1. The Sun and Moon are like ships conveying the souls of the dying from Matter to Light, always separating the Divine Power from Matter and escorting it to the Father of Greatness.

2. For Pure Spirit had made these two Luminous Ships, which he sent on the Ocean* of constant life and death, to let them carry good across to men and to bring them back into their first world, so that their Luminous Nature** might at last be calm and happy.
*(samsara)
**(bright nature, soul)

3. For in waxing the Moon receives its Power and becomes filled therewith in the due time; then it brings about its own waning by discharging the freight to send it on to the Sun and that returns it to Jehovih.

4. And having done this, it receives again a migration to itself of the Soul from the next full Moon and lets it pass on automatically to Jehovih.

5. And so the Ferry fills and again disembarks the souls drawn up by the buckets of the wheel, until it has saved its own share of souls.

6. When the Moon then, has handed over the freight of souls to the Divine Powers* of the Father, they remain there in the Column of Glory which is called the Perfect Man; it is a Pillar of Light because it is loaded with the souls that are being purified.
*(Aeons)

7. Now the Moon first receives the radiant souls from Matter, and then deposits them in the Light, and it does this continuously; this is the way in which the souls are saved.

8. So the Sun began to purify the Light, and the Moon began to purify Light; that Light rises up in the Column of Praise with hymns and worship, the good deeds and kind works which are sent up.