Woman sees her sister's baby become her smiling cherub
Description
A third woman told him of a vision in which she took up her sister's baby boy, dropped and recovered him, and when the sister asked for the child back its face turned into that of a smiling cherub and she knew the child was hers.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
6 June 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nature God Revealed Us ¶11 (Then another one…it was her sister’s child, and she took the child up, and the child fell for a moment. She picked it up; it wasn’t injured, just a little scratched.)
before 1969
(possible)
He remarks in passing on the shock of the revelation when it came to him.
before 1969
(possible)
His own mystical experience fulfilling the 14th of Mark: while he was teaching, one departed and another entered, a beautifully dressed man of about forty who kissed him, embraced him with arms extend
1969
(probable)
Before tonight's lecture he was discussing a small venture with a woman and told her the Manhattan apartment story.
before 1969
(possible)
He pays tax on every dollar taken at his lectures, claims no exemptions, and has repeatedly refused offers of ordination on the grounds that God sent him.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recounts a vision in which he sat on the floor before twelve men explaining the Word of God; one left to inform the authorities, and a tall, richly robed man entered, hammered a wooden peg int
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes the night he fulfilled the 42nd Psalm: leading a great procession to the house of God, a voice declaring 'God walks with them', a woman beside him asking where God is and being told
before 1969
(possible)
Neville mentions knowing a woman in New York City who bought last year's dresses from wealthy houses and resold them in her own shop, notifying clients when she had, for instance, Jackie's wardrobe.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes telling priests, rabbis and Protestant ministers that they will have the same Son, and their protest that he has taken their religion away.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville states from his own experience that he is the father of God's only begotten Son, as told him in the 2nd Psalm.
Neville imagines freedom for a caller's brother accused of killing a man
Description
A man telephoned Neville to say his brother had shot and killed a man; Neville, without asking why, assumed he heard the brother's ecstatic voice telling him his brother was free, and after about nine months the verdict came in acquitted.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 20 January 1969 (possible)
Told
20 January 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Mystery Eschatology ¶54 (So I simply assumed that I heard his voice and it was ecstatic as he told me that his brother was set free. Well, his brother was set free.)
Pop Johnson dreams of his brother after condemning Howard
Description
From his dancing years: his dancing partner's father, Pop Johnson, whom Neville called Pop and who was like a father to him, loathed homosexuals and wanted Neville to fire Howard, a flamboyant and terrific dancer in the act; Neville refused. Pop then dreamed an orgasmic encounter with his own brother and felt unclean for a month, and Neville told him it served him right. Howard later missed a show after winning first prize at the Mummers' Ball in New York, escorted by three men from West Point and three from Annapolis.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
20 January 1969
Sources
- Source: Mystery Eschatology ¶65 (I had my dancing partner’s father and he had a peculiar fetish against homosexuals. I used to call him Pop—he was like a father to me—I said, “Pop, what possesses you?” because in my act I had this flamboyant homosexual.)
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
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)
He states that he knows from his own experience that the form God wears when it awakens in a man is infinite love.
before 1969
(possible)
He speaks of his own birth from the womb of his mother, whom he calls a very wonderful lovely mother.
before 1969
(possible)
As a schoolboy he was flogged bloody by a sadistic schoolmaster for quoting "Take up thy bed and walk" when the master's Bible read "couch"; his brother Victor told their father, who dressed to go kil
Neville's father nearly attacks the abusive schoolmaster
Description
His father, a big strapping strong young man at the time, had to be physically restrained from killing the schoolmaster.
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 ¶47 (It took all the family to restrain him and the neighbors to restrain him, which was good because his intention was to kill him, and he would have. He could have…he was a big strapping strong man, my father, and in those days he was a very young man.)
before 1969
(possible)
He recounts having been taught the story first by his mother, then by his school, then by church tradition, believing until his own experience that he was just a little man born of a certain woman and
c. 1969
(probable)
Neville says he recently read Lord Frederick Hamilton's Vanished Pomps of Yesterday and retells its story of the sentry set over Catherine the Great's violet.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes buying a new hat and feeling self-conscious walking the streets of New York City until it became an old hat.
A fearful stranger repeats 'I am' in Neville's apartment
Description
Neville recounts a stranger who came to his sixteenth-floor New York apartment for help, asked him to shut the door and window and feared betrayal, then stood repeating "I am" as mere words without feeling.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 10 February 1969 (probable)
Told
- 20 February 1969 (doubtful)
- 20 February 1969 (doubtful)
- 10 February 1969 (probable)
Sources
- Source: When Spirit Truth Comes ¶28 (I had someone who came home one day and she needed a little help and she asked me if I would close the door. I said yes, and she said close the window. It’s New York City and I’m on the 16th floor, but still [...].)
10 February 1969
(probable)
Neville says he has never read the I AM movement's books nor attended one of their lectures, and so cannot pass judgement on them.
before 1969
(possible)
Asked whether he reads the Bible to get his revelations, Neville says he has always loved the Bible but does not attribute his revelations to that love.
Woman visions perfection then loses patience at home
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vision in which she saw herself radiantly perfect, recalling the words "Be ye perfect", and then on waking bumped into a door and lost her temper with her children for pouring soap on her clean carpet.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 11 April 1969
Told
11 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Creating One New Man Instead Two ¶1 (Now here, a lady writes a letter and she said, “I saw myself radiantly perfect, but I mean perfect. And yet I knew that we were two, two persons.)
