Benny reports David Moses's career after reading Neville
Description
His friend Benny, present in the room that night, told him of a black actor, David Moses, who was about to quit the theatre until he read Neville's book Out of This World; Neville autographed a book for him with Blake's line about the fool persisting in his folly, and within weeks the man got the Greyhound commercial and then pictures, TV spots, a Diahann Carroll appearance and a Danny Thomas pilot.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Rock ¶14 (So Benny came to me and told me that this is what he said. The man’s name, by the way, is David Moses. Benny gave me a book to autograph for him and he said, write something in it. Well, I only wrote one little thought from William Blake: “If the fool wo…)
Neville states that he knows from his own experience that there is only one body, into which you are gathered one by one.
On a visit home a couple of years ago, Neville's brother, a doctor who died at sixty-three, asked him about his memory; Neville said he remembers the Bible and poetry but nothing of the newspapers, wh
He meets his brother Lawrence, who died two years ago old and in pain, and finds him restored as a young man in his early twenties.
Unable to get a divorce, Neville slept for a week in the assumption that he was happily married to the woman who now bears his name; he was then called by the court, where his estranged wife was on tr
Neville recalls Abdullah's meetings, where the seventeenth chapter of John had to be committed to memory by everyone, recited standing together at the close with no reading of books, and Abdullah alwa
Neville tells of the revelation that possessed him, in which David appeared and revealed him as the Father; he speaks of it as his own experience.
Neville says his whole life has been given to the search for Christ within, and that he has found him.
Neville says that night after night he must gather all those within his world into the pattern as the Rock is re-established.
25 February 1966
(probable)
Neville plans to close the lecture season on 25 February and travel to Barbados, and is waiting for correspondence from Barbados before writing officially to Dr.
He mentions his own study habits and library: Cheyne's Psalms translation is in their library and he has read many commentaries and keeps many exegeses at home.
Neville recalls the years when his theater was filled to overflowing and the crowd would go back to the hotel after his lectures for what was really only a social gathering, until he put a stop to it.
About three years ago, in a vision, Neville gave a woman friend his eyes and she was told she was the incurrent witness; since then she has had the capacity to see reality from within.
Neville recalls how his mother Wilsey, wanting to travel to America, would mentally prepare the trip until his father Joseph came home insisting she must go; the children, including Neville, Cecil and
Neville recounts his own mystical experience of the temple splitting in two, seeing the golden liquid light at the base of the spine, absorbing it like a sponge, ascending like a spiral of lightning,
He describes growing up with his brothers and sisters so closely bound that no one in the family could feel important above the rest.
Man dreams of the silver serpent
Description
Neville tells of a second letter, from a man kept away by the weather, who dreamed friends told him the all-powerful silver serpent was in his room, and that searching would not find it - it would find him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1966
(possible)
before 7 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Life Is for Acting ¶22 (Now the other chap, who undoubtedly because of the weather isn’t here, he wrote this story. May I tell you, his hunger to have an experience of God is all possessing. I never met anyone more hungry, more desirous of experiencing God.)
The newspaper rearranged the title Neville submitted for the lecture, changing "Believe It In" to "Believe In It", and the proofs came back too late for him to correct.
New York seamstress imagines and obtains doubled weekly pay
Description
A woman who heard him — a seamstress and designer in New York — imagined pouring out and counting the contents of a bag holding more than twice her usual weekly pay until it felt real, and within two days was hired by someone she had never heard of at exactly that sum.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1966
(possible)
before 16 September 1966
Sources
- Source: Behold the Dreamer (repeat) ¶26 (She was a combination seamstress and designer in the city of New York. She took in my word, as I hope tonight you will, and she went home either to prove what I said or disprove it.)
He states that his knowledge of scripture and his authority to preach came from no man, school or organization, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ, and that he now reads scripture only as confirmatio
Neville states that he has entered worlds as solidly real and as peopled as this one without moving more than two inches.
He says he has personally experienced the Father-Son relationship, and Judaism fulfilled in Christianity, in his own experience.
Neville published Resurrection.
Person: Neville Goddard
Carter describes Neville as constantly comparing his own experience with Paul's from the platform, doing everything but saying 'I am Paul'.
Description
Carter describes Neville as constantly comparing his own experience with Paul's from the platform, doing everything but saying 'I am Paul'. [Place: Neville's lecture platform (venue unspecified)]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Now you know that Neville constantly compared his experience with Paul. He did everything but say, I am Paul. Paul was on the page. Neville was in history.
Date (happened)
before 1966
(possible)
before 1967
(possible)
17 April 1967
(probable)
Neville describes still meeting his old friend at long intervals, where she talks only of a relative who was in the theater in Vaudeville before the turn of the century, and he lets her, since talking