120. 4401. Nor could it have been otherwise, when the Law was being decreed by God the Messiah Himself, than that voices and words spoken to the more inward parts, adapted to the understanding of each mind, should be heard. It therefore follows that the Law was not decreed at that time on the outside, but on the inside; for, as said above [WE 4395], there is no Law separate from the inner parts. Nor should anyone imagine that that voice, or those sounds, came through the air, and then through the ear or hearing, into the minds; for they came through a higher and prior way into the minds, because from an actual understanding of things. But that voice is exactly like a voice that flows in through the ear, so that the hearer, that is, the seer, could not possibly think of it as coming in any other way than through the ear. For it is just as clear and, in fact, just as loud - although no bystander hears it - as speaking by the mouth of man when it passes by way of the ear. About this matter, I have gained such an intimate knowledge [Speak, Speech]