9689. 'And you shall make for the screen five pillars of shittim [wood]' means a sufficient amount of support provided by the uniting intermediary through the good of merit belonging to the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'the screen in place of the tent door' as the intermediary uniting the second or middle heaven to the first or lowest, dealt with above in 9686; from the meaning of 'five' as that which exists partially or in some measure, dealt with in 4638, and also a sufficient amount; from the meaning of 'pillars' as support, dealt with in 9674; and from the meaning of 'shittim wood' as the good of merit, which, being the Lord's alone - dealt with in 9472, 9486 - accordingly belongs to His Divine Human, for This is what merit truly belongs to, 9486.

9686. 'And you shall make a screen for the tent door' means the intermediary uniting the second or middle heaven to the first or lowest heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'a screen' as an intermediary uniting this heaven, which is represented by the tent of meeting, to the heaven represented by the court, which is the subject in the next chapter. For just as the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies has meant an intermediary uniting the inmost or third heaven and the middle or second heaven, so this screen means the like between the middle or second heaven and the first or lowest. The fact that there are three heavens, and that two of them were represented by the dwelling-place inside the veil and the dwelling-place outside the veil, has been shown above. And that the third or lowest heaven is represented by the court will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in the next chapter. The entrance from one to the other is meant by 'a door' where the screen was hung. As regards 'a door', that it means an entrance, see 2145, 2152, 2356, 2385, consequently communication, 8989, so that 'a screen' here, which served in place of a door, is an intermediary that communicates and unites.