10267. 'It shall be the holy anointing oil' means a representative sign of the Lord as regards His Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'the anointing oil' as a representative sign of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love, dealt with in 9954, 10011, 10019. Here it is called 'the holy anointing oil' to the end that the Lord as regards His Divine Human may be understood by it. For in heaven that Human is holiness itself. Indeed the angels in heaven know and acknowledge nothing else Divine than the Lord's Divine Human; for this they can form a mental picture of and can love. But they cannot form any such picture of, nor therefore love, the Divine, called the Father, since this is incomprehensible, in keeping with the Lord's words stating that they have never heard His voice nor seen His shape, John 5:37. What is incapable of being seen or heard is incapable also of passing into the mind to form a mental picture and is incapable of passing into any affection and love. That which is to be comprehended in faith and love must be given objective reality in a suitable image. The incomprehensible Divine, called the Father, is worshipped at the same time when the Lord's Divine Human is worshipped. This too is clear from the Lord's own words, stating that He is the way, and no one comes to the Father except through Him, John 14:6; that no one knows the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him, Matthew 11:27; and that nobody has ever seen the Father except the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father and who makes Him known, John 1:18. This explains why the Lord says,

Come to Me, all ..., and I will refresh you. Matthew 11:28.

The Lord's Divine Human is the All in all of heaven, and is Holiness itself there, see 9933, 9972, 10067, 10159.

The Lord alone is Holy, and everything holy comes from Him, 9229, 9479, 9680, 9818, 9820, 9956.

8321. 'Till Your people pass over' means that therefore without risk of molestation all capable of receiving the truth of good and the good of truth will be saved. This is clear from the meaning of 'passing over' as being saved without risk of molestation, for when those steeped in falsities arising from evil who have engaged in molestation have been cast into hell and moved away there are no longer any left to stand in the way by introducing falsities and evils and in so doing to prevent the reception of good and truth from the Lord. These are the things meant here by 'passing over'; for as long as the evil had not been cast into hell scarcely anyone was able to pass over, that is, be saved. At that time the evil were constantly rousing evils and falsities among those entering the next life, and thereby drawing them away from goodness and truth. To the end therefore that people governed by goodness and truth might be delivered from those evil ones the Lord came into the world. While in the world He subdued all such as themselves by allowing Himself repeatedly to suffer temptations in which He was repeatedly victorious and after which by His presence He caused them to be cast into hell. There, obsessed with their evils and falsities, they were held in bonds for evermore.

[2] At this point 'people' is used to mean those who are capable of receiving the truth of good and the good of truth; for generally 'people' means those who are guided and governed by the truth and good of faith, 1259, 1260, 3295, 3581, 4619. At this point it means Israel, that is, those who belong to the spiritual Church, or what amounts to the same thing, those who are guided by the truth of good and governed by the good of truth 7957, 8234. The words 'capable of receiving the truth of good and the good of truth' are used because none have that ability except those who have led a charitable life; this life affords them that ability. How very greatly mistaken they are who believe that faith without charity can impart this quality! For faith without charity is hard and resistant, and repels all that flows in from the Lord, whereas charity together with faith is yielding and soft, and is receptive of what flows in from Him. So it is that charity imparts that ability, but not faith without charity. And since charity imparts that ability it is also what brings salvation, for those who are saved are not saved by charity beginning in themselves but by charity coming from the Lord, consequently by the ability to receive it.