Blake’s alternative, which Neville puts as a choice with only one honest answer. Either man contains the whole of eternity within him and truly is the ark of God, or he appears out of nowhere, waxes and wanes and vanishes leaving not a trace behind him, just like a phantom (1820). Man thinks he is a little phantom; Neville tells him he is the ark. The line is fastened to scripture by a word: at 1162 he notes that Genesis begins 'in the beginning God' and ends 'in a coffin in Egypt', and that the word translated coffin is also translated ark - so the ark that contains God is man, and the one laid in it is Joseph the dreamer. At 1106 the ark is loaded: into it go all the animals, clean and unclean, and they are not animals but states of consciousness, with more clean than unclean - so the choice of which state to enter is man’s own, and without that choice he would be an automaton and a puppet, and if there were no evil there could be no knowledge of good. At 2069 the frame closes: the flood of illusion is over, the dove returns with the sprig of victory, and man is not a phantom.