[442] The most significant of these were the following: _Einleitung zu meiner Apologie_, 1787; _Bemerkungen über einige Originalschriften_, published soon after the former; _Das verbesserte System der Illuminaten mit allen seinen Graden Einrichtungen_, also soon after the first mentioned work; _Kurze Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten_, 1787; _Nachtrag zur Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten_, 1787. [443] A sympathetic and moving account of the last years of Weishaupt’s life appears in Engel, _op. cit._, pp. 380–402. [444] Forestier, _op. cit._, pp. 543 _et seq._ 2. THE LEGEND OF THE ORDER AND ITS LITERARY COMMUNICATION TO NEW ENGLAND Although the Order of the Illuminati was dead, the world had yet to reckon with its specter. So intense and widespread was the fear which the order engendered, so clearly did the traditionalists of the age see in its clientele the welding together into a secret machine of war of the most mischievous and dangerous of those elements which were discontented with the prevailing establishments of religion and civil government, that it was impossible that its shadow should pass immediately.[445] The emergence of the order had attracted public attention so abruptly and sharply, and its downfall had been so violent and so swift, that public opinion lacked time to adjust itself to the facts in the case. In Bavaria, particularly, the enemies of the order were unable to persuade themselves that the machinations of the Illuminati could safely be regarded as wholly of the past.[446] The documents of the order were appealed to, to supply proof that its leaders had made deliberate calculations against the day of possible opposition and temporary disaster and with satanic cunning had made their preparations to wring victory out of apparent defeat.[447] Besides, the depth of the governments suspicions and hostility was such that additional, though needless measures of state[448] kept very much alive in that country the haunting fear of the continued existence of the order. Outside of Bavaria numerous factors contributed to create the same general impression in the public mind. Among these were the efforts of the Rosicrucians to play upon the fears that the Illuminati had awakened, the mistaken connections which, in the Protestant world, were commonly made between the members of the Order of the Illuminati and the representatives and promoters of the _Aufklärung_, and the emergence of the German Union. To each of these in turn a word must be devoted.