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1 "Napravi i žrtvenik za paljenje tamjana; napravi ga od bagremova drva.

2 Neka bude lakat dug, lakat širok, u pravokut, i dva lakta visok. Neka mu roščići budu od jednoga komada s njim.

3 Obloži mu u čisto zlato: njegovu gornju plohu, njegove strane naokolo i njegove roščiće. Načini mu zlatan završni pojas naokolo.

4 Načini mu dva zlatna koluta. Pričvrsti mu ih s dviju suprotnih strana ispod završnog pojasa. Kroz njih će se provlačiti motke za nošenje.

5 Motke načini od bagremova drva i zlatom ih obloži.

6 Postavi žrtvenik pred zavjesu što zastire Kovčeg Svjedočanstva - nasuprot Pomirilištu nad Svjedočanstvom - gdje ću se ja s tobom sastajati.

7 Neka na njemu Aron pali miomirisni tamjan svako jutro kad priprema svjetla;

8 neka ga Aron opet pali u suton kad svjetla zapaljuje, da to bude svagdašnje kadiono prinošenje pred Jahvom u sve vaše naraštaje.

9 Ne prinosi na njemu ni neposvećenoga tamjana, ni paljenice, ni prinosnice, ni ljevanice!

10 Jednom u godini neka Aron obavi obred pomirenja na njegovim roščićima. Krvlju žrtve koja se prinosi za grijeh, jednom na godinu, neka obavi obred pomirenja za žrtvenik. Tako činite u sve naraštaje. Jer oltar je presveta svetinja Jahvina."

11 Nadalje Jahve reče Mojsiju:

12 "Kad budeš pravio popis Izraelaca prilikom novačenja, neka svatko da Jahvi otkupninu za se kad se upiše, da ih kakvo zlo ne snađe zbog novačenja.

13 Tko god potpada pod novačenje, ovoliko neka dadne: pola šekela - prema hramskom šekelu, gdje je dvadeset gera u šekelu. To pola šekela neka bude kao prinos Jahvi.

14 Tko god potpada pod novačenje, od dvadeset godina starosti pa naviše, neka dadne prinos Jahvi.

15 Bogataš neka ne plaća više niti siromah manje od pola šekela kad daju prinos Jahvi kao otkup za se.

16 Uzimaj otkupni novac od Izraelaca i određuj ga za potrebe Šatora sastanka. Neka to bude Jahvi na spomen da se sjeća Izraelaca i da im bude milostiv."

17 Reče Jahve Mojsiju:

18 "Napravi umivaonik od tuča i podnožje od tuča za umivanje. Postavi ga između Šatora sastanka i žrtvenika. Nalij u nj vode

19 pa neka Aron i njegovi sinovi peru svoje ruke i noge vodom iz njega.

20 Kad moradnu ulaziti u Šator sastanka, ili kad se moradnu primicati žrtveniku za službu da spaljuju žrtve u čast Jahvi paljene, neka se vodom operu da ne poginu.

21 Neka operu ruke svoje i noge svoje da izbjegnu smrti: to je trajna naredba Aronu i njegovim potomcima u sve naraštaje."

22 Još reče Jahve Mojsiju:

23 "Nabavi najboljih mirodija: pet stotina šekela smirne samotoka, pola te težine - dvjesta pedeset - mirisavog cimeta, dvjesta pedeset mirisave trstike,

24 pet stotina - prema hramskom šekelu - lovorike i jedan hin maslinova ulja.

25 Od toga napravi posvećeno ulje za pomazanje; da bude smjesa kao da ju je pravio pomastar. Neka to bude posvećeno ulje za pomazanje.

26 Time onda pomaži: Šator sastanka i Kovčeg Svjedočanstva;

27 stol i sav njegov pribor; svijećnjak i sav njegov pribor; žrtvenik kadioni;

28 žrtvenik za žrtve paljenice i sav njegov pribor; umivaonik i njegov stalak:

29 posveti ih, i oni će tako postati posvećeni; i što god ih se dotakne, posvećeno će postati.

