He has lectured at the present club for nine years and loves it, but it is now unavailable, so his friend Harry Smith, who owns the building at 6005 Sunset, is giving him all Tuesdays and Fridays for
Neville recalls being raised in a Christian household where grace was said at every meal, his mother invariably ending it with "For Jesus' sake, amen" - and nothing came of the prayers beyond the food
While still living in New York City, before he came out West in 1956, Neville found himself fulfilling the 42nd Psalm — leading an enormous throng towards the invisible house of God, when a voice said
He describes writing his book Seedtime and Harvest — how he came to see deeper, mystical meanings in scripture and set out nine chapters interpreting the darker passages, giving Solomon's chariot of t
Neville explains that after nine years at the Ebell he has moved his lectures to Dr.
Neville mentions that he set out the Four Mighty Ones as a drama in the second chapter of his most recent book, and proposes to make it practical for the audience today.
Bookseller Mary is killed by a truck
Description
Visiting New York City last summer, Neville went to call on the metaphysical bookstore where he had long bought books from a woman named Mary, only to be told by a friend that Mary had been struck by a car and killed a month earlier; she had never been interested in what his books contained and never gave him a chance to tell her what he had experienced.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
1957
(refuted)
20 February 1969
(doubtful)
1957
(refuted)
20 February 1969
(doubtful)
after August 1966
(probable)
23 September 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: When Spirit Truth Comes ¶16 (She always said to me, “You know, Neville, you have the most vivid dreams, don’t you?” “Not dreams at all. These are visions where I commune with myself, but the self is God, and yet it is myself.”)
- Source: Love Endures ¶3 (I would go in and she would say, “Oh, Neville, you certainly do dream, don’t you?” I said, “Mary, these are not dreams, these are visions paralleling scripture.” “Oh, Neville!” then she’d turn to something else.)
- Temporal reference: Love Endures ¶4 (Mary was killed last month (relative to nid 1803's 1966-09-23 delivery))
He was born and raised in a Christian home, learned the Bible story at his mother's knee, and was one of ten children — nine boys and a girl — too poor in Bibles for each to own one.
Neville recalls that the last time he saw Abdullah in person was about eight years before this lecture, in New York City.
Neville tells how he requested and was granted the Marines' Memorial room for ten talks, then simply waited the month's interval without further pleading.
He uses his brother in Barbados as an illustration: if his brother telephoned to say he had wired money, he would trust him implicitly without any evidence.
A Hollywood gossip-page note reports that lecturer Neville is preparing a new book on the case histories of people he has helped via his Ebell Club lectures, adding that the 'popular writer-actor-lect
Aldous Huxley maintains a daily writing discipline
Description
Aldous Huxley told Neville that he wrote every day whether or not he had a commitment, rising early to write although he was nearly blind and could not type.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1957
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Potter's House ¶57 (Aldous Huxley told me that whether he had a commitment to write, he wrote. He wrote everything. He just couldn’t let one day pass by, and he would get up early in the morning and write.)
Neville reads the Bible seven days a week, not less than six hours a day, always with James Strong's Concordance to recover the original meanings of words.
Neville recounted meeting Abdullah's secretary about seven years before his 1964 lecture, who told him Abdullah planned to return to Ethiopia; Neville said he never heard from either again.
Neville recalls how inadequate he felt when he was called and sent to tell the story, having had no formal education and no social, intellectual or financial background - whatever his family had was m
Correspondents see Neville's divine identity in visions
Description
Neville says people now write him letters day after day telling him of visions in which they saw him as the Being he knows himself to be.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1957
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶17 (And now it is coming into my world day after day, writing me the letters, telling me in visions they saw me as the Being what I know that I am.)
He describes his own household as the test of a change in himself: his wife keeps the books and knows every rise or fall in his fortunes, including whether the dividend check comes that year, and he u
Neville says he admires Lincoln and owns biographies of him by many different writers.
Audience woman reports dream of directing imaginal activity
Description
A woman present at this lecture told him a dream in which she was discussing the principle of imagining with others and directing the vision rather than being its victim; he asked her to write it out for him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Neville says he recorded his experience of the world standing still in one short passage of one of his own books, and that the only parallel he has found is in the Gospel of James in the Apocryphal Ne
Students report foreshadowing spiritual experiences
Description
Neville says members of his southern class in L.A. and of his New York audience write to him reporting their experiences, many of them marvelous foreshadowings rather than the Word itself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1957
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶32 (There are those in my southern class down in L.A. and those in New York who write me of their experiences, but I do know they are all human enough to want to write me and tell me it has happened to them.)
Woman friend's vision of Neville as an infinitely loving loan-company owner
Description
Just before he came up to speak, a woman friend with an "incurrent eye" told him a vision in which she went to a loan company to borrow money and found Neville behind the desk as owner and Chairman of the Board, Infinite Love who would grant any request without collateral; she thought "He is a victim of his own love," and on the way out met a distraught woman turned down everywhere else who she knew would also be granted her loan.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Predestined Glory ¶74 (Just before I came up, a friend of mine who has a wonderful incurrent eye . . an incurrent eye is the eye that actually sees inward in to the world of thought, into Eternity.)
Neville says that when Vicki goes away, she and her housemate bring the birds and the dog to his home, where he must change the birds' paper, water and feed them and keep Stanley - even though his own
Neville says he remembers Christ nailing himself upon Neville's own body, and that he has himself seen God's golden, living blood.