The vision Neville gives as the experience behind Galatians 2:20. He is in a pilgrimage moving over some invisible Mecca with thousands of people - the most colourful crowd in the world, with nothing on a screen comparable to it - when a voice out of the blue announces: And God walks with them. Someone at his side asks where he is, and the voice returns: At your side. They look into his face and become hysterical that a normal man, with all the weaknesses of a man, could be God, and the voice answers them: Yes, in the act of waking. Then a voice no one else hears comes from the depth of his own soul - I laid myself down within you to sleep, and as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed I am you - and at that moment he is sucked back into the body on the bed, his hands, feet, head and right side turning into whirling vortexes. He insists the nailing is not pain but a whirling joy, and that the exchange in the crowd always repeats itself in the same way, so it is told as a fixed sequence rather than a private memory. Related to but distinct from the cross as technique (M605 nailed-upon-the-cross-of-man), which teaches the fixing; this is the crucifixion undergone.
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And God walks with them
Yes, in the act of waking
I laid myself down within you to sleep, and as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed
It’s a whirling joy as you are nailed once more to this body
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I saw it so vividly one night, that all of this enormous crowd moving toward some invisible Mecca.
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a voice shouted out of the blue; the voice said, “And God walks with them.” A woman to my right—a woman I would say in her thirties, maybe forties, a most attractive Arab—asked the voice, “If God walks with us, where is he?”
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You will be sucked back into the body that is on the bed. Your hands are real vortexes, your feet vortexes, your head a vortex, and the right side a vortex. It’s a whirling joy as you are nailed once more to this body.
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“I laid myself down within you to sleep, and as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed”
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I was in a pilgrimage over some invisible Mecca with some thousands of people, and a voice out of the blue announced: “And God walks with them.”
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Someone will be at your side, and you will ask and they will ask: “But if God walks with him, where is he?” and the voice will come back: “At your side.”
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