10289. Verses 34-38. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take to thee fragrant spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, things fragrant, and pure frankincense, so much in so much shall it be. And thou shalt make it incense, an ointment the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy. And thou shalt bruise of it small, and shalt put it before the Testimony in the Tent of meeting, whither I will come to meet thee; a holy of holies shall it be to you. And the incense which thou makest in its quality, ye shall not make for yourselves; holy to Jehovah shall it be to thee. The man who shall make like unto it, to make an odor with it, shall be cut off from his peoples. “And Jehovah said unto Moses,” signifies again enlightenment and perception by the Lord through the Word; “take to thee fragrant spices,” signifies the affections of truth from good which must be in Divine worship; “stacte,” signifies the affection of sensuous truth; “and onycha,” signifies the affection of interior natural truth; “and galbanum,” signifies the affection of truths still more interior; “things fragrant,” signifies affections from spiritual good; “and pure frankincense,” signifies inmost truth, which is spiritual good; “so much in so much shall it be,” signifies correspondence in every way; “and thou shalt make it incense,” signifies worship from these things; “an ointment the work of a perfumer,” signifies from the influx and operation of the Divine of the Lord into each and all things; “salted,” signifies the longing of truth for good; “pure,” signifies free from evil; “holy,” signifies free from the falsity of evil; “and thou shalt bruise of it small,” signifies the disposing of truths into their series; “and shalt put it before the Testimony in the Tent of meeting,” signifies the worship of the Lord in heaven and in the church; “whither I will come to meet thee,” signifies from the influx of the Lord; “a holy of holies shall it be to you,” signifies because it is from the Lord; “and the incense which thou makest in its quality, ye shall not make for yourselves,” signifies that worship from the holy truths of the church must not be applied in favor of the loves of man; “holy to Jehovah shall it be to thee,” signifies that worship must be applied in favor of love Divine; “the man who shall make like unto it, to make an odor with it,” signifies the imitation of Divine worship by means of the affections of truth and good from what is man’s own; “shall be cut off from his peoples,” signifies separation from heaven and the church, and spiritual death.