A few years ago Neville met William Blake in the heavenly spheres; Blake told him to stand still and fall backwards without restraint, and Neville fell like a star through infinite space, coming to rest before a scintillating human-yet-not-human being all of light and fire with a heart like living ruby, which he realized was himself, containing all the nations and races of the world; then he crystallized back into this world, and Blake afterwards explained his line that all one beholds is within, in the imagination.
Date (happened)
between 1955 and 1961
unresolved
between 1955 and 1961
estimated · possible · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010)
Reasoning
'A few years ago' before the certain 1963-02-05 telling (nid 1710) more plausibly spans roughly 2-8 years than the 12-16 implied by the refuted window; kept at possible since 'a few years' is inherently vague and no independent date corroborates the vision itself.
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [542641] belong to telling lecture nids [1710]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1963
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [530627] belong to telling lecture nids [1116]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1963 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1963 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 8 December 1963
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1963 to before 1963-12-08.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1116 (certain delivery 1963-12-08); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1963`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1963-12-08 on nid 1116 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 1965
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [533829] belong to telling lecture nids [1224]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
between 1947 and 1951
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010): F1017 already flags this window as sitting oddly far (12-16 years) before the earliest certain telling (1963); 'a few years ago' more naturally reads as a shorter interval.
Told / reported
5 February 1963
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1710 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1710 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1963-2-5 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1952-7-7 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain; 1969-8-8 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-08-08 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 1: 1969-08-08 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
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28 November 1965
stated · doubtful
26 November 1965
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Telling inherits authoritative node 1224 delivery 1965-11-26 probable.
8 August 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1710, 1969-8-8) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1963-2-5. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
8 August 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1710, 1969-8-8) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1963-2-5. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Bible: Your Spiritual Biography ¶12 (A few years ago William Blake - he died in 1827, and I met him in these heavenly spheres, the majestic patriarch, and he said to me: “Stand still. Now fall backwards and let yourself go - no restraint, just fall.” I obeyed him and I fell like some inters…)
- The Bible: Your Spiritual Biography ¶44 (I tell you that I know Blake hasn’t died, because I meet him. He died seemingly to the world, leaving behind him only the works he gave us in the printed form. I talked with him. It was he who actually told me what to do to see what he wrote in his “Jeru…)
- What Is Truth ¶27 (I saw it one night, saw one being, and here is myself. But I came closer and I saw infinite people, all the races, all the nations of the world, all incorporated into one being, and I am he, the heart glowing like a living ruby.)
- Teach Us to Pray ¶39 (I saw it so vividly one night when I was with Blake and he told me to lean back and fall. I fell like some meteor through space, and when I settled and came to a stop, there in the distance was this wonderful being.)