He describes the letters that arrive in his morning mail from people protesting that they and their husbands are good and yet nothing happens to them.

A friend of his had a vision in which a shaft of light opened the earth and revealed a golden serpentine liquid light, and afterwards found a child born outside the relationship of man and woman; Neville says he has told this story before from the platform.

Neville reads and retells a letter from a gentleman present in the audience who doubled his salary by imagining it, then imagined a check arriving and received exactly that sum from a friend's unexpected inheritance, and later recognised an office, window, plant and man he had idly imagined weeks before.

Neville reads a letter from a lady present who woke to find, in her own hand on the pad by her bed, words she did not remember writing: 'I moved into the womb of woman until it was time.'

In the same letter the friend told of a dream of lying on his bed, feeling the right side of his skull an inch higher, remembering his skull had been split, calling to his wife, and waking; he added that he had never felt more peaceful since, and joked about Blake's line on hatching ripe.

He mentions knowing others in his own circle who laboured twenty-four and forty-eight hours to bring forth a child of only five months.

A lady wrote to him enclosing a design of concentric circles inscribed 'Imagination is the true man', 'Man is God' and 'I am', the inner circle divided into six sixty-degree sections of virtues around the centre 'The Father within us, he does the works'.

He describes Abdullah's manner of teaching — by shock, with physical gestures demonstrating passages of scripture, always opening the meeting with a set phrase about unity.

He tells of a friend who has already had three of the visions and whose undated letter he received, so that neither of them knows the time interval before the coming benediction of the dove.

A grandmother who no longer attends, kept away by her husband because of disturbing sleep experiences, told Neville that in her sleep she quoted scripture to strange creatures and said she would tell this to Neville, and one of them answered that they knew she would tell the Great Fish.

His niece by marriage, home for a week before flying to Vietnam, came back excited with news of film stars aboard the family's yacht Orion in Barbados, where Frank Sinatra sent his private plane to Miami to fetch spaghetti for a party — which Neville uses to mock the flattery of shadows.