AC 10019 - "Filling the Hand"

AC 10019 [1,3]

And thou shalt fill the hand of Aaron
and the hand of his sons.
(Exodus 29:9)

There were two things by which
inauguration into the priesthood was effected --
anointing, and filling the hand;
by anointing was effected inauguration
to represent the Lord as to Divine good,
for the oil by which the anointing was done
signifies the good of love;
and by filling the hand was effected inauguration
to represent the Lord
as to Divine truth from Divine good,
thus as to power.
For by the "hand" is signified power;
and "hand" is predicated of
the truth which is from good,
because all power is of truth from good.
And as the head and the whole body
exercise their power by the hands,
and power is the activity of life with man,
therefore by "hand" is also signified
whatever pertains to man,
thus the man himself
insofar as his action is concerned;
from all which it can be seen
what is signified by "filling the hand."

The Divine power of the Lord,
which was represented by
the filling of the hands of Aaron and his sons,
is the Divine power of saving the human race;
and the power of saving the human race
is power over the heavens and over the hells.
For man is saved by this power of the Lord,
and not by any other;
because all the good which is of love,
and all the truth which is of faith,
flow in through the heavens from the Lord,
and they cannot flow in unless the hells are removed,
for all evil, and from this all falsity, are from the hells.
Man is saved by the removal of the evils
and the derivative falsities that are from the hells,
and by the influx then
of the good of love and of the truth of faith
through heaven from the Lord.
This power of the Lord
is what was represented
by the filling of the hands of the priests;
for by the "priesthood"
was signified all the work of the Lord's salvation.