On the death of his wife, an estate owner embarks on a journey to rediscover his faith. He meets many freemasons who try to convince him to join them. Through this odyssey the pluses and minuses of freemasonry are revealed to the reader.
Johann Baptist Krebs (1774-1851) was a renowned opera singer, director of operas, freemason, and esoteric writer who wrote under a number of pseudonyms (in particular, J. B. Kerning). He developed a form of letter mysticism composed of the concentrated thinking and feeling of letters through the parts of the body.
