What does divine afflatus mean?

We are too apt to look to ourselves and intermediate agencies for what comes in reality directly from God. There is no positive harm in this—at the same time, we would receive more of the fullness of the spirit if we looked higher for it.

Angels and spirits all receive it from this same Divine Source, and it is as freely offered to us, as to them, but they, in their more enlightened state, can more fully appreciate this Divine Afflatus—they can realise more clearly the inestimable benefit conferred on them.

—J. W. in Spirit