The second of Neville’s editorial confessions, and the more consequential of the two. The heavenly chorus of the 1946 Caribbean vision [caribbean-vision-of-the-risen-one] did not sing He is risen. It sang Neville is risen. When he came to write The Search, a friend who read the script — at 1262 a very wise man, many degrees to his name, an advisor to professors at Columbia — told him that using his own name would seem arrogant, and he changed it to the third person. He says plainly and repeatedly that he should not have: I very unwisely used the pronoun he, when I should have used exactly what I heard. The change was never undone — it still remains now for four or five printings in the third-person singular. What makes it a motif rather than a regret is that the reason he gives changes the reading of the gospels. At 1531 he generalises it: the Evangelists told their own experience but told it in the third person for reasons known to them, so they spoke of him constantly, but they are really telling their own experience — and he adds that no one in his spirit world curtailed his tongue, so his own third person was a concession and theirs may have been too. At 1349 the same concession is admitted about Resurrection — if I have told it sometimes in the third-person it’s only because I thought that man would accept it better — with the theological point preserved intact underneath: who did it? God. Not Neville — God did it. At 1262 the correction is made for a questioner asking what it means to hear your name called in a dream, which is why the whole confession sits inside an answer about names: it is the name by which you were known in eternity and will be known when you return. SIBLING of [i-deleted-the-mystical-aspect-from-the-book]: same shape — advised by a friend to alter what he actually heard or saw, did it, and says he should not have. Taken together the two are the corpus’ own evidence that the published books are an edited version of the experience, and that the editing went one way, toward what an audience would accept. COUNT: the lane (508) reports about seven lectures — 1036, 1097, 1262, 1745 for the chorus and the pronoun, and 1349, 1531, 1751 for the third-person concession without the chorus. Mine and provisional. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.