Neville notes that the Luke passage about Simeon is one he has never used before from this platform.
He says he often goes into another world and meets people who are supposedly dead, finding them as real, bigoted and limited as they were here.
Neville says he speaks with authority because God himself sent him to tell it, though no man ordained him.
He tells the audience he has set the story down in the Promise and asks them to read it over and over.
Neville recalls writing a small pamphlet years earlier and quotes the closing thought about the universe being a dream.
Neville says he has shared his experiences with his wife, who he believes believes him completely, but that he cannot share the experience itself with her, nor tell her or his daughter that they will
Many years earlier Neville prolonged a dream until he reached a huge stationary pillar driven into the sea, held it without letting go and made himself wake inside the dream; he then waded ashore onto
Three or four years ago in the Burleighs' New York apartment, the boy Neville Mark told Neville he knew he was not what he appeared to be and that if he could stand perfectly still and turn around ins
Neville says he put the name I AM to the test in countless ways and found that only I AM responds, not the words Jehovah or Jesus.
Speaking of saints, Neville says he would be embarrassed if God loved him more than he loved his mother, knowing what she has meant to him.
Neville's friend dreams of a white horse aboard a British warship
Description
A friend, an American aboard a British man-of-war in his dream, sent Neville the dream of a white horse that boarded the boat, caused injury and confusion, then jumped overboard, after which the ship ran aground and a spear went through the captain.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 8 December 1964
Sources
- Source: For Hatching ¶37 (a friend of mine sent me a dream where he was on a boat and there was a white horse who got aboard the boat, and it knocked someone down, even injuring others, and there was confusion.)
Answering a question, Neville confirms he has had an experience of the void, distinguishing it from the solid worlds he enters in vision.
He alludes to the objection people make against him — that he has been married twice, has children, drinks and eats meat — and answers it from scripture.
before 14 January 1964
(possible)
Neville states that his own Son David proves the fatherhood of God — that everyone, of whatever sex, is the father of his Son David.
Neville insists he is not theorizing but speaking from experience, and says that when challenged he affirms that God truly stood before him and that he looked into the face of man.
He recalls passing through the state in which Jacob was a deceiver.
Neville states that he can preach nothing but what he has himself seen and heard, and that he has seen the story he is telling.
Woman finds a long-lost friend after imagining reunion
Description
A woman he had never met came to him wanting to find a friend she had not seen in over a year; they sat five minutes in silence imagining she had found her, she left unconvinced, travelled to Hartford and Boston in vain, and then ran straight into the friend on 14th Street outside Hearn's Department Store in New York.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
11 February 1964
(possible)
11 February 1964
(possible)
13 February 1964
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Power of Faith ¶15 (Alright, a lady comes to see me—-I do not know her from a hole in the wall—-she said, “I had been recommended to you and I do not understand what you do.” Well, I said, I just do nothing. You sit right there and I will sit here and you imagine that you a…)
Abdullah says his racial appearance is only an Ethiopian garment
Description
Abdullah never claimed to be a Negro, only that he had picked up that garment in Ethiopia ninety-odd years earlier.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 10 March 1964
Sources
- Source: Who Are the Condemned ¶7 (Never once for one moment made any other claim, he would only say to me, “I picked up this garment ninety-odd years ago in Ethiopia.”)
He states publicly, as he has repeatedly and in print, that he has personally experienced the miraculous birth, the resurrection, the ascension and the descent of the dove, but cannot furnish physical
Neville's birth-from-the-skull experience: he came out as one being born, three men were present to witness it, and then came an unearthly wind he could never have foreseen.
In passing he says he knows the Caribbean islands well but has not known the Pacific.
A woman Bible teacher who lectures along the eastern coast visited him at his hotel in New York City last year; when he quoted Romans 11:32 to her about God consigning all men to disobedience, she was
He confesses that after finding Christ he still secretly kept his horoscope in mind to justify failure, because he had successfully foretold events by cards and stars for countless people in New York,
Bill's letter refers to a story Neville had told his audience about a dove nesting in the tree outside his window.