Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in Heaven Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in early modern Sweden

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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 Maconnerie Nouvelle: Illuminated Knights and the Ecossais Crusade, 1735-1738 ... 213Chapter Eight. Italy and La Maconnerie 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