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

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    • Schuchard, Marsha Keith
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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

(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 55)

Brill, 2012

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [761]-788) and index

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内容説明

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 This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts.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

目次

Preface ... xi Acknowledgements ... xvii Abbreviations ... xix Introduction. Emanuel Swedenborg and "The Troubles of the North": An Historical Overview ... 1 Chapter One. The Swedberg Family in Uppsala: Philo-Semitism and the Gothic Kabbalah, 1688-1710 ... 14 Chapter Two. Swedenborg in London: Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds, 1710-1713 ... 37 Chapter Three. Intrigues on the Continent: The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose, 1713-1715 ... 68 Chapter Four. The Nordic Temple of Solomon: Architecture of Wisdom or War, 1715-1719 ... 100 Chapter Five. Swedenborg and the Jacobite Diaspora: Defeat and Depression, 1719-1727 ... 140 Chapter Six. The International Masonic Chess Board: New Players in the Expanding Global Game, 1727-1734 ... 177 Chapter Seven. Paris and La Maconnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Ecossais Crusade, 1735-1738 ... 213 Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maconnerie Magique: In the Service of Three Kings, 1738-1739 ... 253 Chapter Nine. On the Threshold in Holland, England, and Sweden: The Sacred Temple of the Brain, 1739-1743 ... 289 Chapter Ten. The Internal Man Externalized: From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare, 1743-1744 ... 328 Chapter Eleven. Restoring the Temple: London, Edinburgh, and Jerusalem, 1744-1745 ... 360 Chapter Twelve. Losing the Temple: Culloden and Stockholm, 1745-1747 ... 396 Chapter Thirteen. Jacobites, Masons, and Jews: Citizens of Earth or of Heaven, 1747-1749 ... 429 Chapter Fourteen. The Quest for Soleil d'Or: Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics, 1749-1754 ... 463 Chapter Fifteen. Of the Royal Arch and Arch Rogues: Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators, 1754-1760 503 Chapter Sixteen. The Earthly and Heavenly Intelligencer: Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics, 1760-1763 ... 542 Chapter Seventeen. "Milord Rosbif " versus the Secret du Roi: Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry, 1763-1766 578 Chapter Eighteen. Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency, 1766-1768 ... 614 Chapter Nineteen. Ambassador from Heaven and Financier on Earth: Laying up Treasures Above and Below, 1768-1769 ... 644 Chapter Twenty. Interpreting the Hieroglyphics: Political, Technological, and Masonic Espionage, 1769 ... 669 Chapter Twenty-One. Partisan Persecution and Rosicrucian Ecumenicism: The King's Spirit and the Queen's Spiritus Familiaris, 1770-1771 ... 694 Chapter Twenty-Two. A Final Act in the Diplomatic Theater: Partition of Poland, Salvation of Sweden, 1771-1772 ... 726 Epilogue. The Royal Art of Masonic Kingship: From Stuart Exile to Swedish Restoration, 1688-1788 ... 749 Bibliography ... 761 Index ... 789

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