To have the clear idea of this subject one may study it in the Hebrew scriptures, where it is said in two different ways. It is said that God spoke to Jacob, that God spoke to Abraham, that God spoke to Moses. And in the other form it is said that the angel Gabriel brought the Message of God to Moses. These are two different forms in which it is put. In one form it is said, "God spoke to the prophet." That form is a plain form, that when the heart of the prophet was lifted and was raised to that pitch where it can hear the Word of God, it heard the Word of God. The idea of an angel bringing the Message of God is more symbolical.