10041. Verses 15-18 And you shall take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram's head. And you shall slaughter the ram, and take its blood and sprinkle it over the altar round about. And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its intestines and its legs, and put them on top of its pieces and of its head. And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar ¹ . It is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is an odour of rest, a fire offering to Jehovah.

'And you shall take one ram' means the good of innocence in the internal man. 'And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands' means the transmission of power ... 'On the ram's head' means, to the whole of it. 'And you shall slaughter the ram' means preparation for purification of the internal man. 'And take the blood' means Divine Truth. 'And sprinkle it over the altar round about' means a joining to Divine Good. 'And you shall cut the ram into pieces' means that the interior things must be arranged into order, distinct from one another. 'And wash the intestines' means purification of the lowest things. 'And its legs' means purification of the more external things belonging to the natural man. 'And put them on top of its pieces and of its head' means the arrangement into order of the more external things under the interior and under the inmost ones. 'And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar' means the internal of the Lord's Divine Human united to the Divine Good of His Divine Love, which was within Him. 'It is a burnt offering to Jehovah' means the glorification of the Lord's Human. 'It is an odour of rest' means the perception of peace. 'A fire offering to Jehovah' means all things springing from Divine Love.

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9452. The Lord in Divine Mercy regenerates a person, and that regeneration goes on from his early childhood right through to the final period of life in the world, and after that for evermore. By this means in Divine Mercy He draws the person away from evils and falsities and brings him to the truths of faith and forms of the good of love, and then maintains him in them. And after this in Divine Mercy He raises him towards Himself, up to heaven, and fills him with bliss. These are the things that are meant by the forgiveness of sins owing to mercy. People who think that sins are forgiven in any other way are completely mistaken. For to see a great number of people in hell and not to save them if this could be achieved in any other way would be the absence of mercy, when yet the Lord is Mercy itself, desiring the death of no one, but rather that he may live.