Restoring the Temple of Vision

Marsha Keith Schuchard, Ph.D. (1975) in English, University of Texas at Austin, has published extensively on eighteenth-century Cabalistic and "illuminist" Freemasonry and its influence on Swift, Ramsay, Swedenborg, and Blake.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Visualizing the Temple: From Jewish Architectural Mysticism to Gothic Masonry (965 B.C. to 1314 A.D.)2. Rebuilding the Temple in the North: From Solomonic Mysticism to Scottish Masonry (1128–1513)3. Reformation or Deformation? Masonry versus the “Knocking Jacks of the North” (1513–1568)4. James VI, “Scotland’s Solomon”: The Making of a “Mason King” (1567–1603)5. “Great Britain’s Solomon”: Rebuilding the Temple in the South (1603–1616)6. “The Judgement of Solomon”: The Unfinished Temple of Peace and Concord (1616–1625)7. Rosicrucian Vision and the Mason Word: To Build or Break Bridges Across Religious Divides? (1625–1640)8. “Our Hieroglyphic King” and Civil War: Eikon Basilike versus Eikonoklastes (1641–1655)9. “The Theatre of Hieroglyphics”: Masons and Jews Behind the Scenes of the Restoration (1655–1664)10. “The Pleasant Theatre of Naturall Things”: Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Royal Society (1660–1673)11. From Restoration to Revolution: Masonic Architects of Tolerance or Tyranny? (1664–1685)12. James VII and II and the Masonic Diaspora: The Ruined Temple and the Flight of Knights (1685–1695)BibliographyIndex