Arcana Coelestia #1002
1002. 'Not eating' means not mixing together. This follows from what has been said above. Regarded in itself eating animal flesh is something profane, for in most ancient times people never ate the flesh of any beast or bird, but only different kinds of grain, especially wheaten bread, also the fruit of trees, vegetables, milk, and milk products such as butter. Slaughtering living creatures and eating their flesh was to them abominable, akin to the behaviour of wild animals. Service and use alone was demanded of those creatures, as is clear from Genesis 1:29-30. But in the process of time when mankind began to be as savage as wild animals, indeed more savage, they first began to slaughter living creatures and eat their flesh. And because man had become such, he was permitted to do so and is still permitted today. And insofar as he does so from conscience, it is quite legitimate, for his conscience is given form from all those things he presumes to be true and so legitimate. Consequently nobody nowadays stands in any sense condemned because he eats meat.
Arcana Coelestia #9644
9644. 'Under the twenty boards' means which proceeds from the good that comes from the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'twenty' as that which is complete, thus in every respect and totally, dealt with above in 9641; and from the meaning of 'the boards of the dwelling-place' as the good lending support to heaven, dealt with in 9634. This good is the good of merit, and so belongs to the Lord's Divine Human, see 7850, 9127; and it is the one and only good that reigns in heaven, 9486. The fact that the truth meant by 'the bases' proceeds from this good is meant by the presence of the bases 'under the boards'.