An editorial confession Neville makes at least twice (1117, 1127), and it concerns the most famous demonstration he ever published - the discharge from the army (M818). When the manuscript was being corrected, a friend who had heard the whole story said: were I you, I would delete the mystical aspect of the story, because people reading the book will think they must have that vision in order to get similar results. Neville took the advice and printed the story without the hand that came out to the elbow, scratched out Disapproved and wrote Approved, and without the voice that said, that which I have done I have done, do nothing. He says plainly that he should not have done it. The reasoning he reports on both sides is sound, and he gives it: whether you actually saw the hand or not, if you believe in the name of God and fall asleep clothed in your wish fulfilled it would work without the hand, and some who have never had a vision would think they must have one first. The passage matters for the whole corpus, because it is direct evidence that the published books are an edited version of what he experienced, and that the editing went in one direction - toward the law and away from the vision.