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Restoring the Temple of Vision.
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ISBN: 9004124896 9004247610 Year: 2002 Volume: 110 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of 'ancient' Cabalistic Freemasonry that flourished in Écossais lodges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides real-world, historical grounding for the flights of visionary Temple building described in the rituals and symbolism of 'high-degree' Masonry. The roots of mystical male bonding, accomplished through progressive initiation, are found in Stuart notions of intellectual and spiritual amicitia . Despite the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty in 1688 and the establishment of a rival 'modern' system of Hanoverian-Whig Masonry in 1717, the influence of 'ancient' Scottish-Stuart Masonry on Solomonic architecture, Hermetic masques, and Rosicrucian science was preserved in lodges maintained by Jacobite partisans and exiles in Britain, Europe, and the New World.


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Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven
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ISBN: 1283326892 9786613326898 9004214194 9789004214194 9789004183124 9004183124 9781283326896 6613326895 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of 'Hats' in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the clandestine military and Masonic links between the Swedish Hats and Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'), providing new evidence for the prince's role as hidden Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. Swedenborg's usage of Kabbalistic meditative and interpretative techniques and his association with Hermetic and Rosicrucian adepts reveal the extensive esoteric networks that underlay the exoteric politics of the supposedly 'enlightened' eighteenth century, especially in the troubled 'Northern World' of Sweden and Scotland.

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