between October 1969 and November 1969
(probable)
Neville says he takes the New York Times Magazine every week, that it arrives on a Wednesday, and that two weeks earlier he read in it the letter from the escaped Greek prisoner which he then shares w
A poor friend receives wealth after Neville hears her as a multimillionaire
Description
Eight months ago the same poor friend telephoned and asked Neville to hear that she had ten million dollars; he did so; six months later her brother came into a hundred-million-dollar estate, and last week she called to say two elderly ladies of her husband's little church revealed they were millionaires, paid off the mortgage on the church and home, bought her a new car and set up a thousand-dollar-a-month trust fund for her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. October 1969
Told
22 June 1970
Sources
- Source: The Truth Of Christ Is Here ¶38 (About eight months ago she called me and said to me, “Would you hear good news for me?” I said, “Within the Golden Rule, yes.” “Well,” she said, “it’s within the Golden Rule.”)
2 October 1969
2 October 1969
(possible)
2 October 1969
Having dwelt the previous night on the subject of tonight's talk, he woke about 2:30 that morning from a dream in which, having just checked out of a much larger Plaza Hotel in New York City, he met h
Fred describes his estrangement from son Philip
Description
He relates what his brother Fred has often said to him - that of his four children Philip, the first, is the one he has never understood - and describes the two men: physically alike though Fred is 6'3" and Philip about 5'8", Fred a business man and Philip a captain in the Marines who has spent the last ten years in the Orient flying everything from supersonic bombers to helicopters.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 2 October 1969
Told
2 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The J, E, and P Manuscripts ¶37 (My brother Fred has said to me so often in the past, “Of my four children, the one I do not understand is Philip. He is the first and I never understood how he thinks.)
2 October 1969
He reports reading in this morning's paper that Billy Graham took to the platform the night before with a Hebrew Bible given him by the prime minister of Israel, and remarks that Graham cannot read He
3 October 1969
(probable)
Neville recounts a dream from the night before this lecture: he woke around 2:30 in the morning to find himself in a place resembling New York's Plaza Hotel, checking out just as his brother Fred was
Sharon shares her vision with Neville
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 October 1969 and 9 October 1969
(probable)
Told
10 October 1969
(doubtful)
before 10 October 1969
(possible)
Young mother confronts fear and remembers herself as Paul
Description
A woman friend, a young mother of two expecting a third, told Neville this past week of a vision in which bolts of light came at her, she felt a power that could still the universe, faced a man dressed in black whose usurped power was ending as her memory returned, remembered the man beneath the tree who told her to eat of it, and knew 'I am Paul and I am Jesus Christ'.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 October 1969 and 16 October 1969
(probable)
Told
17 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Sorrow Produces Glorious End ¶13 (She said, “I found myself in a group of people”—and it’s a vision—“I felt unlike anything I ever felt before, and coming out of the blue were bolts of light coming directly at me. I must confess I felt a little bit afraid.)
before 10 October 1969
Neville says people question his sanity and say he has a devil because he claims to be God rather than believing in an external God, and challenge him to turn a stone into bread or fall off a cliff.
Neville's family rejects his mystical revelation
Description
He says that if his mother were alive she would not accept what happened in him, preferring her external savior, and that his own brothers think him completely mad.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
13 October 1969
Told
13 October 1969
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶67 (If she were here tonight and I told her what happened in me, that darling would not quite accept it, I know. Mother would be too disturbed and she would not want to believe in this power within herself.)
A woman returns to New York from her cruise
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 October 1969 and 20 October 1969
(probable)
17 October 1969
He read in the day's paper about a woman who had been a nun for ten years and now teaches a large religion class, treating scripture as literature.
19 October 1969
(probable)
before 20 October 1969
(probable)
between 20 October 1969 and 21 October 1969
(probable)
Aldous Huxley distinguishes scripture from literature
Description
Aldous Huxley once told Neville that there are three kinds of writing - journalism, literature and scripture - and admitted that literary giants, himself included, cannot write scripture.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 20 October 1969
Told
20 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Sorrow Produces Glorious End ¶33 (One day Aldous Huxley said to me: “There are three kinds of writings - journalism, literature, and scripture. Those who are considered to be literary giants can’t write scripture.” Huxley admitted he couldn’t, for it is revealed truth and therefore somet…)
20 October 1969
Neville read in that day's newspaper that an ex-nun is teaching the Bible as literature at UCLA.
before 21 October 1969
(possible)
Friend asks Neville to hear good news for her
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 22 October 1969
(possible)
Told
22 June 1970
23 October 1969
(probable)
A mother tells Neville of her bargain with God
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 October 1969
(probable)
Told
24 October 1969
Jan answers that nothing is found at the seventh center
Description
Neville relates that his friend Jan, who saw him the day before, had gone to a meeting where a teacher asked what would be found at the seventh center, and Jan answered 'Nothing!', reducing the would-be teacher to tears.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 October 1969
Told
24 October 1969
Sources
- Source: We Are God Himself ¶57 (And Jan very boldly and I’m so proud of her for having said it, she said “Nothing!”)
Woman confesses bargaining with God before her daughter's suicide
Description
At dinner the night before with a couple who are friends of his and his wife, the woman confessed for the first time that as a girl she had troubled her mother, and when her mother developed cancer had bargained with God to take the child she loved most in exchange; years later her third daughter, a successful dancer earning $500 a week, killed herself, and Neville kept silent rather than tell her the connection.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 October 1969
Told
24 October 1969
Sources
- Source: We Are God Himself ¶60 (I was in the company last night of a very wonderful, dear couple, friends of ours who have gone through a great tragic thing in the last few years, and she told me for the first time last night at dinner that she gave her mother a great deal of trouble w…)
24 October 1969
George Mylonos imagines and achieves escape from Amorgos
Description
Neville recounts reading, in the New York Times Magazine two weeks earlier, a letter by the Greek political prisoner George Mylonos describing how he imagined the scene in the village the day after his escape from house arrest on Amorgos, and then escaped.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 24 October 1969
Told
12 November 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter ¶1 (Now let me share with you a story I read two weeks ago in the New York Times, the magazine section.)