30 Pomaži Arona i njegove sinove i posveti ih meni za svećenike.

31 Onda kaži Izraelcima ovako: 'Ovo je moje posvećeno ulje za pomazanje od koljena do koljena.

32 Ne smije se polijevati po tijelu običnoga čovjeka; ne smijete praviti drugoga ovakva sastava! To je posvećeno i neka vam bude sveto!

33 Tko god takvo napravi, ili tko ga stavi na kojeg svjetovnjaka, neka se odstrani od svog naroda!'"

34 Jahve još reče Mojsiju: "Nabavi mirodija: natafe, šeheleta i helebene. Od ovih mirodija i čistoga tamjana,

35 sve u jednakim dijelovima, napravi tamjan za kađenje, smjesu mirodija kakvu pravi pomastar, opranu, čistu, svetu.

36 Od toga nešto smrvi u prah i jedan dio stavi pred Svjedočanstvo, u Šator sastanka, gdje ću se ja s tobom sastajati. Držite ovu mirodiju presvetom!

37 A miomiris koji napraviš prema ovome sastavu za svoju upotrebu ne smijete praviti. To drži za svetinju Jahvi!

38 Tko sebi napravi što takvo da mu miriše, neka se iskorijeni iz svoga naroda."

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10199

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10199. 'Incense of spices' means a hearing and receiving with pleasure. This is clear from the meaning of 'incense' as the Lord's hearing and receiving with pleasure everything of worship that springs from love and charity, dealt with in 10177; and from the meaning of 'spices' as things that bring pleasure. Things bringing pleasure are meant by 'spices' on account of their odour; for 'odour' means perception, and therefore a sweet odour means a perception of that which brings pleasure, while an offensive odour means that which brings no pleasure. All things perceived by a person with the sensory organs of smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch mean spiritual realities connected with the good of love and the truths of faith. Consequently smell means the perception of interior truth springing from the good of love; taste means perception and the desire to know and become wise; sight means an understanding of the truths of faith; hearing means perception resulting from the good of faith and from obedience; and touch in general means imparting, conveying, and being received.

[2] The reason why they have these meanings is that every reception of impressions by the outward senses begins in reception by the inward senses, which belong to the understanding and will, and so begins within the person, in the truths of faith and the good of love since these constitute the understanding and will within the human mind. Yet inward sensations, which belong properly to a person's understanding and will, do not feel the same as the outward ones, though they are turned into outward sensations when they flow in. For all the perceptions that a person receives by means of his outward sensory organs flow from inward powers of mind. The path all influx takes is from inward things to outward ones, not from outward to inward, since there is no such thing as physical influx - that is, influx from the natural world into the spiritual world - only influx from the spiritual world into the natural. A person's inner powers, which belong properly to understanding and will, exist in the spiritual world, and his outward ones, which belong properly to the bodily senses, exist in the natural world. From all this too it becomes clear what correspondence is and what the nature of it is.

[3] In general, smell corresponds to perception of some reality, as determined by the essential nature of the matter that is being perceived, see 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634, 10054.

Taste corresponds to perception and the desire to know and become wise, 3502, 4791-4805.

Sight corresponds to an understanding of the truths of faith, 3863, 4403-4421, 4567, 5114, 5400, 6805.

Hearing corresponds to perception of the good of faith and to obedience, 3869, 4652-4660, 7216, 8361, 9311, 9926.

Touch means imparting, conveying, and being received, 10130.

[4] 1 The fact that such things as are perceived with pleasure are meant by 'spices' - the kinds that spring from love and charity, in particular interior truths since they spring from these - is clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

Instead of spice 2 there will be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a falling apart, and instead of well-set hair 3 , baldness. Isaiah 3:24.

This refers to the daughters of Zion, by whom the celestial Church is meant, a Church in possession of interior truths springing from the good of love to the Lord. 'Spice' here means interior truth, 'rottenness' deprivation of it; 'a girdle' means a joining together, and 'a falling apart' the dissolution of connection and order; 'well-set hair' means factual knowledge of truth, which is exterior truth or truth as the external man knows it, and 'baldness' deprivation of that truth.

