Luna 1839 In the heavens signifies the sensual soul, for though the Moon puts on the image of the Sun and is full of light, and hath a true heavenly complexion, yet by and by she loses all her light, becomes dark, and puts on the image of the Earth; even so doth the animal soul, for one while she adheres to the image of God and is full of heavenly thoughts and desires, and in an instant she adheres to the flesh and is full of sinful affections; and thus she falls and rises, rises and falls again, in a perpetual course of revolution, so that the most righteous here on earth are subject to these failings, for they wax and wane, in evil and good dispositions; though they are the children of the light, yet have they their spots and eclipses, which makes the Scriptures describe the church triumphant, as a woman that hath the Moon under her feet, for, in that glorious church in heaven, we shall be no more subject to such inconstancy; but shall trample the Moon under our feet, and be like the Sun, penetrated through and through with light, splendor, glory, and majesty; and consequently free from every degree of darkness.