Events involving this person
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of forgiveness, Neville says his mother is now gone from this world, and that he could forgive her, his father, or any of his brothers whatever they did.
Neville's mother imagines and receives a trip from Barbados to New York
Description
Neville tells how his mother in Barbados appropriated a trip to New York - having dresses made and living in the trip imaginatively - until his father Joseph announced he had booked her passage, and she protested at the expense while knowing exactly what she had done.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 16 July 1969
Told
16 July 1969
Sources
- Source: Many Mansions ¶28 (I had a mother who understood this law beautifully. Mother wanted to come to this country on a vacation, and she would appropriate it.)
Neville contrasts his parents' habits and deaths
Description
He contrasts his own parents: his mother, who never smoked or drank, died a painful death at 62, while his father drank heavily, ignored all health advice, and died at 85 of sheer exhaustion — which is why he ignores diet rules.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
28 September 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Biblical Language ¶28 (My mother never smoked or drank, yet she died a very painful death at the age of 62. My father drank like a fish. He broke every health code.)
before 1969
(probable)
Neville was taught as a child the orthodox story of Jesus as a man who came into the world 2,000 years ago, died and rose again — taught to him by his mother, whom he would never question, and which h
before 1969
(possible)
Retelling later in the same lecture: he tried repeatedly to love an invisible God more than his mother and could not, and thought of his father as the fairest man he ever met; only when he saw that fa
Neville's mother dies believing the historical gospel
Description
His mother taught him the gospel story as secular history, and died still believing it had happened to one man 2,000 years ago.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 13 October 1969
Told
13 October 1969
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶2 (My mother taught me the story and she told it to me as secular history. She died believing that it took place in one little individual 2,000 years ago. That’s how she taught it to me, that’s how she was taught it by her mother, and throughout the ages me…)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville was raised in a Christian home and believed the gospel story as his mother taught it to him, so discovering that Jesus Christ is the human imagination came as a shock.
before 1969
(possible)
He speaks of his own birth from the womb of his mother, whom he calls a very wonderful lovely mother.
c. October 1933
He describes exactly how he slept in Barbados in imagination — placing New York northwest of him by latitude and longitude, hearing the tropical noises, seeing the sudden red-to-green Barbadian sunset
Neville's family rejects his mystical revelation
Description
He says that if his mother were alive she would not accept what happened in him, preferring her external savior, and that his own brothers think him completely mad.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
13 October 1969
Told
13 October 1969
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶67 (If she were here tonight and I told her what happened in me, that darling would not quite accept it, I know. Mother would be too disturbed and she would not want to believe in this power within herself.)
before 1970
(possible)
As a child Neville's mother would take him on her knee and tell him the story of Jesus – the fatherless son who claimed to be the Father, the miraculous birth, John the Baptist, David calling him 'my
before 1970
(possible)
Neville tells of awaking within the sepulcher and seeing the linen clothes lying — the garment of flesh his mother wove for him — after which the Father unveiled Himself to him.
before 1970
(possible)
He says he meets his dead friends and his father, mother and brothers at night when he lays down the physical body and sleeps, and teaches them this principle.
before 1970
(possible)
He describes his origins in Barbados — a small unknown island twenty-one miles by fourteen — in a very large family with no financial, social or intellectual background, but whose father, mother and b
February 1970
(probable)
That same snowy February night Neville went to bed in New York and slept as though he were in his mother's home in Barbados in the warm tropical air, waking to deeper snow — an imaginal act he later u
before 1971
(possible)
His mother taught him the stories of Jesus Christ and he accepted the story as she told it until he experienced it himself.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recalls hearing the Bible story read aloud by his mother when he was too young to understand it.
before 1971
(possible)
His mother, his schoolteachers and then the ministers all fixed in his mind the idea of Jesus Christ as an external man of history, so that he could read scripture forever without seeing what it said.
before 1971
(possible)
He gives his parents' ages at death — his mother at 61, his father at 85, who drank heavily while she did not — as the physical inheritance he wears but can modify.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recalls having had to say goodbye to his father, his mother, a niece, a nephew and many friends who have died.
before 1971
(possible)
He mentions the deaths of his father, mother and brother as proof that they did not cease to be when his senses lost them.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recalls his mother, passionately fond of roses, who left digging, fertilizing and watering to the gardeners but insisted on doing all the rose grafting herself, choosing both the graft and the
before 1972
(possible)
Neville heard the Bible story as a child from his mother, had it confirmed at school, and went on believing it as a tale until it erupted in him in manhood.
between 14 February 1972 and 20 February 1972
(probable)
Neville says he has finished with physical genealogy: he dearly loves his father, mother, brothers and sister, but beyond them he neither knows nor cares about his ancestry, since his only real ancest
before 1972
(possible)
He was born and raised a Christian, knowing only what his mother taught him and what he learned at school, and his mother read him the Bible stories, which he took to be secular history of thousands o