9662. 'And you shall make bars from shittim wood' means the power of the truth springing from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'bars' or 'poles' as the power which truth from good possesses, dealt with in 9496; and from the meaning of 'shittim wood' as the good of merit, which is the Lord's alone, dealt with in 9472, 9486, this good being the one and only good that reigns in heaven, see 9486, and therefore the source of the power that truths possess.
