Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven : Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in early modern Sweden /

"Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	SCHUCHARD, MARSHA KEITH, Schuchard, Marsha Keith
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
Series:	Northern world ; v. 55 Northern world v. 55
Subjects:	Swedenborg, Emanuel, > 1688-1772 Swedenborg, Emanuel, > 1688-1772 > Political and social views Freemasons > Sweden > History > 18th century 1700 - 1814 1700-1814 Jacobites > History > 18th century Jews > Sweden > History > 18th century Spies > Sweden > Biography Diplomatic relations Jacobites Jews Political and social views Political science Politics and government Spies France > Foreign relations > 1715-1774 Scotland > Foreign relations > 18th century Sweden > Foreign relations > 1718-1814 Sweden > Politics and government > 1718-1772 France Scotland Sweden Biographies Biography History

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The Swedberg Family in Uppsala: Philo-Semitism and the Gothic Kabbalah, 1688-1710 14
Chapter 2 Swedenborg in London: Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds, 1710-1713 37
Chapter 3 Intrigues on the Continent: The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose, 1713-1715 68
Chapter 4 The Nordic Temple of Solomon: Architecture of Wisdom or War, 1715-1719 100
Chapter 5 Swedenborg and the Jacobite Diaspora: Defeat and Depression, 1719-1727 140
Chapter 6 The International Masonic Chess Board: New Players in the Expanding Global Game, 1727-1734 177
Chapter 7 Paris and La Maçonnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade, 1735-1738 213
Chapter 8 Italy and La Maçonnerie Magique: In the Service of Three Kings, 1738-1739 253
Chapter 9 On the Threshold in Holland, England, and Sweden: The Sacred Temple of the Brain, 1739-1743 289
Chapter 10 The Internal Man Externalized: From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare, 1743-1744 328
Chapter 11 Restoring the Temple: London, Edinburgh, and Jerusalem, 1744-1745 360
Chapter 12 Losing the Temple: Culloden and Stockholm, 1745-1747 396
Chapter 13 Jacobites, Masons, and Jews: Citizens of Earth or of Heaven, 1747-1749 429
Chapter 14 The Quest for Soleil d'Or. Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics, 1749-1754 463
Chapter 15 Of the Royal Arch and Arch Rogues: Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators, 1754-1760 503
Chapter 16 The Earthly and Heavenly Intelligencer: Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics, 1760-1763 542
Chapter 17 "Milord Rosbif" versus the Secret du Roi: Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry, 1763-1766 578
Chapter 18 Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency, 1766-1768 614
Chapter 19 Ambassador from Heaven and Financier on Earth: Laying up Treasures Above and Below, 1768-1769 644
Chapter 20 Interpreting the Hieroglyphics: Political, Technological, and Masonic Espionage, 1769 669
Chapter 21 Partisan Persecution and Rosicrucian Ecumenicism: The King's Spirit and the Queen's Spiritus Familiaris, 1770-1771 694
Chapter 22 A Final Act in the Diplomatic Theater: Partition of Poland, Salvation of Sweden, 1771-1772 726

Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven : Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in early modern Sweden /

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