before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has seen David, that the memory has never faded and he feels it all the time, but that it cannot be described or painted.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville describes being embraced into the risen body, and how returning each morning into his physical body feels like being crystallized into a tight little garment such as one puts on the insane; he
before 1967 (possible)
Neville remarks that he himself could never have found the hairpiece, being lost in so big a university, and that he did nothing but rest on what he had heard as a promise of God.
Bob's and Benny's mystical experiences follow Neville's sequence
Description
Neville recounts that his friend Bob's experiences came in the same chronological order as his own, though Bob did not date his letter, and says he is now waiting for Benny's next experience about the 6th of March of next year.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 18 December 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Christmas, the Birth of Christ in Man ¶31 (When my friend Bob had the first experience, I was hopeful, but I did not write it down and he did not date his letter to me. But it did, it came in the same chronological order.)
before 1967 (possible)
Neville refers to his own most recent book, Resurrection, as what he hopes he has left behind as a record of the play.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville insists his experience happened to him but cannot be located in a place or a moment of time he could take anyone to.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville tells the audience there is not long left for him to be here and that they will have to carry on the story.
Neville's doctor brother runs a free clinic until his death
Description
Neville describes his brother the doctor in Barbados, who ran a free clinic from five in the morning for hundreds of patients he never charged or dunned, and who wore himself out and died at sixty-two.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967 (possible)
Told
  • 21 December 1967 (possible)
  • 21 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
Ben sees Neville restore a hungry crowd
Description
Neville reports Ben's vision in which Neville appeared on a hill in a desert, dressed in blue, feeding fruit to a haggard crowd who were restored to health — which Neville takes as confirmation that he gives the truth.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967 (possible)
Told
  • 28 December 1967 (doubtful)
  • 28 December 1967 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Closing Summary 1967 ¶41 (And tonight’s confirmation from the lady with the sapphire and Ben’s story seeing me on the hill dressed in blue, giving food that is truth.)
before 1967 (possible)
Neville describes his vision of David, in which he was possessed by the feeling of being the Ancient of Days and David called him Father.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville affirms from his own experience that he stood in the presence of God and found God to be man.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says that today he could not graciously accept even the most glorious plant, because he is leaving in a couple of weeks and would have to give it to a friend to keep.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville recalls his own poverty — thinking a hundred dollars would make him feel like Croesus — and says that today, though he could leave his family two million, he still does not feel it is enough.
1967
Neville contrasts himself with his successful businessman brother Victor, who loves the odor of business; on a visit home last year Neville read him one of Blake's letters in the hotel lobby and Victo
c. 1967 (probable)
Neville describes his brother Victor, a successful businessman who loves the odor of his store, and how on a recent visit to Barbados Neville read him one of Blake's letters, which delighted Neville b
Neville recalls publicly recounting Bill's four-arrow vision
Description
He recalls having told this same story of Bill's four golden arrows from the platform some months earlier, and says a tape of it exists though he does not have it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1967 (probable)
  • between 1967 and 1968 (probable)
Told
5 April 1968
Sources
  • Source: Eschatological Visions ¶42 (that perfect pattern that my friend Bill received with the four golden arrows as I told you quite a few months ago.)
c. 1967
Neville recalls saying from this same platform about two years earlier that "I am Mary," whereupon a man in the audience took issue with him and never came back.
1967
He says he lives in the world of Caesar like everyone else − a family to support, taxes he cannot refuse, prices risen since he bought the same item last year − and that he is not exempt from a headac
before 1967 (possible)
Thinking about his coming New York season in May, Neville told his wife — who took it for a joke — to put down a title with the word 'pregnancy' in it rather than 'sabbath'.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville describes his own experience of the crucifixion — nailed to his own body by vortices at hands, feet, head and side, the most thrilling experience in the world, a remembering in which he merged
before 1967 (possible)
Neville separates his own historical life — where he was born, going through the mill, deeds he is ashamed of and proud of — from the Cosmic Christ he speaks about.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville remarks that he has gone to the same barber for years and years, though Henry is not the first shoeshine boy that barber has had.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says his sister thinks she keeps the sabbath by going to church on Sunday.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he knows Phillips Exeter, though he never went there.
before 1967 (possible)
His brother-in-law, who did not like pickles, gave up pickles for Lent.
A woman friend passed on to Neville a saying her father told her as a child — to spend a needed dollar as though it we
Description
A woman friend passed on to Neville a saying her father told her as a child — to spend a needed dollar as though it were a dry leaf and you the owner of unbounded forests — so that he might tell it to his daughter.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 3 March 1967
Told
3 March 1967
Sources
  • Source: Keep the Sabbath ¶20 (A friend of mine, speaking of a leaf…this wonderful statement that her father told her when she was a child and she in turn told me that I may tell my daughter.)
before 1967 (possible)
He says he will carry the letter's lesson to New York and tell it wherever he goes, and asks his audience to share their dreams and visions with him.
before 1967 (possible)
He read Jim Murray's obituary of Henry Luce in the sports column of the Times and recounts Luce's life — born in China of missionary parents, arriving at fourteen, Yale, $85,000 borrowed turned into 4
before 1967
For years in New York City he gave personal interviews five days a week between one and five, dropping each person completely from his mind as they took the elevator down, and even hanging up on anyon
before 1967 (possible)
Wanting to leave Barbados when only two ships were sailing and thousands were waiting, Neville asked his brother's help, found he had no influence, and instead imagined himself walking up the gangplan
before 1967 (possible)
In illustrating Blake's instruction, Neville mentions the dozen or so New York hotels he lived in and entered.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has seen Hamlet at least a dozen times on Broadway, played by different artists, no two alike.
