Leipzig: Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1782.
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In which an old Phoebron declares that he has been through with the order for several years and asks the Superiors for the grace of being welcomed back. Which would suggest a less than voluntary departure.
In the pamphlet which called for the admission of Jews into Freemasonry

> Christian Friedrich von Boscamp, genannt Losopolzki, *Werden und können Israeliten zu Freymäurern aufgenommen werden? Veranlasst durch die zur Beherzigung für Freymaurer von einem Ungenannten herausgegebene Schrift: Authentische Nachricht von den Ritter- und Brüder-Eingeweihten aus Asien*, Hamburg: B. G. Hofmann, 1788.
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the probable author, one of the two brothers von Ecker und Eckhoffen, writes:

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The Ober Direktor Franc Du Bosc, in a letter to his OberHaupt Direktor Wöllner dated 28 December 1781 reports the opinion of his former superior, the OberHauptDirektor for southern Germany Orion:

> *Phoebron has long complained about a secret exclusion. It is not the Order's custom to reply to reviled writings, but old Phoebron cannot be prevented from doing so precisely because of his secret exclusion.*
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and in a subsequent letter of 10 March 1782 also addressed to Wöllner, he reveals that he personally helped in the publication of Phoebron's response: financing it, paying in advance for an order of 250 copies to be distributed in his circles; contributing to the editorial staff and taking care of the printing at the Helscher printing house in Leipzig.

After going from founder of the Order to secretary, he ends up with an expulsion, real or feigned, as Forster suspects. However, later testimonies report different facts.

Frederik Münter, emissary of the Illuminati, in 1787 on a mission to Italy, stopped in Regensburg, the capital of the Rosicrucians and noted in his diary:

> *April 23 ... immediately after my departure from Regensburg a list circulated with the names of the Illuminati, in which I also appeared. It is also said that I brought the Order to Bologna. This must have been reported by the Jesuits and Rosicrucians to their faithful friend, Baron Prök, an 80-year-old man who served in Saxony and then in Denmark, became Catholic, Rosicrucian and Jesuit, and is one of the High Superiors here ; he is the one who had it [the Illuminati list] delivered by his sister, Countess Sponek, and by Manthey, to turn my father against me.*
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The anonymous author of *Vorläufige Darstellung des heutigen Jesuitismus, der Rosenkreuzerey, Proselytenmacherey und Religionsvereinigung* published in 1786 was also aware of the identities of the mysterious High Superiors, in a note at the bottom of page 69:

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Completed by errata:

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In the review of the work which appeared in the Gothaische gelehrte Zeitungen of 20 September 1786:

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Regensburg - St. Rupert (St. Emmeram) 6/3/1788

> *Sep. est def. heri 6tu matut. Wilhelmus Baro de Proeck vir vere pius, ac pro ortodoxa fide, quam abiurals Lutheri dogmate iam 50 abhinc annis professus fuerat, zelator strenuus, armis togaque inclytus vitam nouercante Fortuna in summa egestate finivit homo 79 annorum.*
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1. ↑ Heinrich Moller von Olaus, *Historische und Genealogische Nachricht von dem uralten adelichen Geschlecht derer von Zaum oder Suhm, welches im neunten Jahrhundert in Pommern entsprossen ist und sich in folgenden Zeiten in Holland, Schweden, Polen, Russland, Mecklenburg, Sachsen und Holstein, wie auch in Dänemarck und Norwegen ausgebreitet hat*, Flensburg: Seringhausen, 1775.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Louis Bobé, *Efterladte papirer fra den Reventlowske Familiekreds udgivne paa foranledning af Hofjægermester, Lehnsgreve C. E. Reventlow*, Vol.8, Copenhagen: Lehmann & Stage, 1917
3. ↑ https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:32-1-10017512174
4. ↑ Johann Jacob Lerche, *Rußisch-kaiserlichen Collegienraths, und Doctors der Arzneywissenschaft, Lebens- und Reise-Geschichte, von ihm selbst beschrieben, und mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen*, Halle: Curts Witwe, 1791.
5. ↑ Carl Wiebe (Alt- und Ehrengroßmeister der Großen Loge von Hamburg), *Die Große Loge von Hamburg und ihre Vorläufer: nach den Quellen des Archivs der Großen Loge, der Vereinigten 5 Logen und des Geschichtlichen Engbundes*, Hamburg: Rademacher, 1905.
6. ↑ LandesArchiv Schleswig-Holstein - Deutsche Kanzlei zu Kopenhagen ab 1730 - Abt. 65.2 Nr. 5086
7. ↑ Ludwig Abafi-Aigner, *Die Entstehung der Neuen Rosenkreuzer*, in *Die Bauhütte*, Year 36, n. 11, 1893.
8. ↑ *Nichneri Vekorth an Phoebron Chlun über den in der Wahrheit stralenden Rosenkreuzer*, senza indicazioni di stampa, 1782
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Renko D. Geffarth, Religion und arkane Hierarchie

Der Orden der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer

als Geheime Kirche im 18. Jahrhundert, Leida e Boston: Brill, 2007
10. ↑ Hermann Hettner, *Georg Forster's Briefwechsel mit S. Th. Sömmerring*, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1877.
11. ↑ Otto Harrassowitz, Frederik Münter et Mindeskrift, vol. 3, Copenhagen e Lipsia: P. Haase & Son, 1937