(영어) "Surely few admirers of Marlowe's and Goethe's plays have an inkling that their hero is the descendant of a gnostic sectary, and that the beautiful Helen called up by his art was once the fallen Thought of God through whose raising mankind was to be saved." Jonas, Hans (1958). 《The Gnostic Religion》. 111쪽. See also: Palmer, Philip Mason; Robert Pattison More (1936). 《The Sources of the Faust Tradition: From Simon Magus to Lessing》.더 이상 지원되지 않는 변수를 사용함 (도움말)
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(영어)"Simon Magus", 《Catholic Encyclopedia》. 2011년 1월 26일에 확인.
