9550. 'Solid shall the lampstand be made' means that all of it must spring from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'solid' as the entire whole, consequently as the necessity for all of it to spring from good, which is meant by 'gold'. For the whole of the spiritual, meant by 'the lampstand' since it serves to shed light, arises from the celestial and is also kept in constant being by means of it, even as all truth springs from good. If you take away good, truth is instantly wiped out; for the soul of truth is good. It is like an affection belonging to love and its link to thought. If that affection is taken away, the thought is immediately wiped out; for the affection is the actual life or the soul of the thought. Every affection belonging to love has connection with good, and every thought springing from it has connection with truth. The truth which springs from good is called spiritual, and the good from which the truth springs is called celestial.