AC 10206 - worship

AC 10206
Regeneration is one thing, and worship another;
for regeneration is first,
and the worship is according to the quality
of the person's regeneration;
for his worship is accepted and is pleasing
in the proportion that he has been purified
from evils and the consequent falsities,
and accordingly in the proportion
that the truths and goods of faith and of love
have been implanted.
For by worship is meant everything
that proceeds from love and faith with a person,
and is uplifted to the Lord by the Lord.
As this is the full completion,
the altar of incense, by which worship was represented,
is described last;
for all things follow in order according to the series
in which they are described.
First is described the Testimony,
by which is meant the Lord;
next the ark in which was the Testimony,
by which is signified the inmost heaven where the Lord is;
afterward the table on which were the breads,
by which is signified the good of love therefrom;
and also the lampstand with the lamps,
by which is signified the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Lord's Divine good;
then the Tent itself,
by which is signified heaven and the church
which are from these;
at length the altar of burnt-offering,
by which is signified regeneration
by means of truths from good;
and lastly the altar of incense,
by which is signified worship from all these
in heaven and in the church.