Marsha Keith Schuchard

Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven

Jacobites, Jews and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French,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 of "Hats" in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques, he sought political intelligence on earth and in heaven.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 824
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 174mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1447g
• ISBN-13: 9789004183124
• ISBN-10: 9004183124
• Artikelnr.: 34139964

Autorenporträt

Marsha Keith Schuchard, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, has published extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century esoteric and political Freemasonry, including Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture (Brill, 2002), and Why Mrs. Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision (Random House, 2006).