Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

relationship to the Order. He became a Freemason.
He could permit us to work—the three noble Masons in Germany—yet he beheld a form in the light which he determined to learn with certainty. Pierced by this desire, he left Frankfurt; he returned to the court of his master. Here, love called his heart to a young lady of R. — — —; he had soon accompanied that Mason, who was so unjustly viewed by the O. G. likely the Old Guard or original Order group, regarding the fortune he had followed to Morocco; his beloved was torn from him, and with a bleeding heart, he almost left his fatherland and hurried to France in order to fight as a volunteer under the flags of his lord's brother, to bind laurels to the end of his day of honor.
How wondrous are the paths of fate! This pain led him to what our thought had intended for his fatherland, and brought him into the acquaintance of the superiors of the true Order. They discovered in him the virtues we otherwise admired in him, and he returned his thanks to God for the life of his uncle through his status.
From my samples, dear brothers, you will desire much enlightenment, but blessed are you that we have come under this. All that I know are observations abstracted by me through the much interaction I had the fortune to have with our revered Brother Master; it shall now be my task to explain them.
So much, however, seems certain: that his teachers were Scots, who were saviors, who initiated him according to their custom and accepted obligations from him which, on one hand, made him perhaps too eager, but on the other hand also imposed upon him the expansion of the ruin of his fatherland. Here he received instructions regarding his ancestors, the long-preexisting Lord Brother Master, the Marshal in Edich, on the drawing board; and from this, he then received, in accordance immediately after his return to his fatherland, the assumed acquaintance. But you, my dearest brothers, prepare yourselves gently, for what I still have to tell you, so you will allow me to make a small digression.
I have already told you that the Lord von Marschal was our established Most Reverend Administrator. He had established lodges in Altenburg and Naumburg, but only in the one in Naumburg did these men succeed in playing, those to whom he entrusted the true secret, and with them, he worked in the greatest silence.
I will not decide whether caution or necessity prompted him to do so, yet they drew the attention of clever and insightful people toward his lodges, since they began with strange, smoking virtues and divisions, which at that time were almost ready to make the storm-step in all the lodges of Germany. Even
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the lodge in Altenburg, which had only 3 degrees, worked with regularity. All other lodges, however, were assemblies where only the convent and empty amusements reigned; they were also far from the true Scottish Masonry, as much as they boasted of themselves in external forms. These were the few instructed, that it remained in the dark until our eternally unforgettable Lord Brother Master, with the advantage of those few from the lodge of the 3 Stars in Naumburg, entered into the closest connection and laid the proper foundation for the branch of the System. Among these brothers in Naumburg were two physical brothers named Schmid and a Herr von Schwanberg. They were officers in the High-Princely Infantry Regiment Prince Xavier. The two Schmids, after the death of the blessed Brother Master the Marshal, went to Scotland, England, and France, and only in 1750 received the patent back from our highly polite office.
I have also had the pleasure of knowing the younger of these worthy brothers.
As soon as our departed had received the patent, he established the Provincial [Lodge] of the elder Schmid