Okej, det här var ju nästan lite intressant. En dimension av världshistorien jag helt har missat! Var tvungen att kolla upp vad i allsin dar "dzungarer" är för något. Observera förresten att Frans II Rákóczy enligt diverse skrönor var far till den mystiske greven av Saint Germain...
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Har jag missförstått detta på något sätt, eller sammanfaller Första Advent och Karl XII:s dödsdag i år?
Previously posted on November 18, 2020 under a different title
"Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven. Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden" is a 800-page scholarly work by Marsha Keith Schuchard, an American historian specializing in William Blake and his sources. I suppose this is about those sources!
The book is extremely detailed and deals more with political and Masonic intrigue than with esotericism, although that subject is also touched upon. Indeed, one of the author's points is that the distinction between "real" espionage and esoteric activities aren't that obvious, anyway.
The center of attention is Swedish esotericist Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the so-called Seer of the North. Schuchard argues that the real life Swedenborg was very different from the picture painted by his later followers in the Swedenborgian "New Church". Swedenborg was deeply immersed in esotericism and the paranormal since his childhood. He had contacts with a wide array of antinomians, ecstatics and mystics before he began to have revelatory visions himself. Swedenborg probably practiced yoga and various erotic-spiritual techniques akin to Tantrism. With such a background, it would have been strange *not* to experience visions from the spirit-world!
But Swedenborg was more than just an apolitical scientist turned prophet in old age (or religious nutjob, if you're more skeptical). Most of his life, Swedenborg was a secret agent of the French. He was part of a shadowy "underworld" of scheming and plotting spies, double agents, turncoats, adventurers and Freemasons. In other words, 18th century European politics as usual...
After the death of Swedish warrior-king Charles XII (Karl XII) in 1718 and the defeat of Sweden in the Great Northern War, the former regional great power fell on hard times. The so-called Age of Freedom following the king's death saw a succession of weak, "parliamentary" governments. Factional bickering was rife. The two main factions in the Swedish Diet, the Hats and the Caps, were both on foreign payroll. The Hats took subsidies from France, while the Caps were underwritten by Russia and Britain. The Hats were the slightly reckless "war party", dreaming of a restoration of the Swedish great power, something Russia and Britain wanted to stop at all costs. This explains why France - Britain's perennial adversary - backed the Hats. The British and the Russians, just as inevitably, backed the Cap "peace party". While both factions were dominated by nobles, the Caps had a more "democratic" image than the obviously aristocratic Hats.
Swedenborg had began his political career working for Charles XII, whom he greatly admired. He also supported the king's controversial minister of finances, Görtz (who was disgraced and executed after Charles XII's death). During the Age of Freedom, Swedenborg was a Hat (albeit a fairly moderate one). He was a member of the House of Nobles in the Diet, and sometimes attended meetings of the Secret Committee, where Swedish foreign policy was decided upon. Above all, Swedenborg was a Hat-French intelligencer.
The French king Louis XV was running a vast intelligence network all over Europe, known as Secret du Roi. Or rather *not* known, not even to the king's own ministers. The French court was split into several factions (including a pro-British "peace party"), and Louis clearly didn't want to risk sensitive information getting into the wrong hands. Schuchard considers it more or less proven that Swedenborg was on Louis XV's payroll. Despite a frugal life style, the future Seer of the North always had mysteriously large sums at his disposal. When the Hats joined forces with the so-called Court Party (which called for more royal power), the Age of Freedom was drawing to its close. Swedenborg supported king Gustav III, seeing him as the savior of Sweden and as a new Charles XII. In 1772, after Swedenborg's death, Gustav III did carry out an "auto-golpe" with Hat support. Perhaps it saved Sweden from being dismembered by Russia.
Due to their secrecy, Masonic lodges were excellent vehicles for espionage and intrigue. France operated a network of pro-French Masonic orders. The Hanoverian regime in Britain created their own international Masonic network in turn. Later, Gustav III would set up a pro-Swedish Masonic network, with himself as Grand Master of the Swedish Order. The most important component of the Francophile lodges were the Jacobites, Catholic supporters of the House of Stuart, who had fled Britain after the 1688 Glorious Revolution and the subsequent defeat of James II at the Battle of the Boyne. The Jacobites (many of whom were Scottish) became French "assets". A whole series of attempted invasions of Britain and other plots against the British government involved the Jacobites. Their de facto leader Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) became a romantic figure, moving around Europe in heavy disguise, secretely visiting various Masonic lodges, and eventually elevating himself to the Grand Master of the Temple during the 1745 Jacobite invasion of Scotland. Apparently, Gustav III later took over the title, despite being a Protestant! Sweden often aided Jacobite attacks on the British. Schuchard believes that Charles XII's attack on Norway (during which he was killed) was part of a wider plan to invade Britain. The mysterious "Madagascar pirates" were also Jacobites...
