9941. Verses 39-40 And you shall weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen, ¹ and you shall make the turban of fine linen; and the belt you shall make with the work of an embroiderer. And for Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make belts for them, and you shall make headdresses for them, for glorious adornment. ²

'And you shall weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen' means the inmost things of the spiritual kingdom, emanating from the truths of celestial love. 'And you shall make the turban of fine linen' means the wisdom there. 'And the belt' means a bond, and a separation from the outward things of that kingdom. 'You shall make with the work of an embroiderer' means through cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth. 'And for Aaron's sons' means Divine Truths emanating in the heavens from the Lord's Divine Good. 'You shall make tunics' means the things that belong to faith there. 'And you shall make belts for them' means a holding in connection. 'And you shall make headdresses for them' means the intelligence there. 'For glorious adornment' means the spiritual Church's truth.

Footnotes:

4936. On several occasions spirits have appeared holding rods, who, I was told, were magicians. They are in front, a long way off on the right, deeply within caverns. Magicians who have been more malevolent ones are hidden more deeply than the rest within them. They seem to themselves to have rods, and by means of delusions they also produce many more kinds of rods, believing that they can use these to perform miracles. For they imagine that these rods have power within them, and they imagine this because the right hand and the arm, which by correspondence are embodiments of strength and power, support themselves on those rods. This has made it evident to me why people of old assigned rods to magicians, for the gentiles of old received this idea from the representative Ancient Church, in which rods, like the hand, meant power, see 4876. And because these meant power Moses was commanded, when miracles were performed, to stretch out his rod or his hand, Exodus 4:17, 20; 8:5-20; 9:23; 10:3-21; 14:21, 26-27; 17:5-6, 11-12; Numbers 20:7-10.