before 1963
(possible)
He has read many attempted scholarly interpretations of David's water shaft, all of which conclude the passage makes no sense.
before 1963
(possible)
He describes finding his own world a wild, unpruned tree of the blind and the lame, being told it did not exist independently of his perception, and then becoming the vinedresser who pruned it.
before 1963
(possible)
He tells of plunging headlong into the sacred flame, recognising it as himself, and going up in serpentine form into Zion, his own skull, and returning to tell it.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he has seen many of his own people die — his father, mother, brother, nephew, friends and hundreds he knew.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts visionary memories of former lives of fabulous wealth, entering the houses with their full complement of servants, and of once voluntarily giving that wealth up because it seemed deca
Lady dreams of recognizing Neville amid dark-clothed crowds
Description
Neville reads a letter received that day from a lady who dreamed of stairways and crowds in dark clothes, herself in white Grecian robes and golden slippers, and met Neville dressed the same but with golden hair; only they recognised each other.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1963 and 1964 (probable)
- 24 January 1969 (probable)
Told
24 January 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Mystery Election ¶31 (A lady wrote me this day, she said, “I had the strangest experience this past week. I saw stairways leading to the right, to the left and forward. All the people…so many moving…and they all were in dark modern clothes, all dark clothes.)
Lady dreams of receiving a baton and giving golden love to Jan
Description
Neville relates a second experience sent him that week by the same lady: standing on the rim of a great wheel among muscular men singing the Battle Hymn, receiving the conductor's baton; and then, acting on his teaching about giving what you would like to receive, giving her friend Jan love and seeing Jan walk all golden upon an ocean.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1963 and 1964 (probable)
- between 20 January 1969 and 24 January 1969 (probable)
Told
24 January 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Mystery Election ¶32 (Then, another perfectly lovely experience given to me this past week, this lady said, “I heard this wonderful chorus of male voices and they were singing our wonderful battle hymn, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord, and I within mys…)
before 24 January 1969
(possible)
Neville tells of a night vision in which he stood at the top of a ladder above all the wild beasts of the forest, realised they were only an expression of himself, froze them by arresting the activity
before 1963
(possible)
On the night of the experience Neville saw a hairy gorilla-like monster below him — the personification of his own misused power, calling the angel above him 'mother' — which gloated as he beat it; wh
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he knows from his own night experience that while playing one part here he is simultaneously elsewhere playing other parts, and that people see him at night in different parts — he is a s
before 1963
(possible)
Restating the same experience at the close of the lecture, he confesses he has given the messianic banquet: lifted as David took Zion, clothed in his primal form as a being of fire in a body of air, h
before 1963
(possible)
He offers himself as a living witness that those told they would not taste death before seeing the kingdom of God did see it, against scholars who scoffed.
before 1963
(possible)
He says he has played every part in the world — physical poverty, blindness, maimedness, lameness — and carries a memory of having been fabulously wealthy and yet poor, unable to buy help or real resp
before 1963
(possible)
He says it was revealed to him what God hid from the beginning — the secret of fatherhood — since nothing but his own son standing before him and calling him Father could prove him a father.
before 1963
(possible)
He mentions that in his own book he replaced the word “repentance” with “revision” because the older word had come to mean regret and remorse.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville keeps a facsimile of the Shakespeare folio at home, in which the acrostic spelling Bacon can be seen.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville insists that everything he teaches came to him as personal experience and revelation, unsought and all within one year, with no orthodox training beyond a boyhood in a Christian home with Sund
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he told the story of his own experience, unembellished, in the last chapter of his latest book The Law and the Promise, pairing it with supporting scripture as two agreeing witnesses.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says God in mercy has taken the memory of his own past from him, because man could not face what he had to live through.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he has tested assuming himself elsewhere and it works, and that he now refuses to experiment unless he is serious, because idle experiments are brought to pass when he least expects or wa
before 1963
(possible)
He was raised in the Christian faith and heard the promise as his mother and father heard it, without understanding it, and no priest, rabbi or minister ever explained it.
before 1963
(possible)
He went to bed on a perfectly normal day and in the wee hours saw an extraordinary transparency and then a beautiful dove, light beige like natural linen, twenty or thirty feet overhead; while he held
before 1963
(possible)
He says that if he sat himself as judge over Neville, knowing what he knows about him and what he is capable of, he could not have granted him the gift he was in fact given — which is why he knows eve
before 1963
(possible)
Neville gives his own age indirectly, saying the oil man is about ten years his senior at 68.
before 1963
(possible)
He testifies that everything he has achieved came when he was faithful to the use of God's name, and admits many times of unfaithfulness and coasting.
before 1963
(possible)
Speaking of the aftermath of the revelation, he describes from experience the excitement of it and how one bores one's friends because one can think of nothing else.
