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2 Mose 25

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1 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

2 Sage den Kindern Israel, daß sie mir ein Hebopfer geben; und nehmet dasselbe von jedermann, der es williglich gibt.

3 Das ist aber das Hebopfer, das ihr von ihnen nehmen sollt: Gold, Silber, Erz,

4 gelbe Seide, Scharlaken, Rosinrot, weiße Seide, Ziegenhaar,

5 rötliche Widderfelle, Dachsfelle, Föhrenholz,

6 Öl zur Lampe, Spezerei zur Salbe und gutem Räuchwerk,

7 Onyxsteine und eingefaßte Steine zum Leibrock und zum Schildlein.

8 Und sie sollen mir ein Heiligtum machen, daß ich unter ihnen wohne.

9 Wie ich dir ein Vorbild der Wohnung und alles seines Geräts zeigen werde, so sollt ihr's machen.

10 Machet eine Lade von Föhrenholz. Dritthalb Ellen soll die Länge sein, anderthalb Ellen die Breite und anderthalb Ellen die Höhe.

11 Und sollst sie mit feinem Golde überziehen, inwendig und auswendig; und mache einen güldenen Kranz oben umher.

12 Und geuß vier güldene Rinken und mache sie an ihre vier Ecken, also daß zween Rinken seien auf einer Seite und zween auf der andern Seite.

13 Und mache Stangen von Föhrenholz und überzeuch sie mit Golde.

14 Und stecke sie in die Rinken an der Lade Seiten, daß man sie dabei trage;

15 und sollen in den Rinken bleiben und nicht herausgetan werden.

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

17 Du sollst auch einen Gnadenstuhl machen von feinem Golde; dritthalb Ellen soll seine Länge sein und anderthalb Ellen seine Breite.

18 Und sollst zween Cherubim machen von dichtem Golde, zu beiden Enden des Gnadenstuhls,

19 daß ein Cherub sei an diesem Ende, der andere an dem andern Ende, und also zween Cherubim seien an des Gnadenstuhls Enden.

20 Und die Cherubim sollen Flügel ausbreiten, oben überher, daß sie mit ihren Flügeln den Gnadenstuhl bedecken, und eines jeglichen Antlitz gegen dem andern stehe; und ihre Antlitze sollen auf den Gnadenstuhl sehen.

21 Und sollt den Gnadenstuhl oben auf die Lade tun und in die Lade das Zeugnis legen, das ich dir geben werde.

22 Von dem Ort will ich dir zeugen und mit dir reden, nämlich von dem Gnadenstuhl zwischen den zween Cherubim, der auf der Lade des Zeugnisses ist, alles, was ich dir gebieten will an die Kinder Israel.

23 Du sollst auch einen Tisch machen von Föhrenholz; zwo Ellen soll seine Länge sein und eine Elle seine Breite und anderthalb Ellen seine Höhe.

24 Und sollst ihn überziehen mit feinem Golde und einen güldenen Kranz umher machen

25 und eine Leiste umher, einer Hand breit hoch, und einen güldenen Kranz um die Leiste her.

26 Und sollst vier güldene Ringe dran machen an die vier Orte an seinen vier Füßen.

27 Hart unter der Leiste sollen die Ringe sein, daß man Stangen drein tue und den Tisch trage;

28 Und sollst die Stangen von Föhrenholz machen und sie mit Golde überziehen, daß der Tisch damit getragen werde.

29 Du sollst auch seine Schüsseln, Becher, Kannen, Schalen aus feinem Golde machen, damit man aus und einschenke.

30 Und sollst auf den Tisch allezeit Schaubrote legen vor mir.

31 Du sollst auch einen Leuchter von feinem dichten Golde machen; daran soll der Schaft mit Röhren, Schalen, Knäufen und Blumen sein.

32 Sechs Röhren sollen aus dem Leuchter zu den Seiten ausgehen, aus jeglicher Seite drei Röhren.

33 Eine jegliche Röhre soll drei offene Schalen, Knäufe und Blumen haben; das sollen sein die sechs Röhren aus dem Leuchter.

34 Aber der Schaft am Leuchter soll vier offene Schalen mit Knäufen und Blumen haben

35 und je einen Knauf unter zwo Röhren, welcher sechs aus dem Leuchter gehen.

36 Denn beide ihre Knäufe und Röhren sollen aus ihm gehen, alles ein dicht lauter Gold.

37 Und sollst sieben Lampen machen obenauf, daß sie gegeneinander leuchten,

38 und Lichtschneuzen und Löschnäpfe von feinem Golde.

39 Aus einem Zentner feinen Goldes sollst du das machen mit allem diesem Geräte

40 Und siehe zu, daß du es machest nach ihrem Bilde, das du auf dem Berge gesehen hast.

   

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Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 37

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37. "On a time, when I was meditating on conjugial love, the desire seized my mind of knowing what that love had been like with those who lived in the Golden Age, and what, afterwards, in the succeeding ones which are called the Silver, Copper and Iron ages. And, as I knew that all who lived well in those ages are in the heavens, I prayed to the Lord that it might be permitted me to speak with them and be instructed.

