He stood in the presence of infinite love personified as a man, was asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answered “Love,” was fused into the body of love, and was sent out with the command “
A woman dreams of killing a rattlesnake after removing its rattlers
Description
Neville tells from the platform a woman's dream in which she saw a rattlesnake, her husband said he must take off the rattlers first, and she handed him a hammer to beat the snake to death, waking as she beat it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
before 7 June 1971
Sources
- Source: The Mystery Called Christ ¶58 (In her dream, she saw a snake . . a rattlesnake, and the husband said, “I must take off the rattlers first,” so he began to take off the rattlers, and she handed him a hammer to beat it and to beat the snake to kill it.)
Neville describes his own inner vision in which the room and the whole world rise like a three-dimensional curtain ascending and are instantly duplicated, and says he wishes he could take his listener
During his travelling theatre years he had dentistry done all over the country, in London and in Barbados, always patched up because he was only in a town for a week at a time.
People see Neville compelled to play many roles in their visions
Description
Neville says people have seen him in many roles, including harsh ones, in their visions, and that his conscious reasoning mind is always removed from certain parts he is under compulsion to play at night.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
before 12 April 1971
Sources
- Source: The True Exodus ¶24 (So, you will see me in many roles. Many of you have seen me in different roles. Yet my conscious, reasoning mind has always been removed on my return from certain parts that I had to play, for I am under compulsion to play those parts, after being awaken…)
Neville says he came to America as a stranger but from the day he landed never thought of himself as anything but an American, refusing to call himself an American Barbadian or American West Indian.
Neville states from his own experience that he stood in the presence of the One and was incorporated into it without loss of identity, knowing himself to be the body of the risen Christ.
He states that he believes Shakespeare's 'all the world's a stage' absolutely because he speaks from his own experience, and extends it beyond the span from cradle to grave.
He recounts, as his own experience, the four mystical events of the pattern: awakening sealed inside his own skull (the scarab) and pushing his way out, the unearthly wind and the nativity imagery, th
A friend told Neville that although state universities require a college degree to lecture and he had none, a U.C.L.A.
In a night vision he was with Blake, who showed him the fall he should take; falling like a meteor through space and steadying himself, he saw in the distance a single glorious man whose heart was a b
Neville says that before that union he had 'gone a-whoring' into harlotry, believing in powers outside of God, and that some people today say they are afraid of him because they fear they may believe
Neville recounts a vision in which he was confronted by two creatures - a hairy, guttural monster who called the angelic being "Mother" and grew stronger with every blow Neville struck, and a glowing
Neville recalls that his old teacher used to call the conscious circle of awakened humanity 'The Brothers'.
In a vision one night he walked among a vast field of sunflowers whose faces were human faces, anchored in the earth and moving in unison like an orchestra, and felt that although limited he was freer
He describes his own experience of the crucifixion, which was ecstatic rather than painful, held by vortices rather than nails.
Neville says he has met the child Melo only twice and that she does not know him socially.
He states, with Blake, that he has seen the states in his Imagination — seen at a distance one man, and near at hand multitudes of nations.
Neville uses himself as the example of the name I AM preceding every identity - his own name, his American nationality, his race.
He mentions owning books at home that interpret the book of Revelation, and dismisses their interpretations as stupid.
He found David, who cried to him the words of the 89th Psalm calling him Father, and by that he knew he was one with God.
Neville states that he has himself proved the Law, bringing into being things he dared to assume because he wanted them to be.
Neville says in passing that he knows the thirteenth verse from experience — standing face to face with the risen Christ.
He describes meeting his son David, an eternal youth with human face, voice and hands but an indescribable body, who embraced him so that their bodies became one.
He describes his own experience of total forgetfulness of who he was, and of memory now returning to him through the Spirit of Truth.