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'.

Ergo optent homines, aut nunquam in luminis oras Venisse, aut visa luce repente mori.

[6082]Jeremiah, after their neighbours' wives,ut visa pullus adhinnit equa: and if they be in company with other women, though in their own wives' presence, they must be courting and dallying with them.