10384. Because they wished to know what revelation is like on our planet I told them that it is accomplished by means of writing and of preaching from the Word, and not as on other planets by direct contact [with angels and spirits]. I told them that what is written can be made public by means of printing, which can be read and understood by congregations of people throughout the world, whose lives can thereby be amended. They were utterly amazed by the existence of such a device totally unknown anywhere else, yet they could understand that on our planet, where bodily and earthly things are loved so greatly, Divine things from heaven cannot be received in any other way, and that it would be dangerous for those on our planet to talk to angels.