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1 online resource (xviii, 804 pages) |
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The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, 1569-1462 ; v. 55 |
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Northern world ; v. 55.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Political and social views
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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 fast |
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Freemasons -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
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Freemasons fast |
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Spies -- Sweden -- Biography
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Jacobites -- History -- 18th century
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Jews -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Diplomatic relations
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Jacobites
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Jews
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Spies
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Sweden -- Politics and government -- 1718-1772. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131100
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Sweden -- Foreign relations -- 1718-1814.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131048
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France -- Foreign relations -- 1715-1774.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051234
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Scotland -- Foreign relations -- 18th century
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France
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Scotland
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Sweden
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011034533 |
| ISBN |
9789004214194 |
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9004214194 |
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1283326892 |
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9781283326896 |
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9786613326898 |
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6613326895 |
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