The Zohar speaks to the exceptional connections the patriarchs had with Hashem and on the levels of the higher worlds their beings were open to receiving spiritual guidance. And Moses being the most evolved of all the patriarchs with eyes closed radiating cosmic energy was able to experience what the Zohar describes as the three colors of something eye-like with the black mirror pupil an access to joining with the Holy One and the image was surrounded by the symbols in the waking world of fire to the north, water to the south, wind to the east and the earth to the west.