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.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

715. Since the most ancient people knew and when in self-abasement acknowledged that they were nothing but beasts and wild animals, and that the Lord alone enabled them to be human beings, they not only used to liken whatever resided with themselves to beasts and birds but also called them such. Things of the will they compared to beasts and called them beasts, and those of the understanding they compared to birds and called them birds. They differentiated however between good affections and evil affections. Good affections they compared to lambs, sheep, kids, he-goats, young she-goats, rams, young bulls, and oxen, because they were good and gentle creatures, and also because they had a use in life in that they could be eaten and men could clothe themselves with their skins and wool. These are chiefly the clean beasts. But the evil and savage ones, which also have no use in life, are unclean beasts.