Neville came back that day from the funeral of a close intimate friend, a woman of thirty-three earning $350 a week who took her own life leaving no note, where he was asked to say a few words to comf
Neville's friend denies the angel's assurance that he was born from above
Description
Neville says he has spent the last few months telling this friend that he has already been born from above, and that when the angel of the Lord stood before the friend to persuade him he was born, he denied it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between June 1968 and September 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Eternal States ¶12 (I can tell him…I’ve told him for the last few months —whether I’ve persuaded him or not, I do not know—he has already been born from above.)
He read in this morning's paper that tonight's scheduled film was cancelled as too gruesome and replaced by 'A Night to Remember', and uses that to tell the story of Walter Lord's discovery that an 18
Neville recognizes spiritual births among members of his audience
Description
Neville says the letters and visions his students send him, plus visions he himself received during the past week, showed him that three people present have been born from above and one woman all but the dove.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 June 1968 and 10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶6 (Now, many here have not brought through the full consciousness, but I assure you from the visions that I received this week that three of you have been born from above.)
A woman sees the world as a dollhouse after awakening in her skull
Description
A woman wrote Neville a letter describing finding herself in a huge domed room she knew was her own skull, waking from it, and afterwards seeing the world as a dollhouse of mechanized dolls; she asked whether it related to the week's great public event and he answered that it did.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 June 1968 and 10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶17 (Then she said, “After this the world seemed to change. I looked upon the people in the world and, Neville, it’s strange to describe it, it doesn’t make sense, but no matter where I looked and saw people, the world looked like a huge great dollhouse fille…)
Neville describes watching the Kennedy funeral broadcast - two hundred priests, cardinals and archbishops, the choral group, millions lining the sidewalks, all staged live in forty-eight hours - as a
Watching the Today show that same morning, Neville heard the commentator insist that Mrs.
About six weeks before this lecture, an ordained woman minister came forward at the end of one of his meetings and said she would take his theories under consideration; he told her he was not ordained
Neville recognizes scriptural experiences among his audience
Description
Neville says he is sharing not only his own experience but what others present tonight have shared with him, and that he looks at the audience knowing many of them have been born from above and have had these scriptural experiences; he expects to depart and, like Paul, remain only until it is organized while they carry on.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
between 15 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
Neville received two letters from Ray Leigh that week telling the stories he goes on to relate.
before 17 June 1968
(probable)
Neville says he has rearranged the Book of John himself and keeps that rearrangement at home, and that his own little publications suffer dislocations and misspelled words in the same way.
Neville mentions his own reading: the Sunday New York Times his household gets every week, whose story on the Kennedy family raises the question of a curse, and the morning papers' reports of what pri
A woman sees Neville give black umbrellas to her and Marta
Description
A woman told Neville a vision in which she and Marta, at a military drill, were called forward by Neville in a long black robe who gave them each a black umbrella and spoke profound words neither understood, until Dorothy Dix entered and offered to explain; Neville reads the black as the incomprehensible divine silence and says the vision was prompted by a conversation the woman had with a friend after his last lecture about waiting thirty years.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
28 June 1968
2 June 1968
(refuted)
28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶11 (She said, “I found myself in this dream and Marta was with me, and here you stood before the two of us in a long black robe. We held umbrellas over us…we didn’t hold them, but they were over us…two black umbrellas, the old-fashioned with the peak.)
Woman remembers Neville teaching her in another age
Description
A woman not yet twenty-eight told Neville that her memory returned to another age and time in which she recalled him vividly, unchanged in face and voice, telling her about a father and a son which she did not then understand; he says he moves through sections of time at night gathering his other sheep.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
28 June 1968
28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶31 (“I recall you vividly. You haven’t changed. You still have the same face, the same voice. You told me than about a father and a son and I didn’t understand.”)
A woman sees the Father call Neville his resurrection
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville a vision in which she rode a train up out of a dark cavern into a world of pinnacles and light, stood before a great being seated on a tall chair who called her "Babe" and told her to "Record It", and who, on seeing Neville in the distance, described him and said "He is my resurrection" - which Neville takes as the Father speaking of him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
28 June 1968
before 28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶5 (Seeing me in the distance, she said: “That is Neville” and the being seated in the chair began to describe me in the most endearing, possessing terms ending with these words: “He is my resurrection.”)
Woman dreams that her spiritual birth is thirty years away
Description
Another woman present told Neville a dream in which she said something was "only thirty minutes away"; he interprets it as thirty years until her spiritual birth, and notes she told him she has never wanted things or accumulated possessions, having always had a questing mind.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
People see Neville as Risen Lord
Description
Someone who died the previous July, and another woman present in the audience, both saw Neville as the Risen Lord rather than as a man of flesh and blood.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Fall Love With Christ ¶9 (One who departed last July saw me as the Lord. Another lady here saw me as the Risen Lord.)
Los Angeles man sees a fiery friend in vision
Description
A man from Los Angeles who has been attending Neville's meetings for years shared with him a vision of a great tree, a winding road, an enormous barking dog and a radiant fiery friend who came down, fused with him and carried him to the top room.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. July 1968
(probable)
c. 0
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Man Within ¶4 (Now, here is one from the south, in L.A. – how it came in his case. I’m very eager to get everyone to share with me their visions and their dreams, because God speaks to man through the medium of the dream, and unveils Himself through the medium of a vis…)
Flying home from San Francisco last July one of his two checked suitcases — the one holding his wife's expensive couturier dresses — was lost by the airline; at two in the morning he revised the loss
At an earlier meeting his friend Jack asked a question about the one birth through the womb, and Neville's answer, quoting the ninth chapter of Hebrews, confused several of those present; he says here
between 15 July 1968 and 22 July 1968
(probable)
Neville notes that everything he has told his audience in the past week is based on his own experience, this being the sixth of six lectures.
In a vision he walked among giant sunflowers whose flowers were human faces, all rooted and moving in concert, and knew that he, for all his weakness, had greater freedom than all of them because he h