Nine hundred and ninety-eight days later, on the 1,260th day of the whole series, his skull becomes transparent and a beige dove floats above him, descends onto his finger and smothers his face with k
Nine hundred and ninety-eight days later, completing 1,260 days from the birth of the child, his skull opened into boundless translucence and a dove floated above him; he raised his left hand with the
Nine hundred and ninety-eight days later, completing 1,260 days, a dove floated above Neville, descended onto his index finger, and smothered his face with affection while a woman's voice explained th
998 days later, on the final of the four revelations (1210 days in all from the birth from above), his skull became transparent and a beige dove floated above him, descended onto his raised index fing
Teenage scoutmaster experiences resurrection in 1940
Description
A man present in the audience wrote Neville a letter the previous Saturday describing his own resurrection experience in 1940, when as a teenage scoutmaster he went to bed pleased with the boys' accomplishments and was lifted on high and heard the heavenly chorus — using the pronoun "he" rather than a name.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Prophetic Blueprints ¶9 (I see in the audience tonight a gentleman who wrote me a letter last Saturday. His experience preceded mine. He is much younger than I am.)
Wealthy man dies suddenly leaving his fortune
Description
Neville read in that morning's newspaper of a man who died suddenly leaving hundreds of millions behind him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Prophetic Blueprints ¶31 (I saw in this morning’s paper – and undoubtedly he has left hundreds of millions behind him – suddenly he fell back and is gone.)
Grandmother calls Neville about impending divorce
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 23 January 1963
(probable)
between 27 January 1963 and 28 January 1963
He recounts reading, in the English press last Sunday and requoted in Monday morning's Los Angeles Times, the newly released 1920 British Foreign Office memorandum about France, and quotes it to the a
He reports reading that day of eight men who met in Chicago in Coolidge's time, controlling more wealth than the nation's tax income, seven of whom within eight years died in poverty, went to prison,
He describes himself as a normal man of fifty-eight years, full of things he would judge harshly, who never expected and could not have earned the gift he received.
In passing he mentions his own son, who is now thirty-eight years old, to distinguish him from the symbolic son of the promise.
Neville states his age, fifty-eight, while arguing that the unfolding takes only a few years and not fifty.
Long-time friend remains trapped in self-pity
Description
A long-time friend telephoned Neville on the day of the lecture; his wife answered, and when she said they were pleased with Vicki's report the friend replied that he wished he could say he was pleased about anything of his own — an example of a man stuck in the state of self-pity whom Neville has pulled out countless times.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Sin Against the Holy Spirit ¶20 (A friend called me today and my wife answered the phone, and he said: “What news have you of Vicki?” She said: “We are very pleased with her report.” He answered: “Pleased? I wish I could say pleased about things concerning myself.”)
between March 1963 and May 1963
After a San Francisco lecture last spring in which Neville spoke on overcoming delusions, Bill Donovan invited him to an early dinner, and he, Betty and Neville went to a French restaurant where Bill
between 3 March 1963 and 5 March 1963
Neville mentions reading the current stories about Stalin in last Sunday's Sunday Times, yesterday's Observer and today's New York Times, noting that he takes the New York Times every day and that tod
before 12 March 1963
(probable)
He recounts his own practice of standing in one place while mentally assuming he is elsewhere, and finding that events reshuffled to compel the journey.
He mentions telling a friend this same story just before he went on to the platform tonight.
He refers back to his own previous lecture in which he quoted Blake, and places Blake among Paul, Elijah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah as mental and spiritual giants.
Lecture catalog #140 — text: HAVE
About two months before the lecture a caller - later described as a lady - came to his door and asked whether he did not know that only 144,000 would be saved.
Neville went to the race track with friends; on the way out a man tried to sell his lawyer friend a supposedly $150 watch for twenty-five dollars, and the friend, being incapable of bilking anyone, si
Neville's wife reports a teacher calling William Blake insane
Description
Neville's wife told him that someone who had come to his meetings asked a teacher in the city what he thought of Blake, and the teacher answered that Blake was mad and insane.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
19 April 1963
19 April 1963
Sources
- Source: Living Water ¶7 (My wife said someone who came here asked one of the teachers in the city what he thought of Blake, and he replied, “Oh, well, that man was mad. He’s insane.”)
A woman becomes her company's first female loan counselor
Description
Three weeks before, a lady met Neville in the back room where he speaks to discuss wanting a position no woman had held in a company with resources over half a billion dollars; he told her to occupy it as though it were true, and three weeks later she was appointed loan counselor, the first woman ever; she gave him a letter on Friday night and he told the story last Sunday morning without names.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 2 April 1963
23 April 1963
Sources
- Source: Wonder-Working Power ¶30 (Three weeks ago, she and I were in the back room here where I speak. She wanted to see me before my meeting to discuss her problem.)
A driver suggests the phrase Try it on for size
Description
Last Tuesday night the friend who drives him home from his lectures told him he had been thinking over Neville's teaching to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and offered the phrase "Try it on for size" as a way of putting it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
9 April 1963
21 May 1963
(probable)
Told
16 April 1963
(possible)
16 April 1963
(possible)
24 May 1963
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Story of Salvation ¶24 (Last Tuesday night my friend at home, who drives me home from these lectures, he said, “I’ve been thinking over your very, very brilliant statement, ‘Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. What would it be like were it true? How would I feel were it t…)
Lecture catalog #146 — text: HAVE