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First, check out Submit to Authority. That kind of answers the question by itself. But, there is more to it.
One of the ingredients in the holy Incense is translated "calamus" or "sweet cane", but is actually "kaneh bosm" in the original Hebrew (See: Wikipedia, or Read it for yourself (verse 30:23)). So we can go hit it, right? Not so fast. Look at the caution against using the holy Incense in the wrong way:
"It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people." - Exodus 30:32-33
And look at what happened to the guys that tried it:
"Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD." Leviticus 10:1-2