'A girdle' means a joining together and a bond to ensure that everything is held in connection and has the same end in view, see 9828.

'Well-set hair' means factual knowledge of truth, 2831 4 .

'Baldness' means deprivation of that truth, 9960.

[5] In Ezekiel,

A great eagle with [great] wings came on Lebanon, and from it took a twig of the cedar away into the land of Canaan 5 ; in the city of spicers he put the top of it 6 . Ezekiel 17:3-4.

This refers in the internal sense to the beginnings and growth of the spiritual Church, and then its corruption and end. 'A great eagle with [great] wings' means the interior truth which that Church possessed, 3901, 8764, 'wings' its exterior truths, 8764, 9514. 'Lebanon' is that Church, 'the cedar' there being the spiritual Church's truth. 'The city of spicers' is a place where teachings composed of interior truth are presented, 'cities' in the Word meaning religious teachings, see 402, 2449, 3216, 4492, 4493. It is called 'the city of spicers' by virtue of its interior truths.

[6] In the same prophet,

The traders of Sheba and Raamah with the best of [every] spice, and with every precious stone and gold, carried out 7 their dealings. Ezekiel 27:22.

This refers to Tyre, which means the Church in respect of cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth. 'The traders' are those who possess these and pass them on; 'Sheba and Raamah' are those with whom cognitions of celestial and spiritual things exist; 'the best of spice' is that which by virtue of interior truths brings pleasure; 'precious stone' is those very truths; and 'gold' is the good that goes with them.

Tyre means the Church in respect of interior cognitions of goodness and truth, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, see 1201.

'The traders' are those who possess these and pass them on, 2967, 4453.

'Sheba and Raamah' are those with whom cognitions of celestial and spiritual things exist, 1171, 3240.

'Precious stone' is interior truth, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874.

'Gold' is the good that goes with it, see the places referred to in 9874, 9881.

[7] From all this one may see what was represented by the queen of Sheba's coming to Solomon in Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold, and precious stones, 1 Kings 10:1-2, and by the offering of gold, frankincense, and myrrh which the wise men from the east made to the new-born Jesus, Matthew 2:11. Because 'spices' meant interior truths, thus those which bring pleasure, the incense and also the anointing oil, dealt with further on in this chapter, were scented with spices.

[8] By interior truths those truths which have become part of a person's life and affection, thus those inwardly present in him, should be understood, but not truths which are present solely in the memory and have not become part of that person's life. These truths in relation to the others are called external ones, since they have not been inscribed on the person's life, only on his memory. They reside in the external man and not in the internal. Truths of faith which have been inscribed on a person's life are present in the will, and what is in the will is present in the internal man. For by means of the truths of faith the internal man is opened up and contact with heaven is brought about. From this it is evident that the interior truths present with a person are ones that spring from the good of love and charity. Whether you say will or love it amounts to the same thing, for what composes a person's will composes his love. Therefore the truths inscribed on the person's life, called interior truths, are ones that have been inscribed on his love, and so on the will, from which they afterwards go forth when they pass into speech and action.

[9] For heaven, in which the internal man that has been opened up is present, does not enter truths directly but indirectly, through the good of love. But heaven cannot come in when a person's internal man is closed, because there is no good of love there to receive it. In the case therefore of those with whom the internal man has not been opened by means of truths springing from the good of love and charity hell enters with falsities arising from evil, no matter how many truths of faith, even interior ones, are residing in the external man alone, that is, in the memory.

From all this one may now see what should be understood by interior truths that bring pleasure, which are meant by 'spices', namely those which spring from the good of love and charity.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. To judge both from the first Latin edition and his rough draft Swedenborg may have intended to add words that would have concluded what goes before and introduced what comes next.

2. i.e. fragrance

3. literally, instead of the work of plaited [hair]

4. The word rendered well-set, more literally plaited, may otherwise mean entangled.

5. Here the Hebrew may be taken to mean either the land of Canaan or the land of the merchant. See 3901:2, 8764:6, where Swedenborg adopts the latter meaning.

6. literally, its head i.e. the twig from the top of the cedar

7. literally, gave

  
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