c. 1965
Neville mentions reading in that morning's paper a new theory of the origin of the universe, that it came into being by a bang, reverting to what was believed twenty years earlier.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes a vision in which he stood invisible in a scene like a dining room, arrested an activity within his own Imagination, and everything froze - a waitress, a flying bird, the diners - th
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states that he stood in the presence of the risen Christ, who is infinite love; a simple question and answer prompted an embrace, and he fused with the body of the risen Christ.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes his own reaction to people in this work who claim holiness - he runs in the opposite direction, and says nothing drives him more insane than deceit in his own field.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville recalls his teacher Abdullah saying that even an undigested piece of beef as the cause of a dream does not make the dream unimportant, and recommends Bayley's two volumes on the lost language
Abdullah changes after receiving revelation and visions
Description
Neville describes Abdullah as having been a strict orthodox rabbi in diet, dress and habit all his life until revelation and visions came to him, after which he spoke of the little child.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 15 January 1965
Told
- 15 January 1965
- 15 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Cabala ¶34 (But here, you wouldn’t think this orthodox rabbi…for that’s really what he was all of his life until the revelation came, the visions came. A strict Jew in all that you would consider the orthodox Jew to do concerning diets, dress, everything, all the ha…)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has, more than once, entered the animated world in Spirit and arrested an activity in himself, at which everything froze and the people stood dead until he released it again.
before 1965
(possible)
In the same arrested state a bird in flight did not fall but hung stationary in space, which made him doubt gravity as it is taught.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville recounts being called from the grave: buried in the sepulchre of his skull, the wind came and God breathed upon him, and he was promised a child signifying his birth though he is old.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has entered other worlds as a man, as real as this one, without being born there through the womb of woman, and could show no credentials of birth had he been held there.
before 1965
(possible)
In passing he refers to his own family — his child, his daughter, his son — while arguing that everyone is as much his child as the one he calls his.
A woman imagines her brother home and secures his Army discharge
Description
In San Francisco a woman told Neville her brother had been sentenced to six months hard labor in the Army; on Neville's instruction she imagined hearing the doorbell and finding him free at her door, and a week later he was discharged and arrived exactly so.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
(probable)
Told
7 February 1969
Sources
- Source: Maker Maker Things ¶5 (One week later while seated upstairs the doorbell rang and she rushed downstairs, threw the door open and there’s her brother. I asked no question as to how, but he was discharged.)
Victor imagines the family owning a building and gains a financier
Description
Neville's second brother Victor, with no money, imagined a sign implying the family owned a building; a casual acquaintance financed the lot at six percent, the family moved in that day, and when the financier died twenty-five years later he left Victor $150,000 in cash and property, calling him his best friend.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
12 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶18 (When my brother had nothing and he saw that sign, a man that he knew casually the very day of the sale of that lot, the most desirable lot, he came in and said, “Vic, are you going to buy it?” He said, “With what?”)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says from his own experience that God brought forth the child in him and completed the work he began.
A woman painter sells two exhibitions after Neville's assurance
Description
A woman painter in the audience wrote Neville letters recalling that just before he left last May for the east he told her her Disney Studio exhibition paintings were all sold on faith; they sold, and five months later a second display sold six hundred dollars of small paintings in five days.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1965 (probable)
- 9 February 1965 (probable)
Told
12 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶22 (She wrote me the most wonderful letters, which I got last Tuesday, of these wonderful mystical experiences of hers.)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes the paintings and etchings crowding the walls of his home, which he enters imaginatively - a beach scene, a lion on a desert, and an old lady forever walking out of a picture that ca
A man's posted letter appears instantly on a distant desk
Description
A man who had had the same mystical experience posted a letter late at night to someone he loved thousands of miles away on the East Coast, imagining as he posted it that he laid it on the recipient's desk; next day the letter was on the desk before any mail was delivered, and Neville read the bewildered recipient's letter asking for an explanation.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
12 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶28 (And I had the pleasure of reading the letter from the one who received it in complete amazement, asking for some explanation.)
