Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

9826. 'And a checkered tunic' means Divine Truth inmostly present there, emanating directly from the Divine Celestial. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tunic' as natural truth. But when the subject is Aaron, whose garments represented the forms of truth belonging to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, 9814, 9822, 'a tunic' means Divine Truth inmostly present in that kingdom, thus that which emanates from what is right next to it, namely the Divine Celestial, which is the Lord's Divine Good in the inmost heaven. The fact that such things are meant by 'tunics', see 4677. For the heavens are three - the inmost, which is called celestial; the middle, which is called spiritual; and the lowest, which approaches what is natural. In the inmost heaven the good of love to the Lord is predominant, in the middle one the good of charity towards the neighbour, and in the lowest the good of faith. Those heavens are completely distinct and separate from one another, so much so that nobody in one can possibly pass over into the next. Yet in order that they may still make one heaven they are joined together by means of intermediate angelic communities; in this way one heaven leads on from another. Since therefore Aaron's garments represent the spiritual heaven, and so the forms of truth there in their proper order, it is evident that the inmost garment, called 'a checkered tunic', represents the truth inmostly present there, emanating directly from the Divine Celestial. The word 'checkered' is used because it was a woven garment, as is clear from what follows later on in the Book of Exodus,

They made tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons. Exodus 39:27.

It was made from fine linen in order that truth from a celestial origin might be represented, such truth being meant by 'fine linen', see 9469.