Neville says he has been taken off the wheel of recurrence but must stay on the 1964 wheel to tell the story until his body comes off for the last time, never to die again.
Neville says he has personally undergone almost every experience recorded of Jesus in the gospels, including the crucifixion, which he describes as six vortices nailing him to the body followed by God
Neville points the audience to the book table, saying his own books and his friend Freedom Barry's book are there and every book on it carries his endorsement.
Neville announces that his friend Jack is bringing out his pamphlet He Breaks the Shell, in which he has recorded his own personal experience of the four mighty acts of God, subtitled A Lesson in Scri
Neville's father forbids criticism of women
Description
His father would never allow anyone, even his grown sons, to criticize a woman in his presence, and put woman on a pedestal to the day he died.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 1 May 1964
Sources
- Source: A Confession of Faith ¶65 (I know that he had a certain attitude towards life that you could not criticize any woman in his presence.)
Neville testifies that everything recorded of Christ in scripture — resurrection, birth, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the ascent into heaven, the descent of the dove — has happened in the s
Letter-writer imagines receiving a scarce Swiss record changer
Description
The same letter tells how the writer ordered a Swiss record changer that was not in the country, prepared an outlet and designed a stand for it, imagined the machine standing on it, mailed the dealer a cheque in full — and two days later was jumped from twelfth to first on the list and given one of only four machines that arrived.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 6 March 1964
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶29 (This friend, who wrote me the letter, said, “Well, it could be that I sent my check in advance, because I paid for what to me was before me in my Imagination, it could be that.”)
He spent three months at home in Barbados, returned 1st Class with a sum of cash given him as a gift, and reckons the trip would have cost $3,000 had he paid for it.
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
Neville states that he knows from his own experience that Christ has resurrected within him, breaking the shell and setting him free, and that night after night he grows more aware that he is the crea
Neville describes his vision of the universal or heavenly man, in which he saw the block letters "virgin pure" and experienced himself as that one man clothed in the skin of every being that walked th
Neville reports the rumours told against him — that he is an ordinary man, twice married, with children, a meat eater who drinks — used to dismiss his message.
Neville says that even after the experience he still thinks by habit as before, hesitates to make the claim, and cannot on reflection assume he did anything to earn it — it was grace.
Neville recounts walking through Hallmark's new building on 5th Avenue and 56th Street in New York City and seeing greeting cards priced at $2.50, $3.00 and more.
Neville describes sitting in his chair or on his couch, seeing with closed eyes a world as solid as this one, and then stepping into it so that it closed around him and shut this world out.
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.