fruit, and also lakes, in which are fishes; and that they have birds of a blue color with golden feathers, and that there are greater and lesser animals, and among the lesser they mentioned some which had an elevated back, like that of camels in our earth; nevertheless that they do not feed on their flesh, but only on the flesh of fish; and also on the fruits of trees, and on leguminous vegetables. They said further, that they do not build in houses raised for the purpose, but in groves, in which amongst the leaves they make for themselves coverings to defend them from the rain and the heat of the sun.

10,162. Being asked concerning their sun, which is a star visible from our earth, they said that it was of a fiery color, to appearance no larger than a man's head. I was told by the angels that the star, which was to them a sun, was amongst the lesser stars, not far distant from the equator.

10,163. Spirits were seen, who were similar to themselves when they were men in their earth; their faces were not unlike the faces of the men of our earth, except that their eyes were small, and also the nose small, and as this appeared to me to be a sort of deformity, they said that small eyes and a small nose are accounted beautiful amongst them. A female was seen, clad in a gown in which were roses of various colors. I asked whence they prepare their garments in that earth; they replied, that they gather from certain herbs such substances as they spin into threads, and that they afterwards lay the threads in rows, in a double and triple order, and moisten them with a glutinous water, and thereby induce consistence, coloring the substance afterwards with juices derived from herbs.

10,164. It was also shown how they make the threads. The women sit down on the ground, and wind them by means of their toes, and when wound, they draw the thread towards them, and with the hand spin it out to any fineness they please.

10,165. They said also, that on that earth every husband has no more than one wife; and that the number of children in a family is from ten to fifteen. They added that there are found likewise harlots amongst them, but that all such, after the life of the body, when they become spirits, are magicians, and are cast into hell.

10,166. An account of the third earth in the starry heavens will be given at the close of the following chapter.

EXODUS.

CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH.

THE DOCTRINE OF CHARITY AND OF FAITH.

10,167. FEW know from what origin conjugial love exists; those who think from the world, believe that it is from nature; but those who think from heaven, that it is from the Divine there.

10,168. Love truly conjugial is the union of two minds, which is spiritual union; and all spiritual union descends from heaven; hence it is that love truly conjugial is from heaven, and that its first esse is from the marriage of good and of truth there. The marriage of good and of truth in heaven is from the Lord; wherefore the Lord in the Word is called the bridegroom and husband, and heaven and the church is called the bride and wife; and on this account also heaven is compared to a marriage.

10,169. From these considerations it is evident, that love truly conjugial is the union of two as to the interiors which are of the thought and of the will, thus which are of truth and of good-for truth is of the thought, and good is of the will. For he who is principled in love truly conjugial, loves what another thinks, and what another wills; thus also he loves to think as another; and he loves to will as another,-consequently to be united to another, and to become as one man. This is what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew, "And two shall be one flesh, wherefore they are no longer two, but one flesh," xix. 4, 5; also Gen. ii. 24.

10,170. The delight of love truly conjugial, is an internal delight, because it is of the mind, and it is also an external delight thence derived, which is of the body; but the delight of love not truly conjugial is only external delight without being internal, which is that of the body, not of the mind. This latter delight moreover is terrestrial, almost like that of animals, and therefore in time perishes; but the former is celestial, such as that of men should be, and therefore it is permanent.

10,171. No one can know what love truly conjugial is, and what is the quality of its delight, unless he be in the good of love and in the truths of faith from the Lord, since, as was said, love truly conjugial is from heaven, and originates in the marriage of good and of truth there.

10,172. From the marriage of good and of truth in heaven and in the church, we may be instructed what ought to be the

quality of marriages in the earths, namely, that they ought to be between two, one husband and one wife, and that love truly conjugial is in no case given, if one husband has a plurality of wives.

10,173. What is done from a principle of love truly conju gial, this is done from freedom on both sides, for all freedom is from love, and each party has freedom when one loves what the other thinks and what the other wills. Hence it is that to be willing to exercise rule in marriages destroys genuine love, for it takes away its freedom, thus also its delight; the delight of exercising rule, which succeeds in its place, begets disagreements, and sets minds at enmity, and causes evils to take root according to the quality of dominion on one part, and the quality of servitude on the other.

10,174. From these considerations it may be manifest, that marriages are holy, and that to do violence to them is to do violence to that which is holy: consequently that adulteries are profane; for since the delight of conjugial love descends from heaven, the delight of adultery ascends out of hell.

