"He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and named it Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and named it Boaz." (1 Kings 7:21)
"In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital of five cubits on its top. He made encircling chains and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, and the one on the left, Boaz." (2 Chronicles 3:15-17)
“These pillars symbolize the heart and mind, the positive and the negative poles of life. Those who would enter the temple must pass BETWEEN the pillars. Every extreme is dangerous. It is the point between all poles that is safe to stand upon. You cannot enter the temple by the development of either the heart or mind alone, but only by the equal development of both.”
- Manly P Hall
