before 1970
(possible)
Neville states repeatedly that what he teaches comes from his own experience and visions, and that when he departs this life those with eyes to see will recognise the quality of his message.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville describes his own birth from above: the child was placed in his hands, it smiled at him, and he heard an unearthly wind coming from within and seemingly from without.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says that although the experience has happened to him he is still an ordinary man heir to all human weakness, and that what happened within him goes out night after night on work to be done an
before 1970
(possible)
Neville recounts meeting and conversing with people who have died, telling them the cemetery where they are buried and arguing them out of the belief that they are dead.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville recounts his resurrection: a terrific vibration in his head which he took for a fatal brain hemorrhage, waking to find himself sealed in his own skull as in a sepulcher, pushing at the base of
before 1970
(probable)
Neville recounts the three witnesses appearing where his body had been, one of them finding the infant, announcing him as the father, and presenting the child to him, whereupon the child smiled in his
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says he has signed a contract to have the hall for his return, though he has no assurance he will still be alive to take up the role again.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville tells of awaking within the sepulcher and seeing the linen clothes lying — the garment of flesh his mother wove for him — after which the Father unveiled Himself to him.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville remarks that he has no idea how money is made and that economics has never interested him.
c. 1970
(probable)
Neville reports reading in the paper that the Rhine became stagnant with millions of dead fish from an unexplained cause, and that within weeks or months the river had been restocked with fish by no h
before 1970
(possible)
He says he meets his dead friends and his father, mother and brothers at night when he lays down the physical body and sleeps, and teaches them this principle.
before 1970
(possible)
He describes awaking as the Dreamer within his own skull, wondering who put him there and how long he had been there, and finding the Dreamer to be the Lord Jesus Christ.
before 1970
(possible)
Sitting one day in the silence a rock of quartz appeared before him, fragmented into numberless pieces, drew itself together into a man seated in the lotus posture whom he recognised as himself, then
before 1970
(possible)
In the middle of that same lost-suitcase night he got up, sat in the quiet of their apartment and read his Bible before dawn.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville recounts a vision in which he led an enormous crowd in Arabic costume in procession to the house of God; a voice said God walked with them, a woman beside him looked into his face and asked hy
before 1970
(possible)
Neville tells how he stumbled upon the Law rather than the Promise, was blinded by having been taught that Jesus was the Son, and how the day David stood before him was like memory returning; the fact
One night he was shown a vision of an infinite field of great flowers whose blooms were human faces, all perfect but roo
Description
One night he was shown a vision of an infinite field of great flowers whose blooms were human faces, all perfect but rooted and moving in unison, among which he alone, weak and limited, could move freely.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1970 (possible)
- before 14 July 1970
Told
14 July 1970
Sources
- Source: What Is Truth ¶12 (It was shown me so perfectly one night. I found myself in a field of infinite flowers, like lovely, big sunflowers.)
A friend who lives under an active volcano on St. Vincent stayed a month as his guest in New York and, terrified by a 3
Description
A friend who lives under an active volcano on St. Vincent stayed a month as his guest in New York and, terrified by a 3 a.m. thunderstorm, leapt out of the guest room she shared with his daughter into his wife's bed.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1970 (possible)
- before 14 July 1970
Told
14 July 1970
Sources
- Source: What Is Truth ¶25 (A friend of mine who lives under a volcano on the Island of St. Vincent came to New York City as my guest for about a month.)
before 1970
(possible)
He told a strictly fundamentalist aunt that Jesus had brothers; she denied it, read the names herself out of her own Bible in Mark's 6th chapter, then shut the book, ran into her room, slammed the doo
before 1970
(possible)
He names his own parents, Joseph and Wilhelmina Goddard, and his many brothers and one sister, as what people who know him would cite against his claim.
before 1970
(possible)
He says he knows the law of assumption works both from his own experience and from hundreds of people who have written to him reporting that it worked for them.
before 1970
(possible)
He says the face of David is as vivid in his mind's eye as the faces of his own mother and father.
c. 1970
He read in that day's newspaper about an arson campaign against A & P stores back east, attributed to the Mafia, in which a twenty-year-old was caught as the front man.
before 1970
A vision in which he came upon an enormous sea of sunflowers, each flower a beautiful human face, all moving in unison; he knew that in his ugliness and limitation he was freer than all of them, becau
before 1970
(possible)
His resurrection was a mystery to him, never described in scripture beyond the empty tomb, and he only understood what was found in the tomb after it happened to him.
before 1970
(possible)
The betrayal by a kiss happened to him: he was kissed on the right side of the neck and kissed the other on the right side of his neck, and the other stretched his arms out like a cross.
before 1970
(possible)
He says he cannot keep a secret and could never have been chosen and sent to tell the story if he had been required to keep it — he cannot wait to take the platform after a vision.
