Arcana Coelestia # 9593
9593. THE INTERNAL SENSE
Verse 1 And you shall make the dwelling-place, [formed by] ten curtains; from fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet, with cherubs, with the work of a designer you shall make them.
'And you shall make the dwelling-place' means the second or middle heaven. 'Ten curtains' means all the truths of which it consists. 'From fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet' means the spiritual and celestial realities from which those truths are derived. 'With cherubs' means the Lord's watchfulness, guarding it from the approach of the hells and the harm they can do. 'With the work of a designer you shall make them' means the power of understanding.
Ezekiel 37:25-27
25
They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
27
My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
