10289. Verses 34-38 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum - [these] sweet ones, and pure frankincense; amount for amount there shall be 1
. And you shall make this an incense, an ointment, the work of an ointment-maker - salted, pure, holy. And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. The holy of holies 2
it shall be to you. And the incense which you make, according to its composition 3
, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be to you holy for Jehovah. The man who makes any like it, to make an odour with it, will be cut off from his people.
'And Jehovah said to Moses' means enlightenment and perception once again from the Lord through the Word. 'Take for yourself sweet spices' means the affections for truth springing from good which must be present in the worship of God. 'Stacte' means an affection for truth on the level of the senses. 'And onycha' means an affection for truth on the more internal natural level. 'And galbanum' means an affection for truth on a still more internal level. '[These] sweet ones' means affections springing from spiritual good. 'And pure frankincense' means truth on the inmost level, which is spiritual good. 'Amount for amount there shall be' means total agreement. 'And you shall make this an incense' means worship consisting of them. 'An ointment, the work of an ointment-maker' means as a result of the influx and operation of what is Divine and the Lord's within every single part. 'Salted' means the desire which truth has for good. 'Pure' means devoid of evil. 'Holy' means devoid of the falsity of evil. 'And you shall beat some of it very fine' means the arrangement of truths into their own series. 'And put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting' means worship of the Lord in heaven and in the Church. 'Where I will meet with you' means as a result of the influx of the Lord. 'The holy of holies it shall be to you' means since it emanates from the Lord. 'And the incense which you make, according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves' means that worship consisting of the Church's holy truths must not be attached to the loves that are a person's own. 'It shall be holy to you for Jehovah' means that it must be attached to love that is Divine. 'The man who makes any like it, to make an odour with it' means an imitation - springing from self - of the worship of God expressed through affections for truth and good. 'Will be cut off from his people' means separation from heaven and the Church, and spiritual death.
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