The Judas Within: Betrayal as a Gate to Sovereignty

By Trace Burke

There must always be a Judas.

In every myth and every sacred cycle, there is a moment of betrayal. It arrives not as chaos, but as choreography. Not as punishment, but as passage.

Judas is not the enemy of Christ. He is the final key to the kingdom.

Without Judas, there is no crucifixion. Without crucifixion, there is no resurrection. Without that holy unraveling, the soul cannot remember its own immortality.

So why do we rage against betrayal? Why do we mourn its sting instead of honoring its necessity?

Because we are still seeing through the eyes of the ego.

The ego says, “I was wronged. I was abandoned. I was deceived.”

But the soul says, “I was initiated. I was liberated. I was led to my cross so that I might rise from it.”

Judas is an archetype. He lives in every life and every cycle of awakening. He is the one who kisses you just before you are undone. He is the one who offers you up, not out of cruelty, but out of sacred unconscious obedience to the script of your soul.

Yes, it hurts. The sting of betrayal feels like skin tearing from bone. But in that tearing, we are revealed.

We learn who we are not so that we can remember who we are.

And here is a deeper truth. We have all been Judas. We have each betrayed what is holy in ourselves. We have sold out our inner Christ for a few coins of comfort, validation, or control. We have all walked away from the altar of the soul to grasp at temporary gain.

So before you condemn Judas, bow to him.

He is the one who loved Christ enough to play the role no one else could bear.

In this mythic mirror, betrayal becomes sacrament. The one who delivers you to your cross also delivers you to your knowing. They awaken the part of you that cannot die. The part of you that rises.

Let this be known.

The betrayer is not your end. They are your catalyst.

The cross is not your punishment. It is your portal.

The wound is not your shame. It is your womb.

So welcome the Judas when he comes.

Let him play his role.

Let him take you to your knees.

And from that ground, rise. Not as the one who was broken, but as the one who cannot be destroyed.

This is the holy work.

This is the resurrection path.

This is the way of the soul.