9805. THE INTERNAL SENSE

Verses 1-2 And you, cause Aaron your brother to come near to you, and his sons with him, from the midst of the children of Israel, so that they may serve Me in the priestly office - Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. And you shall make holy garments ¹ for Aaron your brother, for glorious adornment. ²

'And you, cause Aaron your brother to come near to you' means the joining of Divine Truth to Divine Good within the Lord's Divine Human. 'And his sons' means Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good. 'From the midst of the children of Israel' means in heaven and in the Church. 'So that they may serve Me in the priestly office' means that which is representative of the Lord. 'Aaron' means in respect of the Divine Celestial. 'Nadab and Abihu' means in respect of the Divine Spiritual that springs from it. 'Eleazar and Ithamar' means in respect of the Divine Natural. 'The sons of Aaron' means things which emanate from the Divine Celestial. 'And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother' means a representative sign of the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom. 'For glorious adornment' means in order to display Divine Truth as it exists in its inward form and its outward form in the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom.

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5686. 'His brother, his mother's son' means the internal born from the natural as its mother. This is clear from the representation of Benjamin, to whom 'brother' and 'mother's son' refer here, as the internal, dealt with in 5469. And since this is the intermediary it comes into being from the celestial of the spiritual, represented by 'Joseph', as its father, and from the natural as its mother; for it must have its beginning in both these if it is to serve as an intermediary. So this is what is meant by the internal born from the natural as its mother. Also because the celestial of the spiritual, which is 'Joseph', had come into being in a similar way from the natural as its mother, but from the Divine as its father, 'Benjamin' is therefore called, as he was in actual fact by birth, 'his brother, his mother's son'; and in what immediately follows he is also addressed as 'son'. The name 'brother' is used by the Lord, who is meant here in the highest sense by 'Joseph', to refer to everyone who has any good of charity which he has received from the Lord. He is also referred to as 'his mother's son', but in this case 'mother' is used to mean the Church.