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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuchard, Marsha Keith.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 55.

The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spies--Sweden--Biography.

Spies.

Jacobites--History--18th century.

Jacobites.

Jews--Sweden--History--18th century.

Jews.

Sweden--Politics and government--1718-1772.

Sweden.

Sweden--Foreign relations--1718-1814.

France--Foreign relations--1715-1774.

France.

Scotland--Foreign relations--18th century.

Scotland.

Freemasons--Sweden--History--18th century.

Freemasons.

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.

Swedenborg, Emanuel.

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (824 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts.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:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32689-2

9786613326898

90-04-21419-4

OCLC:

772065058

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004214194 DOI