before 1969 (possible)
Neville says that when he recounts what happened in him he speaks as though it were external, but the three people who witnessed his own transformation appeared within him.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recounts his vision in which his body was torn in two from top to bottom and he saw the blood of God as his own ancestral self, a body of love which he wore when they embraced.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes going up with such force that he felt tremendous pressure in his head, slightly left of centre, and pressed himself into the crowded kingdom as a living mural.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes the shock of discovering, having been raised a Christian, that Christ is not an outside being to worship but his own human imagination, which turned his world upside down for a while
before 1969 (possible)
A second telling in the same lecture: on first finding the true vine he could hardly sleep for days, disillusioned by the responsibility he had always laid on another, until he accepted it and began t
before 1969 (possible)
He recounts having entertained unlovely thoughts about another person, then revising those thoughts, accepting the imaginal act as reality, and in time observing a change in his world relative to that
c. 1969
He describes his present nightly state: closing his eyes to this world he enters the world of Spirit waking, where visions based on the promises of God continue to possess him night after night.
Lady sees her radiantly perfect self in vision
Description
Neville reads a letter from a lady who saw herself in vision as radiantly perfect, then woke, stumbled into a door and lost her temper with her children, and he confirms her vision was correct.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 11 April 1969
Told
11 April 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Perfect Image ¶1 (Now, a lady wrote, saying: “I saw myself in vision as radiantly perfect, yet I knew that we were two. Remembering the words ‘Be ye perfect,’ I knew that at one time I was not, but now my present reflection is one of perfection.)
Lady sees Neville as a shepherd boy searching for her
Description
A lady writes of a vision in which she sat in a forest against a tree, refused to answer a voice calling 'Father, Father', and Neville appeared dressed as a shepherd boy saying he had been searching for her; he interprets it as the son of God calling the Father in her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 11 April 1969
Told
11 April 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Perfect Image ¶3 (Here is another beautiful one. This lady said, “I found myself in a forest, sitting on the ground leaning against a tree, when I heard a voice calling, ‘Father, Father,’ but I did not answer, because I did not want to be discovered. Suddenly you appeared…)
before 1969 (possible)
Friends who have not heard him speak for years are in tonight's audience; when they last heard him he taught only the law, because the promise had not yet been fulfilled in him.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his own personal practice: he catches the feeling of the wish fulfilled by imagining he is among people he knows well who see him as they would if his desire were already a fact, and
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes repeatedly sitting in his chair and stepping into another terrestrial world that closes around him and is as real as this one, where he talks with solid people.
c. 1969 (probable)
Neville says he stood in God's presence and then came down and entered a specter; and that not long ago he was in another section of time instructing about a dozen men, with a shadow of a man at the c
c. 1969
In a recent waking dream Neville stood on a street corner holding an enormous packet of bills; a woman grabbed some and then angrily demanded the passers-by return "her" money, and later men with kniv
before 4 April 1969
One night while teaching the great mystery of God, a man entered the room and severed the sleeve of Neville's robe, exposing his right arm; the next morning he read Isaiah's "To whom has the arm of th
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says his mother wove the garment he entered and called him Neville, and that in time he claimed to be Neville until the "I" who entered awoke to discover it was God, whereupon God's son called
before 1969 (possible)
The lady's friend, having heard the visions related, fell asleep and saw a match set the earth aflame like the Kansas prairie at sunrise, a dark serpentine object rise out of the flame and place itsel
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he would forgive his mother or any of his brothers whatever they did, and has widened that circle to friends and strangers.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says that on this level he would have given his eyes to his wife first and his daughter next, but chose from above instead.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says his own mother wove the fleshly garment he wears and that he came forth from her womb, followed by the placenta.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that he speaks from having personally undergone the experience of the drama beginning and ending in the skull.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville mentions that friends of his nephew moved to Arizona, not realising they carried their beliefs and fears with them.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recalls that when he was afraid he prayed to an external God and his fears came upon him, until he saw the symbol revealing his own Fatherhood and could say he now beheld with his eye what he
7 April 1969
Neville asserts from his own awakening that when he awoke he was Jesus Christ, the one imagination.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says the whole story of Jesus Christ has unfolded in him — he has been crucified, buried and resurrected, and was as surprised as anyone when the pattern erupted in him.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville, in his heavenly body, gave his immortal eyes to a woman in his audience, who then saw him nailed on a cross that burned to golden liquid light — exactly as he had told her it had happened to
before 1969 (possible)
Neville notes that he has shared his experiences with his audience and also in his book Resurrection.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes himself as a normal, formally uneducated man, married, once divorced, with two children, who has nevertheless experienced everything said of Jesus Christ in the gospel.
21 April 1969
Neville tells the audience to take him seriously because he must soon depart.