Lucy's unstamped card from Neville passes through the post
Description
A questioner named Lucy recalls that a card Neville sent her from New York arrived with no stamp on it, only a post office stamp, and that they joked nobody but Neville could get through the Post Office without a stamp; Neville answers that strange things happen after the child is born.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶34 (Well, Lucy, my dear, strange things happen after one brings forth the child, strange things.)
23 February 1965
(probable)
Waking at 4:15 one Tuesday morning, Neville asked to be favored with a significant dream or vision, went back to sleep, and found himself in his old New York apartment house unable to remember where h
A bookstore customer receives an out-of-print book
Description
In a New York bookstore on 49th Street, Neville overheard a woman told a book was out of print, told her to assume she had it and leave her name; two weeks later a widow in Florida sent a box of books containing that very book.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
26 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Where Are Staying ¶21 (I stepped forward, I said, “You want the book?” She said, “Yes.” I said, “Well, will you please assume that you have the book and leave your name right here, leave your name and address right here with this lady.)
c. 1965
That morning Neville compared four Bible translations on the 'tenth hour' verse and could hardly believe the New English Bible's rendering of 'four in the afternoon'.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville's wealthy brother, who thinks constantly of the expansion of money, drags him round the churches of New York City dropping large bills into the boxes while Neville, bored, follows with a dolla
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has had further visions since the last time he spoke to this audience, and that they showed him the intervals between union and birth differ with the part one is destined to play.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville's family owns three large supermarkets in Barbados, where socially prominent wealthy wives shoplift; rather than embarrass them, the family notifies their husbands and quietly bills them at th
before 1965
(possible)
Neville occasionally goes to the local races when a friend takes him, buys a paper only for the entries and throws away everything but the horses page — his illustration that newspaper circulation fig
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says that in his sixty years, through all his poverty and want, he has not failed the test of clean hands, and that God mercifully hides from him the bribes and murders of his earlier states.
Neville's Republican friends reverse allegiance after television appeal
Description
Neville recalls lifelong Republican friends who, moved by a television spot in an earlier election, not only voted the other way but campaigned and gave money and time; visiting their homes back in New York today he cannot even raise the subject because of their animosity.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
(probable)
Told
22 March 1968
Sources
- Source: States Meditating Being ¶29 (Now today when I go to their homes back in New York, I can’t bring up the word, because they’re so filled with animosity toward what they voted for I can’t touch it.)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville deliberately made himself appear bodily to his sister 2,000 miles away across water; she rubbed her eyes trying to rub him out, and wrote him a letter that same day which reached him eight day
before 1965
(possible)
When his seventeen-year-old nephew Billy was dying of cancer in Barbados, Neville, living in New York City, shut himself in his bedroom on a Monday and imagined himself lying on Billy's bed so that hi
before 1965
(possible)
Neville explains what he charges for his meetings — three dollars in New York City because he lived in hotels there, two dollars in this city and two in San Francisco — and says he is a spendthrift wh
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states his practice about money: he charges for meetings because he pays for the hall whether people come or not, and charges for his books, but has never charged for an interview.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville points the audience to the book table, saying the recommended books there are ones he keeps at home in his own library.
Woman assumes lavish income and receives lifelong support
Description
Neville retells the story of a fifty-six-year-old woman he wrote about in The Law and The Promise, who, too anxious to concentrate, condensed everything into the mood of a lavish income and slept in it, and afterwards received $2,500, money for a new Plymouth, and a lifelong anonymous deposit arranged through a law office in the city; she told him this in a letter.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 20 April 1965
Told
20 April 1965
Sources
- Source: Shared Experiences ¶46 (Well, the question was about the lady whose story I told in The Law and The Promise, that she got so worked up and so tired, she needed everything!)