Mother and son-in-law relationship changes after five years
Description
He recalls a case he told from this platform in which an imaginal act took five years to bear fruit, concerning the relationship between a mother and her son-in-law.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 29 January 1963
Told
29 January 1963
Sources
- Source: A Summing Up ¶0 (We have told you the story here, where on one occasion it took five years, but oh! the joy of reaping the fruit then. It was the relationship of a mother and son-in-law.)
before 1963
(possible)
He states he was born and raised British, under the Union Jack, of Scotch, English and Irish stock, with forefathers from Cornwall, and that his whole family still lives under the British flag.
before 1963
(possible)
He says he is an American by adoption but cannot erase his love of England; his blood is Scottish, English and Irish, with some Holland Dutch coming in from his mother's side.
before 1963
(possible)
He refers back to his vision of the pig: he found the pig, it grew, but because he forgot his own discovery that imagination creates reality in the interval, when he saw the same pig years later it ha
before 1963
(possible)
Speaking from his own visions, he says he has seen the fiery being Ezekiel describes - a glorious burning, liquid, golden light below the loins.
before 1963
(possible)
Illustrating how to persist in an assumption, he speaks of communing with his wife, his daughter and his friends from that assumption - a passing reference to his own household.
Neville's wife sees two religious readings of one book
Description
Neville's wife had a vision of a grove with an altar where two women each read from a book of the same title, one according to Judaism and one according to Christianity, and she realised it is far harder to be a Christian than a Jew because the whole thing is psychological.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1963
(probable)
Told
6 October 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Secret of Praying ¶19 (A few years ago my wife had this wonderful vision. She found herself in a grove, and here in this wonderful grove of heavenly trees, in this clear passage, there was an altar at the very far end.)
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he personally felt and observed the tearing of the body — the scaffolding — beginning with an enormous blow in the head, though he bears no scars from it.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts the second tear: an explosion, after which the Son appears and calls him Father, and he knows who he is.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville describes the third tear: an earthquake in which every segment of his spinal column was split in two and seen separated by inches.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he stood in the drama in the depths of his soul, cast lots for the robe, drew the fourth part, and came into the world to play that part.
26 November 1963
Neville insists he is not speculating but sharing a vision he has himself experienced, and can only convey it in words.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville describes taking the impress of the face of God: the molten gold turning serpentine and moving up the split shaft of the spinal cord into the skull, with a violence unlike anything known.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he has proven much of Blake's teaching to his own satisfaction through his own mystical experiences.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says that when the birth happened to him he did not know what was happening, just as his hearers will not know.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville states he has experienced being redeemed into the body of Jesus but cannot prove it or take his audience into that moment.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville describes buying close to a thousand dollars' worth of Blake commentaries before he had the experiences — including three volumes edited by W. B.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville tells of standing in the presence of love, which was human in form and was Jesus, infinite love.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he refuses friends' invitations to dine on doves during dove season; the mourning doves come all over his place and he feeds them, listening every morning to the male dove cooing "Moses s
c. January 1963
In San Francisco a suffering man objected that God's suffering was no help to him, and Neville answered by telling him God's name is 'I AM' — so the one saying 'I am suffering' is God.
January 1963
(probable)
c. January 1963
(probable)
He recounts the third and fourth of the mighty acts as his own: standing on the Mount of Olives which split east to west, finding golden molten liquid at the base of his split body, fusing with it and
c. January 1963
(probable)
Fourth and final act: two years and nine months later his head becomes translucent and a dove descends on his outstretched hand and smothers him with kisses, while a woman, daughter of the voice of Go
Pammie imagines her mother home and her parents reconcile
Description
The same grandmother telephoned Neville about her daughter's impending divorce; he agreed with her over the phone that reconciliation was accomplished, and after the decree was finalized the little girl imagined her mother coming through the door in her nightgown four nights running, and the mother returned on Friday.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between January 1963 and February 1963 (probable)
- between 12 April 1963 and 19 April 1963 (probable)
Told
23 April 1963
Sources
- Source: Wonder-Working Power ¶19 (And she began, so she said to me, to lose faith because she called me on this case when it began to develop a couple of months ago, say, three months ago.)