A friend brought Neville a letter the previous night describing his vision of a vast steel-gray face, sheer almightiness without compassion, which Neville explains was the man seeing himself as El Sha
Forty-eight hours before the lecture Neville, instead of arranging his affairs with people, turned within and assumed everything for his departure was done; that day the bank called about a large draf
He saw on that day's television news that the long-standing rules of abstinence from meat in Lent were to be relaxed.
between June 1966 and August 1966
His brother Lawrence, dying in Barbados the past summer, telephoned him one morning; their sister Daphne answered and Lawrence asked for "the Lord", then joked that Neville sounded sober and so could
He says no member of his own family ever showed interest in what he wrote or taught, except the one who died a year ago last August.
Neville tells of a serious illness two months earlier, when no insurance company would have given him a week to live, and says he came back and lingers only to tell the story, being as strong now at s
between 13 September 1966 and 19 September 1966
(probable)
In answer to a question, he retells his vision of the state of Abraham: a tall majestic being leaning against a leafless gnarled oak whose branches resembled the convolutions of the human brain, with
Two men apply Neville's law at Caliente and win large sums
Description
He tells of two men from his own meetings who applied the law at Caliente: one who owed a thousand dollars with no credit made $87,000, and another, whose hand was cold as ice, confessed to Neville after hearing a man testify from his platform that he had misspent borrowed money in a failed business, was told he could do the same, and made $54,000 in one month; both then forgot the Word of God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: God Only Acts ¶49 (So he said, “I did not steal it, Neville, only the business failed. Now he wants his money. Do you think I could do what that man tonight said that he did?” I said, “Certainly you can. The same God in you, the same God in me, the same God in him can do i…)
Neville recounts his own dream of the previous October in which he was teaching, saw his wristwatch read 4:10, taught on for what seemed an hour, saw the same 4:10 again, and awoke to find he was not
c. 2 October 1966
(probable)
A couple of days before the lecture Neville read a statement by the present pope claiming the Roman pontifices are the custodians and interpreters of divine revelation, and recalls the same pope's ear
Neville describes a vision in which he was teaching the Word of God to twelve robed men seated on a floor; one man left to inform the authorities, then a tall richly-robed figure entered, hammered a w
Neville recounts a vision of the betrayal (as in the Book of John and Psalm 41, 'My friend who ate my food has lifted up his heel against me'), dated by him to 10 October 1966 and recorded against Isa
Neville recounts his vision of 10 October 1966: seated on the ground teaching twelve men, one man rushed out to betray him, then a tall, beautifully attired man entered, hammered a wooden stake into N
18 October 1966
(probable)
He testifies that God's promises have all been fulfilled in him, an unschooled, unlettered, unknown natural man.
before 18 October 1966
(probable)
He says he has personally experienced the whole of scripture without losing his identity, and that when he was sent to do this work the words given him were 'Down with the bluebloods', meaning all chu
Woman's recurring examination dream
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that week from a 59-year-old woman who described a recurrent dream of preparing for an exam, eyeless faces like Michelangelo's paintings, a smiling infant, and a vivid dream of her son; he interprets it as the coming great exam before the Risen Christ.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Miraculous Child ¶10 (Every day the morning mail brings me confirmation of those who are nearing the end. Two letters came this week that I would like to share with you.)
Man sees light and a golden pool in Silence
Description
Neville reads out a letter from a man who, sitting down at home on Monday night with his eyes closed, saw a blaze of light with a pool of golden pulsating liquid that formed itself into an expanding rose; Neville interprets it as the rose of Sharon.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Miraculous Child ¶13 (Now let me tell you of a letter that came from a gentleman. He said, “I came home on Monday night, sat down in my chair and closed my eyes. As I began to relax a blaze of light appeared before me, and as I looked at the light I could see a pool of golden…)
Woman's revision dream letter
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that past week from a woman who, after his October 18th lecture on the new man, went back through her written dream records, found a September 10th dream of an explosion and her ear being pierced, and thereafter communed with God, who told her that the interval between desire and fulfilment depends on the state you were in when you desired and the state you are still in because you have not practiced revision.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 26 October 1966 and 1 November 1966
(probable)
10 September 1966
(probable)
18 October 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Congregation of God ¶7 (Let us now illustrate it with a letter that came to me this past week. She said, “On the night of October the 18th you spoke of the new man, the breaking down of the wall of partition between two and making the two one new man. I can’t tell you what it d…)
The previous afternoon, while Neville was reading the Bible in his shorts and his wife rested before a dinner engagement, a nun came to his door with a message from God about devils; he answered her w
Neville recounts a dream of the previous night in which his two friends Vera and Jimmie — who have never met — appeared as mother and son, Vera declaring Neville to be Jimmie's father; he woke himself
between 31 October 1966 and 6 November 1966
(probable)
A lady gave his wife a book for him last week, bought for a dime at a rummage sale; after the last lecture he came home, read the letters, talked with the man who drove him home, then took up the book
Neville describes returning from that other state with the memory of having met Abdullah, his father and his brother - all dead - embracing and kissing them and finding them as solidly real as this wo
Writer's driving dream about looking backward
Description
From the same correspondent, a dream of the past week: he drove down Beverly Boulevard looking backwards, ignored a gesturing policeman, made a wrong-lane turn at La Cienega, and the policeman told him not to mind looking where he had been but to look where he was going; he woke before the ticket was handed over.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1 November 1966 and 7 November 1966
(probable)
Told
7 November 1966
7 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Life Is for Acting ¶14 (Now, from the same letter came this one…and this only happened this past week.)