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1 Harás también altar de madera de cedro de cinco codos de longitud, y de cinco codos de anchura; será cuadrado el altar, y su altura de tres codos.

2 Y harás sus cuernos a sus cuatro esquinas; sus cuernos serán de lo mismo; y lo cubrirás de bronce.

3 Harás también sus calderos para limpiar su ceniza; y sus paletas, y sus tazones, y sus garfios, y sus braseros; harás todos sus vasos de bronce.

4 Y le harás un enrejado de bronce de hechura de red; y sobre la red harás cuatro anillos de bronce a sus cuatro esquinas.

5 Y lo has de poner dentro del cerco del altar abajo; y llegará aquella red hasta el medio del altar.

6 Harás también varas para el altar, varas de madera de cedro, las cuales cubrirás de bronce.

7 Y sus varas se meterán por los anillos; y estarán aquellas varas a ambos lados del altar, cuando hubiere de ser llevado.

8 De tablas lo harás, hueco; de la manera que te fue mostrado en el monte, así lo harán.

9 Asimismo harás el atrio del tabernáculo: al lado del mediodía, al austro, tendrá el atrio cortinas de lino torcido, de cien codos de longitud cada lado;

10 sus veinte columnas, y sus veinte basas serán de bronce; los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.

11 Y de la misma manera al lado del aquilón habrá a lo largo cortinas de cien codos de longitud, y sus veinte columnas, con sus veinte basas de bronce; los capiteles de sus columnas y sus molduras, de plata.

12 Y el ancho del atrio del lado occidental tendrá cortinas de cincuenta codos; sus columnas serán diez, con sus diez basas.

13 Y en el ancho del atrio por la parte de levante, al oriente, habrá cincuenta codos.

14 Y las cortinas de un lado serán de quince codos; sus columnas tres, con sus tres basas.

15 Al otro lado quince codos de cortinas; sus columnas tres, con sus tres basas.

16 Y a la puerta del atrio habrá una cortina de veinte codos, de cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido, de obra de bordador; sus columnas cuatro, con sus cuatro basas.

17 Todas las columnas del atrio en derredor serán ceñidas de plata; sus capiteles de plata, y sus basas de bronce.

18 La longitud del atrio será de cien codos, y la anchura cincuenta por un lado y cincuenta por el otro, y la altura de cinco codos: sus cortinas de lino torcido, y sus basas de bronce.

19 Todos los vasos del tabernáculo en todo su servicio, y todas sus estacas, y todas las estacas del atrio, serán de bronce.

20 Y tú mandarás a los hijos de Israel que te traigan aceite de olivas, claro, molido, para la luminaria, para hacer arder continuamente las lámparas.

21 En el tabernáculo del testimonio, afuera del velo que estará delante del testimonio, las pondrá en orden Aarón y sus hijos, delante del SEÑOR desde la tarde hasta la mañana, por estatuto perpetuo de los hijos de Israel por sus generaciones.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9726

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9726. 'And you shall make for it a grating, a network' means the level of sensory perception, which is the last and lowest. This is clear from the meaning of 'a grating, a network' as external sensory perception, thus that which forms for a person the last and lowest level of life; and since this lowest level is meant by the grating it was placed all the way round the altar. Such sensory perception was represented by the grating because it first sifts so to speak and sorts out those things which enter the human mind and present themselves to the understanding and will, namely truths and forms of good. If the sensory perception is composed of good it does not let anything through other than forms of good, and truths derived from good, and rejects evils and the falsities arising from evil. For sensory perception is the actual ability to perceive things which belong to the understanding and to sense those which belong to the will as they exist on outermost levels, an ability that is perfectly fashioned for the affections for those things. The nature of all this may be illustrated by very many things in the body. Everywhere in the outermost parts within the body there are forms that resemble nets and there are so to speak gratings which sort out the things that flow towards them from the world. Those that are suitable are let through because they are desirable, and those that are unsuitable are rejected because they are loathsome. Extremely sensitive systems such as these exist in the stomach. These let through into the blood the suitable juices of the chyle, because these juices are useful and therefore desirable, and reject the unsuitable because they are harmful and therefore loathsome. The situation is similar with sensory perception, which is the last and lowest level of a person's life. But this level with a person has become totally wrecked, the reason why being that it stands right next to and is exposed to the world and is therefore the last to be regenerated, indeed scarcely anyone at the present day is able to be regenerated down to that level. As regards what the level of sensory perception is like with these people, see what has been shown already concerning it in 4009, 5077, 5081, 5084, 5094, 5125, 5128, 5580, 5767, 5774, 6183, 6201, 6310-6318, 6564, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624, 6844, 6845, 6948, 6949, 7442, 7645, 7693, 9212, 9216.

Therefore if a person is to see and have an understanding of the truths of faith and the forms of the good of love he must be raised by the Lord above that level to more internal levels. But the sensory perception meant by 'the grating, the network' around the altar is the sensory perception belonging to the Lord's Divine Human, since the altar is representative of the Lord and of the worship of Him that springs from the good of love, 9714.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2625

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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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