Neville says his own knowledge came not from any school of men but by revelation, when the veil was lifted and God showed him his secret.

He heard Wilberforce, once Dean of Canterbury, give the interpretation of "Touch me not" that he still finds the most satisfying.

Neville says he was, by actual experience, absorbed into the body of Jesus and became one with him, though he still answers only to the name Neville.

He came from Barbados to America and stayed in the market place through poverty — hungry, going without food, tempted by easy money — never stealing and never wiring his father for a boat ticket home,

He reports that through all his mystical experiences his sense of identity never changed — he was always aware of being "I am" while something took place in him.

Illustrating how to persist in an assumption, he speaks of communing with his wife, his daughter and his friends from that assumption - a passing reference to his own household.

Neville describes buying close to a thousand dollars' worth of Blake commentaries before he had the experiences — including three volumes edited by W. B.

Neville describes his own long suffering while living wholly by his senses and passion, then hearing of and seeking Jacob until Jacob became a concrete reality he saw, together with a redeemed Esau.

He recounts having argued many times across the country with people who told him that, being born and raised in the Hebrew-Christian faith, he could not deny that Buddhists and Hindus have the same th

He says he has recorded his own mystical experience in a book so it will outlast his body, and has told and will keep telling the story from the platform.

Neville stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days as described in Daniel, was asked what the greatest thing in the world was, answered 'Love', quoting faith, hope and love; the Ancient of Days embr

He says he personally never had the hunger to withdraw from the world; his desire on coming to America was to go straight into the market place.

He says God promised him at the beginning and then put him through furnaces of affliction without his consent, so that his own experience of the crucifixion differs from the churches' depiction.

He says that if he sat himself as judge over Neville, knowing what he knows about him and what he is capable of, he could not have granted him the gift he was in fact given — which is why he knows eve

Neville says he has performed the imaginal act of playing the part of Isaac and believing in its reality countless times, and it always worked.

In vision he entered a world of beings who had not yet descended to earth; they disbelieved his story of having come from here and of returning, and the German poet Heine, whom he never met in this li

Neville describes his repeated encounters with scientists and philosophers around the country who demand that he explain his mystical experiences in the terms of the natural world, which he cannot do.

He describes having attended a Jewish wedding, where two glasses of wine are drunk, one sweet and one bitter, with more sweet than bitter.

Going to bed convinced of the reality of God, he asked why the world was made, and from the depths of his soul came back the single word 'hatching', which sent his mind to Blake's Gates of Paradise en

Neville recalls having spoken a few months earlier about the awakened Man shooting his arrows beyond the world of dream.

He took Isaiah 30:8 for the title page of his latest book, The Law and the Promise.

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 recounts his own experience of being brought into the presence of God, supernaturally prompted with the answer to the question 'What is the greatest thing in the world?', answering as an echo,

Neville states plainly that he is a married man who has fathered two children who are alive in this world, and that he owns many Bibles whose footnotes he has checked.