155、他们很想知道我们地球上的启示是什么情况，于是我告诉他们说，启示是通过基于圣言的著述、讲道而非与灵人并天使的互动实现的；著述能被印刷并出版，以便整个群体的人都能阅读并理解它们，从而纠正自己的生活方式。听到别处完全不知的这种技术竟然在此处存在，他们感到大为惊讶。不过，他们明白，在这个星球（即我们地球），也就是肉体和尘世事物过于被钟爱的地方，来自天堂的神性事物无法流入并以其它方式被接受。对这种人来说，与天使交谈是危险的。
155. Since they wanted to know how revelation worked on our planet, I told them that it was given through writing and through preaching from the Word and not by direct contact with spirits and angels. I also told them that what is written can be published in print and read and understood by whole populations, to the amendment of their lives. It quite astonished them that we have this technology, which is absolutely unknown anywhere else; but they understood that on a planet where there is such a love for things physical and earthly, there is no other way divine teachings can flow in from heaven and be accepted, and that it would actually be dangerous for such people to talk with angels.
155. Since they wanted to know how revelation took place in our world, I told them that it was by means of writing and preaching based on the Word, not by direct contact with spirits and angels. I told them that writings could be printed, so that whole groups of people could read and understand them, and so have their way of life improved. They were very surprised to hear of the existence of such a technique, which is wholly unknown elsewhere. But they grasped that in this world, where bodily and earthly matters are so popular, there was no other way divine influences from heaven could be felt and received. It would dangerous for such people to talk with angels.
155. As they desired to know how it is with regard to revelation on our earth, I said that it is effected by writing and by preaching from the Word, and not by immediate interaction with spirits and angels; and that what is written can be printed and published, and be read and comprehended by entire communities, and thus the life may be amended. They wondered greatly that such an art, entirely unknown elsewhere, should exist here. But they comprehended that on this earth, where corporeal and earthly things are so much loved, Divine things from heaven cannot flow in and be received in any other way; and that it would be dangerous for them to speak with angels.
155. Quia desiderabant scire, quomodo cum Revelatione se habet in nostra Tellure, dicebam quod id fiat per scripturam et praedicationem ex Verbo, et non per immediatum commercium cum spiritibus et angelis; et quod scriptura possit typis vulgari, ac ab universis coetibus legi et comprehendi, et sic vita emendari: mirabantur valde, quod talis ars, ignotissima alibi, detur: sed comprehendebant, quod in hac Tellure, ubi corporea et terrestria tantum amantur, divina e Coelo non aliter possint influere et recipi; et quod discriminosum foret illis loqui cum angelis.