A woman telephones Neville disturbed by his praise of Judas
Description
A lady telephoned Neville this week, thrilled but disturbed by his previous Monday night lecture in which he had spoken highly of Judas the betrayer, arguing that no one could betray a man without knowing his secret.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: God's Timeless Purpose ¶28 (And you hear — a lady called me this week. Each, I read home last Monday night, I was thrilled with what you said, I am disturbed.)
His dentist, present in the audience, once told him that when he first saw Neville's mouth he had silently said to himself the anchor tooth would last thirteen years – and thirteen years later exactly
About a year ago Blake showed Neville how to throw himself backwards like a backward dive; he whirled through interstellar space and came to a stop before one radiant being that contained all races an
Neville recalls his publisher handing him a large six-month royalty check, whereupon the publisher's wife said 'You see how much I have given you?' — and he told her she had given him nothing, only re
Woman's court-martialed brother returns home
Description
At a San Francisco meeting a woman heard him, went home and for a week imagined the doorbell ringing and embracing her court-martialed brother; a week later he was honorably discharged and came home, and she rose in his audience of a thousand to tell it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
(probable)
before 1963
(possible)
before 29 March 1963
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶31 (In San Francisco, when I told this story, a lady sat in my audience who had just received notice from the army that her brother had been tried, court-martialed, and sentenced to six month’s hard labor.)
A friend reminded Neville that the two of them had visited Dr.
Neville's father, warned off drink by his doctor son, told Neville one day that he had given up drinking and that Neville's mother would have loved to see the day; Neville told his brother Victor, who
Lying on his bed he saw a scene vividly, stepped consciously into it, explored a solidly real hotel, tried to persuade two ladies in the corridor that it was a dream, could not get back until he imagi
A listener acquires fifty properties in two years
Description
A man in the audience told Neville on Thursday that when he first heard him two years ago he had nothing, and now owns fifty pieces of property, thirty of them outright in his own name.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
between 1963 and 1965
Sources
- Source: On the Law ¶21 (one told me just a little while ago, Thursday, and the other wrote me. I have the letter of one at home and I have the memory of the words of the one who just told me his story.)
About a week before this lecture a woman friend telephoned Neville in tears, too distressed to get out her request; he reversed the entire conversation in his imagination, and that same night she told
15 December 1968
(probable)
At a family party of fifteen the day before - all relatives of his wife - a college student asked Neville to explain his teaching, and grew enthusiastic until Neville claimed to be the central figure
Despite warnings about muggings and murders in Central Park, Neville took his daily walk through it during a New York visit and was struck by how green and thick the grass was after the rains ended th
Eddie hears 'I AM' in the desert and encounters a rattlesnake
Description
Neville relays Eddie's story as it was told to the letter-writer and passed on to him: Eddie, fifty-four, orphaned in the '30s, a failed suicide put in an asylum, living in a tent and prospecting for gold, heard a voice in the empty desert say 'I AM' and 'Do not come up here, I AM', climbed the hill anyway and found an uncoiled four-foot rattler staring at him, and ran.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
29 February 1972
c. March 1964
Told
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1964
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Is Causation Imaginal ¶19 (Now, that is Eddie’s story, he said, just as it happened, and so I will share it with you and tell it to you as it was told to me.)
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶4 (So, Eddie saw the symbol of God and he ran, he was scared too. The identical story. What did he hear? The revelation of God’s name, I am. He first heard it, I am, no one in sight.)
- Source: Our Real Beliefs ¶8 (The story we told you last Tuesday of one whose name was Eddie…Eddie had the identical experience of the one recorded in the Book of Exodus, when he heard “Do not come up here.”)
Many years ago Neville found himself walking in an enormous crowd in oriental dress; a voice cried "And God walks with them", a woman asked where he was and was told "At your side", and when she turne
Music student dreams of records and a composition called Christ
Description
A young woman studying music, who wants to be a composer, handed Neville a letter last Friday night describing a dream in which her father gave her three records and told her to keep two and give the third to a much older man she loves, whose birthday had just passed; the sheet of music bore the composer's name Elam (Olam) and the title "Christ" — and Neville expounds it as the eternal youth David composing about himself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
29 September 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Judas Betrays Messianic Secret ¶15 (Now here is a letter from a young lady…she’s still in school, she’s majoring in music, and she wants to be a composer, that’s her ambition. In her letter to me, which she gave me last Friday night, she said, “I have a very dear friend of mine, he’s much …)
The other day he was reading a comment calling Blake insane on account of his pictures, so he went through his own collection of Blake's pictures at home, including the 13th plate of The Gates of Para
He notes that in a lecture the week before he had quoted the 22nd chapter of Isaiah without knowing it was the one chapter in scripture containing the word 'ball', which his friend's dream then fulfil
c. December 1967
(probable)
Neville recalls a gentleman who sat in the audience just before he closed the previous December, took issue with this same teaching that Jesus Christ is not a man of flesh and blood, and has never com
A ship's captain imagines command and receives a year of work
Description
A San Francisco ship's captain and pilot, whom he had met backstage after one of his meetings, wrote to him - the letter arrived yesterday morning - recalling how the Union had restricted him to certain waters by seniority; Neville had had him imagine the lecture room was the bridge of his ship at sea, and the man is now in Vancouver carrying lumber down to Panama with a year's work ahead of him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Awakened Imagination 2 ¶16 (Yesterday morning’s mail brought me one, where, in San Francisco, this captain, a pilot, and he writes me that I saw him backstage after one of my meetings, and there he said, “But Neville, you are up against a stone wall. I am a trained pilot; I have go…)
Woman wakes proclaiming that love conquers all
Description
A woman present tonight with her husband told Neville (in a letter received Friday night) that she woke as though pushed up into a seated position, screaming in the Spirit "Love conquereth all things and is kind" while her husband slept undisturbed beside her; Neville asked her last Friday night to keep sending such letters.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
25 September 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Test Yourself Realneville ¶28 (And she said, “You know, I woke up as though someone pushed me up into a seated position and I was literally screaming the words, ‘Love conquereth all things and is kind!’)
A friend of Neville's, a mechanic, dismissed the mystical experience Neville was explaining to the friend's brother as hallucination; Neville answered by asking whether the man would let him tamper wi
In a vision one night Neville walked among an infinite field of huge sunflowers whose faces were human faces, all anchored in the earth and moving in unison like an orchestra, and he felt freer than a
Neville stepped in spirit into a dining room, arrested an activity in himself and froze the whole scene — a waitress walking, a boy raising soup to his mouth, a bird in flight, leaves falling — then r
Asked one night by someone in his audience what his name was, Neville answered 'Friday', which he says means the God of love, and he still means it.