He recounts that until July 1959 he had taught the gospel only as law, with wonderful results from coast to coast in all the major cities, and had no idea it was literally true.
He dates his own realisation of the Promise to twelve years ago this coming month, which is why those who knew him before heard only the Law from him.
Neville's resurrection schema begins with awakening within his skull and emergence from it, followed immediately by the birth-from-above sign; he dates this first fulfillment to July 1959.
Neville ties John 8:57 to his own life: born in February 1905, he was forty-nine and a half — 'not yet fifty years of age' — in July 1959 when the experience came, which he offers as proof that script
Freedom Barry says Neville marked his "Birth from Above" experience in the margin of his own Bible with the date 7-16-59, i.e.
Marta's friend sees her in an inverted heart cage beside an enormous serpent
Description
Neville tells of his friend Marta's death on 19 July and of the vision another friend had within a week of it, in which Marta stood in an inverted heart-shaped cage divided from an enormous ringed serpent and asked how long until they became one.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: God's Wisest Creature ¶4 (Our friend, Marta, departed this world on the 19th of July. Within a week after Marta’s departure, her friend who was with her when she died had this vision. She saw Marta, the same dear girl we all loved.)
He could not wait to tell the vision, and told it to his San Francisco audience on his first night there; afterwards a man who was an authority on masters and adepts scoffed that he had talked about h
Returning from San Francisco where he had the 'Birth from Above' experience, Neville told the story in shockingly literal terms — being born through the skull of his head as a womb opens — to a full 300-seat hall, and the audience collapsed to thirty
Description
Returning from San Francisco where he had the 'Birth from Above' experience, Neville told the story in shockingly literal terms — being born through the skull of his head as a womb opens — to a full 300-seat hall, and the audience collapsed to thirty, then twelve, within a week; he kept telling it. [Date evidence: 1959 — after Neville's San Francisco fortnight; the vision itself is dated 7-16-59 in Neville's Bible margin per Barry] [Place: Fine Arts Auditorium at the Wilshire, Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
he went to San Francisco, and that was where he had this “Birth from Above,” which changed the entire direction of his teaching. And that hall was full when he opened. It held three hundred people there in the Fine Arts Auditorium at the Wilshire in Los Angeles. That hall was full, and he told this shocking story in the most literal terms of being born through the skull of his head as a womb opens. And the next night, that was on Monday, the next Thursday, there were thirty people. The next Monday, there were twelve. He kept telling it
Date (happened)
between 20 July 1959 and 27 July 1959
(probable)
Neville says he was born from his own skull in 1959 in the city where he is lecturing, eleven years before this coming Monday, whereas the body he wears was born from his mother's womb 65 years earlie
between 20 July 1959 and 1963
(probable)
Neville recounts the sequence and intervals of his own great visionary experiences: resurrection and birth the first night, the discovery of the fatherhood of God five months later, the ascent into th
He dates his four experiences: the first in San Francisco on 20 July 1959, the revelation of David on 6 December 1959, the splitting of the temple (the body) on 8 April 1960, and after an interval of
Neville dates his own birth-from-above experience to the 20th of July, 1959, and says the earlier time-stopping knowledge of the 1940s was only its adumbration or foreshadowing.
He was "born from above" eleven years ago on the 20th of July in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in the city where he is now speaking, waking sealed inside his own skull and coming out of it.
Neville dates the beginning of God's unveiling within him to the morning of 20 July 1959, after which he could think of nothing else.
Neville says he did not know he was dead-asleep until the night he was awakened and came forth from the coffin of himself, not knowing then that the Lord had declared through the prophet he would be h
On July 20, 1959 in San Francisco, Neville experienced what he described as awakening from a tomb within his own skull, an event that marked a turning point in his lectures.
Just before the vision he was dreaming of the man of tomorrow, a world where all the arts flourished and music could be seen forming into beautiful patterns, and was trying to 'freeze' it when the vib
On the evening of the experience he read a little of the Bible and a little of William Blake, telephoned his wife and daughter who were in Beverly Hills, and went to bed normally.
Neville's own experience of salvation began on the morning of 20 July 1959 and reached its climax on the morning of 1 January 1963, three and a half years later.
between 19 July 1959 and 20 July 1959
Neville's 'Birth from Above' awakening occurred, and that morning he spoke to a free open meeting of about a thousand people.
Place: Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco
Neville says he was called by God in 1959 and, on 20 July 1959, awoke to find himself buried and entombed in his own skull, from which he forced his way out — his birth from above.
Neville experienced a mystical awakening that he later marked as his spiritual "birthday", said to have occurred at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco.
between 20 July 1959 and 8 April 1960
He describes the three-part mystical experience he claims as his own: awakening inside his skull as in a tomb and being self-born, the son (David) appearing and calling him father in fulfilment of the