9819. 'And they shall make Aaron's garments' means through whom the spiritual kingdom exists. This is clear from the meaning of 'Aaron's garments' as a representative sign of the Lord's spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to His celestial kingdom, dealt with above in 9814. The reason why the wise at heart, filled with the spirit of wisdom, were to make those garments is that by these people those in the celestial kingdom are meant, and the spiritual kingdom is what springs from and so what covers that celestial kingdom like a garment next to the body, as also becomes clear from the things that have been stated in 9818.

9811. 'Nadab and Abihu' means in respect of the Divine Spiritual that springs from it. This is clear from the representation of Aaron's sons as Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, dealt with above in 9807. The Divine Spiritual is Divine Truth emanating from the Divine Celestial, thus what is Divine and the Lord's as it is received in the middle or second heaven. That which is received there is represented by Aaron's two older sons, since it emanates and is so to speak born from the celestial good present in the inmost heaven, like a son from his father. But Aaron's two younger sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, represent - as long as the older ones Nadab and Abihu were alive - what is Divine in the lowest heaven, which follows on immediately from the previous or middle heaven. That is, the younger sons represent the Divine Natural, dealt with in the very next paragraph.