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2 Mose 25

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

2 Rede zu den Kindern Israel, daß sie mir ein Hebopfer bringen; von einem jeden, der willigen Herzens ist, sollt ihr mein Hebopfer nehmen.

3 Und dies ist das Hebopfer, das ihr von ihnen nehmen sollt: Gold und Silber und Erz,

4 und blauer und roter Purpur und Karmesin und Byssus und Ziegenhaar,

5 und rotgefärbte Widderfelle und Dachsfelle und Akazienholz;

6 Öl zum Licht, Gewürze zum Salböl und zum wohlriechenden Räucherwerk;

7 Onyxsteine und Steine zum Einsetzen für das Ephod und für das Brustschild.

8 Und sie sollen mir ein Heiligtum machen, daß ich in ihrer Mitte wohne.

9 Nach allem, was ich dir zeige, das Muster der Wohnung und das Muster aller ihrer Geräte, also sollt ihr es machen.

10 Und sie sollen eine Lade von Akazienholz machen: zwei und eine halbe Elle ihre Länge, und eine und eine halbe Elle ihre Breite, und eine und eine halbe Elle ihre Höhe.

11 Und du sollst sie überziehen mit reinem Golde: inwendig und auswendig sollst du sie überziehen; und mache einen goldenen Kranz daran ringsum.

12 Und gieße für dieselbe vier Ringe von Gold und setze sie an ihre vier Ecken, und zwar zwei Ringe an ihrer einen Seite und zwei Ringe an ihrer anderen Seite.

13 Und mache Stangen von Akazienholz und überziehe sie mit Gold.

14 Und bringe die Stangen in die Ringe an den Seiten der Lade, um die Lade mit denselben zu tragen.

15 Die Stangen sollen in den Ringen der Lade sein, sie sollen nicht daraus entfernt werden.

16 Und lege in die Lade das Zeugnis, das ich dir geben werde.

17 Und mache einen Deckel von reinem Golde: zwei und eine halbe Elle seine Länge, und eine und eine halbe Elle seine Breite.

18 Und mache zwei Cherubim von Gold; in getriebener Arbeit sollst du sie machen an beiden Enden des Deckels;

19 und mache einen Cherub an dem Ende der einen Seite und einen Cherub an dem Ende der anderen Seite; aus dem Deckel sollt ihr die Cherubim machen an seinen beiden Enden.

20 Und die Cherubim sollen die Flügel nach oben ausbreiten, den Deckel mit ihren Flügeln überdeckend, und ihre Angesichter einander gegenüber; die Angesichter der Cherubim sollen gegen den Deckel gerichtet sein.

21 Und lege den Deckel oben über die Lade; und in die Lade sollst du das Zeugnis legen, das ich dir geben werde.

22 Und daselbst werde ich mit dir zusammenkommen und von dem Deckel herab, zwischen den zwei Cherubim hervor, die auf der Lade des Zeugnisses sind, alles zu dir reden, was ich dir an die Kinder Israel gebieten werde.

23 Und du sollst einen Tisch von Akazienholz machen: zwei Ellen seine Länge, und eine Elle seine Breite, und eine und eine halbe Elle seine Höhe.

24 Und überziehe ihn mit reinem Golde und mache ihm einen Kranz von Gold ringsum.

25 Und mache ihm eine Leiste, eine Hand breit, ringsum, und mache einen Kranz von Gold an seine Leiste ringsum.

26 Und mache ihm vier Ringe von Gold und setze die Ringe an die vier Ecken, die an seinen vier Füßen sind.

27 Dicht bei der Leiste sollen die Ringe sein, zu Behältern für die Stangen, um den Tisch zu tragen.

28 Und mache die Stangen von Akazienholz und überziehe sie mit Gold, und der Tisch soll daran getragen werden.

29 Und mache seine Schüsseln und seine Schalen und seine Kannen und seine Spendschalen, mit welchen das Trankopfer ausgegossen wird; von reinem Golde sollst du sie machen.

