Indeed it is virtually contradicted by their whole tenor.

Swedenborg asserts himself to relate 'visa et audita',--his own experience, as a traveller and visitor of the spiritual world,--not the words of another as a mere 'amanuensis'.

But altogether this Gulielmus must be a silly Billy.
Ib.p.

321.
The Apostolic canon in such cases is, 'Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God'.

(1 John iv.