Verses 1-3. The worship of the Lord from the highest degree of celestial love is described.

Verse 4. Then follows a description of worship from interior celestial love, or charity to the neighbour, showing how it is connected with that from the highest celestial good, which is pure love to the Lord, and the lowest

Verses 5-6. A similar description of worship from celestial good in the Internal of the Natural succeeds, accompanied by an account of the arrangement of truths there, and of the influx of inmost celestial good.

Verse 7. And lastly, worship from the External of the Natural is described, showing that it is similar to worship from higher loves, but is in a lower degree

Verses 8-10. It is then shown that celestial worship in all these degrees and ways involves certain particulars, namely: the power to worship must be ascribed to the Lord; it must be acknowledged to be from celestial good inmostly derived from Him; and it must be exercised from Him. Also the worshiper will realize the conjunction of truth with good as from himself; he will be able to devote his life to the service of the Lord; he will experience a state of heavenly joy and peace; he will be able to appropriate good and truth; and he will worship the Lord from pure love

Verses 11-13. Again this worship of the Lord must be free from falsity; it must not be vitiated by merely natural delight; such imperfect worship only appertains to preparatory states; and in all worship there must be the mutual desire of truth for good and of good for truth, or in other words, every one who really loves the truth will desire also to be good, and all who sincerely desire to be good will also long for the truth

Verses 14-16. And also, during such worship, in preparatory states, it will be from natural good, and truth influenced by celestial good, and involving the sincere acknowledgement of the Lord.

3478. Etiam repraesentabatur coram quibusdam tabernaculum cum arca; qui enim Verbo summopere delectati fuerunt cum vixerunt in mundo, illis talia ¹ quoque sistuntur videnda; ita tunc tabernaculum cum omni ejus apparatu, nempe cum atriis, aulaeis circum, velis intus, altari aureo seu suffitus, mensa ubi panes, candelabro, propitiatorio cum cherubis; et tunc simul spiritibus probis dabatur percipere quid singula significarent; erant tres caeli, qui per tabernaculum repraesentati sunt, et Ipse Dominus per testimonium in arca super qua propitiatorium; et quantum illis aperiebatur visus, tantum in illis caelestiora ac Diviniora videbant, quorum nullam cognitionem habuerunt in vita corporis, et quod mirum, non erat minimum ibi quod non esset repraesentativum, usque ad uncos et annulos; ut solum in pane qui super mens, in illo ut in repraesentativo et symbolico percipiebant illum victum a quo angeli vivunt, ita amorem caelestem et spiritualem cum eorum faustis et felicibus, ac in illo et in his Ipsum Dominum, ut panem seu mannam e caelo, praeter plura ex panum forma, positione, numero, et ex auro quod ibi circum, et ex candelabro e quo illa illuminata adhuc exhibebant repraesentationes rerum* ineffabiliarum; ita in reliquis; ex quibus constare quoque potuit quod ritualia seu repraesentativa Ecclesiae Judaicae in se continuerint omnia arcana Ecclesiae Christianae, tum quod illi quibus repraesentativa et significativa Verbi Veteris Testamenti aperiuntur, arcana Ecclesiae Domini in terris, cum vivunt in mundo, et arcanorum arcana quae in regno Domini in caelis, cum in alteram vitam veniunt, scire et percipere possint.

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