Immediate revelation without messengers has modes and grades; it comes by signs, spirit, or species
Sacred history establishes that God has spoken either through human messengers or without them — that is, without those he himself appointed as messengers — and not in one mode alone (Numbers 12:6-Numbers 12:8): "Hear now my words: if there is a prophet of the LORD among you, I make myself known to him by some VISION, or I speak with him by a DREAM. Not so my servant Moses, who is faithful in all my house: mouth to mouth I speak with him, and I show him, not in riddles; he beholds the likeness of the LORD." Compare Augustine, On Genesis according to the letter, book 12, chapter 7 and following.
XIII. Divine revelation given to human beings without messengers has diverse modes and grades. Whenever those recipients are so affected that it becomes plain something is being said from God, the spectacle binds them to believe what is said — so strongly that it often drives them to publish it. Compare Amos 3:6-Amos 3:7; Jeremiah 20:9.
XIV. This revelation comes by signs, or by spirit, or by species.
XV. By signs: they seize the senses of people asleep or awake — as in a kind of imperfect ecstasy, carried off from ordinary objects — and affect them outwardly or inwardly. This grade may be called sensual. See the scholion on Aphorism 9.
Latin
Constat autem e sacra historia, Deum vel per homines internuntios locutum esse, vel sine illis, iis nempe, quos ipsos voluit esse internuntios, & quidem non uno modo, Num. 12. v. 6. 7. 8. Audite nunc verba mea, si est propheta ex vobis DOMINI, per aliquam VISIONEM me ipsum notum facio ei, aut per SOMNIUM alloquor eum: Non sic servus meus Moses, qui in tota domo mea fidelis: IN OS alloquor eum, & ostendo, non aenigmatibus, sed similitudinem DOMINI intuetur. Confer hunc in locum Augustinum lib. 12. de Genesi ad literam cap. 7. & seqq. XIII. Revelatio divina sine internuntiis hominibus facta modos & gradus diversos habet, qui quandocunque ita affecti sunt, ut divinitus aliquid dici manifestum fiat, ad fidem eorum quae dicuntur videntes obligant adeo, ut ad publicationem eos saepe impellant. Confer Amos 3. v. 6. & 7. Jerem. 20. v. 9. XIV. Fit autem per signa, aut per spiritum, aut per speciem. XV. Per signa, quae sensus hominum dormientium aut vigilantium tanquam in ecstasi quadam imperfecta, ab objectis raptos, externe aut interne afficiunt: & haec sensualis dici potest. Vide scholion Aphor. 9.