Bob's spiritual child emerges into his hand
Description
Neville reports his friend Bob's experience of the child coming popping out of his head and into his hand as he held it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 30 October 1967
Told
30 October 1967
Sources
before 1967 (possible)
Neville describes his own complexion changing with the seasons — darkening in the sun each year and turning pale in winter — to argue that pigment means nothing.
before 1967 (probable)
Neville recounts reading Stalin's daughter's book and the passage in which she describes being present at her father's death and seeing an expression of hate on his face as he raised his unparalyzed h
A woman imagines her friend rehired with better retirement credit
Description
The same woman's second story: a friend in her fifties wanted her old job back at an electronic plant; using the technique the woman heard only the desired outcome, and the friend was hired with a larger salary and her ten previous years credited toward retirement.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 25 September 1967
Told
25 September 1967
Sources
  • Source: Test Yourself Realneville ¶6 (“A friend of mine in her fifties desired to change her job for financial reasons, and she thought of a place where she formerly worked, some electronic plant.)
A woman explains her telephone technique to Neville
Description
Neville quotes the letter the woman sent him describing exactly how she performs the telephone technique and her assurance to him that it is infallible.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 25 September 1967
Told
25 September 1967
Sources
  • Source: Test Yourself Realneville ¶21 (as the lady said to me in her letter, “I then sit quietly and listen for the phone. I have it ring in my Imagination and then I hear what I should have heard before.)
before 1967 (possible)
Lying on his bed on his left side, Neville felt an intense personal force centred at the back of his head; he could move every part of his body but could not turn around to see who was applying it, an
before 1967 (possible)
Restless in his search for the word of God, he crossed the ocean to America and joined the theatre, which he says prepared him to stand and speak before any audience without nervousness.
Neville's sister's elderly servant refuses retirement and recites the Bible
Description
He describes his sister's old servant, taken into the household when his sister's children were being born, who refuses to retire though his sister would have retired her fifteen years ago, and who can quote the Bible from beginning to end without knowing a thing about Christ.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 10 March 1967 (possible)
Told
10 March 1967
Sources
  • Source: The Riddle ¶24 (My sister would retire her today, retire her fifteen years ago, but no, she doesn’t want to retire. She’s there all day, have to force her to take days off, but she can quote the Bible from beginning to end.)
Audience members send Neville dreams of Scripture flowing during daily work
Description
He says people who attend have sent him dreams in which scripture flows through the mind during the ordinary workday, and he will share them, from little children and adults alike, at his next lecture.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 10 March 1967
Told
10 March 1967
Sources
  • Source: The Riddle ¶33 (I have some lovely dreams to share with you sent me by those who are here, where scripture flows through the mind in the normal setting of the workday.)
Ben sees Neville feeding fruit to fainting people on a hill
Description
Ben tells Neville of a vision in which Neville, in a blue suit, stood at the top of a hill handing out fruit to pale people who looked ready to faint; Neville interprets the blue robe as truth and the fruit as the truth he was feeding them.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 10 March 1967
Told
10 March 1967
Sources
  • Source: The Riddle ¶39 (Well, Ben, if you saw me dressed in blue and I was passing out fruit, what I was giving was the truth. Blue is truth. When I’m robed in blue, I am speaking the truth.)
before 1967 (possible)
He tells of his sister's maid, who tries to relate his drinking to a Bible passage she cannot quote; he supplies it himself (the dog returning to its vomit) and later the Corinthians verse about food,
A woman imagines and receives a seat to see Burton
Description
A woman wrote to him that after failing by every physical means to get a seat to see Burton, she assumed she was sitting in the audience watching the show, and a writer friend travelling 3,000 miles from New York City then took her to dinner and to the show.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 9 October 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Spiritual Feast ¶29 (So I simply remembered what I’d forgotten and assumed I sat in the audience and I’m looking at Burton. Then, all the way, 3,000 miles away, a friend of mine who’s a writer is coming west, he wants me to be with him for the short interval that he’s here, …)
A woman sees an arrow enter the center of concentric circles
Description
Someone brought him a message of a vision of circles within circles with an arrow entering the tiny central circle, which thrilled him because it is exactly what happens to him when he shoots his fiery arrows.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 9 October 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Spiritual Feast ¶36 (So someone will bring me a message, “I saw circles after circles after circles and a little, tiny circle in the middle, and then an arrow entered it.” I was thrilled that she brought back an [...], for that is exactly what has happened to me. I never mis…)
before 1967 (possible)
He describes his own Bible as marked up throughout, with the passages relating to the night he was born from above and the night his arm was exposed marked against their scriptures.
1967
In Barbados the previous year Neville argued about the resurrection with his sister, now a pillar of the church, and could not get her past the pre-resurrected Christ to accept that his own experience
Woman imagines her friend passing a stenotype examination
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville how she used her "telephone technique" on a friend who gave nine reasons she could not pass a court stenotype reporter's examination: she revised everything as it came over the phone, heard the ring and the news that the friend had passed, and six weeks later the friend did pass.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 25 September 1967
Told
  • 25 September 1967
  • 25 September 1967 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Test Yourself Realneville ¶3 (She said, “I have found my telephone technique infallible. It never fails, but never fails. A friend of mine wanted to take an examination in the courts to be a reporter, a court stenotype reporter.)
Missing parts for an old computer are found in a nearby brown package
Description
The same friend told how an old computer sold out of the warehouse was missing two vital parts that could not be found, and that afternoon a salesman picked up a little brown package ten feet away containing exactly those parts.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 24 November 1967
Told
24 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Truth Word God ¶5 (“That afternoon the salesman came in, picked up a little package not more than ten feet from the computer and said, “Here are the parts.’ And he was right!)
before 1967 (possible)
Neville tells of his wife's oldest sister Alice, a good Christian who loves him but cannot believe what he teaches, and who refused to believe him when he said she would not die.