10205. 'You shall not cause strange incense to go up on it' means no worship springing from any love other than that of the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'incense' as worship springing from love, dealt with in 9475; and from the meaning of 'strange' or 'a stranger' as those who are within the Church but do not acknowledge the Lord, dealt with in 10112. From this it is evident that 'you shall not cause strange incense to go up' means that no worship springing from any love other than that of the Lord is worship. The situation in all this is that acknowledgement of, faith in, and love to the Lord are the most important things of all in worship within the Church. For acknowledgement, faith, and love create a bond; acknowledgement and faith create a bond in the understanding, while love creates one in the will. And these two compose the entire person. Anyone within the Church therefore who does not acknowledge the Lord has no link with what is Divine; for everything Divine exists within and comes from the Lord. And when there is no link with what is Divine there is no salvation. So it is that worship springing from any faith or love other than faith in and love to the Lord is not worship. It is different with those outside the Church. Because they know nothing about the Lord their worship is nevertheless accepted by Him when, true to their religion, they lead lives marked by some kind of charity towards one another, some kind of belief, and some kind of love to God, whom the majority of them worship under a human form. In the next life, when taught by angels about the Lord, that He is Divinity itself in human form, they too acknowledge the Lord. And to the extent that they had led a good life they worship Him in faith and love, see 2589-2604.