Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews and Freemasons in Early Modern SwedenBRILL, 28. okt 2011 - 824 pages 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 This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the clandestine military and Masonic links between the Swedish Hats and Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), providing new evidence for the prince's role as hidden Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. Swedenborg's usage of Kabbalistic meditative and interpretative techniques and his association with Hermetic and Rosicrucian adepts reveal the extensive esoteric networks that underlay the exoteric politics of the supposedly "enlightened" eighteenth century, especially in the troubled "Northern World" of Sweden and Scotland. |
Contents
An Historical Overview | 1 |
PhiloSemitism and the Gothic Kabbalah 16881710 | 14 |
Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds 17101713 | 37 |
The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose 17131715 | 68 |
Architecture of Wisdom or War 17151719 | 100 |
Defeat and Depression 17191727 | 140 |
New Players in the Expanding Global Game 17271734 | 177 |
Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade 17351738 | 213 |
Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics 17491754 | 463 |
Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators 17541760 | 503 |
Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics 17601763 | 542 |
Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry 17631766 | 578 |
Chapter Eighteen Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency 17661768 | 614 |
Laying up Treasures Above and Below 17681769 | 644 |
Political Technological and Masonic Espionage 1769 | 669 |
The Kings Spirit and the Queens Spiritus Familiaris 17701771 | 694 |
In the Service of Three Kings 17381739 | 253 |
The Sacred Temple of the Brain 17391743 | 289 |
From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare 17431744 | 328 |
London Edinburgh and Jerusalem 17441745 | 360 |
Culloden and Stockholm 17451747 | 396 |
Citizens of Earth or of Heaven 17471749 | 429 |
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