2390. This shows that if the Lord had not come into the world at that time, all would have perished, and the communication of heaven with mankind would have been broken off, so the human race would have had to perish for the lack of an intermediate agency through the spiritual world for its instruction in the work of regeneration. 1748, 22 June. For the angels cannot stream into human thoughts manifestly, but only through mediating spirits arranged under them, because the angels' thought and speech is incomprehensible to earthly humans and inside of their thinking. Consequently it cannot stream into anyone's preaching.