{Footnote 1} The Lord is seen in heaven as a sun, and is the sun of heaven (n. 1053, 3636, 3643, 4060). The Lord is seen as a sun by those who are in His celestial kingdom, where love to Him reigns, and as a moon by those who are in His spiritual kingdom, where charity to the neighbor and faith reign (n. 1521, 1529-1531, 1837, 4696). The Lord is seen as a sun at a middle height before the right eye, and an a moon before the left eye (n. 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643, 4321, 5097, 7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809). The Lord is seen as a sun and as a moon (n. 1531, 7173). The Lord’s Divine Itself is far above His Divine in heaven (n. 7270, 8760).
{Footnote 2} “Fire” in the Word signifies love, both in a good sense and in a bad sense (n. 934, 4906, 5215). Holy or heavenly fire signifies the Divine Love (n. 934, 6314, 6832). Infernal fire signifies love of self and of the world and every lust of those loves (n. 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575, 10747). Love is the fire of life and life itself is really from it (n. 4906, 5071, 6032, 6314). “Light” signifies the truth of faith (n. 3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).
{Footnote 3} The sight of the left eye
corresponds to truths of
faith, and the sight of the right eye
to their goods (n. 4410,
6923).
{Footnote 4} The things on man’s
right have relation to good
from which is truth, and those on his
left to truth from good
(n. 9495, 9604).
119. This is why in the Word the Lord in respect to love is likened to the sun, and in respect to faith to the moon; also that the “sun” signifies love from the Lord to the Lord, and the “moon” signifies faith from the Lord in the Lord, as in the following passages:
The light of the moon
shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days (Isa.
30:26).
And when I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine. All luminaries of light in the heavens will I make dark over thee, and I will set darkness upon thy land (Ezek. 32:7, 8).
I will darken the sun
in his going forth, and the moon
shall not make her light
to shine (Isa. 13:10)
The sun and the moon
shall be darkened, and the stars
shall withdraw their
shining. The sun shall be turned into
darkness and the moon
into blood (Joel 2:2, 10, 31; 3:16).
The sun became black
as sackcloth and hair, and the moon
became as blood, and
the stars fell unto the earth (Apoc.
6:12, 13).
Immediately after the
affliction of those days the sun
shall be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall
fall from heaven (Matt. 24:29).


