Important note before reading:
This timeline is not meant to imply that consciousness unfolds in a rigid, linear order. It is written this way only to help the mind form a rough picture of the biblical narrative. In lived experience, the movement is circular and instantaneous. One can be Job in the morning and Jesus by evening; trapped in suffering one moment and living from assumption the next. The Bible describes recurring states of mind, not historical steps you must slowly climb.
Seen this way, the Bible is a psychological pattern detailing the Law of Assumption. From Genesis to Revelation, it illustrates how awareness moves from outer effort and confusion into inner certainty and creative authority. Each character represents a stage, posture, or movement of consciousness. This timeline simply arranges those movements so the process is easier to recognise and apply.
The Law of Assumption: A Psychological Timeline
Job — The Search Stage
Consciousness seeks God through suffering and self-questioning.
Life feels unjust, external, and punitive.
The realisation slowly dawns: God was never outside. (Job 1–42)
Elohim — Awareness Multiplied
“God” is plural: imagination expressed as many inner faculties.
All experience arises from within awareness. (Gen 1)
Creation — Assumption in Motion
“Let there be” reveals imagination forming reality.
Thought precedes form. (Gen 1)
Adam & Eve — The First Sense of Self Portrayed as Adam and Eve
The reader places the first "man" in the garden called Adam, which is the reader's first awareness of of self, followed by Eve who is drawn from it.
The fall symbolises forgetting assumption and falling into judgement. (Gen 2–3)
Cain & Abel — Misuse or Alignment
Sin = imagining from resentment rather than love.
Abel represents aligned assumption; Cain, effort and displeasure.
We all begin as Cain, yet longing for something more. (Gen 4)
Lamech — Mental Loops
Repetition of pain, revenge, and self-wounding states.
The mind reinforcing its own suffering. (Gen 4:23–24)
Noah — Mental Reset
The cleansing of long-held assumptions.
Imagination preserved for renewal. (Gen 6–9)
Tower of Babel — Inner Confusion
The Law is sensed but misunderstood.
Inner language struggles to turn inward after relying on outer effort. (Gen 11)
Abraham — Faith Begins
Leaving the old identity behind.
Living toward the unseen end. (Gen 12–25)
Isaac — Joy Appears
Laughter as the first fruit of assumption.
Sarah laughs before joy is embodied. (Gen 17–21)
Jacob — Persistence
Refusing to let go of a desired state.
Wrestling with identity until it is assumed. (Gen 25–32)
Israel & the Twelve — Inner States
The emergence of multiple psychological faculties. (Gen 35)
Judah — Praise
Raising assumption through inner affirmation.
First conscious play with the Law. (Gen 29, 38)
Joseph — Imagination Governs
Dreaming future states and sustaining them internally.
Imagination feeds all other states. (Gen 37–50)
Benjamin — Tender Awareness
The young state beginning to respond to inner love rather than outer law.
A fledgling sensitivity awakening within consciousness.
Leviticus & Numbers — Externalisation
The Law is sensed but projected outward.
Ritual replaces embodiment. Desire is observed, not lived.
Moses — Awareness Declared
“I AM THAT I AM.”
Awareness recognises itself as God. (Ex 3:14)
Joshua — Claiming States
Entering new assumptions by faith.
Conquering limiting beliefs. (Joshua)
David — Love Assumed
The beloved state emerging.
Old control (Saul) resists inner change.
David represents alignment with the ideal. (1 Sam)
Solomon — Fulfillment
The mind matures through the careful ordering of identity.
“I AM” is no longer tested, but deliberately shaped and established.
Peace follows because the assumption is now stable and embodied. (1 Kings 1–11)
Exile & Return — Drift and Recall
Temporary identification with negative states.
Return to awareness. (Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah)
New Testament — Living From Assumption
Virgin Birth — New State Conceived
The ability to sustain an assumption without evidence. (Mt 1, Lk 1)
John the Baptist — Revision
Repent = revise the assumption.
John represents the active, corrective movement of mind—questioning, adjusting, and turning awareness away from former conclusions. This state appears alongside Jesus, alternating in consciousness as preparation occurs. (Mt 3)
Baptism & Wilderness
Full immersion into the revised state.
Jesus represents the assumed identity itself, while John fades as revision gives way to embodiment.
The wilderness marks the oscillation between correction and conviction until the assumption stabilises. (Mt 3–4)
Twelve Disciples
Inner faculties organised to sustain identity. (Mt 10)
Wedding at Cana — Inner Union
Thought and feeling marry.
Assumption externalises joy. (Jn 2)
Miracles — Healing the Mind
The healings symbolise inner correction, not spectacle.
The blind see when perception changes, the lame walk when self-concept is released, and the deaf hear when inner resistance softens.
“Your faith has made you whole” points to assumption restoring psychological harmony.
Imagination reorders the mind, and the outer follows.
Jesus — Awareness Personified
“I AM” as the sole creative power. (Jn)
Lazarus — Dormant Self Raised
Neglected inner identity revived by assumption. (Jn 11)
Crucifixion — Assumption Fixed
The old identity dies.
The decision is final. (Jn 19)
Resurrection — Living From Being
The assumption now feels natural.
Effort ceases.
Ascension — Detachment
Freedom from old emotional gravity. (Acts 1)
Pentecost — Inner Language Renewed
New automatic thoughts aligned with identity. (Acts 2)
Saul on the Road to Damascus
Relentless self-judgement and inner hostility exhaust the mind.
Blindness marks the collapse of this distorted seeing.
When the scales fall, perception clears—the persecutor is recognised as the self.
Awareness realigns with “I AM.” (Acts 9)
Acts & Letters — Integration
Life reorganises around being.
“Christ in you” as lived identity.
Revelation — Completion
Consciousness fully ordered by assumption.
Creation experienced as finished. (Rev 21–22)
Summary
The Bible describes how identity shifts.
Old Testament: Awakening to imagination.
New Testament: Living from it.
This movement happens whenever awareness changes state — not once in history, but continually.