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1 Depois disse o Senhor a Moisés:

2 Eis que eu tenho chamado por nome a Bezaleel, filho de îri, filho de Hur, da tribo de Judá,

3 e o enchi do espírito de Deus, no tocante à sabedoria, ao entendimento, à ciência e a todo ofício,

4 para inventar obras artísticas, e trabalhar em ouro, em prata e em bronze,

5 e em lavramento de pedras para engastar, e em entalhadura de madeira, enfim para trabalhar em todo ofício.

6 E eis que eu tenho designado com ele a Aoliabe, filho de Aisamaque, da tribo de , e tenho dado sabedoria ao coração de todos os homens hábeis, para fazerem tudo o que te hei ordenado,

7 a saber: a tenda da revelação, a arca do testemunho, o propiciatório que estará sobre ela, e todos os móveis da tenda;

8 a mesa com os seus utensílios, o candelabro de ouro puro com todos os seus utensílios, o altar do incenso,

9 o altar do holocausto com todos os seus utensílios, e a pia com a sua base;

10 as vestes finamente tecidas, as vestes sagradas de Arão, o sacerdote, e as de seus filhos, para administrarem o sacerdócio;

11 o óleo da unção, e o incenso aromático para o lugar santo; eles farão conforme tudo o que te hei mandado.

12 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

13 Falarás também aos filhos de Israel, dizendo: Certamente guardareis os meus sábados; porquanto isso é um sinal entre mim e vós pelas vossas gerações; para que saibais que eu sou o Senhor, que vos santifica.

14 Portanto guardareis o sábado, porque santo é para vós; aquele que o profanar certamente será morto; porque qualquer que nele fizer algum trabalho, aquela alma será exterminada do meio do seu povo.

15 Seis dias se trabalhará, mas o sétimo dia será o sábado de descanso solene, santo ao Senhor; qualquer que no dia do sábado fizer algum trabalho, certamente será morto.

16 Guardarão, pois, o sábado os filhos de Israel, celebrando-o nas suas gerações como pacto perpétuo. ,

17 Entre mim e os filhos de Israel será ele um sinal para sempre; porque em seis dias fez o Senhor o céu e a terra, e ao sétimo dia descansou, e achou refrigério.

18 E deu a Moisés, quando acabou de falar com ele no monte Sinai, as duas tábuas do testemunho, tábuas de pedra, escritas pelo dedo de Deus.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10188

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10188. 'And two rings of gold you shall make for it under the rim' means the sphere of Divine Good by means of which a joining together and preservation are effected. This is clear from the meaning of 'two' as a joining together, dealt with in 5194, 8423; from the meaning of 'rings' as a Divine sphere, dealt with in 9498, 9501; from the meaning of 'gold' as good, dealt with in 9874, 9881; and from the meaning of 'the rim' as a border serving to defend from the approach of evils and the harm these can do, dealt with immediately above in 10187. From these meanings it is evident that 'two rings of gold under the rim' means the sphere of Divine Good by means of which a joining together is effected. The reason why a preservation is also meant is that the poles were inserted into the rings and then served to carry [the altar], and 'carrying' means preserving, 9900.

[2] What the sphere of Divine Good is must be stated briefly here. The sphere of Divine Good fills the whole of heaven, and also extends into hell; for it is like the sphere of the sun's heat in the world, which in summer reaches even into dark places where the sun does not appear. That Divine sphere was likened by the ancients to circles of radiating light which had God in the middle of them and angels round about. Those therefore who allow themselves to be led by the Lord, and so who receive what is Divine from Him, are in the sphere of Divine Good, to the extent that they are receptive. Those however who are not receptive are, it is true, in that same sphere; but their interiors are closed off, to such an extent that they are insensitive to its influx. For the attention of those in hell is fixed on things of an external nature and not on those of an internal nature. From these external things furthermore evils and consequent falsities emanate, which as they appear around those spirits look like a pall of smoke from a furnace. As a consequence of this the external sphere of Divine Good there loses its effectiveness, while the internal sphere nevertheless remains. Though they are unreceptive of this sphere because the way for it to come in has been closed, the Lord nevertheless rules the hells by means of it.

[3] The reason why it is the sphere of Divine Good that emanates from the Lord is that the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord, is God's love; for that is how this love manifests itself there. The heat radiating from it is the good of love, while the light radiating from it is the truth of faith. This is why in the Word the sun is used to mean God's love, its fire and heat being the good of love, and its light the truth of faith.

[4] Furthermore from each individual angel there emanates a sphere from his love, as there does also from each good or bad spirit, in keeping with their loves, though the spheres emanating from them do not extend very far. But the Divine sphere extends through all creation, for it emanates from what is inmost, and what is inmost is the all in all of the things that go out in order from it.

Regarding spheres, see what has been shown previously, in part from experience as well, in 1048, 1053, 1316, 1504-1512, 1695, 2401, 4464, 5179, 6206(end), 6598-6613, 7454, 8063, 8630, 8794, 8797, 9490-9492, 9498, 9499, 9534, 9606, 9607.

  
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