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
14 August 1959
(probable)
Twenty-four days after the first vision came the second: seated at a table with friends, he rose and his body dropped dead; a manservant tied the body up with rope like a piece of beef and asked why h
A wealthy older woman seeks a younger husband through the law
Description
The day before the lecture Neville received a long distance telephone call from a very rich seventy-five-year-old New York woman who had used the law successfully for her son but could not bring about her own wish to marry a richer, much younger man in the social register; he told her the market was not limited because everyone walking the earth is God, only in states.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
17 March 1967
(refuted)
25 September 1959
Sources
- Source: The Bread and The Wine ¶15 (I had a long distance call yesterday from New York. The lady who called me is very, very rich by the standards of diamonds and money. She has not fingers enough for all her diamonds.)
On 24 September 1959, Neville received a long-distance call from an unnamed wealthy woman in New York who wanted to marry a richer, younger man.
A woman heals blistered hands through five days of revision
Description
A lady showed him her hands, blistered as if with acid a week before and now unscarred, which she said took five days of revision.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: That Which Already Has Been ¶13 (A lady said to me the other night: “Look at my hands! A week ago they were blistered as if with acid; now there is no scar, but it took me five days of revision to bring about what you are seeing.”)
A friend ignores inner financial guidance and loses fifty thousand dollars
Description
A friend told him that same evening that he had prayed to the being within him about a financial problem and received an answer, but it seemed so stupid that reason stopped him from fully applying it — he did not put his money into a certain venture and lost $50,000.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: That Which Already Has Been ¶24 (A friend told me tonight that he desired the answer to a certain problem and it was given to him. He said: “I prayed to the being within me.”)
Daughter sees Neville's face replace a threatening monster
Description
Neville describes a second letter received the same day, from the woman's daughter, who saw in vision a monstrous thing about to bite her mother when Neville's face appeared instead of the monster's and the whole thing vanished.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
1971
(probable)
23 April 1971
Sources
- Source: Consigned to Disobedience ¶35 (She has seen me in the role . . and when this monstrous thing appeared and was just about to bite you, my face appeared; and she told you in the letter . . told me at least . . it was not the monster’s face, it was your face; and the whole thing vanished.)
A woman dreams a hot-glass head emerging from her skull
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that day from a woman sitting in the audience, describing her dream of huge earth-moving machines and a man who moved her like a puppet by a magnetic current, out of which a man's head of hot liquid glass formed from the top of her skull; he interprets the vision for her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
1971
(probable)
23 April 1971
Sources
- Source: Consigned to Disobedience ¶1 (Now let me share with you a letter that came today. The lady is here tonight. She said, “In a dream these huge, huge machines that move mountains” . . you’ve seen them . . “and make highways; and there was a man who led me by some magnetic current.)
Woman asks whether her father's prophecy doomed her brother-in-law
Description
A woman telephoned Neville the day of the lecture, quoting back what he had said about his father's objective vision, and asked whether her own father's prophecy had doomed her sister's worthless husband and whether she should keep helping her sister.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Only Christianity ¶3 (Today a friend called me concerning a personal problem. She said, “You said your father has objective vision. He could see the images of his imagining as real as the forms of Nature.”)
Doctor's facial growths and shaking cease after imagining
Description
On the day of the lecture Neville received a letter from a friend in New York about a doctor with facial growths and Parkinson's disease; he imagined touching a smooth face and walking with the man unstumbling, and a further letter reported the lumps gone and the shaking stopped.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: North of the Strip ¶13 (I brought this doctor, in Imagination, before me and I put my hand on his face. I put it on a face that had no lumps. I felt only smooth skin. And then he and I walked together and he did not stumble; he walked like a well man would walk. That is what I …)
- Source: North of the Strip ¶14 (A further letter reports that the doctor's facial lumps are gone, he is no longer shaking, and he can return to his office.)
One hundred and twenty-nine days after the birth from above, an explosion in his head brought a vision in which he sat at a table bearing an enormous severed head, and David of Biblical fame, a lad of
c. December 1959
(probable)
Neville tells of holding the Christ Child in his arms, asking "How is my sweetheart?" and seeing a heavenly smile break on its face before the vision dissolved; a few months later David appeared, and
c. December 1959
(probable)
Neville recounts his own mystical experience of David standing before him and being revealed as his son, which told him he himself was the father of the Christ child.
c. December 1959
(probable)
Neville describes, in the first person plural, the sequence of mystical experiences he teaches from — the birth with the three witnesses and the swaddling clothes, and then a few months later the seco
6 December 1959
(probable)
Neville recounts being born from above and, five months later, encountering David, who stood before him and called him Father, ending all doubt about who he is.
Audience member sees a patriarch behind Neville
Description
A man who had been in his audience a few nights earlier wrote to Neville saying that as Neville began to speak he saw a patriarch in a priest's black hat and robes standing over Neville's shoulder; Neville accepts it as true, explaining he had entered the state he was describing (the foundation stone) and that state was personified as a man.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. December 1959
before 4 December 1959
Sources
- Source: The Story of Judas ¶17 (A gentleman sat here the other night and he wrote to me; “As you began to speak I saw over your shoulder a patriarch: who wore the black hat and robes of a priest. I do not know who he was but I feel he is a great inspiration to you.”)
c. December 1959
(probable)
He lays out the four-act mystical pattern with its intervals - the awakening in the skull with the child and three witnesses, David calling him Father five months later, the body cleft by lightning fo