Date (happened)
1 January 1963
passage 551612 (lecture nid 2017, delivered 1963-02-08): 'It started in 1959, on the 20th day of July... Then came that interval of a few years until the first of this year, January 1st, where the dove descended.' Passages 538163 (nid 1361) and 551703 (nid 2019) also reference the dove's descent as the culminating mystical event without independently stating its calendar date.
Told / reported
- 31 May 1968delivery claims d0 (catalog #446) and d1 (chrome dateline '5/31/68') on lecture nid 1361, both certain and agreeing.
- 8 February 1963delivery claims d0 (catalog #126) and d1 (chrome dateline '2/8/63') on lecture nid 2017, both certain and agreeing.
- 22 February 1963delivery claims d0 (catalog #130) and d2 (chrome dateline '2/22/63') on lecture nid 2019, both certain and agreeing; a competing d1 (catalog #568, 1969-06-20, possible) is explicitly noted as not witnessed by this text.
Persons
Neville describes the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove as the final seal on the sequence of mystical experiences beginning with his July 1959 resurrection/birth from above, dating it to the morning of 1 January 1963.