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Sometimes conspiracies are real or even "benevolent, " as the Irish nationalist William Drennan wrote in 1791. His work to utilize "illuminist" Freemasonry to gain Irish independence placed the movement in the international context of conservative versus liberal debates on the alleged role of radical Masonry in revolutionary plots. Drennan wrote that "such schemes are not to be laughed at as romantic, for without enthusiasm nothing great was d...

Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French,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.

This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry that flourished in "Icossais 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...

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William Blake is revered as an artist and poet whose work expressed an authentically spiritual vision. This book investigates the radical psychosexual practices and the erotic and visionary experiments that fueled much of Blake's creative life. It shows that Blake was influenced by kabbalistic and tantric rituals designed to transcend the bonds of social convention.