Arcana Coelestia # 10107
10107. 'And the bread which is in the basket' means making celestial good from the Lord their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' - at this point, eating the bread - as making one's own, as immediately above in 10106; from the meaning of 'the bread' as the good of love and charity, dealt with in 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915, 6118, 9323, 9545; and from the meaning of 'the basket' as the level of the outward senses, dealt with in 9996. From these meanings it is evident that 'eating the bread which is in the basket' means making good from the Lord on outward levels their own. The bread in the basket consisted of unleavened loaves, unleavened cakes, and unleavened wafers, by which purified good is meant, both inward and outward kinds of it, 9992-9994. When therefore the words 'the bread in the basket' are used all those kinds of good present on the level of the outward senses are meant, that level being the last and lowest of a person's life, containing inward things all together within itself.
The level of the outward senses is the last and lowest of a person's life, see 5077, 5081, 5094, 5125, 5128, 5767, 6183, 6311, 6313, 6318, 6564, 7645, 9212, 9216, 9730, 9996.
That level contains all inward things, because it is last and lowest, 6451, 6465, 9216, 9828, 9836, 10044.
Leviticus 24:5-9
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"You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
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You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
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You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
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It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
