9956. 'And sanctify them' means thus a representative sign of the Lord in respect of the Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'sanctifying or 'making holy' as representing the truly holy, namely the Lord in respect of the Divine Human, for this alone is holy, and it is the source of everything holy in heaven and on earth. Anyone may recognize that the oil did not make them holy, but that it acted as a representative sign of holiness. To take further the implications of all this, the Lord Himself is above the heavens, for He is the Sun of the angelic heaven. The Divine which emanates from Him - from that Sun - in the heavens is what is called holy. There could be no representation of that which is Divine and the Lord's above the heavens because this is infinite; only what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens could be represented, for this is suited to reception by the angels there, who are finite. This presence of the Divine in the heavens, perceived by those there as the Lord's Divine Human, which alone is holy, is what was represented. From this it is evident what 'being made holy' means, and why it is mentioned after anointing, as in Moses in these among other examples elsewhere,