before 1969
(possible)
In passing, while illustrating the 'I remember when' technique, Neville refers to having lectured at the Woman's Club in Los Angeles.
Woman dreams of moving furniture to a new apartment
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vivid dream of sorting furniture to move to a new apartment two miles away, leaving some for her husband, and Neville answers her letter from the platform, quoting her bewilderment.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
6 May 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Battle of Armageddon ¶16 (So here, a lady wrote, “I had this most disturbing dream. I found myself in my home cleaning out every piece of furniture that I’m going to take into my new apartment. It’s going to be two miles from here.”)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he is a father of two grown children, aged forty-five and twenty-six, who go their own way and hold their own opinions but have never turned against him.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recounts his birth-from-above vision: awaking sealed in his own skull as a tomb, pushing away a stone at the base of the skull and squeezing out, a storm wind, his three older brothers seated
Emmet Fox is asked to pray for a mortician's business
Description
Neville's friend Emmet Fox told him of a man who asked him to pray for his business to boom, and who turned out to be a mortician.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 6 May 1969
Told
- 6 May 1969 (probable)
- 6 May 1969
Sources
- Source: The Battle of Armageddon ¶42 (For instance, as a friend said to me one day, it was Emmet Fox, he said, “You know, a man came to see me and he wanted his business improved.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he did not search scripture until it happened to him, having been taught along with his brothers and sister first by his mother, then Sunday school, then grammar and high school - the ord
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says the one within him unveiled himself as love - the Ancient of Days - and that the same being also wore the garment of power and commanded him; his own striving could never have revealed it
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recounts his own vision: alone in a closing flower and tree display he found a runt pig, bedded it on a card table with branches; the scene shifted to a supermarket his family owned where the
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that before this vision he had already discovered that his Imagination is God, yet went on applying a rational approach and failed to exercise it, and resolved after seeing the lit candle
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes how he set about making himself into the image of a successful minister of the word of God by assuming from the start that he had already finished, and remaining faithful to that ima
Joseph rises from Russian poverty to New York wealth by imagining
Description
Neville retells the story of his dear friend Joseph, a poor Russian Jewish boy who imagined the bank teller making a mistake in his favour, received the overage the next day, and went on to become a multi-millionaire in New York who mentally writes letters thanking customers for cheques.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
- 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
- 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Artist Is God ¶5 (Let me share with you a simple story. A very dear friend of mine who lives in New York City was born in Russia of a very poor Jewish family. He knew what it was like to be frightened when he heard the Cossacks were coming, for they burned homes and cause…)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville states that he has found his anointed, his first-born son, who called him Father and God, the Rock of his salvation, so that he can now depart in peace.
Young pianist visions Chopin teaching her composition
Description
A young friend in her teens, a pianist who wants to be a composer, shared with Neville a series of visions in which the spirit of Chopin walked with her above a body of water and showed her how to compose, and in another dream she was told to read the Book of Numbers.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
- 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
- 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Artist Is God ¶24 (In one of her visions she found herself in the company of Chopin, who was showing her how to compose. They seemed to be walking above a body of water, and as she looked, the water was not only the subject but the inspiration of the composition.)
between 19 February 1922 and 18 February 1923
(probable)
Neville recalls leaving Barbados at seventeen, unschooled, having voiced a desire to be a minister of the word of God, and that his one consuming desire was to have a true rather than a borrowed visio
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he found the truth as Paul did, not from any man or book but through a revelation - the unveiling of God within him - which occurred when he was confronted by and fused with the Risen Lor
before 1969
(possible)
He testifies that the resurrection and birth from above happened to him personally — he was the one who awoke, alone, and came out, and he has given birth to God rather than merely awaiting it.
before 1969
(possible)
He says that in the fullness of time he looked and found the Son calling him "Father", so discovering the fatherhood of God in himself.
before 1969
(possible)
He describes waking from the experience and jumping off the bed, barely able to believe he had actually experienced what is said of Jesus Christ — told in the second person but drawn from his own expe
before 1969
(possible)
A woman in a previous audience objected that his imagined ship booking might have caused someone else to cancel their trip, and he answered that it was the only Christian thing to do.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that being awake he can now pass beyond dream into the world of spirit and meet his friends there consciously.
before 1969
(possible)
Walking on a Barbados beach with his wife and daughter, Neville watched two boys turn over a rock; the larger of two crabs ran off, then returned to seize the smaller one, press it to its breast and c
before 1969
(possible)
Neville stood in the presence of Infinite, Eternal Love, which embraced him and incorporated him into its body, so that he knows from experience that God is love.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he rose like the son of man and re-entered the kingdom of heaven from which man fell, and that he will reside there when he drops this body.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville has heard highly titled churchmen declare from the pulpit that those who believe God is in them are insane, and wondered at their ignorance; after his own revelation he saw them still in the s
A newly appointed American ambassador admits ignorance of his posting
Description
Neville recalls hearing an interview with a newly appointed American ambassador who admitted he did not know where his posting was on the map, having been appointed for his campaign contributions.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 2 June 1969
Told
2 June 1969
Sources
- Source: The Sphere Within ¶28 (In our land, I recall hearing an interview with a man who had just been appointed an ambassador.)
