In the Christmas story, the wise men bring gifts to the Lord: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

The gold is listed first, because it is the inmost - signifying good, e.g. the good that we do when we love the Lord and the neighbor.

The frankincense is next. It signifies rational truth, which is the set of true ideas that we know, not about external things like cars or cooking, but about what is really good, and what is really true.

These rational truths are built on earlier knowledges that we learn, before we have really made them our own. Those early knowledges about spiritual things - often learned in childhood - are represented by the myrrh.

In a way, these gifts are really a reciprocation. We can't actually give them to the Lord until the Lord has given them to us. We necessarily start out by learning and doing the Lord's law (myrrh). The Lord can then call up those memories to become rational truths (frankincense). Then, over time, and with effort, those truths can be transformed into good (gold). The wise men from the East had gone through this process of learning and becoming vessels that could receive truths and goods. They were able to perceive the Lord's birth, and find him, and bring gifts to him.

9950. 'For glorious adornment' means the spiritual Church's truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'for glorious adornment' as in order to display Divine Truth as it exists in its inward form and its outward form in the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom, dealt with above in 9815, but at this point the spiritual Church's truth which comes from there. For Aaron represents Divine Good in the heavens, and his sons Divine Truth springing from that Good. Furthermore Divine Good exists there as the Father, and Divine Truth springing from that Good, as the Son; and this being so, 'father' in the Word means good, and 'sons' truths. The latter are also born from the former when a person is generated anew, that is, when he is being regenerated.