He has appeared on television panels with ministers who brought pictures of Jesus to show him.
Neville says he himself stood in the presence of Infinite Love, saw that God is man and is the Ancient of Days, was embraced by that love and sent to tell it.
Neville describes going to parties at an unnamed ladies' club in New York City full of multimillionaires, where a lady pointed out who was 'stinking rich', and says that if you wait on the street and
A woman avoids expected pain after spinal surgery
Description
A friend wrote to him today: she took Jonathan Livingston Seagull into hospital where she had two discs removed, reread and almost memorised its third chapter, and the surgeons could not understand why she had none of the pain expected after such an operation.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1972
5 May 1972
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Messenger ¶45 (Friend of mine wrote me today. She isn’t here. Many of you know her. Was in the hospital recently, had two discs removed, and she took that book to the hospital with her, and all the neurosurgeons and all the other surgeons came in. They couldn’t underst…)
- Source: The Messenger ¶0 (phase4 delivery evidence: only this lecture and next Monday remain in the series, tying delivery to Friday 5 May 1972)
In a dream a week before the lecture Neville stood before the Queen of England, denied ever having been an atheist, told her he did not need to believe in Christianity because he had experienced it, m
Lying on his bed Neville wondered how long his series of mystical experiences had really taken; a voice told him to count them up, so he got up, took his Bible with the dates marked in it, and every t
He states that he was called and sent, and that the command given him when he was sent was 'Down with the blue bloods' - meaning all external worship, not social class.
Neville describes coming upon a sea of human imperfection while clothed in the immortal body and gliding above the ground, everyone being made perfect as he passed, a heavenly chorus singing 'It is fi
Neville once had a $600 colour television; when the tube failed and a replacement would cost $250 he gave the set to his maid Doris, warning her of the burden, and bought himself a small 19-inch black
Neville says the risen Lord embraced him and sent him with the words "down with the blue bloods," and that everything he teaches came from his own experience rather than from any book.
Neville says he has seen David, the eternal youth described in the sixteenth chapter of First Samuel.
Neville says he has had his own experience with so-called holy men, who come over from India, charge $500 for a special course, and go home with fortunes taken from people with more money than brains.
He uses his own name as an illustration: if paged in a lobby by the name Neville he would raise his hand and identify himself, though there may be millions of Nevilles.
before 30 April 1972
(possible)
Neville gives the chronology of his own experiences: the awakening within him, the birth the same night, the discovery of the son who reveals him as father 139 days later, the splitting of the temple
At a party, young men who had come back from the war maimed — one deaf, one missing a foot and an arm, one with TB, one a near-priest who left the priesthood — dived into the pool still wearing the St
A friend of Neville's tried to convince a woman back in the East about Neville's experiences; on learning that Neville's first wife had not died but had been divorced, she closed the book on him, sayi
In his last years Neville returned to Barbados in poor health; a brother who had practiced medicine in Canada helped restore him to reasonable health and reduced his gin intake, before his 1972 dea
Neville recounts a vision in which he glided as a radiant being of fire and air past thousands of broken members of humanity, all of whom were made perfect as he passed; when the last was made perfect
Neville describes his own origins as humble and unremarkable — born into a simple environment with no educational, social or financial advantages, struggling like everyone else for rent, food and clot
Neville recalls playing a second part — a cad — in a Broadway play, and judging his performance by whether the audience, especially the ladies and children at matinees, hissed him when he came on.
Neville states from his own experience that an assumption, though denied by the senses and called false by the world, will harden into fact if persisted in.
Joseph Burleigh repeatedly gave Neville's needy friend interest-free loans
Description
Neville repeatedly asked Joseph Burleigh to give a friend in need money — often a thousand dollars — and Burleigh always gave it, interest-free, returning any six percent that was sent back to him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Who Is Jesus ¶20 (I have said it time and time to Joseph, so-and-so needs help, I think a thousand dollars will be in order at the moment, Joseph always gave the thousand dollars.)
Neville describes the dove descending on him: it floated stationary about twenty feet above him in a crystal clear atmosphere, he raised his left hand like Noah and the dove lit on his index finger an
Speaking of the death-penalty ruling, he says that if he had a son on death row he would want him free regardless of what he had done — noting in passing that his son is not there.
In Barbados, sitting on the veranda with Jim — an artist and chef and close friend of the large Goddard family whom they supported — Neville told him of his experiences, and Jim said he could not have