Neville recounts that his revelation came upon him suddenly and unexpectedly, that as a boy he had never heard of it and was never taught it by any man, and that when it came Jesus Christ unveiled him

He gives his own birth year alongside Blake's, saying Blake departed a hundred years before he appeared, yet the two are woven together in the tapestry of thought.

Neville states he has lived by the law of assumption all his life and knows from that practice that every desire will be fulfilled.

He speaks of himself as having 66 years of accumulated experience.

Asked what determines the individual awakening, Neville answers from his own life: born and raised in a Christian home and taught that Jesus Christ was another being, he never suspected the truth and

He recounts his own crucifixion experience: on a pilgrimage with thousands of people toward an invisible Mecca his hands, head, side and the soles of his feet became vortexes, and a voice out of the b

Neville says his search and thirst for God, which nothing in the world could satisfy, began when he was a child and preceded the vision.

Neville recounts the Barbados cholera epidemic that happened long before his birth — the burial ground that stood untouched for years and was eventually plowed up for a lumber factory, and how those w

Neville tells of his 92-year-old aunt in New Jersey, a self-styled marvelous Christian who once fled the room when he asked whether Jesus had brothers, then fetched her Bible and read Mark 6:3 naming

As a boy certain things could not be done on the sabbath; later, as a theatre dancer, he loved playing Boston and Philadelphia because the law forbade dancing on Sunday, so the dancers worked six days

Neville says that from boyhood he had mystical or psychic experiences he could not understand and which frightened him.

As a boy in Barbados in a family of ten children with his grandmother at the table, his mother would have the cook coop up three ducks a week before Sunday and stuff them with corn and sour milk, beca

As a child in Barbados he ran school obstacle races - crawling under a tightly pegged tarpaulin, through barrels, over an obstruction, up a greased pole and finally chasing a greased pig - which he ta

Neville tells how he got his name: when he was three weeks old his mother heard a voice say 'Call him Neville', and fifteen minutes later his uncle told her the same thing, though the name had never b

Neville recalls that as a boy nothing angered his father more than animals left unfed or unwatered — he would fire a man on the spot — though he kept a slaughterhouse; and he remembers the old mule wo

He remarks that he was born in the 20th century and could not believe anything written before his birth — beyond what was said of his earthly father, mother and grandparents — had anything to do with

Neville describes his Christian childhood: born and raised in a Christian home, baptized in the Episcopal Church (the Church of England where he was born), taught the story of Christ by his mother, gi

As a boy, before refrigeration, fish were caught in such quantity that any not sold by three in the afternoon had to be cleaned and salted to keep, or else used for bait or dung.

Neville states his age in passing, saying he has awakened in this world morning after morning in his fifty-nine years.

Neville states that he himself is the father of David, though David lived a thousand years before Christ and Neville was born in the twentieth century.

Neville, taught Christianity as a child and born in 1905, describes his astonishment at discovering that the supernatural birth took place in him and that he is the father of David, who lived 1,000 B.

Neville recalls hearing the Gospel story as a child, taught by his mother and repeated at school, accepting it as his faith until it actually happened in him and he had to reinterpret Scripture from h

As small children in Barbados, when the Goddard name meant nothing, his mother corrected them by asking 'Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?' — and the family became the biggest business people

Neville describes his own appearance - brown or olive skinned, never blond, though his hair was white as a child - and contrasts it with the ghastly pale face he saw when he came out of himself.

As a boy Neville had visions and knew from them that the priests and ministers his mother revered were talking nonsense, but he could never say so to his mother, for whom a priest was the wisest man i