Neville describes his own habitual practice: when he wants something he formulates an act implying he has it, performs it in imagination, gives thanks and falls asleep yielding completely to the being
Neville tells of standing unrecognised beside three women on 48th Street in New York, in front of a window displaying his books and a big picture of him, and hearing the guide tell her two out-of-town
Neville's brother Lawrence had had the experience and questioned him seriously when Neville went home, asking him to quote first verses of Hebrews, Luke and others, and was astonished; Neville told hi
Neville says he is sixty-seven, that the allotted span is threescore and ten, that he does not expect to reach it, and that his departure cannot be long delayed now that his work of gathering is nearl
A friend of his, now dead, gave him a literal translation from the Greek of the Lord's Prayer, showing that the Latin has no aorist imperative passive and so could not carry the evangelist's sense.
Neville recounts that people have asked him why Blake had no money, and answers that no amount of money could today buy the single coloured copy of Jerusalem Blake sold for about a hundred guineas, no
His awakening: with no inkling beforehand he awoke within his skull and found it a sepulcher, came out, found a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, saw three witnesses, heard the storm-like wind, saw
Neville states that everything recorded in Scripture, including the finding of David, has actually been fulfilled in him as a real, solid experience, and that he speaks from experience and not theory.
Neville says he has been accused of being mad and insane for the visions he reports, but cannot help it — he sees these things and tells exactly what happened to him.
Neville says his other two brothers are still alive, are very successful businessmen with no time for what he teaches, and that they let him be what he is.
Neville says the people he has spoken to over the years — here, in the north, in the east and elsewhere — were met at scattered moments across years but are now all coming to fruition together, like e
In his private interviews people insist on telling him their past troubles before saying what they want, and he tells them not to.
Neville uses the White House flag as an illustration — asking the guard whether the President is in residence — which may reflect an actual visit, though he does not say so.
He states he has himself experienced two bodies literally fusing and becoming one body.
He says he knows from his own experience that the Holy of Holies is the skull, that God awakes in it, finds it empty, and pushes his way out of it.
Neville notes that he has given his teaching from the platform and it is now on tape and cassette, and hopes one of his hearers will one day write it down, since the written word lasts.
Neville reports that his wife saw her doctor this past Wednesday; after a severe operation that removed her larynx and voice for a tumour, she faces seven more plastic-surgery operations beginning on
A San Francisco woman dreams Neville and her husband Jerry are one
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A woman writes from San Francisco describing a dream in which she met Neville expounding scripture, he embraced her and she pushed him away saying “no, Neville”; he told her he would have married her, and that the day would come when she knew that her husband Jerry and he were one. She had recorded ten of his San Francisco talks herself.
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- Source: Feel Chosen ¶28 (And then she said, I said to her, you know, I would’ve married you. And she said, but I am married. And I said, yes, I know, but the day will come when you will know that Jerry, that’s her husband, and I are one.)
Neville remarks that he has never had a stroke himself, but has seen people crippled by one.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 67 + birth 1905 = 1972. Told 2 times (1971).
Freedom's refusal prompts a begging man to find work
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He sent his friend Freedom to San Francisco after teaching him the Law; there a begging man asked him for money and, instead of giving it, Freedom imagined him gainfully employed, and a week later the man thanked him for the refusal because it had driven him to get a job.
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- Source: Repentance: A Gift of God ¶34 (A friend of mine went to San Francisco at my bidding. I taught him the Law, and as much as I could tell him of the other, part of the Promise, but the Law, just what I am talking about tonight.)
Neville led an enormous, gay, festive multitude in procession to the house of God; a voice from outer space said God walked with them, told the woman at his side that God was at her side, and when she
Soon after his experience of being turned around, Neville walked through the lobby of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where a great woman artist waiting for him was sketching furiously; she handed
He states from his own experience that he became one with God when he was embraced by him, and that in that experience there is a radical change of form — spirit, not this body — while identity is not
Neville describes his own experience of the crucifixion: hands, feet, head and right side nailed with six-pointed vortices, which was not painful but sheer ecstasy, followed by finding himself cramped