30 Und auf den Tisch sollst du Schaubrote legen vor meinem Angesicht beständig.

31 Und du sollst einen Leuchter von reinem Golde machen; in getriebener Arbeit soll der Leuchter gemacht werden, sein Fuß und sein Schaft; seine Kelche, seine Knäufe und seine Blumen sollen aus ihm sein.

32 Und sechs Arme sollen von seinen Seiten ausgehen: Drei Arme des Leuchters aus seiner einen Seite und Drei Arme des Leuchters aus seiner anderen Seite.

33 Drei Kelche, mandelblütenförmig, an dem einen Arme: Knauf und Blume; und Drei Kelche, mandelblütenförmig, an dem anderen Arme: Knauf und Blume; also für die sechs Arme, die von dem Leuchter ausgehen.

34 Und an dem Leuchter vier Kelche, mandelblütenförmig: seine Knäufe und seine Blumen;

35 und zwar ein Knauf unter zwei Armen aus ihm, und wieder ein Knauf unter zwei Armen aus ihm, und wieder ein Knauf unter zwei Armen aus ihm, für die sechs Arme, die von dem Leuchter ausgehen.

36 Ihre Knäufe und ihre Arme sollen aus ihm sein; der ganze Leuchter eine getriebene Arbeit, von reinem Golde.

37 Und du sollst seine sieben Lampen machen; und man soll seine Lampen anzünden, so daß sie gerade vor ihm hin scheinen;

38 und seine Lichtschneuzen und seine Löschnäpfe von reinem Golde.

39 Aus einem Talent reinen Goldes soll man ihn machen mit allen diesen Geräten.

40 Und sieh zu, daß du sie nach ihrem Muster machest, welches dir auf dem Berge gezeigt worden ist.

   

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Conjugial Love # 75

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75. The first account:

When I was once meditating on conjugial love, my mind was seized with a desire to know what that love was like among the people who lived in the golden age, and afterwards what it was like among those who lived in the following ages which are named after silver, copper, and iron. And because I knew that all those people who lived well in those ages are now in heaven, I prayed to the Lord to be allowed to speak with them and be instructed.

Then suddenly an angel stood beside me, and he said, "I have been sent by the Lord to be your guide and companion. First I will guide and accompany you to the people who lived in the first age or period, which is called golden." He also added, "The way to them is difficult. It lies through a dark forest which no one can pass through without being given a guide by the Lord."

[2] I was in the spirit, and so I readied myself for the journey, and we turned our faces to the east. And as we went I saw a mountain, whose height extended beyond the level of the clouds.

We crossed a great desert, and we came to a forest thick with trees of various kinds and dark on account of their density, as the angel had predicted. However, the forest was intersected by many narrow paths, but the angel said they were all winding ways leading astray, and that, unless a traveler's eyes were opened by the Lord to see the olive trees covered with leafy vines and to make his way from olive tree to olive tree, he would wander off into infernal regions which surrounded the forest on each side. "This is what this forest is like," the angel said, "in order to guard the approach, for none but the earliest people dwell on that mountain."

[3] After we entered the forest, our eyes were opened, and here and there we saw olive trees entwined with vines, which had bunches of purplish-blue grapes hanging from them. Moreover, the olive trees were arranged in a continuous series of circles. Consequently we went around and around as each one came to view, until finally we saw a grove of tall cedars, with some eagles on their branches.

Seeing them the angel said, "We are now on the mountain, not far from its summit."

We went on, and lo, beyond the grove, there was a circular field, where male and female lambs were grazing, which were forms representative of the state of innocence and peace of the people who dwelt on the mountain. We crossed this field, and suddenly tents appeared - tent after tent - reaching many thousands in number, in front and on each side, as far as the eye could see.

And the angel said, "We are now in an encampment. Behold the army of the Lord Jehovih! That is what they call themselves and their dwellings. When these most ancient people lived in the world, they dwelled in tents. Therefore they also live in tents now. But let us turn our way southward - where the wiser ones among them are - to find someone to talk with."

[4] As we went, I saw in the distance three boys and three girls sitting at the entrance of one of the tents. But when we drew near, they looked like men and women of average height.

And the angel said, "All the inhabitants of this mountain appear at a distance like little children, because they are in a state of innocence, and early childhood is the way innocence appears."