I always assumed that the Jacobites were ultramontane Catholic fanatics, but if Schuchard is right, the picture is cobsiderably more complex. The loyal followers of the House of Stuart did believe in the divine right of kings (royal autocracy), but on other issues, they were surprisingly "enlightened". The Jacobites called for religious tolerance for all Christian groups, but also for Jews and Muslims. Jewish immigration to Europe should be encouraged. Alliances with the Muslim Ottoman Empire were seen as non-problematic. The tolerance towards other faiths weren't simply driven by economic (Jews) and political (Muslims) factors. The esoteric aspects of Jacobite "Scottish" Freemasonry also played a part. There was a strong interest in both the Jewish and the Hermetic Kabbala, in Jewish-Christian syncretism, Hebrew studies, and even Quranic studies. Swedenborg was (of course) part of this milieu, a kind of occult-Jacobite underground. This might explain why a Masonic body claiming descent from the Catholic Knights Templar could nevertheless have a Lutheran Grand Master.
Going back to Swedenborg, Schuchard believes that many of his "paranormal powers" have more earthly explanations. How did Swedenborg know about the great fire of Stockholm in 1759 while he was in Gothenburg? Perhaps he had access to secret British intelligence? The fire may have been the work of British agents. Some of his visions were wrong! The author speculates that Swedenborg may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.
Schuchard has written a (perhaps) more accesible work on this murky topic, "Why Mrs Blake Cried". The work under review is for specialized research libraries only. Still, a compelling and fascinating book!
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Sorry, ANTIFA, Karl XII:s staty är nog fredad i minst 20 år till, hoppas förresten att ni stödjer Ukraina mot lede fi, annars kan eventuella nya attacker mot statyn beivras som landsförräderi, ha ha ha, grundlurade som vanligt! Är ni.
"Eders majestät, alt-högern har förrått Sverige, de stödjer tsar Peter, ni måste omedelbart återvända och ställa dem inför ståndsrätt i Finspång!"
"De sakramenska klåparna, jag ska straffa dem genom att utvandra till osmanska riket och gå i Koran-skola!"
"Ers majestät, Expressens krönikör vill att Sverige ska av-putinifieras! Ni måste tillbaka!"
"Var inte orolig, min käre Mazepa, när jag landstiger i Stockholm kommer det definitivt att bli en av-putinisering. Om Expressen gillar min version av denna excellenta politik, låter jag däremot vara osagt!"
Både "Ryssland", "Belarus" och "Ukraina" är artificiella skapelser av bolsjevismen. Ukraina är den första skandinaviska statsbildningen i historien. Kievrus är vårt moderland.
Ja, Roslagens naturliga sydgräns går vid Svarta Havet.
Därför erkänner jag Gammalsvenskbys självständighetsförklaring och kommer att skicka fredsbevarande vikingar och väringar till Republiken Nya Sverige!
"Karl, jag är lika anti-rysk som du, snälla, mina anfäder var praktiskt taget turkar, men du måste faktiskt till Finspång och fixa några saker först!"
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Hübinette är tillbaka i högform igen, och slår faktiskt mot både högern och vänstern (respektive) i de artiklar jag länkar till nedan.
Ett citat från artikeln om adoptioner:
>>>Likt de flesta andra som ingick i den svenska adoptionsrörelsen sådan den växte fram i anslutning till den s k 68-revolutionen tillhörde Sterky de s k övre skikten och bodde bl a i en stor s k våning på Östermalm i Stockholm, d v s det var i mycket hög grad vänsterinriktade överklasskvinnor som utgjorde hela det gigantiska svenska adoptionsprojektets s k ”urmödrar”.
>>>Att vara högutbildad och förmögen och bo stort och bra på s k ”fina” adresser och att få och ha ett bra materiellt liv och i övrigt leva ett s k rikt liv är naturligtvis inte fel i sig men det sticker i ögonen när den typen av personer – d v s de s k socialgrupp ett:arna – samtidigt livnär sig på den utomvästerländska världens allra fattigaste och mest utsatta människor, stjäl deras barn och gör pengar på dem.
"Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century" is a work by Karl Marx, originally published in 1856-57 in a Urquhartist magazine in Britain. David Urquhart was a somewhat unusual on-off tactical collaborator with Marx, being a reactionary pro-aristocrat. Their common interest was to make Britain as anti-Russian as possible. Marx´ articles were republished in 1899 by his daughter Eleanor Aveling.
