Genesis 1:14

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Genesis 9:6

⁶ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

333. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth. (6:13) This symbolically means that all concepts of goodness and truth were dispelled.

Stars symbolize concepts of goodness and truth, as may be seen in no. 51 above. To fall from heaven to the earth is, clearly, to be dispelled.

Stars in the spiritual world appear to fall from the sky onto the earth there, too, wherever concepts of goodness and truth cease to exist.

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.