10,175. Those, therefore, who take delight in adulteries, cannot any longer receive any good and truth from heaven. Hence it is that those who have taken delight in adulteries, afterwards make light of and also in heart deny those things which are of the church and of heaven. The reason is, because the love of adultery is from the marriage of what is evil and false, which is the infernal marriage.

CHAPTER XXX.

1. AND thou shalt make an altar of the fuming of incense; of shittim-wood thou shalt make it.

2. A cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; it shall be square; and two cubits the height thereof; out of it shall be its horns.

3. And thou shalt cover it over with pure gold, its roof and its walls round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a border of gold round about.

4. And two rings of gold thou shalt make for it from beneath its border, upon its two ribs, thou shalt make them upon its two sides; and it shall be for receptacles to the staves, to carry it in them.

5. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim- wood; and shalt cover them over with gold.

6. And thou shalt give it before the vail, which is over the ark of the testimony, before the propitiatory which is over the testimony, where I will meet thee there.

7. And Aaron shall cause to fume upon it incense of spices in the morning in the morning, in adorning the lamps he shall cause it to fume.

8. And in Aaron causing the lamps to ascend between the evenings he shall cause it to fume; continual incense before JEHOVAH to your generations.

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9. Ye shall not make to ascend upon it strange incense, and a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering; and a libation ye not offer upon it.

10. And Aaron shall expiate upon its horns once in a year from the blood of the sin of expiations: once in a year he shall expiate upon it to your generations; this is the holy of holies

to JEHOVAH.

11. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses, saying,

12. When thou shalt take the sum of the sons of Israel as to those that are numbered of them, and they shall give every one an expiation of his soul to JEHOVAH in numbering them; and let there be no plague in them in numbering them.

13. This they shall give every one that passeth upon the numbered; half a shekel in the shekel of holiness: a shekel is twenty oboli; the half of a shekel an up-lifting to Jehovah.

14. Every one passing upon the numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, shall give an up-lifting to JEHOVAH. 15. A rich man shall not give more, and a poor man shall not give less, from the half of a shekel to give an up-lifting to JEHOVAH to expiate on your souls.

16. And thou shalt take silver of expiations from [being] with the sons of Israel, and thou shalt give it for the work of the tent of the congregation; and it shall be to the sons of Is. rael for remembrance before JEHOVAH to expiate on your souls. 17. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses saying,

18. And thou shalt make a laver of brass, and its base of brass, to wash; and thou shalt give it between the tent of the congregation and between the altar, and thou shalt give waters there.

19. And Aaron and his sons shall wash out of it their hands and their feet.

20. In their entering-in into the tent of the congregation, they shall wash with waters lest they die; or in their coming near to the altar to minister, to cause to burn an offering made by fire to JEHOVAH.

21. And they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die; and it shall be to them a statute of an age to him and to his seed, to their generations.

22. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses, saying,

23. And do thou take to thyself chief spices, the best myrrh five hundred, and aromatic cinnamon the half thereof, fifty and two hundred, and aromatic calamus fifty and two hundred.

24. And cassia five hundred, in the shekel of holiness; and oil of olive a hin.

25. And thou shalt make it oil of anointing of holiness, an ointment of ointment, the work of an ointment dealer, it shall be the oil of anointing of holiness.

26. And thou shalt anoint with it the tent of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony.

27. And the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of incense.

28. And the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.

29. And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be the holy of holies; every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

30. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt anoint, and shalt sanctify them to perform the office of the priesthood to Me. 31. And to the sons of Israel speak, saying; this shall be to Me the oil of anointing of holiness to your generations.

32. Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured; and in its quality ye shall not make like it, it is holy, it shall be holy to you.

33. The man [vir] who shall make ointment like it, and who shall give of it upon a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.

34. And JEHOVAH said to Moses; take to thee fragrant spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum [which are] fragrant, and pure frankincense; so much shall be in so much.

35. And thou shalt make it incense, an ointment the work of an ointment dealer, salted, pure, holy.

36. And thou shalt bruise of it into small pieces, and shalt give of it before the testimony in the tent of the congregation, where I will meet thee there; the holy of holies it shall be to you.

37. And the incense which thou makest in its quality, ye shall not make to yourselves; it shall be holy to thee to JEHOVAH.

38. The man [vir] who shall make like it, to make an odor with it, shall be cut off from his people.

THE CONTENTS.

THE subject treated of in this chapter is the altar of fuming incense; the expiation of every one by silver; the laver and washing thence derived; and the preparation of the oil of anointing, and of incense. By fuming incense in the internal sense