Shaft

In Exodus 25:31, this signifies spiritual things in the natural, as the candlestick signifies the divine spiritual. (Arcana Coelestia 9551)

Isaiah 1:4

⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.