9551. 'Its shaft and its branch, its cups' means the spiritual entities within the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'shaft', 'branch', and 'cup' - which are extensions from the lampstand itself, just as the arms, hands, palms are extensions from the body - as spiritual entities within the natural. For the natural is an extension of and derives from the spiritual, even as the spiritual derives from the celestial, 9549. From all this it is evident that since 'the lampstand' means the Divine Spiritual, the parts which extend and derive from it, called 'shaft', 'branch', and 'cups', mean spiritual entities in the natural.