Eleusis and Enlightenment

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, PhD (2022), King's College London, is a historian of ideas and religion. As the director of Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation in the UK he has also curated exhibitions and organised cultural preservation projects worldwide.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures



Introduction

 The Age of the Mysteries

 1 Freemasonry and Enlightenment

 2 Summary of Chapters



1 The Word Mystery

 1 Christianity not Mysterious: John Toland

 2 The Trinitarian Controversy

 3 Toland not Deist

 4 ‘Unfolding Nature’s Mysteries, and discoursing on Religion’



2 The Religion of the Patriarchs

 1 William Stukeley: The Antiquarian Freemason

 2 On the Mysterys

 3 The Egyptian Society

 4 True Noachida: James Anderson

 5 Chance Rays of the Hebrews: Andrew Michael Ramsay



3 Law, Agriculture, and the Afterlife

 1 William Warburton and the Ancient Legislators

 2 Agriculture after the Deluge: Noël-Antoine Pluche

 3 The Origin and the End of Society: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger



4 The Common Temple of the World

 1 The Venemous Cure: Voltaire and Warburton

 2 The Festival of Universal Liberty: Antoine Court de Gébelin

 3 Illuminating the Heathen World: Johann August Starck

 4 The Essence of Religion: Nicolas-Marie Leclerc de Sept-Chênes



5 Christianity Revealed

 1 St John the Egyptian: Christian Ernst Wünsch

 2 The Elysium of Reason: Charles-François Dupuis



Conclusion

 Divided Testaments

Bibliography

 Manuscripts

 Printed Primary Literature

 Secondary Literature

Index