AE 329 - "the Book of the Covenant"

AE 329 [6, 7]

Moses came from Mount Sinai,
and told the people all the words of Jehovah,
and all the judgments.
And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah,
and rose up early in the morning,
and built an altar under the mount.
And he sent young men of the sons of Israel,
and they offered up burnt-offerings,
and sacrificed bullocks as peace-offerings unto Jehovah.
And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins;
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And he took the Book of the Covenant,
and read in the ears of the people;
and they said,
All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do and hear.
And he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people,
and said,
Behold the Blood of the Covenant
that Jehovah has concluded with you upon all these words.
And they saw the God of Israel,
and under His feet as it were a work of sapphire stone,
and as the substance of the heavens for purity.
(Exodus 24:3-11).

Words or truths become truths of life by doing;
and as Moses wrote these words,
he called them, "The Book of the Covenant,"
which signifies that there is conjunction by means of them.
The law promulgated by Jehovah from Mount Sinai,
and the statutes and judgments
that were also commanded at that time,
signified all Divine truth,
or the Divine truth in its whole complex.
This is why they are called "the Book of the Covenant,"
and why the ark in which was that book is called
"The Ark of the Covenant,"
"covenant" signifying conjunction.

Because Divine truth, by which there is conjunction,
proceeds from the Lord,
the Lord appeared to the people
"under the feet as it were a work of sapphire stone;"
that He so appeared "under the feet"
signifying that Divine truth is such in ultimates.
Divine truth in ultimates
is Divine truth in the sense of the letter of the Word;
"work of sapphire stone"
signifies the translucence of this sense
from Divine truth in the internal or spiritual sense;
"the God of Israel" is the Lord.