AC 9457 [4]
A church is therefore representative
when the internal holy things of love and faith from the Lord and to the Lord
are presented to view by means of forms visible in the world;
as in this chapter and the following by the ark, the propitiatory[mercy seat],
the cherubs, the tables there, the lampstand,
and all the other things of the tabernacle.
For this tabernacle was so constructed
as to represent the three heavens and all things therein;
and the ark, in which was the Testimony,
so as to represent the inmost heaven and the Lord Himself therein.
Wherefore its form was shown to Moses in the mountain,
Jehovah then saying that they should
"make for Him a sanctuary, and He would dwell in the midst of them" (verse 8).
Everyone who has some capacity of thinking interiorly
can perceive that Jehovah could not dwell in a tent,
but that He dwells in heaven;
and that this tent could not be called a sanctuary
unless it referred to heaven, and to the celestial and spiritual things therein.
Consider what it would be for Jehovah, the Creator of heaven and earth,
to dwell in a small habitation of wood,
overlaid with gold and surrounded with curtains,
unless heaven and the things of heaven had been there represented in a form.
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