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).

• Preface … xiAcknowledgements … xviiAbbreviations … xixIntroduction. Emanuel Swedenborg and “The Troubles of the North”: An Historical Overview … 1Chapter One. The Swedberg Family in Uppsala: Philo-Semitism and the Gothic Kabbalah, 1688–1710 … 14Chapter Two. Swedenborg in London: Under Hanoverian Storm Clouds, 1710–1713 … 37Chapter Three. Intrigues on the Continent: The Rosicrucian Ros and the Jacobite Rose, 1713–1715 … 68Chapter Four. The Nordic Temple of Solomon: Architecture of Wisdom or War, 1715–1719 … 100Chapter Five. Swedenborg and the Jacobite Diaspora: Defeat and Depression, 1719–1727 … 140Chapter Six. The International Masonic Chess Board: New Players in the Expanding Global Game, 1727–1734 … 177Chapter Seven. Paris and La Maçonnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Écossais Crusade, 1735–1738 ... 213Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maçonnerie Magique: In the Service of Three Kings, 1738–1739 … 253Chapter Nine. On the Threshold in Holland, England, and Sweden: The Sacred Temple of the Brain, 1739–1743 … 289Chapter Ten. The Internal Man Externalized: From Spiritual to Temporal Warfare, 1743–1744 … 328Chapter Eleven. Restoring the Temple: London, Edinburgh, and Jerusalem, 1744–1745 … 360Chapter Twelve. Losing the Temple: Culloden and Stockholm, 1745–1747 … 396Chapter Thirteen. Jacobites, Masons, and Jews: Citizens of Earth or of Heaven, 1747–1749 … 429Chapter Fourteen. The Quest for Soleil d’Or: Masonic and Rosicrucian Politics, 1749–1754 … 463Chapter Fifteen. Of the Royal Arch and Arch Rogues: Kabbalistic Calculators and Political Negotiators, 1754–1760 503Chapter Sixteen. The Earthly and Heavenly Intelligencer: Shifting Alliances and Illuminist Politics, 1760–1763 … 542Chapter Seventeen. “Milord Rosbif ” versus the Secret du Roi: Hanoverian Challenges to Swedish Freemasonry, 1763–1766 578Chapter Eighteen. Temple of Wisdom or Brothel of Perversion? Virile Potency versus Political Impotency,1766–1768 … 614Chapter Nineteen. Ambassador from Heaven and Financier on Earth: Laying up Treasures Above and Below,1768–1769 … 644Chapter Twenty. Interpreting the Hieroglyphics: Political, Technological, and Masonic Espionage, 1769 … 669Chapter Twenty-One. Partisan Persecution and Rosicrucian Ecumenicism: The King’s Spirit and the Queen’s SpiritusFamiliaris, 1770–1771 … 694Chapter Twenty-Two. A Final Act in the Diplomatic Theater: Partition of Poland, Salvation of Sweden, 1771–1772 … 726Epilogue. The Royal Art of Masonic Kingship: From Stuart Exile to Swedish Restoration, 1688–1788 … 749Bibliography … 761Index … 789

"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