10269. 'And the ark of the Testimony' means within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'to anoint the ark of the Testimony' as to produce a representation of what is Divine within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. 'Anointing' means producing a representation of what is Divine and the Lord's, as immediately above in 10268, and 'the ark of the Testimony' means the good of the inmost heaven; for 'the ark' means the inmost heaven, and 'the Testimony' the Lord there, see 9485. And since the good which reigns in that heaven is the good of love to the Lord - the good that is called celestial good - 'to anoint the ark of the Testimony' means to produce a representation of what is Divine and the Lord's within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. The implications of all this may be recognized from what has been shown in various places before, namely that anointing represented the Lord in respect of His Divine Human; for the Lord alone in respect of His Divine Human was Jehovah's Anointed. From when He was conceived He had the Father's Divinity within Himself, and consequently within His Humanity. Anyone may know that the human body springs from the father's essential being, called his soul; for a likeness of the father, of the various affections composing his love, manifests itself in his children, even in their faces. In this way any one family derives its individual character by which it is distinguished from another. What then was so in the Lord's case, who had Divinity itself within Him as His Essential Being, called the soul? This explains why the Lord says,