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 unpubl...

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.