People who have the Word are few in comparison to those who do not have it. The Word exists only in Europe, among Christians who are called Protestants. Roman Catholics, indeed, have the Word, but do not read it, and there are kingdoms devoted to that faith, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, more than half of Germany, more than half of Hungary, and Poland. The Word is also little read in Russia, although the people still believe it to be holy. Communication [with heaven] by means of the Word exists only in England, Holland, in certain principalities in Germany, and in Sweden and Denmark, where the Word is taught and preached. Elsewhere, among the nations in Asia, Africa and the Indies, the Word is unknown, and the inhabitants of those regions are more numerous than Protestant Christians

To keep the Word from being lost, however, the Lord provided for the continued survival of the Jewish people, and for their living scattered over much of the earth, among whom the Word of the Old Testament remains in its original language. Although as a people they deny that the Lord is the Messiah or Christ foretold by the prophets, and although they are an evil-hearted people, nevertheless their reading of the Word has communication with certain heavens, for the correspondent forms communicate, whatever the character of the person doing the reading, provided he acknowledges the Word as Divine. It is the same today as in the past. For when Jews venerate Moses, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, David, Elijah, and others named in the Word, regarding them as divinities, then instead of these the heavens perceive the Lord, unconscious of the person in the world from whom that worshipful reverence is coming. Such is the nature of the conjunction of heaven with mankind by means of the Word.