AC 9468 - "And Scarlet Double-Dyed"

AC 9468 [1, 2-3]

And scarlet double-dyed.
(Exodus 25:4)

That this means mutual love,
is evident from the meaning of
"scarlet," and of "double-dyed,"
as being celestial truth,
which is the same as the good of mutual love.
There are two kingdoms into which
the angelic heaven has been divided -
the celestial kingdom, and the spiritual kingdom;
and in each there is an internal and an external.
The internal in the celestial kingdom
is the good of love to the Lord,
and the external is the good of mutual love.
It is this latter good
which is meant by "scarlet double-dyed;"
by "scarlet" the good itself,
and by "double-dyed" its truth.
But in the spiritual kingdom the internal is
the good of charity toward the neighbor,
and the external is the good of obedience from faith.
That "scarlet double-dyed" means
the good of mutual love and its truth,
is from its appearance in the other life;
for when the sphere of this good and truth
is presented to view in the lowest heaven,
it appears of a scarlet color;
because that which flows down
from the celestial heaven and appears beneath,
takes its color from flame,
and beneath becomes scarlet
from the shining whiteness
of the light of the middle heaven,
through which it passes.
Consequently it is that among other colors,
scarlet double-dyed was employed
upon the curtains of the Habitation (Exod. 26:1);
upon the veil before the ark (Exod. 26:31);
upon the covering for the door of the tent (Exod. 26:36);
upon the covering at the gate of the court (Exod. 27:16);
upon the ephod (Exod. 28:6);
upon the belt (Exod. 28:8)
upon the breastplate of judgment (Exod. 28:15);
and upon the fringes of the robe of the ephod
(Exod. 28:33).

. . . the things to be collected
are enumerated in this order; namely,
the inmost things first,
which were blue and crimson;
the more outward things in the second place,
which were scarlet double-dyed, fine linen, and goats' wool;
and lastly the outermost things,
which were skins of red rams and badgers' skins;
in like manner everywhere in what follows.

As external celestial good and its truth
are meant by "scarlet double-dyed,"
therefore the Word as to the external sense,
and its derivative doctrine,
are expressed by this color,
for the reason that the Word is the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Divine good of the Lord,
and this appears as a flaming light
in the inmost heaven,
and as a shining white light
in the middle heaven.