In Scripture, the two pillars, Jachin and Boaz , stood at the entrance of Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 7:21; 2 Chronicles 3:17). The Temple represents the head as the house of consciousness, the inner mind where new states of being are assumed. More specifically, Solomon's Temple represents a temple of consciousness and a carefully and exaltedly constructed I AM. The pillars are not decorative; they describe the structural requirements by which an identity becomes established and upheld within awareness.
Jachin: Establish Your Assumption
Jachin means “He will establish.” This pillar represents the formal installation of a ruling identity within consciousness. It is the decisive occupation of being: “I AM that.” Once this identity is assumed, it is no longer a preference or desire but a governing claim. Jachin is the movement from possibility into established self-definition. Without this installation, there is no centre around which thought can organise.
Boaz: Fleetness to Maintain It
Boaz signifies strength and capacity — the structural power that stabilises what has been established. Where Jachin installs the ruling I AM, Boaz ensures that the inner plurality of thoughts, reactions, and interpretations align beneath it. Fleetness here is not emotional intensity but disciplined internal agreement. When contrary impressions arise, Boaz gathers them back into conformity with the chosen identity. In this way, the established state is not merely declared but continually upheld.
This structural role is illustrated in the Book of Ruth. Ruth leaves her former land and cleaves to a new people and inheritance. Boaz, as kinsman-redeemer, does not act sentimentally but lawfully and decisively. He secures her position, restores inheritance, and establishes continuity of name and lineage. What Ruth chooses, Boaz stabilises. What is cleaved to, he makes secure. In the same way, once a new identity is assumed, it must be upheld and integrated so that it becomes uncontested inheritance rather than temporary inspiration.
Masculine Pillars: Conscious Support
In the Bible and Neville Goddard’s symbolic language, male figures represent the conscious mind, the part of you that decides and directs. Female symbols represent the imagination, the receptive field where assumptions take shape and are brought into form.
Jachin and Boaz together show how the conscious faculty governs what imagination must express. One pillar establishes the ruling identity; the other secures internal coherence so that no fragmented voice overrides it. When the inner structure is unified beneath a single I AM, imagination reproduces it consistently. What is governed within becomes structured without.
The Temple Porch: Threshold of Assumption
The Temple porch, where these pillars stand, marks the threshold between scattered mental activity and ordered identity. To pass between them is to leave a former ruling state and cleave to a new one. It is not merely thinking differently but becoming different through conscious occupation.
At this entrance, hesitation ends. Once the new identity is installed and internally supported, the whole structure of consciousness reorganises around it. The Temple beyond represents a mind no longer divided but ordered under a single governing declaration.
Jesus Walks in Solomon’s Porch
John 10:23 says: “And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.” Walking between the pillars — Solomon's Portico — symbolises conscious movement into established identity. The walk implies deliberate occupation. A few verses later, Jesus declares, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). This expresses the settled unity between the one who declares I AM and the deeper creative power that brings that declaration into visible order. Establishment precedes unity; unity precedes visible expression.
Faith and Strength Working Together
As James 2:17 says: “Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by works, is dead.” In this framework:
- Jachin = the conscious establishment of a ruling I AM.
- Boaz = the structural strength that maintains and enforces internal alignment with that I AM.
Faith is the installation of identity. Works are the ongoing inner responses that uphold it. When identity is declared but not internally supported, fragmentation returns. When both pillars stand active, the ruling state stabilises and expresses naturally.
Conclusion: Passing Between the Pillars
Jachin and Boaz reveal that identity is the primary creative act. One pillar installs the governing declaration; the other ensures continuity across the whole structure of consciousness. Together they form the entrance into an ordered and unified mind.
To stand between them is to declare: “I AM that.” To walk beyond them is to live from it. When the inner plurality remains aligned beneath the chosen identity, reality reflects it after its kind. In this way, you become the living Temple — established, stabilised, and structured from within.
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