The color green
Green, the background color of the Brazilian flag, is read within Santo Daime as standing for the forest and for the Divine Mother, drawing on hymns of Mestre Irineu in which she is described as a flower and a garden. Commentators within the tradition connect this imagery to a broader symbolism of green as the color of growth, life, and the Holy Spirit, and read the recurring image of the garden in the hymns as pointing toward a return to spiritual innocence.
The white moon
The moon on the flag is read as the "white moon," a figure distinguished within the hymns from an occult "black moon" sometimes associated with intoxication and disorder. Commentators identify the white moon with the Divine Mother described across many of Mestre Irineu's hymns as a source of light and clarity, and connect this reading to a wider symbolism of the moon as a receptive, intuitive principle bridging the human and the divine.
The eagle
Asked what the eagle above the moon meant, Mestre Irineu is remembered to have answered with a play on words rather than a direct explanation. Commentators have since connected the eagle to a long line of biblical eagle imagery — associated with high flight, protection, renewal, and authority — and read it as a figure for the human capacity to rise beyond ordinary limits toward the divine.
A record of names
One version of the flag is associated with a specific group of Mestre Irineu's early contemporaries, remembered by name in church history as holding particular roles in the community's early years, including its first disciples and officers. The moon's angled appearance in some renderings of the flag is explained within the tradition as an effect of how the flag was held rather than a deliberate design choice, and more recent versions used by CICLU–Alto Santo depict the moon in a more refined form.