10268. 'And with it you shall anoint the tent of meeting' means in order to represent what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens. This is clear from the meaning of 'to anoint with the holy oil' as to produce a representation of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love as to His Divine Human, for 'anointing' means producing a representation (things which had been anointed were called holy not because of the oil but because of the representation of what was Divine, which oil is the sign of; for 'oil' is a sign of the Divine Good of Divine Love, and 'holiness' a sign of the Divine Human since the Human alone is holy, as becomes clear from what has been shown above in 9954, 10011, 10019, 10264-10267); and from the meaning of 'the tent of meeting' as heaven in its complete entirety - the inmost or third heaven being meant by the place where the ark of the Testimony was; the middle or second by the place where the table with the loaves of the presence, the lampstand, and the altar of incense were; and the lowest or first by the place where the court was, regarding all of which, see 9457, 9481, 9485, 9784, 9963, 10230, 10242, 10245. From all this it is evident that 'anointing the tent of meeting' means producing a representation of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love as to His Divine Human; and since this is meant by 'anointing the tent of meeting', in order to represent what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens is also meant. For heaven is heaven not by virtue of anything in angels that is entirely their own, only by virtue of what is Divine and the Lord's with them, see 9408, 10125, 10151, 10157, 10159.

10159. THE SECOND PLANET OUT IN SPACE - continued

Seeing that I talked about God the invisible and the visible to them, I must mention here that almost everyone in the universe worships God under the visible form and indeed visualizes Him in a human form, and that their doing so is instinctive. What makes their doing so instinctive is the influence from heaven, for - and this is remarkable - angels who are raised all the way up into the sphere of the third heaven come to have a clear perception of this matter. The reason why they do so is that all in that heaven dwell in the love of the Lord and therefore so to speak in the Lord, and that the kind of perception enjoyed by the angels there is all a product of the order and flow of heaven. For heaven as a complete whole resembles a single human being, as may be seen from what has been shown at the ends of a number of chapters regarding heaven as the Grand Man, see the places referred to in 10030(end). The resemblance of heaven as a complete whole to a single human being has its origin in the Lord's Divine Human, for with His Human the Lord flows into heaven, creates it, and fashions it into a likeness of Himself. But this arcanum is scarcely intelligible to those who through their self-intelligence have rooted out that instinctive impulse.