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Exodus 25

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for Me an uplifted offering*; from every man whose heart is·​·freely·​·willing you shall take My uplifted offering.

3 And this is the uplifted offering which you shall take from them; gold, and silver, and bronze;

4 and blue, and crimson, and scarlet twice-dyed, and fine·​·linen, and goats wool;

5 and skins of red rams, and skins of badgers, and shittim* wood;

6 oil for the light, spices for the oil of anointing, and for the fragrant incense;

7 onyx stones, and stones of infilling for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

8 And let them make for Me a sanctuary, that I may reside in the midst of them.

9 According·​·to all that I show thee, the shape of the Habitation, and the shape of all its vessels, and so you shall make them.

10 And they shall make 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 shalt overlay it with pure gold, from inside and from outside shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make on it a rim of gold all around.

12 And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and put them upon its four corners*; and two rings shall be on its one rib, and two rings on its second rib*.

13 And thou shalt make poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt bring the poles into the rings on the ribs of the ark, to bear the ark with them.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark the Testimony which I shall give to thee.

17 And thou shalt make a place of atonement of pure gold; two·​·cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubim, of solid gold shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the place of atonement.

19 And make one cherub at this end, and one cherub at that end; out·​·of the place of atonement you shall make the cherubim on its two ends.

20 And there shall be cherubim spreading their wings upward, sheltering with their wings over the place of atonement, and their faces of a man to his brother; toward the place of atonement shall be the faces of the cherubim.

21 And thou shalt put the place of atonement on the ark from above; and into the ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give to thee.

22 And I will meet·​·together with thee there, and I will speak with thee from above the place of atonement, from between the two cherubim which are over the ark of the Testimony, all that I shall command thee to the sons of Israel.

23 And thou shalt make a table of shittim wood; two·​·cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make for it a rim of gold around it.

25 And thou shalt make for it an enclosure of a hand·​·breadth all around it, and thou shalt make a rim of gold for its enclosure all around it.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four quarters that are for its four feet.

27 Alongside the enclosure shall be the rings, for housings for the poles to bear the table.

28 And thou shalt make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.

29 And thou shalt make its platter, and its dishes*, and its saucers, and its little·​·brooms, with which it shall be covered; of pure gold shalt thou make them.

30 And thou shalt put upon the table the bread of faces, to My faces continually.

31 And thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold; solid shall the lampstand be made; its shaft*, and its reed, its cups, its knobs*, and its blossoms, shall be from it;

32 and six reeds go·​·out from its sides; three reeds of the lampstand from its one side, and three reeds of the lampstand from its second side;

33 three almond-shaped cups in one reed, a knob and a blossom; and three almond-shaped cups in one reed, a knob and a blossom; so it was for the six reeds going·​·out of the lampstand.

34 And in the lampstand four almond-shaped cups, her knobs and her blossoms.

35 And a knob under two reeds out of it, and a knob under two reeds out of it, and a knob under two reeds out of it, for the six reeds going·​·out of the lampstand.

36 Their knobs and their reeds shall be out·​·of it, all of them, one solid thing of pure gold.

37 And thou shalt make its lamps seven; and cause the flame of its lamps to go·​·up* and give·​·light across the faces of it.

38 And its tongs, and its trowels, shall be of pure gold.

39 A talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.

40 And see and make them in the shape which thou wast made to see in the mountain.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9489

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9489. 'And a cubit and a half its height' means what is complete so far as degrees are concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'a cubit and a half' as what is complete, dealt with immediately above in 9488; and from the meaning of 'height' as degrees so far as good and so far as truth are concerned. The reason why 'height' has this meaning is that all good and the truth derived from it emanates from the Lord, and the Lord is in the highest place of all, and therefore is called the Most High, 8153. For He is the Sun of heaven, 5097, 8812, and that Sun is above the heavens; it is also the centre from which the whole of heaven that is underneath is brought into being and kept in being. All heights in heaven, measured from its Sun as the centre, are differences in good and the truth derived from it. Consequently those in the inmost heaven are closer to the Lord, because they are governed by the good of love to Him, thus are governed by good more than all others are. Those in the middle heaven are further away from there because they are governed by a lower kind of good, and those in the lowest are still further away. But those in hell are altogether remote from the Lord, because they are ruled by evil and the falsity arising from it. They do not even look towards the Sun, but backwards, away from the Sun. When regarded by the angels therefore, they appear in an upside down position, feet upwards and head downwards. Now since distances and spatial dimensions in the next life are appearances determined by states of good and the truth derived from it, 9440, 'height' in the spiritual sense means degrees so far as good and so far as truth are concerned, that is, degrees away from the Most High, who is the Lord and so Divine Good itself.

