Corporeal Sight or Sound Is Not Necessary
to Communicate With Angels
Boyd K.
Packer
Nephi, in a great,
profound sermon of instruction, explained that “angels speak by the
power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ.
Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold,
the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.” (2 Ne.
32:3.)
Should an angel
appear and converse with you, neither you nor he would be confined to
corporeal sight or sound in order to communicate. For there is that
spiritual process, described by the Prophet Joseph Smith, by which pure
intelligence can flow into our minds and we can know what we need to
know without either the drudgery of study or the passage of time, for
it is revelation.
And the Prophet
said further:
“All things
whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal
to us, while we are dwelling in mortality, in regard to our mortal
bodies, are revealed to us in the abstract … revealed to our spirits
precisely as though we had no bodies at all; and those revelations
which will save our spirits will save our bodies.” (Teachings, p. 355.)
[From “The Candle of the Lord,” Ensign, Jan. 1983, pp.
52-53]