Neville was taught as a child the orthodox story of Jesus as a man who came into the world 2,000 years ago, died and rose again — taught to him by his mother, whom he would never question, and which h
He describes his daily study routine: rising about 4:30 with a cup of tea and reading the Bible until the paper comes, comparing King James and Revised Standard in The Interpreter's Bible with its twe
He had his dear friend Bob cremated and the urn returned to him held only a small handful of ash.
Neville mentions that after the lecture he will ride home with his friend, going by sight past familiar streets and objects.
Abdullah told him cryptically that he would have died by the time he returned from Barbados; Neville, then seven years a strict vegetarian, non-smoking, non-drinking celibate after a disillusioning fi
Neville says he has seen in imagination a world unlike this one, and that when he entered it and let consciousness follow vision it was more real than the room he is lecturing in.
Joseph Goddard says money is indifferent to its owner
Description
He quotes a saying of his father's about money being indifferent to its owner.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 14 March 1969
He describes his present way of living: quiet and modest, a small income from what he does, self-employed, taking three to four months off voluntarily every year and being entirely self-supporting.
Friend's vision of a baby declaring I am a father
Description
The same friend enclosed in his letter a vision in which he drove at night, felt he was going to have a baby, stopped at the only lighted house — a night school — and found a baby on his car seat, crying three times "I am a father."
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 17 February 1969
Sources
- Source: The Rock ¶24 (He picked up the baby and he said, “I’m a father,” and repeated it three times. “I am a father. I am a father.”)
Neville describes repeatedly moving into a certain society in vision, arresting within himself the activity that animates everything, so that all the people stood as still and dead as objects in a mus
Neville's wife disapproved of his artist friend's romance with a much younger woman and worked to separate them, while Neville did not mind either way.
Neville remarks that he comes from a very big family.
A woman hears Neville's voice thunder approval
Description
The same friend told Neville that, elated after hearing from her mother, she went into the kitchen to make coffee and out of nowhere heard his voice come like thunder saying 'That's the spirit!', so that she nearly dropped the coffee and stood trembling.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 31 March 1967
Sources
- Source: The New Idea Against the Old ¶33 (“And then, all of a sudden, out of the nowhere came your voice and your voice came like thunder through the kitchen, and it said, ‘That’s the spirit!’ I almost dropped the coffee and instead of having coffee all over the kitchen floor I held it just befo…)
Neville tells the audience he will be back Monday, lecturing every Monday and Friday until the middle of December, though he has no idea yet what he will speak on.
When he tells his own mystical experience of scripture unfolding in him, hearers are shocked and accuse him of blasphemy, yet he cannot deny the experiences.
He awoke in the tomb, pushed the stone away himself with no help, and looking back saw three witnesses as in Genesis; like Simeon he took the promised child in his arms and it laughed.
Neville tells the audience to take him seriously because he must soon depart.
Neville has appeared on television and radio around the clock with ministers, priests and rabbis, who look at him strangely when he quotes their own Book; when he quoted David's words in the 2nd Psalm
Neville says he found the truth as Paul did, not from any man or book but through a revelation - the unveiling of God within him - which occurred when he was confronted by and fused with the Risen Lor
Moving in spirit into another environment at night, Neville arrested a feeling within himself and everything he perceived - falling leaves, blades of grass, a bird in flight, the diners and the waitre
Neville says that at his last lecture night he tried to make his message clear but some did not understand, so he repeats it.
Lying on his bed in Beverly Hills he saw and then stepped into another world just as solid as this one, told two ladies in a plush hotel corridor that the whole thing was a dream, they fled from him a
Neville says he has experienced the whole Gospel story in detail, that those who know him well cite his weaknesses against him, and that he finds more witnesses in Los Angeles than anywhere else becau
Months after that awakening a further unfolding came, after which he knew beyond doubt who he is - that the whole thing is God playing all the parts.
He mentions the many books of biblical exegesis he keeps at home, none of whose scholars, he says, touch the truth of the experience.