"And, lo! an angel stood by me, and said, 'I am sent by the Lord to be your guide and companion; and I will lead and accompany you, first, to those who lived in the first era, or Age, which is called the Golden.' (The Golden Age is the same as the age of the Most Ancient Church, which is meant by the head of fine gold, on the statue seen by Nebuchadnezzar in a dream - Dan. 2:32- of which we have spoken before.) The angel said, 'The way to them is laborious; it lies through a dense wood, which no one can traverse unless a guide be given him by the Lord.'

[2] "I was in the spirit, and prepared myself for the journey, and we turned our faces to the east; and as we proceeded, I saw a mountain, whose summit towered beyond the region of the clouds. We crossed a great desert, and reached a wood crowded with all kinds of trees, and dark by reason of the dense growth thereof, of which the angel told me beforehand. But that wood was intersected by numerous narrow paths. The angel said that these were so many windings of error, and that unless the eyes were opened by the Lord, and the olive-trees girt about with vine tendrils seen, and the steps led from olive-tree to olive-tree, the traveller would stray into Tartarus. This wood is of such a nature, to the end that the approach may be guarded; for no other race but the primeval one dwells on that mountain.

[3] "After we entered the wood, our eyes were opened, and we saw here and there the olive-trees entwined with vines, from which hung bunches of grapes of a dark-blue colour, and the olive-trees were arranged in perpetual windings; wherefore, we walked round and round as they came into view; and at length we saw a grove of lofty cedars, and some eagles on their branches. When he saw these, the angel said, 'Now we are on the mountain, not far from its summit.'

And we went on; and lo! behind the grove was a circular plain, where were feeding male and female lambs, which were forms representative of the state of innocence and peace of the inhabitants of the mountain.

"We crossed this plain, and lo! there were seen thousands and thousands of tents to the front, and at the sides in every direction, as far as the sight could reach. And the angel said, 'Now we are in the camp where dwell the armies of the Lord Jehovih, for so they call themselves and their habitations. These most ancient people, while they were in the world, dwelt in tents; for which reason they also dwell in them now.' But I said, 'Let us bend our way to the south, where the wiser of them dwell, that we may meet some one with whom we may enter into conversation.'

[4] "On the way, I saw at a distance three boys and three girls sitting at the door of their tent; but as we drew near, both the boys and the girls were seen as men and women of medium height. And the angel said, 'All the inhabitants of this mountain appear at a distance as young children, because they are in the state of innocence, and early childhood is the appearance of innocence.'

"On seeing us, the three men (viri) ran towards us, and said, 'Whence are you, and how have you come hither? your faces are not of the faces belonging to this mountain.'

"But the angel replied, and told the means by which we obtained access through the wood, and the reason of our coming.

"On hearing this, one of the three men invited and conducted us into his tent. The man was clad in a coat of a purple colour, and a tunic of white wool; and his wife was dressed in a crimson robe, and had, underneath, a vest of fine embroidered linen.

[5] "But inasmuch as the desire of knowing about the marriages of the most ancient people was in my mind, I looked at the husband and the wife by turns, and observed as it were a unity of their souls in their faces; and I said, 'You two are one.

"And the man answered, 'We are one; her life is in me and mine in her. We are two bodies, but one soul. There is between us a union like that of the two tents in the breast, which are called the heart and the lungs; she is the substance of my heart, and I am her lungs; but as by heart we here mean love, and by lungs wisdom-we understand the latter by the former on account of correspondence-she is the love of my wisdom, and I am the wisdom of her love. Hence, as you said, there is the appearance of the unity of our souls in our faces. Hence, it is as impossible to us, here, to look in lust upon the wife of a companion, as it is to look at the light of our heaven from the shade of Tartarus.'

"And the angel said to me, 'You hear now the speech of these angels, that it is the speech of wisdom, because they speak from causes.'

[6] "After this conversation, I saw a great light on a hill among the tents, and I asked, 'Whence is that light?'

"He said, 'From the sanctuary of our tabernacle of worship.'

"I enquired whether it was allowed to approach; and he said that it was. Then I drew near, and saw the tabernacle exactly according to the description without and within, of the Tabernacle which was set up for the Sons of Israel in the wilderness, the form of which was shown to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exod. 25:40; 26:30). I asked, further, 'What is there within, in its sanctuary, whence so great a light proceeds?'

"And he answered, 'There is a tablet, on which is written, "THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE LORD JEHOVIH AND HEAVEN."' He said no more.

"Then, also, I questioned them about the LORD JEHOVIH, whom they worship; and I said, 'Is He not God the Father, the Creator of the universe?'

"And they replied, 'He is; but, by the Lord Jehovih we understand Jehovah in His Human; for we are not able to look upon Jehovah in His inmost Divinity, except through His Human': and then they explained what they understood, and also what at this day they understand, by the

Seed of the woman trampling the serpent's head (Gen. 3:15);

namely, that the Lord Jehovih would come into the world, and redeem and save all who believed on Him, and who would believe thereafter.

"When we had finished this conversation, the man ran to his tent, and returned with a pomegranate in which was a vast number of golden seeds, which he presented to me, and I brought away: this was a token that we had been with those who lived in the Golden Age." [See the little work on CONJUGIAL LOVE , n. 75.] - For an account of the heavens of the remaining Churches which succeeded the Most Ancient, in their order, see in the same little work on CONJUGIAL LOVE (n. 76-82).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.