Dreams Of A Spirit Seer Illustrated By Dreams Of Metaphysics

Between the visions of Swedenborg & those of the metaphysicians of his time, Kant drew a surprising parallel. Swedenborg believed himself to be a familiarly acquainted with the beyond as with his own house. Was not the case the same with the philosophers? Kant believed himself to be in a position to explain these delusions, the one by the other, and so to get rid of both. So entirely did Kant look down upon Swedenborg & his contemporaries the metaphysicians that he merely played with them, handling them now with serious irony, now with sly humor, sometimes pouring upon them his gallish scorn & dealing them the sharpest blows of his cynical wit.