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

• Superior document: The Northern world, v. 55
• Author: Schuchard, Marsha Keith.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (824 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts.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

Table of 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.