Neville recently read a statement mocking those who pride themselves on agnosticism as confessing in Greek that they are Latin ignoramuses.
A married woman sees the living loaf of God in a vision
Description
A friend of Neville's, a married woman with two children and a third coming, had a vision of a whole living loaf with blood pouring from it, whose numbers added up to the entire loaf; Neville reads it as the symbol of her having eaten the body of God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 17 November 1969
Sources
- Source: Thy Words Were Found ¶34 (Eventually you’ll eat the entire loaf…as my friend saw the entire loaf alive and blood pouring from it. It was all bread, beautiful symbolism, beautiful imagery and so true.)
He says he is trying to spell out the vision Paul did not spell out, and that those who will not listen now may read it after he is gone in what he has left behind in written form.
Neville tells the audience that he speaks of surviving death and of the ultimate identity of man with God from his own experience, having been sent back to report it.
A woman sees Neville proclaim God's power in a visionary carriage
Description
He retells a vision a woman (now dead) wrote to him about: in a vast pillared room she saw a self-propelled carriage from which Neville stepped with a briefcase and a cape, proclaimed the power of God, and departed again, while she said to herself that it was both Neville and God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 7 February 1969
Sources
- Source: Maker Maker Things ¶19 (And she said to herself, “Why that’s Neville and yet it is God. It’s Neville and it’s God…Neville and it’s God.”)
He says he was judged far more kindly and mercifully than he could ever have judged himself, and would never claim martyrdom for his own life.
People who know his family — his mother, father, brothers and sisters — know only the garment called Neville and cannot believe him when he tells of his spiritual birth.
He recounts reading in that day's New York Times a completed university survey, funded by foundations, of ex-convicts now running small businesses and earning ten to fifty thousand a year, concluding
After finding the Acts 1 account of Judas's death, Carter phoned Neville (with Mrs. Goddard on the extension), told him the dream and said 'you're Judas'; Neville affirmed it, expounded the two scriptural traditions of Judas's death, and twice declar
Description
After finding the Acts 1 account of Judas's death, Carter phoned Neville (with Mrs. Goddard on the extension), told him the dream and said 'you're Judas'; Neville affirmed it, expounded the two scriptural traditions of Judas's death, and twice declared that Judas betrayed the messianic secret. [Date evidence: the morning after Carter found the Judas passage in Acts 1; sometime between the death-vision (c. late 1960s) and Neville's death (Oct 1972) — no closer anchor] [Place: telephone call]
Verbatim (witness's words)
I got on the phone and I called him. I got his wife on the phone too, on the extension. I wanted her to hear this. I told him the dream and I said, you're Judas. And he said, yes. Judas betrayed the messianic secrets. He went on to say, God entered this world by committing suicide. ... Neville went on to say, In the Orient, the honorable suicide is to disembowel yourself. ... Before Neville hung up, he said once more, Judas betrayed the messianic secret.
Neville (as quoted): "Yes. Judas betrayed the messianic secrets. ... God entered this world by committing suicide. ... In the Orient, the honorable suicide is to disembowel yourself. ... Judas betrayed the messianic secret."
Date (happened)
between 1969 and 1 October 1972
(possible)
On the ship going north he broke the whole seven-year discipline in one evening — wine ordered by the man beside him, soup, fish and meat — and kept it up for the ten or twelve days at sea.
Retelling later in the same lecture: he tried repeatedly to love an invisible God more than his mother and could not, and thought of his father as the fairest man he ever met; only when he saw that fa
Audience members share experiences showing their seed was fertilized
Description
Neville says a few members of his audience have shared their experiences with him, and he knows from them that their seed has been fertilized.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 21 March 1969
Told
21 March 1969
21 March 1969
Sources
- Source: The Tree of Life ¶21 (A few of you have shared your experiences with me and I know your seed has been fertilized, and in thirty years the tree of life in you will begin to bloom and reach fulfillment in 1260 days.)
Neville says he stood in God's presence and then came down and entered a specter; and that not long ago he was in another section of time instructing about a dozen men, with a shadow of a man at the c
Abdullah once told Neville that he was so good he was good for nothing.
He tells the audience he has left the world of death and will not be restored to this world; when they die into the terrestrial world they will ask where their teacher is and will not find him there.
Young pianist visions Chopin teaching her composition
Description
A young friend in her teens, a pianist who wants to be a composer, shared with Neville a series of visions in which the spirit of Chopin walked with her above a body of water and showed her how to compose, and in another dream she was told to read the Book of Numbers.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
18 May 1969
(doubtful)
18 May 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Artist Is God ¶24 (In one of her visions she found herself in the company of Chopin, who was showing her how to compose. They seemed to be walking above a body of water, and as she looked, the water was not only the subject but the inspiration of the composition.)
Neville has heard highly titled churchmen declare from the pulpit that those who believe God is in them are insane, and wondered at their ignorance; after his own revelation he saw them still in the s
Neville says he was cast as a poor boy into a family with no intellectual, social or financial background, and was then brought out as the perfect image of the Father.
He notes that when he told this story in Resurrection he reported only that she said 'He loves you', and had not before given her further words about man's offensive odor.
Neville describes experiencing the crucifixion himself as ecstasy rather than sorrow, with six whirling vortices in his two hands, two feet, head and right side.
Neville says he has already returned to his Father as the Father and remains only to encourage those who are on their way back.
Neville says he deliberately imposed the limitation of speaking as though to another, and that whereas he formerly felt two beings within him, he now feels no sense of another at all.
He caught the flu in the epidemic that hit much of the country, went through all the pains and fevers, and lost twelve pounds he has not regained — and refused to blame any cause outside his own Imagi
before 31 January 1969
(probable)
He explains that he cut his coming Monday lecture title down to 'Wonder Working Power' so it would fit the small ad on the Saturday religious page of the Times.
He describes, in the second person, the same pilgrimage vision he had: the crowd asking where God is, the answer "At your side," their hysterical laughter, the voice saying "in the act of waking," and