9816. Verses 3-4 And you shall speak to all the wise at heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, and they shall make Aaron's garments, to sanctify him, so that he may serve Me in the priestly office. And these are the garments which they shall make: A breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a checkered tunic, a turban, and a belt. And they shall make the holy garments ¹ for Aaron your brother and his sons, to serve Me in the priestly office.

'And you shall speak to all the wise at heart' means an influx from the Lord through the Word into all who are governed by the good of love. 'Whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom' means who have Divine Truth inscribed upon them. 'And they shall make Aaron's garments' means through whom the spiritual kingdom exists. 'To sanctify him' means that a representative sign of the Divine Truth in that kingdom will therefore exist. 'So that he may serve Me in the priestly office' means that which is representative of the Lord. 'And these are the garments which they shall make' means forms of Divine Truth in the spiritual kingdom, in their proper order. 'A breastplate' means Divine Truth shining forth from Divine Good. 'And an ephod' means Divine Truth there in an outward form, in which inner things terminate. 'And a robe' means Divine Truth there in its inward form. 'And a chequered tunic' means Divine Truth inmostly present there, emanating directly from the Divine Celestial. 'And a turban' means intelligence and wisdom. 'And a belt' means a common bond to ensure that everything has the same end in view. 'And they shall make the holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons' means that a representative sign of the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom will therefore exist. 'To serve Me in the priestly office' means that which is representative of the Lord.

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9298. 'You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with anything made with yeast' means that worship of the Lord arising from the Church's truths must not be mingled together with falsities arising from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'sacrificing' and 'sacrifice' as worship of the Lord, dealt with in 922, 923, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3519, 6905, 8680, 8936; from the meaning of 'something made with yeast' as something falsified and falsity arising from evil, dealt with in 2342, 7906, 8051, 8058; and from the meaning of 'blood' as truth derived from good, thus the Church's truth, dealt with in 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7846, 7850, 7877, 9127. From these meanings it is evident that 'you shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with anything made with yeast' means that worship of the Lord arising from the Church's truths must not be mingled together with falsities arising from evil. What falsity arising from evil and falsity not arising from evil are, see 1679, 2408, 4729, 6359, 7272, 8298, 9258.

[2] The reason why truths derived from good, which are the Church's truths, must not be mingled together with falsities arising from evil is that they are in total disagreement. They are opposites, which causes them to clash, as a result of which either good perishes or evil is put to flight; for good comes from heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven, and evil from hell. Truths may, it is true, exist with the evil, and also falsities with the good; but truths present with the evil are not mingled together with falsities arising from evil present with them as long as they reside solely in the memory, serving as the means to evil. As long as this is so the truths are devoid of life. But if the truths are falsified to lend support to evil, which is also brought about by perverse interpretation, they are mingled together. This leads to the profanation of truth, the nature of which, see 1008, 1010, 1059, 1327, 1328, 2051, 2426, 3398, 3399, 3402, 3489, 4601, 6348, 6595, 6959, 6963, 6971, 8394, 8943, 9188.

[3] The fact that accompanying a sacrifice with something made with yeast was forbidden is evident from the following law regarding a minchah, which was burned on the altar together with a sacrifice, the words of that law in Moses being,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast; no yeast nor any honey shall be used along with the fire-offering you burn to Jehovah. Leviticus 2:11.

From all that has been said it is clear that the profanation of truth is meant by this law. It also explains why the words 'the blood of [My] sacrifice' are used and not simply 'the sacrifice'; for 'the blood' is truth derived from good.