[2] From this it is clear what 'height' means in the following places, as in Jeremiah,

They will come and sing on the height of Zion, and converge towards the goodness of Jehovah; and their soul will be like a watered garden. Jeremiah 31:12.

Here 'the height of Zion' stands for celestial good, which is the level of good above spiritual good. The meaning of 'height' as good is what accounts for the statement that they will 'converge towards the goodness of Jehovah'. In Ezekiel,

Asshur was a cedar in Lebanon. Its height was made high, and its branches were made long by many waters. It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches. Ezekiel 31:3, 5, 7.

'Asshur' stands for an enlightened power of reason, 'a cedar in Lebanon' for the spiritual Church, 'its height' for the degree of good.

[3] In the same prophet,

On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it. Ezekiel 17:23.

Again in the same prophet,

On My holy mountain, and on the mountain height of Israel, all the house of Israel will serve Me. Ezekiel 20:40.

'The mountain height of Israel' stands for the highest degree of good and of the truth derived from it among those belonging to the spiritual Church. Since most things in the Word have a contrary meaning as well, so too does 'height'. In the contrary sense it means the evil of self-love, and so haughtiness of mind, as in Isaiah 14:14; Ezekiel 31:10, 14; 32:5; Amos 2:9; Daniel 4:11, 20; and a number of other places. Another reason why 'height' means degrees so far as good and the truth derived from it are concerned is that what is 'high' means what is internal, and good becomes by degrees more perfect towards more internal parts. For the meaning of what is 'high' as what is internal, see 1735, 2148, 4210, 4599.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1735

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1735. That 'blessed be God Most High' means the Lord's Internal Man is clear from what has been stated just above concerning the Internal Man. Jehovah was called 'God Most High' in the Ancient Church for the reason that 'height' represented and therefore meant what is internal, so that 'Most High' meant that which is inmost. This is why the worship of the Ancient Church was celebrated on high places, mountains, and hills. Also, that which is inmost in relation to the exterior and outermost is exactly the same as that which is the most high in relation to lower and lowest. The Most High, or Inmost, is the Celestial element of Love, or Love itself. Jehovah, or the Lord's Internal, was the Celestial element itself of Love, that is, it was Love itself, to which no other attributes are appropriate than those of pure Love and so of pure Mercy towards the whole human race, that Mercy being such that it wills to save all men, to make them eternally happy, and to impart to them all that is its Own - thus out of pure Mercy and by the mighty power of love to draw towards heaven, that is, towards Itself, all who are willing to follow. That Love itself is Jehovah. To Love alone, and to nothing else, is [the substantive verb] Am or Is truly applicable.

[2] From that Love the Being (Esse) of all life is derived, that is, Life itself is derived; for that Being is present within Love and is Love itself. And because Jehovah alone, since He alone is Love, is the Being (Esse) of life, or Life itself, every single thing has its being (esse) and its life from Him. Nor can anyone except Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord alone, be and live from himself. And because no one except the Lord alone can do so, men's seeming to themselves to live from themselves is an illusion of the senses. Angels perceive clearly that they do not live from themselves but from the Lord, since they live in the Being (Esse) of the Lord's life because they abide in His Love. Yet to them more than to all others there is granted, together with indescribable happiness, the appearance of living as if from themselves. This therefore is what is meant by living in the Lord, something that is not possible unless one lives in His Love, that is, in charity towards the neighbour.

  
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