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 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.
before 10 April 1971
(possible)
He states he is not scholarly: he never went to college and never graduated from high school, and speaks only from experience.
Neville recounts his own supernatural experience of the betrayal: seated on the floor explaining the word of God, one of those before him suddenly leaps up and goes out to tell the authorities that he
A Catholic friend is disowned after marrying a divorced man
Description
A Catholic friend of his gave up the Catholic Church to marry a divorced Catholic man, and her father disowned her for daring to marry a divorced man.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: God's Law and His Promise ¶56 (A friend of mine, who is in the Catholic Church, she gave it up to marry the man of her heart, who is also Catholic but he was divorced, and this was her first venture.)
Churchmen repeatedly offered to ordain him without schooling so that he could marry and bury people by law, and he refused every time.
Neville states that he has himself proved the Law, bringing into being things he dared to assume because he wanted them to be.
He gives his parents' ages at death — his mother at 61, his father at 85, who drank heavily while she did not — as the physical inheritance he wears but can modify.
Ruth insists her son's name is Adams, not Adam
Description
A friend of his back east, named Ruth, is descended from the Adams presidential family and named her son Adams; twice he called the boy Adam and twice she corrected him, so proud is she of the ancestry.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Hear O Israel ¶27 (But of course, again I called him Adam; again she corrected me: “His name is not Adam, Neville — the name is Adams.” And she’s so proud of that ancestry.)
He placed a small advertisement in last Saturday's newspaper and was embarrassed to find fantastic religious claims advertised on the same page.
Two nights before the lecture he had a visionary experience of going from one New Thought teacher to another across the country, telling them there is no such thing as new thought and that they came o
Neville refers back to a command he received - 'down with the blue bloods, done with all church protocol' - as the ground for his dismissal of all outward ceremony.
In his 1971 lecture 'Gift Bestowed By God,' Neville recalled standing in the place at 30 West 72nd Street where Abdullah had lived and told him he was in Barbados.
Neville describes from his own experience the risen body he saw - a human face beautiful beyond measure, human hands and a human voice, but a form of light he warns cannot be described further.
He describes being raised in a devoutly Christian home where both parents taught the Bible story as literal truth, and the collapse of his world when he learned that the story was not history and he w
Neville's friend teaches UCLA advertising classes without a degree
Description
A friend of his without a college degree was invited by a U.C.L.A. professor to take three or four of his classes on the use of imagination in advertising, and was given all the professor's freedom despite the rule requiring a degree.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
before 21 June 1971
Sources
- Source: Secret Imagination ¶23 (he was invited by a Professor at U.C.L.A. to take his class – I think there were three or four classes – in the use of imagination in advertising, so here he went in without the degree, and he was given all the freedom that the Professor enjoyed.)
One preacher with a registered, monthly-contributing following of over six thousand offered Neville his whole organisation, and Neville declined, saying he had orders from the Ancient of Days.
Neville says he will go to the barber the next day, takes whichever barber is free rather than making an appointment, and will ask Frank — whose daughter is at UCLA — how she is doing, because he genu
between 1923 and 1924
(possible)
After about ten months at the new job he quit rather than risk being fired again, resolved to work for himself, and went into dancing with no lessons at all - eleven years, six Broadway shows, vaudevi