Restoring the Temple of Vision.

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, histor...

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