10465. 'And sprinkled it on the face of the water' means a mixing together with truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'the water' as truths, dealt with in the places referred to in 10238; and since it says that the powder into which the calf was ground up was sprinkled on the water the meaning is that the falsity resulting from hellish delight was mixed together with the truths coming from heaven. The reason why truths coming from heaven are meant by this water is that the water descended from Mount Sinai, and 'Mount Sinai' means heaven, from which Divine Truth comes, 9420. The fact that this water came from there is clear elsewhere in Moses,
I took your sin which you had made, the calf, and burnt it in the fire, and crushed it by grinding it right down until it was fine dust; and I threw its dust into the brook descending out of the mountain. Deut 9:21.
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