after 1929
Neville recalls life in New York during the Great Depression, which he dates as starting in 1929.
1929
Neville describes being taken up in Spirit into the divine presence in 1929, asked to name the greatest thing in the world, and answering with Paul's words -- faith, hope and love, 'but the greatest o
1929
(probable)
between 1929 and 1939
During the Depression, penniless in New York with four mouths to feed, he walked fifty blocks rather than spend a nickel on the subway, hoping a friend would give him a quarter for vegetables, and tho
between 1929 and 1939
During the Depression in New York, living on 4th Street in Greenwich Village, Neville sat in the Silence all day seeking God instead of finding work; his landlady, owed sixty-five dollars a month for
1929
(probable)
At the time of the calling he was separated from his wife, with his small son moving between them, and did not consider himself pure in heart or worthy to be called.
between 1929 and 1935
(probable)
In his twenties during the Depression he would walk from his hotel on 49th Street up to Columbus Circle to hear the soap-box speakers; one night, penniless, he took the platform from a man ranting tha
between 1929 and 1932
He remembers the bank failures of 1929-32 in New York, and tells of his dancing partner's father, an intimate friend of Jackson E.
1929
In 1929, aged twenty-four, Neville stood in the presence of the Risen Lord, was asked a simple question, and answered in Paul's words about faith, hope and love - afterwards wondering why he had used
A starving woman artist imagines a meal and receives food from an old friend
Description
Neville retells the story of a woman artist who, penniless during the Depression, imagined setting a table for a meal, fell asleep, dreamed of lifting a silver cover that turned out to be the ringing telephone, and was asked by a friend she had not seen in twenty years to cook a meal — the friend supplying all the ingredients.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1939
(probable)
Told
26 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Raise Imagination to the State of Vision ¶4 (She said, “While stretched on the couch, in my Imagination I put out the best things that I had…even to the lighting of a candle…all in my Imagination…and prepared for the reception, to receive the good that is coming. And then I fell asleep from sheer e…)
between 1929 and 1959
(probable)
Neville says from his own experience that thirty years passed between his conception of the Holy Spirit and its fulfilment, and tells the letter-writer to mark the day of her conception in her Bible.
1929
Neville says he was fully aware of the embrace in 1929, kept a record of it, and when he was born from above and raised from within himself in 1959 he looked back and found the interval was exactly th
between 1929 and 1959
Neville dates his own “embrace” or impregnation to 1929, of which he says he was old enough to be fully aware and of which he kept a written record, and his birth from above to 1959 — an interval of t
between 1929 and 1959
Neville gives the pattern of his own visions from his records: thirty years between fusion with God and his birth from above, then five months to finding David, four more to the splitting of the templ
between 1929 and 1959
Neville says he had union with the Risen Lord in 1929 and was born from above thirty years later, in 1959.
between 1929 and 1959
Neville says that in his own case exactly thirty years passed between the embrace of the risen Lord and his birth from above, and that he told a friend of his it would take her thirty years too, which
1929
Neville says he was called and sent in 1929, experienced the birth from above thirty years later, and knew his mission the night of his birth; he insists he was drafted rather than a volunteer.
1929
Neville's central vision: he looked into the face of an infinite being of love, was embraced and fused with it into one being, then stood before infinite might which commanded 'Time to act!' and hurle
1929
Answering a question, Neville retells the 1929 vision in fuller form: brought before the Ancient of Days, infinite love, he was asked 'What is the greatest thing in the world?' and answered 'Faith, ho
1929
In 1929 Neville was sent into the world as God's word with the command 'Time to act': having looked into the face of infinite love he embraced and fused with it into one protean being, was hurled out
c. 1929
(probable)
He has slept in the nude for over forty years, yet in his dreams he finds himself clothed.
