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 14 exaggerates the connection of Kant with Swedenborg, still we are not to fall into the other error of denying altogether a positive relation of Kant to Swedenborg which shows itself occasionally even in the period of the 'Critique,' as for example Critique of Pure Reason: A. 394: A. 808: B. 836 (idea of the Corpus mysticum of rational beings). Critique of the Practical Reason, I. 2, 7 (Ros. VIII., 242; Hart v., 112)."—Vaihinger: Kant Commentar II., p. 431.

Finally, in a chapter of General Observations, the author compares Kant's intuitus originarius with Swedenborg's "pneumatische Anschauung" or "Soul-vision":

"As B. Erdmann (Reflex II., 313) rightly remarks,