Woman hears her skull described as a white sepulcher
Description
A woman wrote to Neville the week before, reporting that a conversational voice asked her the colour of her sepulcher and she answered, without thinking, that it was white, long, elongated, narrow and round at the end; Neville explains the whitening of sepulchers before Passover and confirms she was describing her skull.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1 April 1968 and 7 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Suffering Is Like That of David ¶6 (As the lady wrote me this past week, she said, “I heard a voice, a conversational voice, and the voice said to me, ‘What was the color of your sepulcher?’ And she said ‘I answered quite without taking thought, white.’ But I added, ‘And it was long, elong…)
Woman dreams Neville announces his death to students
Description
Neville received a letter from a woman describing a vision in which he summoned a group of his students, told them 'I am to die. I must die,' vanished, and word came that he had died — and the group was ecstatically happy.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 6 April 1968 and 12 April 1968
Told
12 April 1968
12 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Real Meaning of Good Friday and Easter ¶9 (I got two letters this week from two ladies, and they’re here tonight, one written, one experienced, rather, one the 4th of this month and one on the 6th of this month.)
Woman hears Jan reveal their unity
Description
A woman at that night's lecture gave Neville her written account of waking with the words 'Now I understand', hearing her friend Jan's voice say 'I am in you and you in me', and grasping the unity of being.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Suffering Is Like That of David ¶14 (So, a lady tonight, she writes a story. She said, “I heard a voice and the voice within me. At first I woke with these words, ‘Now I understand’ and as I pondered these words, I discovered the words were not uttered by me, they were uttered by my friend …)
Neville says he is shocked every morning by what churchmen say in the papers, and cites two columns in that morning's L. A.
The night before the lecture Neville spent seven hours in vision among his friends living and dead, all young and restored, including his brother Lawrence, the doctor who had died not quite two years
Neville says three people in that night's audience are ones to whom he told his news, and they rejoiced, fulfilling scripture.
Neville mentions telling a friend that same evening that no one ever promised the labor of bringing forth the greatest thing in the world would be easy.
Neville describes hearing a report that evening that two candidates were each spending over two million dollars on the Indiana primary, and a cartoon by Interlandi he saw that morning showing dead blo
That same day Neville read a scholarly exegesis whose learned author called it merciful that Christ suffered only three hours and so had no bones broken — and Neville could hardly believe he was readi
before 15 April 1968
(probable)
He once had a chance to meet Einstein, whom he would have loved to meet for his contribution to mathematics and physics, but the meeting never came about.
On the day of the lecture Neville looked up the word "person" in a dictionary and found the illustrative sentence about not knowing a person of the trade socially.
before 22 April 1968
(probable)
Neville claims first-hand experience of everything in scripture, and describes being split down the middle and seeing the golden living drop of blood, fusing with it and carrying it back into the Holy
before 26 April 1968
(probable)
Neville uses his own apartment as evidence, saying he can reproduce every room, the cutlery and the plates in his mind's eye without being there.
A gentleman practices repentance throughout his life
Description
Neville says he has received many letters from this gentleman showing that he has been seriously practicing repentance in his business, family and social life.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The World Is Imaginal in Character ¶18 (And this gentleman has certainly seriously been practicing repentance in his business life, his family life, his social life, from all the letters that I have received from him.)
before 29 April 1968
(probable)
Neville says he has himself seen the whole plan of God — the play Blake described — in his own visions.
c. 29 April 1968
(probable)
About a week ago Neville had a vision of an enormous bull, like the Minotaur, so vast it would barely fit in the room, which he takes as his creative power grown through the years.
before 29 April 1968
(probable)
He says that people — including religious leaders, political leaders and intellectuals — used to challenge him but no longer do, because he speaks from experience.
Last Friday night a friend drove Neville home and Neville told him that all little boys have dreams of being heroes, though the symbolism differs from boy to boy.
A friend dreams three times that his true birthday is different
Description
In the same letter the friend recounts a threefold dream in which a man in a white robe with a gilt-edged book and a quill or scythe, like a cartoonist's Father Time, insisted his birthday was a day other than 19 September 1927; Neville answers him by pointing to the 87th Psalm and tells him he has been born from above.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 3 May 1968
(probable)
A woman dreams of a white dog submerged in her fish pond
Description
Another woman writes to Neville of a dream of a little shaggy white dog lying submerged in her unstocked fish pond, happy to be there, and Neville interprets the dog as the symbol of faith — Caleb, the hound of faith — and the water as the psychological meaning still to be turned into wine.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 3 May 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶11 (Then another lady wrote. “So, I took my son into the backyard and here was the fish pond that I had. It wasn’t yet stocked with fish, but with clear water and about twelve inches deep.)
before 3 May 1968
(possible)
Neville tells how, when his father-in-law — a prominent New York City man — died, his widow Mrs.
A young mother sees Neville give her his eyes and a golden man emerge
Description
Neville retells a vision, told about a week earlier and now extended by a new letter, in which he appeared to a young mother, gouged out his eyes and pressed them into hers, showed her his transparent head containing all living things, and called her Brother; her letter reports a radiant golden man walking out of her and a voice saying he is two weeks away.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Cup of Foaming Wine ¶15 (Now, I told a story about a week ago—in fact, it’s a week since I’ve been here—where this lady said that I appeared in her vision.)
Neville's friend recounts an Ouija answer and a descending altar vision
Description
A friend present today wrote him a letter this week describing how, at nine, an Ouija board answered 'Christ' when he asked who he was; the high-church Episcopal ministers educated him out of what they called a neurotic sin, until one night, praying for absolution, a great vision of the altar descended on him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
2 June 1968
(refuted)
28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶21 (He said, “When I was a boy of nine, I received for a present an Ouija Board, and as a child I played with it when I was alone. Naturally I asked it questions and so I wanted to know, who am I, and the board came back ‘Christ.’)
Neville's friend dreams of healing multitudes and forgetting a revealed name
Description
A friend of Neville's present that night wrote to him about a vivid dream in which he healed an enormous number of people and was shown a name in a book he could not bring back to the surface, spending the whole night diving and forgetting; the same friend had lifted his own father from low man to top man in his profession.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Cup of Foaming Wine ¶12 (He said, “Neville, the next morning when I woke my bed looked like a football field that had been really well played”)