1929
Neville gives the outline of his own calling: sent to teach in 1929, not getting underway until 1938, and in 1959 the whole drama of the Gospel unfolded within him as first-person, present-tense exper
c. 1929
Neville recalls that when he first met Abdullah he resented and resisted the teaching that no creature is guilty, and that Ab was adamant about it.
between 1929 and 1959
Neville recounts that thirty years passed between his union with the risen Lord and his birth from above — from 1929 to 1959 — because he was destined to play the part of the apostle, for which the in
between 1929 and 1939
In the deep days of the Depression, penniless, Neville borrowed the platform at Columbus Circle from the man who held the permit and spoke in defense of the Bible to a hostile crowd; stepping down he
1929
He says that having previously known only the law and not the promise, in 1929 he was called, embraced, fused with him, and then sent.
between 1929 and 1959
Neville recounts his own mystical impregnation by God — an embrace beyond any sexual thrill, which he remembers vividly, followed by thirty years of gestation and the birth of the child.
after 1929
(possible)
Neville says that when he tells his family in Barbados that he is the father of God's only begotten son, David, they tell him he is insane.
1929
He describes his circumstances at the time of the 1929 call: unschooled, unknown, sleeping in a tiny room and not knowing where the next week's rent would come from.
c. 1929
(probable)
Thirty years before the event Neville stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days, was embraced by infinite love and sent into the world, with no idea what he had been sent to do and no education or
between 1929 and 1972
(possible)
When he was sent, 'the boys' told him to set up no church — 'Down with the blue bloods' — so Neville has refused every offer of ordination, though churches offered him a degree within 24 hours.
1929
When he returned from the embrace at four in the morning his room was luminous with no artificial or outside light, and stayed so for fifteen or twenty minutes.
between 1929 and 1959
He was 24 in 1929 when the union took place, and thirty years later, at 54, in San Francisco, the whole story began to erupt and unfold within him.
between 1929 and 1933
Abdullah told Neville that when he returned from Barbados he would have died; Neville went to Barbados still a strict vegetarian, celibate and abstinent as he had been for seven years, to his grocer f
between 1929 and 1959
Neville recounts being embraced by Infinite Love without understanding it, putting the embracing Being on like a garment, and thirty years later having that Being erupt within him and unfold the whole
between 1929 and 1963
Neville says he cannot deny what has happened to him: something began in 1929, and in 1959 the dramatic scenes of scripture began unfolding within him, all of them completing in an interval of 1,260 d
c. 1929
(probable)
Alone in his room on 49th Street in New York City at four in the morning, an unearthly light with no natural source filled the room and did not subside until sunrise; no one but he could have seen it.
c. 1929
(probable)
Neville says the figure of infinite might he saw thirty-odd years ago is still so vivid he could paint it if he could draw - more vivid than anything else that ever happened to him.
between 1929 and 1939
Neville says the best thing that ever happened to him was being fired from Macy's during the depression, since staying would have left him a captain of the elevators.
c. 1929
Neville recalls first meeting Abdullah: he had delayed attending because a man he did not trust had urged him, and at the meeting's end Abdullah greeted him by name saying he was six months late, the
1929
In 1929, believing Jesus Christ to be someone other than himself, he stood in His presence, embraced Him and was incorporated into His body; thirty years later David of biblical fame exploded from wit
1929
He says he was sent in 1929 to tell the true story of the mystery of Christ, and not to protect the faith of conventional believers or church protocol.
between 1929 and 1930
(probable)
c. 1929
(possible)
'Greater Movie Season' promotional newspaper ad for a Stanley-chain theatre; the surviving OCR does not preserve the film title, city, or the Amerique-and-Neville billing itself.
between 1929 and 1930
(probable)
c. 1929
(doubtful)
"Broadway Personalities", a specialty revue assembled from performers drawn from several current Broadway shows for a brief run at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn: Harry Richman (master of ceremonies),
between September 1926 and February 1927
(possible)
Stage bill during a 'Greater Movie Season' promotional week at the Aldine (a Warner Bros.
c. 1929
(possible)
John McDonald of San Jose gives a week of lectures, each afternoon and evening at 3:00 and 8:00, on 'The Principles of Phenomenal Success' ('How Successful People Succeed'), at the Church of Truth, 33