Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it..

The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers ….

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then.