A lady present in the audience writes to Neville of a dream in which she walked into an exquisite jewelry store, picked
Description
A lady present in the audience writes to Neville of a dream in which she walked into an exquisite jewelry store, picked up a green gem and walked out without paying, which disturbed her; he tells her it fulfils the 50th Psalm and blesses her for it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 25 April 1969
Told
25 April 1969
Sources
  • Source: Persons Represent States in Scripture ¶13 (Now, a lady writes (she’s here tonight) “A dream of mine wakened me at seven. I went into this exquisite jewelry store and I picked up certain items. I picked up a gem, a green one, and I walked out without paying for anything…a thing on this level I wou…)
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his own family: he was raised Protestant, but his brothers fell in love with and married Catholic girls, agreeing their children would be raised Catholic, so half the family is Catho
before 1969 (possible)
He tells his Catholic and Protestant relatives that the only one erupted suddenly within him and he knew who Jesus Christ was, and they answer that they know his origin, his father and his mother.
An account of seven years of self-imposed austerity — a vegetable-only diet, celibacy, nightmares and depression — p
Description
An account of seven years of self-imposed austerity — a vegetable-only diet, celibacy, nightmares and depression — presented in the second person but as the John-the-Baptist phase of the seeker's own life; it matches the discipline Neville elsewhere describes undertaking himself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 25 April 1969
Told
25 April 1969
Sources
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he has gone on television and radio around the clock with ministers, priests and rabbis, quoting their own book back at them and asking what it means, and they do not want to hear it.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recounts telling a rabbi in New York City that the rabbi had called him Father, and asking whether that is not the fulfilment of the 89th Psalm.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes owning a first edition (1838) of de Tocqueville's Democracy in America at home, and his habit of handing a friend one page to read — the page foretelling that Russia will conquer by
A woman wrote to Neville about a disturbing dream in which she entered a jewellery store, took several items including a
Description
A woman wrote to Neville about a disturbing dream in which she entered a jewellery store, took several items including a beautiful green gem, and left without paying; he tells her to be thrilled, that she was eating of the Tree of Life and that the green stone was her hunger for the word of God.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Persons Represent States in Scripture ¶13 (Now a lady wrote, saying: “This dream disturbs me greatly. In the dream I entered an exquisite jewelry store, and picked up many items, among which was a beautiful green gem. Then I left without paying for the articles I took.)
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his family: half of them are Catholic with statues throughout their homes, though he and his brothers were raised Protestant and several brothers married Catholics and raised their c
before 1969 (possible)
Abdullah once told Neville that he was so good he was good for nothing.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville has appeared on television and radio around the clock with ministers, priests and rabbis, who look at him strangely when he quotes their own Book; when he quoted David's words in the 2nd Psalm
One night in New York City Neville told a rabbi that David had called him Father, fulfilling the 89th Psalm, and asked w
Description
One night in New York City Neville told a rabbi that David had called him Father, fulfilling the 89th Psalm, and asked whether he was not therefore the one spoken of in Luke 20 as Christ; the rabbi put his hands over his ears to shut out the blasphemy.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 25 April 1969 (probable)
Told
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 25 April 1969 (probable)
Sources
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that he did not know the 40th Psalm's word to be true until the Spirit of truth awakened in him, that he searched for and found Jesus Christ to be his own human imagination, and that he
before 1969 (possible)
Neville insists that everything he teaches came to him by revelation and personal experience, not by reasoning - he has no training in logic and is no philosopher; scripture simply unfolded within him
3 November 1969
A questioner refers to Neville's experience of seeing David, and Neville answers from it - affirming that he knows from his own experience that the promise has come, that he brought forth the child, a
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that he himself brought forth the Christ child, and that in doing so he was Mary.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville notes that most of tonight's audience are long-standing hearers who have followed his teaching over the years.
before 1969 (possible)
Sitting on a chair he unexpectedly saw and then stepped into another world as real as this one, where he had a body seen and heard by others, while those here saw his body asleep on the chair; in that
before 1969 (possible)
He says he read a story about Bertrand Russell and quotes Russell's statement that religion is a disease born of fear.
before 1969 (possible)
He tells the audience he has left the world of death and will not be restored to this world; when they die into the terrestrial world they will ask where their teacher is and will not find him there.
Neville's friend berates Roosevelt daily while shaving
Description
Neville recalls a friend who hated Roosevelt and told him off every morning while shaving, and could not understand why Roosevelt never changed.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 6 October 1969
Told
6 October 1969
Sources
  • Source: Believe in It ¶3 (I had a friend who hated Roosevelt, yet wanted him to change. Every morning while shaving, my friend would tell Roosevelt off. He found great joy and satisfaction in this daily routine, yet could not understand why Roosevelt stayed the same.)