AC 9392, 9393 - "And Moses Took Half of the Blood"

AC 9392

And Moses took half of the blood,
and put it into basins;
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And he took the book of the covenant,
and read it in the ears of the people;
and they said,
All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and hear.
And Moses took the blood,
and sprinkled it on the people,
and said, Behold the blood of the covenant
that Jehovah has made with you upon all these words.
(Exodus 24:6-8)

"And Moses took half of the blood,"
means Divine truth that has been made
of the life and of worship;
"and put it into basins,"
means with a person in the things of his memory;
"and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar,"
means Divine truth from the Divine Human of the Lord;
"and he took the book of the covenant,"
means the Word in the letter
with which the Word in heaven has been conjoined;
"and read it in the ears of the people,"
means for hearkening and obedience;
"and they said,
All things that Jehovah has spoken we will do and hear,"
means the reception of the truth
that proceeds from the Divine Human of the Lord,
and obedience from the heart and soul;
"and Moses took the blood,
and sprinkled it on the people,"
means adaptation to the reception of a person;
"and said, Behold the blood of the covenant,"
means thereby the conjunction of the Lord
in respect to the Divine Human
with heaven and with earth;
"that Jehovah has made with you upon all these words,"
means that there is conjunction with the Lord
through each and all things of the Word.

AC 9393 [1-2]

. . . when truth is called forth
from the memory into the understanding,
and from the understanding enters the will,
and from the will goes forth into act,
then the truth becomes of the person's life,
and is called good.
From all this it is evident what is meant by
Divine truth being made of the life.
It is the same with the truth that is made of the worship.
Worship from truth that cleaves to the mere memory,
and from this appears in the understanding,
is not worship.
But worship from truth that goes forth from the will,
thus from affection and love, is worship.
This worship is called in the Word
worship "from the heart,"
but the former is worship "of the mouth" only.

. . . "blood" denotes the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Lord.
But as many of the church at this day
have no other conception of the blood in the Holy Supper
than of the blood of the Lord shed on the cross;
and in a more general sense,
the passion itself of the cross;
it may here be shown in a few words
that it is not blood which is there meant,
but the Divine truth that proceeds from the Lord.
The reason why this is unknown within the church,
is that at the present day
nothing whatever is known about correspondences,
consequently nothing about
the internal sense of the Word,
which is the sense in which
the angels are when the Word is read by a person.