Scripture is not laid out in the order in which it is lived. Genesis has a strange reversal of order running right through it - the first shall be last and the last first - and it begins in the very first verse. Neville extends the observation to his own life: the first sign recorded in Mark, the descent of the dove, was the last of his mystical experiences, and the events the evangelists record at the end came to him first. He will not speculate on whether the arrangement is by design, whether an evangelist mixed the order so that no one could anticipate the unfolding, or whether the parchments were simply dislocated in an age without printers. What he is sure of is that if he told the story in the order it unfolded in him, the arrangement would radically change - because we are unique in God's eyes and the experiences come differently to each.