AC 10262 - Two Measures for Holy Use; AC 10268 - Heaven

AC 10262 [2, 5]

Two measures are mentioned in the Word,
which were in holy use,
one for liquids, which was called the "hin,"
the other for dry things, which was called the "ephah;"
by the hin were measured oil and wine,
and by the ephah, meal and fine flour;
the measure hin, which was for oil and wine,
was divided into four parts,
but the measure ephah was divided into ten.
The reason why the measure hin was divided into four,
was that it might mean what is conjunctive,
for "four" denotes conjunction;
but that the measure ephah was divided into ten
was that it might mean what is receptive,
the quality whereof was marked by the numbers,
for "ten" means much, all, and what is full.

But in Ezekiel, where the new temple is treated of,
there appears a different division
of the ephah and the bath;
the ephah and the bath
not being there divided into ten, but into six;
and the hin there corresponds to the ephah . . ..
The reason is that the subject there treated of
is not celestial good and its conjunction,
but spiritual good and its conjunction;
and in the spiritual kingdom
the corresponding numbers are twelve, six, and three,
because by these numbers are meant all things,
and when they are predicated of truths and goods,
all things of truth and of good in the complex.

AC 10269

For heaven is not haven from the angels
as regarded in what is their own;
but from the Divine of the Lord with them.