395. [verse 5] 'And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the land' signifies spiritual love in which there is celestial love, and its influx into the lower regions where were those who are in a faith separated from charity. That by a 'censer' as well as by 'incense' is signified worship out of spiritual love is plain from the things shown above, and from the fact that in the Word a thing containing signifies the same as what is contained, even after the manner of cup and platter signifying the same as wine and food (Matt. xxiii 25, 26; Luke xxii 20, and elsewhere). By 'the fire of the altar' of burnt-offering is signified celestial Divine Love, because worship out of that love used to be signified by that altar, [as] may be seen above (n. 392); and by 'fire' in the highest sense is signified Divine Love (n. 494*). Spiritual love, which is charity, draws its essence out of celestial love, which is love directed to the Lord. Without this love there is no vitality in spiritual love or charity, for spirit and life is from no other source than the Lord. This was represented in the Israelitish Church by the fact that they should not take fire in the censers and offer incense from anywhere else but the altar of burnt- offering, as can be established in Moses (Lev. xvi 12, 13; Num. xvi 46, 47 [H.B. xvii 11, 12]); and that:-