Neville's own vision of 20 July 1959, told here for the first time in Los Angeles. In San Francisco - a city named after a saint, in a hotel named after a pirate, the Sir Francis Drake - a dream of tomorrow's man was interrupted at four in the morning by a terrific vibration at the base of his skull; he was squeezed out of his body inch by inch and pulled himself out through the skull, and looking back saw the body on the bed moving its head from side to side, as his wife's had after the birth of their child. His three oldest brothers stood where the body had been, and the doctor among them said, 'It's Neville's baby!'. He lifted the infant from the floor, wrapped it in swaddling clothes, held it and said, 'How is my sweetheart?', and it smiled at him and he awoke. He insists the child was actually his son and actually Jesus Christ, that he was self-begotten by himself, that no physical womb was involved - the word is pneuma, a current of wind - and that the story of the birth of Christ is therefore not something that took place but something that is taking place. It descends a weeping babe and ascends a smiling one.
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Blake | For there the Babe is born in joy that was begotten in dire woe; Just as we reap in joy the fruit which we in bitter tears did sow
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How is my sweetheart?
It descends a weeping babe, but it ascends a smiling one!
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
I did not produce this child out of any physical womb, but in a way no man could have conceived. The word is from “pneuma,” meaning a current of wind.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
He descends as a weeping babe . . literally . . for you were spanked into your first cry when you were born, but this one born from above is not spanked.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
On the morning of July 20, I was in San Francisco, a city named after a saint, and I was living in a hotel named after a pirate . . the Sir Francis Drake.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
Night after night the whole experience unfolded to me. I would turn back to the Bible the next day and find things I had never seen before.
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I found this infant in swaddling clothes. I will not fail, for it is God doing it.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
But I lifted a baby from the floor, wrapped it in swaddling clothes and I held it in my arms and said, “How is my sweetheart?” and then it smiled at me and I awoke.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
Blake said: “For there the Babe is born in joy that was begotten in dire woe; Just as we reap in joy the fruit which we in bitter tears did sow.”
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
The child was actually my son and actually Jesus Christ, and I gave birth to it. I was self-begotten by me.
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when I held the babe in my hands, I looked into its face and said, “How is my sweetheart?” and it looked into my face and smiled. It descends a weeping babe, but it ascends a smiling one!
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
I look back at this bed and I see myself there like someone in a recovery room coming out of an anesthetic, my head moving from side to side.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
So I cannot be proud that I gave birth to that son, nor can I be ashamed, but when I see as I have seen, then I know the story is truer than the priesthoods of the world tell us.
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LectureThe Birth of the Babe
I want to share with you an experience I had on the morning of July 20 in San Francisco.
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LectureThe Second Vision
I told you of the experience that took place on July 21st in San Francisco, and that parallels the first vision in the books of Matthew and Luke.
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LectureThe Second Vision
You hear the wind, the “thermal” and it means the “spirit of the divine wind.”
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LectureThe Second Vision
And you will take the child and hold it and know it is your self-begotten son and you will know that you have given birth to Christ Jesus.
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LectureEsau and Jacob
then came this fulfillment of July 21st of this year (the birth of the Babe out of my own being) and I saw the complete separation of that little one called Jesus Christ from that which is Esau.
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LectureOn the Book of Revelation
I held him in my hand, looked into his beautiful face and called him by an endearing term, “How’s my sweetheart?” and then at that moment, the sudden vanishing of the entire scene.
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each individual will be resurrected, and the day that you are, you will be the most startled being in the world, because until that moment you had no idea that you were dead
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I know the symbol that out of his own brain he will bring forth the child, and a wise man will put it in his hands and he will hold it. It seems mad, but I sired it. Who is the son? God. Who is God? I held him.
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When we understand our own invisibility we can give birth to the babe, a visible state, and it will smile up at us; that is, it will express exactly our ideal of the state desired.
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There is a distinction between hearing of this birth of a child from one’s own skull—a birth which no scientist or historian could ever possibly explain—and actually experiencing the birth
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Like Paul I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the actual mystical experience of being born from above.
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