c. 1970
He mentions that he gave much time to this subject during the week and has only two weeks — four lectures — left in the current series.
before 1970
(possible)
He once read a letter written by Max Plowman to his friend Wicksteed, both Blake students, on the death of Wicksteed's son, quoting the Absalom passage; he says he can pick it up any night and still w
before 1970
(possible)
He states that the scriptural experience has happened to him: he has found David, and David called him my Lord, my father, the rock of my salvation - and that he is an ordinary man named Neville with
before 1970
(possible)
He describes his own lack of scholarship: he never studied scripture as a scholar, does not know Greek, Aramaic or Latin, understands only a little Hebrew, and English is the only tongue he really kno
1970
A year ago, while in San Francisco, he read in the New York Times that there are about eighteen hundred natural catastrophes worldwide every twenty-four hours.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville recalls going to sea and taking his wife many times across the Caribbean on ships, and later flying, and replays those experiences as states in his imagination.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville saw Laurence Olivier for the first time in the film of Wuthering Heights, and says that what Cathy said of her dreams happened to him too through his visions.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says his visions were more real than the present room and that from vision to vision he has been compelled to abandon what he formerly believed and the theories of men.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville bought Liquid-Plumr after seeing it advertised on TV, poured it into his blocked bathroom sink, and by the time the plumber came forty-eight hours later the sink had been eaten away; the plumb
before 1970
(possible)
Lying on his left side on the bed, Neville felt a powerful personal force enter the base of his skull from beyond his head; he wanted to turn and see who was applying it but could not, and believes th
before 1970
(possible)
Neville was sent into the presence of the Risen Christ to answer a question put to him and then be incorporated into his body; he did not turn around, and says that had he turned he would not still be
A mother sees Neville's face become her own dreamer's face
Description
Neville says he led the child's mother to where the King lay sleeping; she saw his face — Neville's face — become translucent and then saw her own face as the face of the dreamer.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1970 (possible)
- before 14 December 1970 (possible)
Told
1970
Sources
- Source: Hope Deferred ¶11 (I led her mother up to where the King was sleeping. And then the mother saw her face—which was my face—become translucent.)
before 1970
(possible)
Neville states from experience that there is only one God who dreams every being and wears the face of everyone in the world.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville recounts his own visionary experience in which David in the Spirit called him 'my Lord' and 'Father', and he recognised it as a returning memory.
1970
Neville says he has personally experienced everything said of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, yet stands lecturing that night mortal and hoarse with a cold, still bearing the burden of the body.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says he has known suffering like everyone else — physical suffering and the emotional suffering of losing a friend and losing a state in the world — and describes losses of parts of the body t
between 11 December 1970 and 14 December 1970
(possible)
Neville announces this is the last night of the series; the lectures close for a month and reopen on 11 January, with notice by mailing list and a small newspaper ad the Sunday before.
Internal thieves take fifty million dollars from Neville's bank
Description
Neville mentions that his own bank, the United California Bank, is still hunting internal thieves who took fifty million dollars from its Basel subsidiary last year.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1970
Told
5 April 1971
Sources
- Source: Proof the Law Works ¶11 (And yet the bank where I bank – the United California Bank – they are still looking for the internal thieves who stole fifty million dollars last year from their subsidiary in Basel, in Switzerland – fifty million dollars!)
Woman sees a temple of former identities she could wear
Description
He reads out a letter received the day before from a woman in his audience who, during his lecture of the 7th on John 14, found herself standing at the entrance of a huge temple lined with columns, doorways and statues she knew she could put on like a garment, and realised she had already played them all.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1970 (probable)
- 7 December 1970
Told
- 1971 (probable)
- 1971
Sources
- Source: The Eternal Body ¶7 (Now let me share with you a letter that came to me yesterday. The lady and her husband are here tonight.)
Woman hears voices define a prophet and an apostle
Description
He reads a second letter, received the same day, from a woman who woke to a clear dictating voice saying a prophet sees and an apostle is sent and experiences, got up as though shaken awake, wrote it all down, and closed her letter with 'Hallelujah'.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1970
(probable)
Told
- 1971 (probable)
- 1971
Sources
- Source: The Eternal Body ¶26 (Now here was another one that came this week. Both came yesterday. He said, I woke and the words were so clear.)
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says he memorized the child's letter word for word and adds that he had earlier led the child's own mother up to the reclining king, where his face became translucent and the mother then saw h
before 1970
(possible)
Describing his own practice, Neville says he imagines telling his wife, his daughter and a few friends of good fortune that has befallen him, and hears their voices responding.
before 1970
(possible)
Neville says his mystical experiences did not exempt him from suffering: he has had physical pain and emotional suffering, including the loss of a friend and the loss of a state in the world.