The distinction Neville says he named in one of his own books, and the one on which the whole practice turns: thinking FROM the end instead of thinking OF the end. When you think from it you are in it and the whole vast world mirrors it; when you think of it you are somewhere else, and where you are is what you will realise. So the instruction is always the same - go to the very end, ask what the end would be if you were now the man or the woman you want to be, see the world as you would see it were it true, and dwell there. The quotation he uses for it is Mary Queen of Scots’ motto by way of Eliot: in my end is my beginning - the end is where we start from, and the end is all fulfilment. What follows is not effort but transport: having seen the end, he is sustained by the end, and moves across a bridge of incidents he does not consciously devise (M183). He is careful that the end is a scene and not a wish: at 1780 it is the ring worn and the expressions on your friends’ faces as they see you married; at 1137 it is accepting the congratulations without ducking and then listening to the friends talk between themselves; at 1822 it is a signed insurance policy already in the hand, which cannot be in the hand while the investigators are still examining the property - so holding the end puts the argument behind you. At 1498 it is stated as a formula for any case at all: always go to the end, the day after your escape.