Taken together, the six regular rites performed inside the tabernacle … are at once seen to embrace almost all the human senses, and to cater, as it were, for almost all man’s possible needs. The incense provides for the sense of smell, the lamps for the sense of sight, while the loaves of bread are a symbol of the need for food. The bells attract the sense of hearing, the stones on the ephod and the breastpiece awaken the ‘sense’ of memory, and the diadem on the high priest’s forehead evokes the ‘sense’ of grace (for even these last two qualities could be conceived, by the ancients, as
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