To one who is of the level of ‘human’, it prophecy appears to him in ‘the image of man’. To one who is like the other angelic-beasts of the Chariot, it appears to him in the image of the ḥayot (angelic-beasts) of the throne, – to each one according to his strength.
(Jer. 9:22–3) And let not the boaster boast... of perceiving it, but all is seen through His Shekhinah. For no prophet or seer can comprehend it, except through the Shekhinah.
And there is ‘a human’ higher than ‘human’, from the aspect of Ḥokhmah, comprised of Ko-aḤ∞power (=28) and MaH (what, =45), specifically. And it is stated of it:xciiBT Baba Batra 12a ‘a wise man∞ḥakham is more preferred than a prophet’.