Lanterns In The Inner Night

Neville's Inner Vision

Judas arriving with lanterns and weapons is not an outside intrusion but a projection of your own consciousness. The band of men, officers, and the chief priests symbolize the crowd of conditioned thoughts that press upon your awareness. The lanterns and torches reveal the belief that truth must be guarded, that light comes by force and external ceremony. Jesus, the true you, the I AM, remains untouched by the crowd. The arrest is the moment your former identities resist the new realization of your unity with God, but this is only a drama of consciousness that cannot arrest awareness. In Neville's view, you do not change the scene by fighting it; you change it by assuming the end already true: you are the light that cannot be surrounded, you are the one who witnesses the event as a passing movement of mind. Providence operates as your inner guidance, turning confrontation into recognition. When you accept that nothing outside can affect your inner state, the lanterns fade and the truth of your oneness shines through.