exaltation

mastery
/ˌɛɡ.zɔlˈteɪ.ʃən/noun

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Which meaning of 'exaltation' best matches its use in the sentence?

He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.