Arcana Coelestia (Potts) n. 10118

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10118. And thus shalt thou do to Aaron and to his sons. That this signifies this representative of the glorification of the Lord and of His influx into the heavens and into the church, is evident from the representation of Aaron, as being the Lord as to Divine good (see n. 9809); from the representation of his sons, as being the Lord as to Divine spiritual good (n. 10068); and from the signification of "doing thus," that is, anointing them and filling their hands, and thereby inaugurating into the priesthood, as being that they may represent the Lord in respect to the glorification of His Human, and the consequent influx into the heavens and into the church; for the anointing was representative of the glorification of His Human, and the filling of the hand was representative of His influx from this into the heavens and the church. (That anointing represented the Divine good of the Lord in His Divine Human, see n. 9954; consequently glorification, which is the unition of the Divine Human with the Divine Itself called "the Father," n. 10053; and that the filling of the hand represented the Divine power of the Lord through Divine truth in the heavens and the church, and its capability of communication and reception there, thus its influx, n. 10019.)


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