AR 412-416 (portions) - The Forth Angel Sounded

Then the fourth angel sounded:
And a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon,
and a third of the stars,
and a third of them was darkened,
so that a third of the day did not shine,
and likewise the night.

And I looked,
and I heard an angel flying in the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice,
"Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth,
because of the remaining
blasts of the trumpet of the three angels
who are about to sound!"
(Revelation 8:12-13)

AR 413

And a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon,
and a third of the stars,
and a third of them was darkened.
(Revelation 5:12)

This symbolically means
that because of their evils springing from falsities
and their falsities springing from evils,
they did not know what love is,
or what faith is, or any truth.

A third means, symbolically, all.
The sun symbolizes love.
The moon symbolizes intelligence and faith.
The stars symbolize concepts
of truth and goodness from the Word.
To be darkened means, symbolically,
to be unseen and unknown
because of evils springing from falsities
and falsities springing from evils.

Evils springing from falsities
are found in people who adopt falsities
having to do with religion
and defend them to the point
that they appear to be true.
Then, when they live in accordance with them,
they do evils as a result of the falsities,
or the evils of falsity.

On the other hand,
falsities springing from evils are found in people
who do not regard evils as being sins,
and still more in people who employ reasonings
issuing from their natural self,
and moreover from the Word,
to establish in themselves that evils are not sins.
Their very arguments are falsities
springing from evils,
and what we call the falsities of evil.

Darkness symbolizes these falsities
because light symbolizes truth,
and when the light has been extinguished,
darkness is left.

AR 414

Divine truth in the spiritual sense of the Word
is like the light of the sun during the day,
and Divine truth in the natural sense of the Word
is like the light of the moon and stars at night.
The spiritual sense of the Word, moreover,
flows into its natural sense,
as the sun does with its light to the moon,
and this reflects the light of the sun indirectly.

In this way also
does the spiritual sense of the Word enlighten people,
even people who know nothing of that sense,
when they read the Word in its natural sense.
However, it enlightens a spiritual person
as light from the sun does his eye,
but a natural person
as light from the moon and stars does his eye.
Everyone is enlightened in accordance with
his spiritual affection for truth and goodness,
and at the same time in accordance with
the genuine truths by which
he has opened his rational faculty.

AR 416

Saying with a loud voice,
"Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth,
because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet
of the three angels who are about to sound!"
(Revelation 5:13)

This symbolizes the utmost lamentation
over the state of damnation of people in the church
who in doctrine and life
have confirmed themselves
in a faith divorced from charity.

"Woe" symbolizes a lamentation
over the evil in someone,
and so over his unhappy state.
Here it means over the state of damnation
of those people who are the subject of
the next chapter and later.