10211. 'Once a year he shall make expiation on it' means the everlasting removal of evils. This is clear from the meaning of 'once a year' as that which is everlasting, dealt with above in 10209; and from the meaning of 'making expiation' as purification from evils and consequent falsities, 9506, purification from evils being nothing other than a being held back from them, or removal of them, see the places referred to in 10057(end).

2870. HUMAN FREEDOM

Few know what freedom is and what non-freedom is. Freedom seems to entail everything that is in keeping with any love and associated delight, and non-freedom to entail everything that is at variance with these. That which is in keeping with self-love and love of the world, and with the desires belonging to those loves, seems to man to be freedom; but that is the freedom of hell. That however which is in keeping with love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, consequently with the love of what is good and true, is true freedom, being the freedom that exists in heaven.