I´ve previously commented rather extensively on the anti-Russian and anti-Slavophile writings of Marx and Engels (a somewhat contentious topic in certain circles), so the concrete contents of "Secret Diplomatic History" didn´t surprise me. However, I nevertheless found the pamphlet relatively uninteresting. Most of it consists of excerpts from 18th century pamphlets and letters dealing with Anglo-Russian relations. The point is to prove that the cooperation between Czarist Russia and the United Kingdom goes all the way back to the time of Peter the Great. There are also some strongly negative sections on Russian history. The whole thing gives a patchwork impression, and it seems it really was a short draft for a longer work Marx never managed to write. (Engels would write a short book in 1890 called "Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom", which concentrates on the late 18th century and 19th century.)
Marx and Engels saw Czarist Russia as the main threat to democratic and socialist revolutions in Europe, and therefore developed strongly anti-Russian geopolitics. For the same reason, they opposed pan-Slavism as a reactionary tool of Czarism. In "Secret Diplomatic History", Marx - as already noted - traces the roots of the problem to Czar Peter (sole ruler of Russia 1696-1725) who contrary to all previous Russian policy and general Slav mentality built a new imperial capital at the Baltic coast. The existence of Saint Petersburg virtually necessitated the conquests of territories surrounding the Baltic Sea, and hence permanent Russian interventionism in European affairs. Says Marx: "Petersburg was not like Muscovy, the centre of a race, but the seat of a government; not the slow work of a people, but the instantaneous creation of a man; not the medium from which the peculiarities of an inland people radiate, but the maritime extremity where they are lost; not the traditionary nucleus of a national development, but the deliberately chosen abode of a cosmopolitan intrigue." It´s interesting to note that while Marx isn´t particularly impressed by Russians or Slavs in general (except perhaps the republic of Novgorod), he nevertheless sees the policies of Peter the Great as in some sense fundamentally at odds with the Russian national character and the organic development of a Russian nation.
Marx and Engels were in many ways "politically incorrect" by 21st century leftoid standards (and even by 20th century Marxist standards), which makes some of their writings quite entertaining to read. The anti-woke angle in this particular text concerns the Great Northern War between Czar Peter´s Russia and the Swedish Empire. It´s clear from context that Marx retrospectively supports Sweden, since menacing Petersburg was founded on land conquered from the Swedes during the war. Marx also sees the partitioning of the Swedish Empire as a precedent for the later partitioning of Poland, both of which strengthened Russia and Russian Czardom. The old pamphlets extensively quoted in "Secret Diplomatic History" accuse Britain of secretely and treacherously aiding and abetting Russia during the Great Northern War, despite a friendship treaty between William III´s government and Sweden from 1700. In other words, Karl Marx supports Karl XII (or Charles XII), the famous Swedish warrior-king (ruled 1697-1718). To a Swedish leftoid, this must be difficult to digest, the Swedish Empire in general and Karl XII in particular being modern symbols of right-wing nationalism or even fascism, good Swedish progressives of course opposing all such things. And yet, here is grandpapa Marx himself suggesting that Karl was the good guy all along!
I think I can live with such Marxism.
Oskorei om Karl Marx´ pamflett "1700-talets hemliga diplomati". Tar givetvis *kraftigt* avstånd från allt den här mannen skriver! :D
For the record, I´ve found it. The book of books. The mother of all books. The book that ended book publishing. The book in which Karl Marx supposedly writes positively about...Swedish right-wing nationalist icon and warrior-king Karl XII (or Charles XII).
Not sure if true, but will check later this week. Neither the far right nor the left will like this one!
You have been given fair warning.
Dumma Marx...dumma...dumma Marx...dumma...dumma...
Men okej, smart click bait i rubriken. Lustigt att en russofil "tillgång" dissar Kalle Marx. För germansk?
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Vad synd.
"Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven. Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden" is a 800-page scholarly work by Marsha Keith Schuchard, an American historian specializing in William Blake and his sources. I suppose this is about those sources!
The book is extremely detailed and deals more with political and Masonic intrigue than with esotericism, although that subject is also touched upon. Indeed, one of the author's points is that the distinction between "real" espionage and esoteric activities aren't that obvious, anyway.
The center of attention is Swedish esotericist Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the so-called Seer of the North. Schuchard argues that the real life Swedenborg was very different from the picture painted by his later followers in the Swedenborgian "New Church". Swedenborg was deeply immersed in esotericism and the paranormal since his childhood. He had contacts with a wide array of antinomians, ecstatics and mystics before he began to have revelatory visions himself. Swedenborg probably practiced yoga and various erotic-spiritual techniques akin to Tantrism. With such a background, it would have been strange *not* to experience visions from the spirit-world!
But Swedenborg was more than just an apolitical scientist turned prophet in old age (or religious nutjob, if you're more skeptical). Most of his life, Swedenborg was a secret agent of the French. He was part of a shadowy "underworld" of scheming and plotting spies, double agents, turncoats, adventurers and Freemasons. In other words, 18th century European politics as usual...
