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Exodus 25

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1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

2 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.

3 `And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

5 and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

8 `And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

9 according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].

10 `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

11 and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.

12 `And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

13 and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,

14 and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

15 in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

16 and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

17 `And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

18 and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

19 and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends.

20 `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another -- towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

21 `And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;

22 and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

23 `And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,

24 and hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about,

25 and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

26 `And thou hast made to it four rings of gold, and hast put the rings on the four corners, which [are] to its four feet;

27 over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table;

28 and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them;

29 and thou hast made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; of pure gold thou dost make them;

30 and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.

31 `And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

32 and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

33 three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

34 `And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers;

35 and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, [are] to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

36 their knops and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold;

37 and thou hast made its seven lamps, and [one] hath caused its lights to go up, and it hath given light over-against its front.

38 `And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold;

39 of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels.

40 And see thou and do [them] by their pattern which thou art shewn in the mount.

   

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Exodus 29:46

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46 and they have known that I [am] Jehovah their God, who hath brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I may tabernacle in their midst; I [am] Jehovah their God.

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Arcana Coelestia # 9568

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9568. 'One solid [piece made] from pure gold' means unblemished and perfect because it all consists of the same good. This is clear from the meaning of 'one solid [piece]' as in every respect, that is, it consists wholly of good, meant by 'gold', 9550, and so is unblemished and perfect; for what consists altogether of good is unblemished and perfect. The words 'consists wholly of good' and so 'unblemished and perfect' are used when good is the all in all, not only in the truths meant by 'the branches' but also in the factual knowledge meant by 'the pomegranates and the flowers'. But what all this really means must be stated. Good is what the truths spring from, and the truths springing from good are what the factual knowledge springs from, so that one is derived and brought forth from another. Nevertheless good is the all in everything that is brought forth and derived because it springs from the good. The situation is similar to that with end, cause, and effect.

[2] The end is the all of the cause, and the cause is the all of the effect. From this it follows that the end is the all of the effect, so much so that if the end or final cause is taken away, its efficient cause cannot exist, nor can the effect. The celestial, spiritual, and natural follow one another in a like manner. From the celestial springs everything spiritual, and from the spiritual springs everything natural, that is, it springs from the celestial by way of the spiritual. All that with a person is called the celestial which belongs to the good of love; that which belongs to the truth of faith springing from that good is called the spiritual; and that which belongs to factual knowledge is called the natural. Factual knowledge is the natural because it is truth as seen in the light of the world, whereas the truth of faith, to the extent that it forms part of a person's own faith, is truth as seen in the light of heaven.

[3] From all this it may now be seen how one is brought forth and derived from another, and that the first is the all in everything that is brought forth and derived, so completely so that if the first is taken away those that follow on from it cease to exist. The Divine is the first of all things, as everyone with any insight may know; therefore the Divine is the All in all of the whole order of things, thus in all the forms of good and truth that constitute heaven and that constitute the life of heaven with a person. Consequently good from the Divine is present in all truths of faith, and if good is not the all in them, and the Lord's Divine is not the all within that good, a person does not have anything of heaven within himself, nor therefore anything of the Church.

[4] But the Lord's Divine is within all the forms of good and from these within all the forms of truth with a person when in love he wishes, and in faith from that love believes that all good and all truth, thus the all of love and the all of faith, originate in the Lord, and none whatever in self; and also that the amount of the truth of faith he possesses depends on the amount of good from the Lord he receives. For as has been stated, good is the all in all of truth, and truth devoid of good is truth devoid of life. All this goes to show how the description 'unblemished and perfect because it all consists of the same good', meant by 'one solid [piece made] from pure gold', should be understood.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.