Season of Temptation Departed

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 4:13 offers a window into the theater of mind. The devil is not a separate adversary but a voice of fearful habit within your own consciousness, a temporary arrangement of thoughts that press you toward lack, separation, or doubt. When all the temptations conclude, the figure withdraws for a season because the I AM—your unchanging awareness—returns to its rightful throne. The withdrawal is not punishment but the natural consequence of discovering you are not your fears, nor their audience. The moment you refuse to argue with the thought-world and rest in the steady assertion 'I AM,' the grip loosens and the season of control dissolves into quiet. This is spiritual warfare won not by force but by aligning with the truth of being. Persist in the posture of the witnessed observer, knowing that every story of temptation is a mis-telling of your true state. Your task is to assume the end: you are already whole, and the end of temptation is the present reality you inhabit by imagination and feeling.