1.) And the touchstone to which they are to be brought is pointed out by the Prophet: 'To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no truth in them.' (Is.

viii.
20.) But instead of this canon you offer another * * *.

It is simply this: Whoever professes to be the bearer of divine communications, is insane.

To bring Swedenborg within the operation of this rule, you quote, as if from his own works, a passage which is nowhere to be found in them, but which you seem to have taken from some biographical dictionary or cyclopaedia; few or none of which give anything like a fair account of the matter.
Aye! my memory did not fail me, I find.

As to insanity in the sense intended by Gulielmus, namely, as 'mania',--I should as little think of charging Swedenborg with it, as of calling a friend mad who laboured under an 'acyanoblepsia'.
Ib.p.