Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on

Earth and in Heaven

Jacobites, Jews and Freemasons in Early Modern
Sweden
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Author: Marsha Keith Schuchard 28 Oct 2011

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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist • E-Book
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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-
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Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished
ISBN: 9789004214194
diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political
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actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the
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clandestine military and Masonic links between the Swedish Hats and
Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), providing new evidence for Series:
the prince's role as hidden Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. The Northern World,
Volume: 55
Swedenborg's usage of Kabbalistic meditative and interpretative techniques
Subjects: Early Modern
and his association with Hermetic and Rosicrucian adepts reveal the History, History, History
extensive esoteric networks that underlay the exoteric politics of the of Religion, Religious
supposedly "enlightened" eighteenth century, especially in the troubled Studies

"Northern World" of Sweden and Scotland.

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mysticism, Christian theosophy, esoteric politics, Jacobite diaspora, Scottish-
Swedish political connections.

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