Restating the same experience at the close of the lecture, he confesses he has given the messianic banquet: lifted as David took Zion, clothed in his primal form as a being of fire in a body of air, h

Neville tells of standing in the presence of love, which was human in form and was Jesus, infinite love.

Neville's brother Bruce was a sleepwalker from birth who would come downstairs at night, unlock the larder, make himself bread and milk, walk around the obstacles his brothers deliberately placed in h

Neville states that the story of salvation was revealed to him by his own experience, as it was to Paul, and that he now remains for his few remaining years to tell the story to as many as will hear i

He mentions owning many different Bible translations at home, none of which agree, and says he especially likes Moffatt's for its poetry.

Neville recounts a mystical experience in which he arrested an activity within himself and the whole world froze - birds in flight, falling leaves, waving grass, walking people, diners - then released

He awoke to find himself entombed in the sepulchre of his own skull, was resurrected by a fantastic power, and came out.

He recounts how people object to his interpretation of scripture, telling him by name that he has it wrong and that Jesus did not mean what he says.

He offers himself as a living witness that those told they would not taste death before seeing the kingdom of God did see it, against scholars who scoffed.

Neville gives his own age indirectly, saying the oil man is about ten years his senior at 68.

Neville says he refuses friends' invitations to dine on doves during dove season; the mourning doves come all over his place and he feeds them, listening every morning to the male dove cooing "Moses s

He testifies that he has himself seen the power and wisdom of God, and that it is a man, and that he stood in the presence of infinite might.

He offers his own experience of salvation as the vicarious experience his hearers can share, and admits he has done many things of which he is not proud.

Neville says he has himself experienced the stigmata-like sensation of being sucked into his body like a vortex or series of vortices, a thrill beyond the wildest dream, but insists these are not the

He says he has searched and never found any book that sheds light on Zion, but can speak of it because he has experienced it himself.

He says he has played every part in the world — physical poverty, blindness, maimedness, lameness — and carries a memory of having been fabulously wealthy and yet poor, unable to buy help or real resp

Neville says he has read the many books written about the sin against the Holy Ghost and had them at home, but that having had the experience himself he now knows they were rationalising God's word.

He states from his own experience that he has seen that the whole world of apparent reality is Imagination.

He says he cannot share the inner events that happened to him but can share the unnumbered results in the world that followed his teaching that imagining creates reality.

Neville says he keeps over 900 letters at home from people who knew nothing of the teaching and who testify to deliberately entering a state and seeing it become real.

He was drafted into the army against his will, dropping from an income of $10,000-12,000 a year to $50 a month, while carrying a lease and supporting a wife and child.

He reports that one of the friends who read the letter knew the writer well and said that seeing her signature made her believe every word of it.

He has read many attempted scholarly interpretations of David's water shaft, all of which conclude the passage makes no sense.

He says it was revealed to him what God hid from the beginning — the secret of fatherhood — since nothing but his own son standing before him and calling him Father could prove him a father.