before 1969
(possible)
Moving in spirit into another environment at night, Neville arrested a feeling within himself and everything he perceived - falling leaves, blades of grass, a bird in flight, the diners and the waitre
Claims that Shakespeare encoded his name in Psalm 46
Description
Neville mentions having read the joke that Shakespeare wrote Psalm 46 and hid himself in it as the 46th words from each end, and the claim that Rufus, living in the 16th century, said the psalm inspired his hymn.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 9 June 1969
Told
9 June 1969
Sources
- Source: The First Principle ¶24 (I have read where certain people in their little jokes claim Shakespeare wrote it, incorporating himself into the chapter by making the 26th word “shake” and the 46th word from the end “spear.”)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he is often asked whether he believes a man called Jesus once lived, and always answers no; he once believed it, but having entered the final state it was revealed to him that he is Jesus
A woman dreams of holding a naked baby at a friend's home
Description
Another woman in the audience wrote to him about a dream in which, sleeping at a friend's home, she found a naked baby boy on a blanket, answered the doorbell holding him, and was told by her daughter to put clothes on the baby.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 10 June 1969
- before 6 June 1969 (probable)
Told
- 10 June 1969 (doubtful)
- 6 June 1969 (probable)
- 6 June 1969 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Nature God Revealed Us ¶10 (Three other ladies in this audience tonight…and one wrote me this. She is sleeping on a little, I would say, couch in the home of a friend…in other words away from her own home.)
A woman sees her sister's child become a smiling cherub
Description
A third woman reported seeing the child as her sister's boy, whose face turned into that of a smiling cherub, after which she knew she could not give the child up because it was hers; Neville notes she has five children of her own.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 10 June 1969
- before June 1969 (probable)
Told
- 10 June 1969 (doubtful)
- 6 June 1969 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Nature God Revealed Us ¶12 (Another lady saw the child as her sister’s boy. Holding it close she looked into its face, which turned into that of a cherub, who smiled at her.)
before 1969
(possible)
He says that when the revelation came to him everything within him fell - the structures of the mind by which he had lived.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recounts his own fulfilment of the kiss of Judas: having told his experiences to a group of twelve men, one departed, and a handsome, gloriously dressed man of about forty entered, embraced hi
before 1969
(possible)
He states that when he saw David, he himself was seated and David was standing - which is why he believes Browning had the experience.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his own experience of the end of the play, when he held the Christ child in his arms and the words of endearment came out of him.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he was cast as a poor boy into a family with no intellectual, social or financial background, and was then brought out as the perfect image of the Father.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that at his last lecture night he tried to make his message clear but some did not understand, so he repeats it.
before 1969
(possible)
He heard an inner voice one night say that God had laid himself down within him to sleep and dreamed a dream, and he knew God was dreaming that he was Neville.
before 1969
(possible)
He recounts his repeated experience of being out of the body and fully awake there, touching and embracing solid people and objects in a world as real as this one, so that no one can persuade him the
before 1969
(possible)
He says he himself was trained to see Jesus as a person born of a woman two thousand years ago.
before 1969
(possible)
He says he has personally taught others to use the sense of smell in imagination, and has tested plain odor himself.
before 1969
(possible)
As a boy in Barbados he lay in bed listening to a ship blasting for its captain, who was below on the veranda drinking with his father, a ship chandler, and his mind would travel to the next port.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville has at home a letter from Nixon on White House stationery thanking the lady who had sent him a record of The Law and The Promise, and from its wording he judges Nixon knew the story of thinkin
Neville's wealthy friends postpone the Promise for another million
Description
He says he has many wealthy friends who still feel insecure and tell him they want another million first, putting the Promise second.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
23 June 1969(refuted)23 June 1969(refuted)- 18 November 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Test Yourselves ¶52 (I have many friends of mine who have all the money in the world but they feel insecure, all the money in the world.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he has himself seen the inner man and knows it to be his own human imagination.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his Father fusing with him as the Spirit of Love and sending him back wearing the form of power, and says Martha, now dead, saw him as power so that she would know the power of truth
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his own practice of taking the Bible and letting his intuition play upon it until the meaning surfaces.
before 1969
(possible)
Lying on his bed in Beverly Hills he saw and then stepped into another world just as solid as this one, told two ladies in a plush hotel corridor that the whole thing was a dream, they fled from him a
before 1969
(possible)
At the time of the experience he had a wife and a daughter just entering high school, and had not yet provided money enough to cushion them if he died then.
before 1969
(possible)
After his experiences he began experimenting with imagining what reason and the senses denied, became it, and then taught the method to others who tried it and proved it.
before 1969
(possible)
Repeatedly, sitting in a chair or lying down, he stops seeing his own room, sees another world instead, and steps into it and walks about among people the world calls dead.