A former Catholic priest attends Neville's forgiveness lecture
Description
Neville recounts a former Catholic priest of fourteen years who came to his New York City meeting drunk with a crowd of supporters after leaving the Church; Neville disapproved of his violent opposition, spoke that night on forgiveness, the man said he had never heard it before, came back four times, and later sent Neville a book he had written.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 26 January 1965
Told
26 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Art of Dying ¶52 (A chap came to me in New York City and he was a priest here in this state for fourteen years. That night that he came he brought a raft of people with him, all whooping it up because he had left the Catholic Church and became violent in his opposition.)
A man dreams of debating Jesus Christ with his cousins
Description
One of the three men wrote Neville that after assuming 'I am Jesus Christ' he dreamed he was at a long table with two first cousins, all raised Catholic, arguing that the power and wisdom of God was named Jesus Christ, at which the dream vanished.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 14 May 1965
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
- Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶26 (My friend said to me that the two cousins of his, raised as he was as Catholics, thought he was blaspheming.)
A man compassionately subdues a vicious dog in a dream
Description
A second man wrote Neville that, having assumed he was Jesus Christ, he dreamed of walking to an institution for men, holding off a vicious dog set on him as a trick, feeling only compassion, and repeating 1 Corinthians 13:11 before waking.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 14 May 1965
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
- Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶11 (So here, this chap, by daring to assume “I am Christ”…and he found that the position in the moving drama where he is in the unfolding soul.)
A man rises in an amphitheater to affirm I am Jesus Christ
Description
A third man, absent tonight, wrote that he dreamed of an enormous crowded amphitheater in which Neville stood at the top calling on all present to affirm 'I am Jesus Christ', and only a few, himself among them, rose.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 14 May 1965
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
- Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶29 (When my friend saw this enormous crowd, almost like a pyramid…because were I at the top and he at the bottom, it couldn’t really be an arena as he described it…this great amphitheater, how could it be?)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states that he himself stood in the presence of the one and was incorporated into that one without loss of identity, and so knows he is the body of the risen Christ.
before 1965
(possible)
A second telling of the same childhood teaching, joined to his own resurrection: the power possessed him and he rose within himself, entombed, having been taught by his mother and teachers that the re
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he was unaware he was dead and buried until God united him with himself, and that when he rose in the tomb he saw no one but himself.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he can bear witness to the truth of Blake's vision from his own experience, but that unlike Blake he can neither paint, carve nor engrave and must rely on words alone.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he sees spermatozoa by the millions in vision, without needing a microscope, at any moment as he looks out.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has seen the animated world and has stopped and started its activity at will.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville mentions having just read that the government is asking farmers to cut fifteen or twenty percent of their land out of production while the world starves.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes an ancient drawing he keeps at home showing a majestic man with a dove on his head, facing a serpent of his own height that has a hand and is putting fruit into his mouth.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville recounts an experience in a new world where, being one with perfection, he simply walked by and missing arms, eyes and legs came out of hiding and moulded themselves back into the empty socket
Young Neville Mark says he longs to see the identity behind his mask
Description
Visiting the family in New York City about five years ago, the boy Neville Mark came up to Neville and said he felt that if he could turn around he would see who he really was, that he was wearing a mask and could not wait to die - which upset his mother, a poor girl who had married wealth and feared anything to do with death.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1965 (probable)
- c. 1964 (probable)
Told
22 June 1970(refuted)- 28 April 1969
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶5 (About five years ago, while visiting them in New York City, the little boy came in, walked over to me and said: “You know, Neville. I feel that if I could turn around I would see who I really am. I know I am wearing a mask and I can’t wait to die, cause …)
1965
Neville describes how he used to place David three thousand years in the past and then discovered him to be a contemporary and his own son.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states that from his own experience Moses, Abraham and David did not precede him.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he gave birth to the Christ child, held it in his own hands and saw its heavenly smile, which forced him to conclude he was Mary.