Restoring the Temple of Vision.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 110
• VerfasserIn: Schuchard, Marsha Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2002.; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 110.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (858 pages).

This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of \'ancient\' Cabalistic Freemasonry that flourished in Écossais lodges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides real-world, historical grounding for the flights of visionary Temple building described in the rituals and symbolism of \'high-degree\' Masonry. The roots of mystical male bonding, accomplished through progressive initiation, are found in Stuart notions of intellectual and spiritual amicitia . Despite the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty in 1688 and the establishment of a rival \'modern\' system of Hanoverian-Whig Masonry in 1717, the influence of \'ancient\' Scottish-Stuart Masonry on Solomonic architecture, Hermetic masques, and Rosicrucian science was preserved in lodges maintained by Jacobite partisans and exiles in Britain, Europe, and the New World.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Visualizing the Temple: From Jewish Architectural Mysticism to Gothic Masonry (965 B.C. to 1314 A.D.) -- Chapter Two: Rebuilding the Temple in the North: From Solomonic Mysticism to Scottish Masonry (1128-1513) -- Chapter Three: Reformation or Deformation? Masonry versus the \'Knocking Jacks of the North\' (1513-1568) -- Chapter Four: James VI, Scotland's Solomon: The Making of a \'Mason King\' (1567-1603) -- Chapter Five: \'Great Britain's Solomon\': Rebuilding the Temple in the South (1603-1616) -- Chapter Six: \'The Judgement of Solomon\': The Unfinished Temple of Peace and Concord (1616-1625) -- Chapter Seven: Rosicrucian Vision and the Mason Word: To Build or Break Bridges Across Religious Divides? (1625-1640) -- Chapter Eight: \'Our Hieroglyphic King\' and Civil War: Eikon Basilike versus Eikonoklastes (1641-1655) -- Chapter Nine: The Theatre of Hieroglyphics: Masons and Jews Behind the Scenes of the Restoration (1655-1664) -- Chapter Ten: \'The Pleasant Theatre of Naturall Things\': Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Royal Society (1660-1673) -- Chapter Eleven: From Restoration to Revolution: Masonic Architects of Tolerance or Tyranny? (1664-1685) -- Chapter Twelve: James VII and II and the Masonic Diaspora: The Ruined Temple and the Flight of Knights (1685-1695) -- Bibliography -- Index.