Unmarried woman visions herself as Father sought by Neville
Description
A woman wrote to Neville of a vision in which she sat against a tree in a forest, heard a voice calling "Father, Father", hid from it, and then saw Neville appear as a shepherd boy searching for her; she, an unmarried woman who found marriage and sex offensive, felt herself to be the Father.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 11 April 1969
Told
11 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Creating One New Man Instead Two ¶4 (Then she said to me, “You’re always searching for me, but you always seem to find me in spite of the fact that the Good Book tells us that after my labor I should rest on the seventh day.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville tells the audience that he speaks of surviving death and of the ultimate identity of man with God from his own experience, having been sent back to report it.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he deliberately imposed the limitation of speaking as though to another, and that whereas he formerly felt two beings within him, he now feels no sense of another at all.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville contrasts his own familiar rented home and bed with the expensive hotels he stays in when he travels to lecture in San Francisco or New York.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville remarks that opinions of him in his small world range from charlatan and deceiver to the nearest thing to God people have seen.
before 1969
(possible)
A New York friend of Neville's told a distressed mutual friend to raise $1,500 a month by asking a dozen people, Neville among them, for $150 a month each with no repayment for six months; Neville and
before 1969
(possible)
An impresario friend in New York used to bring sandwiches and milk to Neville's apartment on week nights as though for his own pleasure; years later, while Neville was lecturing here and living at the
before 1969
(possible)
Neville tells how, in love with the woman who became his wife while still undivorced from his first wife and expected to marry his dancing partner, he assumed for six nights that he was blissfully hap
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his vision in which he was presented to the Ancient of Days exactly as pictured in the seventh chapter of Daniel, with infinite might in a carriage drawn by glorious horses, a woman
before 1969
(possible)
Neville tells how, after years of absorbing psychological truth by attending every lecture and reading every book, he was sent by infinite might with the words "Time to act" and the injunction to drin
An aside in which Neville admits he enjoys wine, while denying that the vision's words meant literal wine.
Description
An aside in which Neville admits he enjoys wine, while denying that the vision's words meant literal wine.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 24 November 1969
Told
24 November 1969(refuted)- 20 March 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: God Only Acts and Is ¶22 (Certainly wasn’t to take wine in a physical sense—although I must confess I enjoy it—but that was not the suggestion.)
before 1969
(possible)
Sitting in the Silence one afternoon he saw a quartz stone fragment and regather into a being seated in the lotus posture in deep contemplation, recognised it as himself, and watched it glow to the in
A woman moves into another world and is asked to show her baby
Description
A lady wrote to him of a vision of moving into another world, having first inspected the old bug-filled unfurnished buildings of the present one, of a solidly real man rocking in a chair who vanished when she looked away, and of being asked in the other world to show her baby; Neville reads the child as the sign of birth from above.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 14 April 1969
Told
- 14 April 1969
- 14 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Man Soul Body Emanation ¶46 (A lady wrote one concerning finding herself moving into another world. “I’m going into another world, another place.” But before she left for the other world she investigated the present world and it was all old buildings.)
before 1969
(possible)
He says he speaks from experience and not theory, both mystically and in Caesar's world, because he is telling the story of his own family and of Christ unfolding within himself.
before 1969
(possible)
He states that he knows from unnumbered personal experiences that a persisted assumption hardens into fact, and that it is the law by which he lives.
before 1969
(possible)
Someone asked him whether Christ is all he ever talks about and whether it does not become monotonous; he answered that there is no end to the mystery.
before 1969
(possible)
He describes his present life as spent testifying like Paul, answering the telephone and the letters that come, and claims to have experienced the whole story of Jesus Christ in detail.
Neville befriends the singing shoe shiner in his barber shop
Description
He describes the man who shines his shoes in his barber shop, whose singing and talk annoys the boss-barber, and whom he treats as God and enjoys talking with.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 28 November 1969 (possible)
Told
28 November 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Christian Mystery Experienced Biblethroughneville ¶46 (I can‘t meet anyone…he shines my shoes in the barber shop, I respect him. He will come on, he’ll do all kinds of things, and he will sing and talk…to the annoyance of the boss-barber who thinks he should not be so intimate with the customer.)
before 1969
(possible)
He recounts a vision in which Blake told him to let himself go and fall backwards; he dived backwards like a meteor into infinity, came to a stillness, and saw a single man approaching with a heart af
before 1969
(possible)
In a Cleveland rehearsal of a Shubert show, J. J.
before 1969
(possible)
He tells of Doris, the colored maid who cleans his house once a week and whom he treats like a sister, whom he made stop work and sit with him on the couch for fifteen or twenty minutes to watch the a
A woman sees Neville proclaim God's power in a visionary carriage
Description
He retells a vision a woman (now dead) wrote to him about: in a vast pillared room she saw a self-propelled carriage from which Neville stepped with a briefcase and a cape, proclaimed the power of God, and departed again, while she said to herself that it was both Neville and God.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 7 February 1969
Told
7 February 1969
Sources
- Source: Maker Maker Things ¶19 (And she said to herself, “Why that’s Neville and yet it is God. It’s Neville and it’s God…Neville and it’s God.”)
before 1969
(possible)
He caught the flu in the epidemic that hit much of the country, went through all the pains and fevers, and lost twelve pounds he has not regained — and refused to blame any cause outside his own Imagi
before 1969
(possible)
He describes his daily study routine: rising about 4:30 with a cup of tea and reading the Bible until the paper comes, comparing King James and Revised Standard in The Interpreter's Bible with its twe
before 1969
(possible)
At school as a boy he was far more interested in the sound of ball on bat at cricket or foot against the soccer ball than in books, and left school untouched by it.