AC 5621 - Wax and stacte. (Genesis 43:11)

AC 5621
By "wax" here is not meant common, but aromatic wax, such as storax.
This wax is signified by the term used in the original language,
and spice also by the same.
So it is plain why this aromatic wax signifies the truth of good;
for all spices, being sweet-scented,
in the internal sense signify the truths which are from good.
This may be seen from the fact
that truths from good are perceived in heaven pleasantly,
like sweet-scented things in the world;
and therefore when the perceptions of the angles are turned into odors,
as of the Lord's good pleasure often happens,
they are then smelled as fragrances from spices and from flowers.
This is the reason why frankincense and incense were compounded
of materials of grateful order, and were employed for a holy use;
and also why aromatics were mixed with the anointing oil.
One who does not know
that such things derive their cause from things perceived in heaven,
may be of the opinion
that they were commanded merely to render outward worship grateful;
but in that case
there would be in them nothing of heaven, or nothing holy,
and consequently
such matters of worship would not have anything Divine in them.

Stacte - A powder from the hardened drops of the fragrant resin found in the bark of the Myrrh bush. The word means "a drop". (from http://www.bible-history.com/tabernacle/TAB4untitled00000181.htm

Storax - the resinous exudate of the Sweetgum, occasionally used in incense or as an aromatic fixative in perfumery (from Wikipedia)