The Bible doesn’t waste its architecture. Whether it's blood on a doorframe or two towering pillars before a temple, everything points inward—to your imagination, your transformation, your becoming. What begins with a trembling mark of faith in Egypt unfolds through scripture into a glorious entrance through pillars of identity. From doorposts to Boaz and Jachin, and ultimately to the rolled-away stone, we trace the movement from escape to embodiment.
Let’s walk through these thresholds—not as ancient history, but as stages of inner awakening.
1. The Ark: Sealed Into a New State
Genesis 7:16 – "And the Lord shut him in."
Before the great flood, Noah enters the ark and the door is shut behind him—not by himself, but by the Lord. This is the first great sealing off from the world. It symbolises being locked into a new state of consciousness—a space where outer conditions are drowned and only the seed of new life remains. As with the blood on the doorposts in Egypt, it’s an act of faith: stepping into a space where the world no longer defines you.
2. Jacob’s Pillow Becomes a Pillar
Genesis 28:18 – "He took the stone... and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it."
Sleeping in the wilderness, Jacob dreams of a ladder stretching to heaven. He awakes to the shocking realisation: "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." He anoints the stone he slept on and turns it into a pillar, naming the place Bethel—“House of God.” Here is a transition: from unconscious rest to conscious awareness. The stone becomes a witness to the threshold where heaven met earth within him.
3. The Blood of the Lamb: Doorposts of Deliverance
Exodus 12:7 – "And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post..."
Now we’re in Egypt, the house of bondage. The Israelites are told to mark their doorways with lamb’s blood so that the destroyer will pass over. The doorpost becomes a symbol of choice—the decision to identify with life, to claim protection by faith in the unseen. Neville Goddard would call this the first use of imagination to clothe yourself in a new assumption. You’re not out of Egypt yet—but you’ve turned within, and that’s everything.
4. The Veil of Separation: Hidden Holiness
Exodus 26:33 – "And the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy."
As the Israelites move through the wilderness, they are given instructions for the Tabernacle. At its heart: a veil separating the inner Holy of Holies. This veil represents the gap between your surface identity and your true divine nature. It remains intact until one man—Jesus—tears it in two by fully identifying with God. We’ll come to that soon. For now, the veil is the barrier between what you believe and what you are.
5. Pillars of Boaz and Jachin: Entering in Strength
1 Kings 7:21 – "He set up the pillars... and called the name of the right pillar Jachin... and the left Boaz."
By the time of Solomon’s temple, we’ve gone from fleeing Pharaoh to establishing a house for God. The twin pillars—Jachin (“He establishes”) and Boaz (“In strength”)—stand not to hold up the temple but to signify the entrance to a divine state. You’ve moved from putting blood on a doorpost to becoming the temple. You no longer beg for deliverance. You embody it. You are the structure through which divine power enters the world.
6. Samson’s Collapse: The End of False Foundations
Judges 16:29 – "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars..."
In one final act, Samson brings down the Philistine temple by pushing apart its two central pillars. What does this mean spiritually? Sometimes, before you can stand in Boaz and Jachin, the old pillars—built from fear, self-doubt, and outer dependency—must be torn down. Manifestation often begins with the collapse of the known. The destruction is not the end—it’s the breach before the breakthrough.
7. Jesus the Door: Full Embodiment
John 10:9 – "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved."
At last, Jesus declares himself to be the door. Not a symbolic marking, not a temporary veil—but the portal itself. In Neville’s teachings, this is the moment where the imagination fully wakes. You realise the door, the blood, the veil, and the pillars are not outside you. They are you. You are the place where the divine enters, expresses, and manifests.
8. The Stone Rolled Away: From Concealment to Resurrection
John 20:1 – "They saw that the stone was taken away from the sepulchre."
The stone sealing Jesus' tomb is no mere burial custom. It is the barrier between the old man and the awakened one. This is not death in the physical sense—it’s the symbolic death of limitation, of identification with the outer world. The stone represents the heavy belief in separation, in finality, in “this is just how things are.”
But then—it's gone. Rolled away.
What comes out is not the same as what went in. The stone marks the most radical threshold of all: not from slavery to freedom, or from outer courts to inner temple, but from unconsciousness to full divine realisation. You do not just survive—you resurrect. The “I Am” that passed through doorposts, stood between pillars, and tore the veil is now alive in full clarity.
The stone rolled away is the final word: You were never dead. You were only hidden.
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