| Joseph Ujejski The King of the New Israel. A page from the history of mysticism of the enlightened age Warsaw 1924 Kasa im. Mianowskiego 177, [1] p. on frontispiece plaque with portrait of Tadeusz Grabianka o. original, booklet p. bdb For. ca: 23x17 cm "A passionate story about the life and works of Count Tadeusz Grabianka - starosta of Livonia and King of New Israel mystic and adventurer, who lived and acted in the second half of the 18th century, and died in the heavy Russian prison of the Pertropavlovsk fortress in 1807. The figure of Grabianka, almost unknown today because forgotten, absolutely deserves to be remembered. This king of the New Israel, as Grabianka titled himself, his so-called Avignon sect, his temple and philosophical-mystical-religious doctrine, aroused lively reluctant interest in that era, not only from members of mystical sects such as the Swedenborgians, but also from the Holy Inquisition and the secular rulers of France and Russia. However, Grabianka also had no shortage of supporters and ardent admirers such as Prince Ferdinand of Württemberg, his son Louis and his wife Maria of the Czartoryski family, Prince Charles Sudermanski later King Charles XIII of Sweden, and Prince Nicholas Repnin." |
