The Bible opens with Adam naming the animals. Each animal is a living symbol of the instincts and states that arise within. To name is to define, and to define is to give form (I AM THAT I AM). Adam’s act of naming marks the mind’s first vessel — the power of consciousness to order its contents and bring shape to what is otherwise formless.
Creation, however, is founded on a deeper principle. “So God created man in his own image , in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:27). This law of male and female is the seed of every manifestation. It is not limited to physical gender but is the union of conception and feeling, thought and its emotional seal. The same truth is the echoed in Genesis 2:24: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” To be “one flesh” is to bring idea and its felt reality into agreement, fusing them as a single living assumption.
With Noah, the drama takes form. The ark rides the flood as imagination afloat on the waters of dissolving states. The animals enter two by two, embodying the law of generation. Neville said, “If two agree as touching anything, it shall be done.” Agreement is not external but internal — the marriage of inner male and female. What is not paired perishes in the flood; what is joined within survives to walk upon the new earth.
From the ark, the story moves to the tabernacle in the wilderness — a portable dwelling, raised and struck along the journey. This represents imagination carrying assumptions through changing conditions. At last comes Solomon’s temple, fixed in stone and splendour. What once floated, what once wandered, now stands immovable. The temple is the perfected vessel of mind, housing assumption until it shines as outward fact.
The progression is plain:
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Adam — naming: the ordering of states.
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Noah — pairing: the preservation of generative unions.
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Tabernacle/Temple — housing: the enthronement of assumptions in enduring form.
Each structure is a construct of consciousness, not wood or stone but vessels of imagination. The animals, the two by two, the male and female — all bear witness to the fundamental law that creation comes only by union. The Bible’s vessels mature from naming to pairing to housing, until the ultimate dwelling is revealed: Jesus, the Word made flesh, the living Temple in whom the law of imagination is fully embodied.
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