Swedenborg and Daisetsu
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966) was a Japanese scholar and author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki). Daisetsu also wrote some books on his study on Swedenborg (1688-1772), a unique Swedish scholar of theosophy claiming that he visited the spirit world while living in this world, as well as translated some works by Swedenborg.
When Daisetsu was young, Japan had opened the nation to the world after 250 years of isolation in a feudalistic domestic system under the samurai-class rule and was diligently taking in Western culture and civilization so as to catch up with the West. So, as a scholar of Buddhism, Daisetsu was interested in Christianity in comparison with Buddhism. It was thought that through his communications with American scholars (Daisetsu even married an American woman) he came to know works of Swedenborg. And Daisetsu accepted the theory and assertion of Swedenborg on life after death or Heaven and the hell, although Swedenborg was Christian.
Daisetsu was familiar with study on soul or spirit as a scholar of Buddhism, since Japanese Buddhism had been of course based on Buddhism spirituality. But, according to Daisetsu's view, along with westernization and modernization around 1900 in Japan, people lost interest in and respect for Buddhism spiritualism. To address the issue on this trend, he must have wanted to see what sincere Christian scholars thought about souls, spirits, spiritual world, life after death, the spirit world, etc. And thus, Daisetsu found Swedenborg and praised his writings.
In short, Daisetsu could accept Swedenborg's idea of life after death, since Swedenborg showed a high level of ethics and religious integrity, although some concrete descriptions of Heaven and the hell in Swedenborg's works were foreign to Buddhists. And, what is important is that Daisetsu could accept the situation that a living man could also enter into the spirit world and talk with angels and souls in Heaven and the hell. Daisetsu thought that a man entered into life after death when he died in this world.
Daisetsu, in his book, presented a theory that what is not life is accordingly life as such a relation is realized in the spirit world. So, what is not death is thus death. Denial of any matter establishes the matter denied.
It is also said that Daisetsu gave some influence on hippyism in late 1960s. To access the spirit world, it does not matter whether you believe in traditional Christianity or Buddhism, but any man's soul can enter into life after death, although there are some differences about the states of Heaven and the hell.
Daisetsu Suzuki wrote 23 of his 100 books in English. He became a candidate for the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1963. He is still one of well known scholars of Buddhism in Japan today. So, most of Japanese would come to believe in existence of life after death, which Swedenborg presented in his books, if people know about Daisetsu's earnest study on Swedenborg, although materialism is common in rampancy in the Japanese society today like in other coutries.
So, it is recommended to read and think about the contents of books written by Swedenborg, although they were written in the 18th century, since an elite Japanese Buddhist praised them.
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Matthew 5, King James Version
23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.