Letters to the Editors
Poetic License and Doctrine
To The Editors:
Since I was asked about the wife-husband = earth-moon relationship described
in “Love in the Celestial Spheres: Seeing Our Relationships in Earth, Moon
and Sun,” (E. Kent Rogers, January/February 2015 New Church Life pp. 43-48)
I did a little research which I’d like to share.
First let me say that I found the imaginative, sometimes poetic description
of the monogamous love relationship between the earth and moon to be both
delightful and thought provoking. Mr. Rogers reflected playfully on both
common knowledge and scientific theory in ways that were at times romantic
and touching.
Turning to the married relationship between the earth and the moon, my
use of the NewSearch search engine did not discover any place in revelation
in which either the sun, earth or moon represents or is compared to either
spouse. Thus I found no marriage relationships illustrated by any pair of those
bodies. With parental relationships, I had more success.
The one place I found in which the moon is compared to a parent was in
Joseph’s dream where the sun, moon and stars bow down to him. There, Jacob
interprets the sun to represent himself as father, and the moon to represent
Lea