Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

As peace spread, he sought to bring as many members of the Order abbreviated as O. to himself as he possibly could, and managed to spread the Order more and more in his fatherland over the course of time. Brother R. von Stern, who was the acting Procurator, was sent to Naumburg at the expense of the High Master abbreviated as H. W. M. to revive the local A square and compass symbol, common in Masonic iconography. there. On this occasion, he went to Jena, where Professor Daries had established a A square and compass symbol. during the war according to the French system. This A square and compass symbol. and A square and compass symbol. sought to enter into a connection with ours. R. von Stern returned to our presiding Master to report on his activities, and during this short time, the infamous Johnson appeared in Jena. Through the brothers there, he obtained precedence over Brother von Stern. He wanted to use him immediately for his own base purposes, but how greatly he erred. Fate had decided otherwise; his plots were thwarted, for the objection was already widespread that what appeared orderly at first glance could be destroyed at the foundation.
Here, my dear brother, I have come to a scene that can truly be awaited as the most important. Before I continue, I will let you come closer to this ridiculous affair.
After all that one could learn through investigation of him, he was a man of the lowest birth, named Leuchten, and had learned hunting. He was of medium stature, had black hair, and a gypsy-like brown face. His gaze was wild and fiery. The many roles he had played during his life had given him an unnatural boldness. Through the many changes, where he sometimes represented a great person and sometimes found himself among the lowest, he had acquired a knowledge of people that was admirable. He feigned, flattered, threatened, raged, and assumed all shapes that he thought necessary. No action was improper for him if it only led him to his end goal, and many events of his life have an almost inhuman cruelty, such that he may have committed more than one murder. Even the documents and real objects likely referring to artifacts of the Order that he had from the Order did not arrive well; that it came into his hands through a murder is confirmed all the more, since an Englishman, before being sent on Order business,

had been murdered in the Westwald likely the Westerwald region at the beginning of the last war. Johnson had enough audacity to use these items and passed himself off as an Englishman without understanding a word of the language. I have sketched this man for you, not as he was known then, but as one came to know him subsequently.
He passed himself off as an emissary of the Grand Prior and sent his legitimations to our Grand Master through a Brother. He signaled a meeting for all A square and compass symbol. in Germany; most of them, wanting to know the truth once and for all, appeared through deputies. The innkeeper recognized the sent legitimations—with which he played politics—as valid, whereas he the Grand Master recognized him without hesitation as a false apostle and the true superior of the German Masons, and made him known as such to the deputies.
Among the great secrets he was to teach, and which he gave as the seal of his mission, was the great art—which so many have pursued—of making gold, by which he also succeeded in immediately attaching many of the deputies to himself.