Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven

Marsha Keith Schuchard, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, has published extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century esoteric and political Freemasonry, including Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture (Brill, 2002), and Why Mrs. Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision (Random House, 2006).

Academic and general readers interested in history of Freemasonry, Jewish mysticism, Christian theosophy, esoteric politics, Jacobite diaspora, Scottish-Swedish political connections.

"Perhaps the most important piece of Masonic scholarship in a very long time, this masterpiece will enrage many freemasons and most Swedenborgians. Summing Up: Essential. Faculty/specialists", J. M. B. Porter, Butler University, in Choice, June 2012 Vol. 49 No. 10

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 Maçonnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade, 1735–1738 ... 213
Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maçonnerie 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