Seeing us, the men hurried over to us and said, "Where are you from, and how did you get here? Your faces are different from the faces of our mountain."

But the angel answered and told them how we were able to pass through the forest and the reason for our coming.

Hearing this, one of the three men invited us into his tent and led us inside. The man was dressed in a blue-colored robe and a tunic of very white wool. And his wife was dressed in a purple dress, with a blouse underneath of embroidered fine linen.

[5] Then because I had in my thought the desire to learn about the marriages of the most ancient peoples, I looked by turns at the husband and wife, and I observed a seeming unity of their souls in their faces.

So I said, "You two are one."

The man replied, "We are. Her life is in me, and my life is in her. We have two bodies, but one soul. The union between us is like the union of the two tabernacles in the breast which are called the heart and the lungs. She is my heart and I am her lungs. But since when we say heart here we mean love, and when we say lungs we mean wisdom, therefore she is the love of my wisdom, and I am the wisdom of her love. Therefore her love outwardly clothes my wisdom, and my wisdom is inwardly within her love. Consequently, as you have said, the unity of our souls appears in our faces."

[6] Then I asked, "If such is the union between you, are you able to look upon any other woman than your own?"

He replied, "I can, but because my wife is united to my soul, the two of us look together, and then not a trace of lust can enter. For when I look at other men's wives, I look at them through the eyes of my wife, who is the only one I am in love with. And because she, as my wife, can perceive all my inclinations, she acts as an intermediary and directs my thoughts, taking away anything discordant and at the same time inspiring a coldness and horror towards anything unchaste. As a result it is impossible for us here to regard any of our companions' wives with lust - as impossible as it would be to look at the light of our heaven from a state of infernal darkness. We have no mental concept among us, therefore, and not even any word in our speech for the temptations of libidinous love." He could not say free love, because the chastity of their heaven resisted it.

My angel guide then said to me, "You hear, now, the speech of the angels of this heaven, that it is a speech of wisdom, because they speak in terms of causes."

[7] After this I looked around, and seeing that their tent appeared covered with gold, I asked why this was.

The man replied that it was due to the flaming light, which glittered like gold. "It shines and strikes the curtains of our tent," he said, "whenever we are engaged in conversation on the subject of conjugial love. For the heat from our sun, which in its essence is love, then bares itself and tints the light, which in its essence is wisdom. It tints it with its own color, which is golden. This occurs because conjugial love in its origin is the interplay of wisdom and love, for man was born to be a form of wisdom, and woman to be a form of love for the wisdom in a man. From this come the delights of that interplay in conjugial love, and therefore between us and our wives.

"We here have seen, for thousands of years, that those delights become more excellent and exalted in abundance, degree and strength, according to the worship of the Lord Jehovih among us. That heavenly union or that heavenly marriage which exists between love and wisdom infuses itself as a result of that worship."

[8] When he said this, I saw a great light on a hill at the center amid the tents, and I asked where that light was coming from.

The man said, "It is coming from the sanctuary of our tabernacle of worship."

I then inquired whether we might go there, and he said we could. So I went, and I saw a tabernacle which, outside and in, exactly fit the description of the tabernacle which was built for the children of Israel in the wilderness, whose form was shown to Moses on top of Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:40, 26:30). And I asked what there was inside the sanctuary that was giving off so much light.

He answered, "There is a tablet, which bears the inscription, 'The Covenant Between Jehovah and Heaven.'" That was all he said.

[9] Then, because by that time we were getting ready to leave, I asked, "When you lived in the natural world, did any of you live with more than one wife?"

He replied that he did not know one person who did. "For we could not think of having more," he said. "Those who had had such thoughts told us that their states of heavenly bliss instantly receded from the inmost depths of their souls to the outmost parts of their bodies, even into their fingernails, and along with them the virtues of manhood. When others perceived this, they were exiled from our lands."

Having said this, the man hurried to his tent and returned with a pomegranate containing a number of seeds made of gold. He gave it to me and I took it away with me, as a memento to me that we had been with people who had lived in the golden age.

So then, after saying farewell, we departed and returned home.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.