9599. Verses 2-6 The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four cubits; [this is what] one curtain [shall be]. All the curtains shall have one measure. Five curtains shall be joined together, each one to the next, and five curtains joined together, each one to the next. And you shall make loops of violet on the edge of the one curtain at the end in the joining-place, and you shall do the same in the edge of the end curtain in the complementary joining-place. Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make in the end of the curtain which is in the complementary joining-place; the loops must be taken up, each one towards the other. And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains together, each one to the next in the clasps; and the dwelling-place shall be one.

'The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits' means the holiness of the truth derived from good. 'And the breadth four cubits' means the marriage of truth to good. '[This is what] one curtain [shall be]' means so shall it be for the individual truths. 'All the curtains shall have one measure' means that the state of affairs shall be the same [with each one]. 'Five curtains shall be joined together, each one to the next, and five curtains joined together, each one to the next' means unceasing communication of truth with good and of good with truth. 'And you shall make loops of violet' means a joining together by means of the celestial love of truth. 'On the edge of the one curtain at the end in the joining-place' means of one sphere to the other. 'And you shall do the same in the edge of the end curtain in the complementary joining-place' means a reciprocal joining together of the same kind. 'Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain' means a complete joining together in the outermost parts of the spheres. 'And fifty loops you shall make in the end of the curtain which is in the complementary joining-place' again means a reciprocal joining together of the same kind. 'The loops must be taken up, each one towards the other' means a total joining together on both sides. 'And you shall make fifty clasps of gold' means a complete ability derived from good to join things together. 'And join the curtains together, each one to the next in the clasps' means the mode of the joining together at every point. 'And the dwelling-place shall be one' means that the whole heaven is as a result altogether one.