Inner Betrayal and the Border Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the border and the confederacy are inner states, not outer people. The men who betray are the thoughts and identities your imagination has trusted; the border is your boundary of perception, drawn where you have accepted danger as real. When the ones who share your bread wound you, you are being shown where your discernment has faltered. The call is not to battle others but to revise the self: to stand in the I AM, the conscious presence that cannot be deceived. In that state, you invent a new circle—lovers of truth, who feed you with understanding—by imagining and feeling as if such loyalty already exists in you. Your inner confederacy dissolves into a harmonious chorus of certainty, and the border becomes only a line drawn by a frightened imagination. In practice, you live from the end: you assume, right now, that the beloved reality you seek is already yours, sustained by your awareness. In that imaginative act, wisdom and discernment surface as natural responses, and betrayal loses its power to wound.