Woman dies after attending Neville's prior lecture
Description
A friend who had attended his meeting the night before in Los Angeles died suddenly that day in a little Mexican restaurant in Laguna, and he says he has no tears for her because she was born from above.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Pattern Man ¶47 (She was sitting in a little Mexican restaurant down in Laguna − she and three others who were at the meeting last night in Los Angeles. They had some Mexican dish and a glass of beer, and she had two cigarettes. Then all of a sudden she said, “Why, isn’t…)
He remembers his mother in her tropical garden, passionately fond of roses, grafting them and directing two boy gardeners, shading her light skin with a parasol while he and his brothers ran out sunbu
As the audience fell away Neville, who never drove, owned a car, or held a driver's license (nor did his wife), had his wife ask Barry at the ticket table to drive them home; Barry was so honored he washed the car.
Description
As the audience fell away Neville, who never drove, owned a car, or held a driver's license (nor did his wife), had his wife ask Barry at the ticket table to drive them home; Barry was so honored he washed the car. [Date evidence: 1959, during the post-'Birth from Above' audience collapse] [Place: Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
he had his wife ask me when I bought my ticket to go in, he said, “Ask him if he will give us a ride home tonight, because Neville never drove in his life; he never owned a car; he never had a driver’s license; neither did his wife. I was so delighted to have those people in my car; they were the stars. I even washed the car. (Laughter) Drive them home – boy would I!
Neville (as quoted): "Ask him if he will give us a ride home tonight"
Date (happened)
17 July 1968
c. July 1959
(probable)
Victor dismisses questions about the next world
Description
Neville's brother Victor told him he had come into this world not knowing what he was supposed to do and made a good job of it, so he would do a good job in the next world too, and asked not to be bothered with these things.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Neville recounts his vision of the Crucifixion: walking in a great Arab-like throng, a voice declared that God walks with them and, asked where, answered "At your side"; a woman turned, laughed and sa
before 24 July 1968
(probable)
He recommends his last book, "Resurrection," explaining that he told his own experience there mostly in the third person so that a stranger would find it more acceptable, giving only snatches in the f
Neville's wife sees him carrying his radiant limp body
Description
About two weeks before this lecture, just before bed, his wife told him she had been disturbed all day by a vivid vision of him bathed in radiant light carrying his own limp body in his arms, like Michelangelo's Pietà.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
13 September 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days ¶22 (Well, about two weeks ago, just before we retired, my wife said to me: “I can’t go to sleep before I tell you what has been disturbing me all day. I had a vivid vision when I saw you bathed in radiant light, carrying yourself in your arms.)
Audience member calls Neville the great deceiver after a lecture
Description
Neville recounts that a European man of Catholic military-school background, a semi-regular attendee, came forward after a lecture about five weeks earlier and asked, with a smile, 'How is the great deceiver tonight?' - Neville says it made no difference to him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1968
(possible)
Told
28 October 1968
(probable)
September 1968
(probable)
In September, before the child was conceived, Neville saw an unborn boy who told him he was coming on the tenth of November and that his name was Neville Mark; he told his wife and then their pregnant
He says the mystery of the 1,260 days came to him not from any book or teacher but through a series of self-revealing acts of God.
Woman sees Neville and Michelangelo weaving an eternal temple canopy
Description
A woman friend wrote Neville this week with a one-page vision: a man in white robes building a translucent green canopy over a temple entrance out of twelve-inch stripes, who was both Neville and Michelangelo and who said he had been working on it throughout eternity without recognition; she wove the stripes across him and he thanked her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 23 September 1968 and 29 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Brazen Impudence ¶23 (A friend of mine wrote me this week…it’s a sweet vision. I don’t think she thinks much of it, but I’ll tell her it’s a truly great vision.)
A man of old-school European Catholic military background, who attends a few times a year, always comes forward after the meeting with an unlovely remark, and the last time greeted him with “How is th
Neville mentions that only last night he and his wife were discussing which industries pay for television commercials - detergents, perfumes, cigarettes, drugs and a little beer.
Audience members report seeing Neville in their living rooms
Description
Neville says he can pick out a dozen people in tonight's audience who have seen him in their living rooms although he never visited them.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Brazen Impudence ¶44 (Well, my dear, in this audience tonight I can pick out a dozen who’ve seen me in their living rooms, and I’ve never visited their living rooms.)
between 14 October 1968 and 18 October 1968
(probable)
Neville says he received great numbers of written visions from his listeners during the week, that he loves reading them, and he invites them to keep coming.
between October 1968 and October 1968
(probable)
Neville recounts the many telephone calls he received after the announcement of the marriage, from people asking if he was disillusioned in her and saying their idol had fallen; he told one caller he
A church bulletin condemns a publicized divorced woman's marriage
Description
Neville reports a bulletin received the day of the lecture that the highest office in Christendom disapproves of the much-publicized marriage because the first marriage ended in divorce rather than annulment, and mocks the notion that millions could buy an annulment despite two children.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Revelation Risen Christ ¶29 (Here tonight, a bulletin that the highest office in Christendom frowns upon this little act, because the first marriage was a divorce rather than an annulment.)
c. October 1968
(probable)
Neville says a number of letters arrived during the week from people who genuinely practise the principle, and he has built tonight's lecture around clarifying the points they raised.
Neville's friend crashes into a water-carrier world and meets Neville in a dust body
Description
A friend told Neville a vision in which he flew his car over treetops, crashed, woke in a dust-like humanoid body among mindless water carriers, climbed a boulder and found Neville in a similar body, and was told by Neville that no one could deny him the next four reunions with God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Power and Wisdom ¶9 (A friend of mine shared this vision with me. He said: “I am driving my car, when suddenly I am airborne, gliding over the treetops.)
Neville describes his own practice: sitting quietly in the chair in his living room, constructing a scene implying the fulfillment of his desire, giving it naturalness, and letting it mature like a se
Woman sees Neville peeling translucent skin
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville of a vision in which she saw a translucent box covered with a translucent skin, and then saw Neville peeling a translucent skin from his cheeks.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Before Abraham Was, I AM ¶19 (Now here, a lady (she’s here tonight) said, “I came in my vision upon a box, a translucent box covered with a translucent skin. The interior seemed like some mechanism; the outer was a translucent skin. I was looking at it when suddenly you appeared and …)
Neville's Irish-American friend gives him a humorous definition of an Irishman
Description
Just before taking the platform a very dear friend of his, present in the audience, an American with an Irish background, gave Neville a definition of an Irishman which Neville retells.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
25 October 1968
(refuted)
Sources
- Source: The Promise's Fulfillment in You ¶23 (But, something was said to me just before I took the platform by a very dear friend of mine who is here tonight although he will admit to me and to everyone in the world, he is one hundred and one percent American but he cannot deny the fact that he has …)
Returning to the J. C. Penney firing, he says his dreams of transcending that little job and single room were the cause of it, and that the storms of his slumber did their work before the calm came.
before 28 October 1968
(probable)
Neville describes his vision of the dove, which descended as if through clear water, lit on his extended finger and covered him with kisses.
A correspondent dreams that Neville's deception is at an end
Description
A gentleman wrote to Neville describing a dream in which a man resembling Neville came by laughing, singing and dancing, climbed onto a brilliantly lit stage, and a voice announced 'Your deception is at an end'; Neville interprets it as the dreamer leaving the world of deception.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶13 (A gentleman’s letter came yesterday, in which he said: “In my dream I was standing on the sidewalk when I heard the words: ‘We will get him this time. He has been gone too long.’ Then a man resembling you, Neville, came by laughing, singing, and dancing.”)