Awakening Through the Betrayal Hour

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the scene as the interior hour at which your own nature confronts itself. The command Sleep on now, and take your rest is not fatigue but the calm of a mind at the edge of transformation. The hour is come opens a doorway of imagination: the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners becomes the witnessed moment when you stop resisting your own sense of separation. When the disciples are told to rise up and go, imagine you are rising in awareness, not escaping a person but leaving behind a belief. Let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand becomes, in your inner speech, a recognition that the betrayer is within your own states of consciousness; it is the old thought or habit that clings to limitation. By declaring I am the I AM and feeling its reality, you dissolve the illusion of betrayal and awaken to perfect unity with the divine presence. This is the moment of awakening, not a catastrophe, but a return to the mind that never left itself.