The work is said to have been influential on later eighteenth century Rosicrucians, in particular.[1]. Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age (1991, vol.I) mentions von Welling several times in relation with the Goethe of the 1770s (pp.76, 88, 222), referencing Goethe's dabbling in alchemy, and the Urfaust writings that seek to show Faust reaching beyond the contemplative holism in von Welling.
