Long story short, I'm a human who's genetically capable of receiving an' understanding Logos Element information from'a Eloh. They're the alien race'at developed'a Logos system, see—

[And since a picture's worth a thousand words, Balin manifests his Tabula with a flourish of his right hand, almost as if he were pulling down some window blinds. It appears as a blue, flickering, almost hologram-like "tablet" projected in front of his splayed-open hand. Ideograms of an alien language flicker in and out of view within the tabula's form.]

—an'is is how you use it.