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Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven : Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in early modern Sweden / by Marsha Keith Schuchard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Northern world ; v. 55.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 804 pages)Content type:
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  • 9789004214194
  • 9004214194
  • 1283326892
  • 9781283326896
  • 9786613326898
  • 6613326895
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven.DDC classification:
  • 289/.4092 23
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  • DL750.S88 S24 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction. Emanuel Swedenborg and "The Troubles of the North": An Historical Overview -- Chapter One. The Swedberg Family in Uppsala: Philo-Semitism and the Gothic Kabbalah, 1688-1710 -- Chapter Two. Swedenborg in London: Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds, 1710-1713 -- Chapter Three. Intrigues on the Continent: The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose, 1713-1715 -- Chapter Four. The Nordic Temple of Solomon: Architecture of Wisdom or War, 1715-1719 -- Chapter Five. Swedenborg and the Jacobite Diaspora: Defeat and Depression, 1719-1727 -- Chapter Six. The International Masonic Chess Board: New Players in the Expanding Global Game, 1727-1734 -- Chapter Seven. Paris and La Maçonnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade, 1735-1738 -- Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maçonnerie Magique: In the Service of Three Kings, 1738-1739 -- Chapter Nine. On the Threshold in Holland, England, and Sweden: The Sacred Temple of the Brain, 1739-1743 -- Chapter Ten. The Internal Man Externalized: From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare, 1743-1744 -- Chapter Eleven. Restoring the Temple: London, Edinburgh, and Jerusalem, 1744-1745 -- Chapter Twelve. Losing the Temple: Culloden and Stockholm, 1745-1747 -- Chapter Thirteen. Jacobites, Masons, and Jews: Citizens of Earth or of Heaven, 1747-1749 -- Chapter Fourteen. The Quest for Soleil d'Or: Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics, 1749-1754 -- Chapter Fifteen. Of the Royal Arch and Arch Rogues: Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators, 1754-1760 -- Chapter Sixteen. The Earthly and Heavenly Intelligencer: Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics, 1760-1763 -- Chapter Seventeen. "Milord Rosbif " versus the Secret du Roi: Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry, 1763-1766 -- Chapter Eighteen. Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency, 1766-1768 -- Chapter Nineteen. Ambassador from Heaven and Financier on Earth: Laying up Treasures Above and Below, 1768-1769 -- Chapter Twenty. Interpreting the Hieroglyphics: Political, Technological, and Masonic Espionage, 1769 -- Chapter Twenty-One. Partisan Persecution and Rosicrucian Ecumenicism: The King's Spirit and the Queen's Spiritus Familiaris, 1770-1771 -- Chapter Twenty-Two. A Final Act in the Diplomatic Theater: Partition of Poland, Salvation of Sweden, 1771-1772 -- Epilogue. The Royal Art of Masonic Kingship: From Stuart Exile to Swedish Restoration, 1688-1788 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques.
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Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction. Emanuel Swedenborg and "The Troubles of the North": An Historical Overview -- Chapter One. The Swedberg Family in Uppsala: Philo-Semitism and the Gothic Kabbalah, 1688-1710 -- Chapter Two. Swedenborg in London: Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds, 1710-1713 -- Chapter Three. Intrigues on the Continent: The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose, 1713-1715 -- Chapter Four. The Nordic Temple of Solomon: Architecture of Wisdom or War, 1715-1719 -- Chapter Five. Swedenborg and the Jacobite Diaspora: Defeat and Depression, 1719-1727 -- Chapter Six. The International Masonic Chess Board: New Players in the Expanding Global Game, 1727-1734 -- Chapter Seven. Paris and La Maçonnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade, 1735-1738 -- Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maçonnerie Magique: In the Service of Three Kings, 1738-1739 -- Chapter Nine. On the Threshold in Holland, England, and Sweden: The Sacred Temple of the Brain, 1739-1743 -- Chapter Ten. The Internal Man Externalized: From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare, 1743-1744 -- Chapter Eleven. Restoring the Temple: London, Edinburgh, and Jerusalem, 1744-1745 -- Chapter Twelve. Losing the Temple: Culloden and Stockholm, 1745-1747 -- Chapter Thirteen. Jacobites, Masons, and Jews: Citizens of Earth or of Heaven, 1747-1749 -- Chapter Fourteen. The Quest for Soleil d'Or: Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics, 1749-1754 -- Chapter Fifteen. Of the Royal Arch and Arch Rogues: Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators, 1754-1760 -- Chapter Sixteen. The Earthly and Heavenly Intelligencer: Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics, 1760-1763 -- Chapter Seventeen. "Milord Rosbif " versus the Secret du Roi: Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry, 1763-1766 -- Chapter Eighteen. Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency, 1766-1768 -- Chapter Nineteen. Ambassador from Heaven and Financier on Earth: Laying up Treasures Above and Below, 1768-1769 -- Chapter Twenty. Interpreting the Hieroglyphics: Political, Technological, and Masonic Espionage, 1769 -- Chapter Twenty-One. Partisan Persecution and Rosicrucian Ecumenicism: The King's Spirit and the Queen's Spiritus Familiaris, 1770-1771 -- Chapter Twenty-Two. A Final Act in the Diplomatic Theater: Partition of Poland, Salvation of Sweden, 1771-1772 -- Epilogue. The Royal Art of Masonic Kingship: From Stuart Exile to Swedish Restoration, 1688-1788 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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