After the death of Swedish warrior-king Charles XII (Karl XII) in 1718 and the defeat of Sweden in the Great Northern War, the former regional great power fell on hard times. The so-called Age of Freedom following the king's death saw a succession of weak, "parliamentary" governments. Factional bickering was rife. The two main factions in the Swedish Diet, the Hats and the Caps, were both on foreign payroll. The Hats took subsidies from France, while the Caps were underwritten by Russia and Britain. The Hats were the slightly reckless "war party", dreaming of a restoration of the Swedish great power, something Russia and Britain wanted to stop at all costs. This explains why France - Britain's perennial adversary - backed the Hats. The British and the Russians, just as inevitably, backed the Cap "peace party". While both factions were dominated by nobles, the Caps had a more "democratic" image than the obviously aristocratic Hats.
Swedenborg had began his political career working for Charles XII, whom he greatly admired. He also supported the king's controversial minister of finances, Görtz (who was disgraced and executed after Charles XII's death). During the Age of Freedom, Swedenborg was a Hat (albeit a fairly moderate one). He was a member of the House of Nobles in the Diet, and sometimes attended meetings of the Secret Committee, where Swedish foreign policy was decided upon. Above all, Swedenborg was a Hat-French intelligencer.
The French king Louis XV was running a vast intelligence network all over Europe, known as Secret du Roi. Or rather *not* known, not even to the king's own ministers. The French court was split into several factions (including a pro-British "peace party"), and Louis clearly didn't want to risk sensitive information getting into the wrong hands. Schuchard considers it more or less proven that Swedenborg was on Louis XV's payroll. Despite a frugal life style, the future Seer of the North always had mysteriously large sums at his disposal. When the Hats joined forces with the so-called Court Party (which called for more royal power), the Age of Freedom was drawing to its close. Swedenborg supported king Gustav III, seeing him as the savior of Sweden and as a new Charles XII. In 1772, after Swedenborg's death, Gustav III did carry out an "auto-golpe" with Hat support. Perhaps it saved Sweden from being dismembered by Russia.
Due to their secrecy, Masonic lodges were excellent vehicles for espionage and intrigue. France operated a network of pro-French Masonic orders. The Hanoverian regime in Britain created their own international Masonic network in turn. Later, Gustav III would set up a pro-Swedish Masonic network, with himself as Grand Master of the Swedish Order. The most important component of the Francophile lodges were the Jacobites, Catholic supporters of the House of Stuart, who had fled Britain after the 1688 Glorious Revolution and the subsequent defeat of James II at the Battle of the Boyne. The Jacobites (many of whom were Scottish) became French "assets". A whole series of attempted invasions of Britain and other plots against the British government involved the Jacobites. Their de facto leader Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) became a romantic figure, moving around Europe in heavy disguise, secretely visiting various Masonic lodges, and eventually elevating himself to the Grand Master of the Temple during the 1745 Jacobite invasion of Scotland. Apparently, Gustav III later took over the title, despite being a Protestant! Sweden often aided Jacobite attacks on the British. Schuchard believes that Charles XII's attack on Norway (during which he was killed) was part of a wider plan to invade Britain. The mysterious "Madagascar pirates" were also Jacobites...
I always assumed that the Jacobites were ultramontane Catholic fanatics, but if Schuchard is right, the picture is cobsiderably more complex. The loyal followers of the House of Stuart did believe in the divine right of kings (royal autocracy), but on other issues, they were surprisingly "enlightened". The Jacobites called for religious tolerance for all Christian groups, but also for Jews and Muslims. Jewish immigration to Europe should be encouraged. Alliances with the Muslim Ottoman Empire were seen as non-problematic. The tolerance towards other faiths weren't simply driven by economic (Jews) and political (Muslims) factors. The esoteric aspects of Jacobite "Scottish" Freemasonry also played a part. There was a strong interest in both the Jewish and the Hermetic Kabbala, in Jewish-Christian syncretism, Hebrew studies, and even Quranic studies. Swedenborg was (of course) part of this milieu, a kind of occult-Jacobite underground. This might explain why a Masonic body claiming descent from the Catholic Knights Templar could nevertheless have a Lutheran Grand Master.
Going back to Swedenborg, Schuchard believes that many of his "paranormal powers" have more earthly explanations. How did Swedenborg know about the great fire of Stockholm in 1759 while he was in Gothenburg? Perhaps he had access to secret British intelligence?The fire may have been the work of British agents. Some of his visions were wrong! The author speculates that Swedenborg may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.
Schuchard has written a (perhaps) more accesible work on this murky topic, "Why Mrs Blake Cried". The work under review is for specialized research libraries only. Still, a compelling and fascinating book!
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