"In other words, even if every single example of Swedenborg's "things heard and seen" is doubtful, it is still possible that his spiritual world exists. However, Kant's earlier discussions have shown once and for all that, although one may think all sorts of things about spiritual beings, once cannot know anything about them. And this leads him to a passage of crucial importance in the history of philosophy. For it is here that we see him, as it were, close the book on positive metaphysics that had preoccupied him in his writings so far and open a new one that will eventually lead to his mature Kritiken."
-- Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, 2007, p. 96.
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