Neville witnesses the fire that destroys Huxley's home

Coming out of the Ebell Theatre after giving his lecture, Neville looked up and saw the Hollywood hills aflame; some forty houses burned that night, one of them Aldous Huxley's, destroying his unpublished D. H. Lawrence manuscripts, library and art, so that nothing was saved but the suit on his back.
Date (happened)
12 May 1961
unresolved
  1. before 1962 bound · probable
    Source The Secret of God ¶4Passage 555281; lecture 2194 delivery d1 1970-05-05; Huxley-house fire independently anchored by hist_event:17871.
    Reasoning The witnessed blaze is the same named Huxley-house fire independently anchored to 1961-11-06, so it is bounded before 1962.
  2. 12 May 1961 estimated · probable
    Source The Secret of God ¶4
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003)
    Reasoning The Huxley house burned in the Hollywood Hills fire of 12 May 1961; he saw it that night on leaving the Ebell after his lecture (passage 555281). [The 12 May 1961 fire date rests on outside sources the checker consulted: Calisphere, OAC Huxley papers.]
Place
Ebell Theatre
Persons
Neville Goddard
Aldous Huxley
D. H. Lawrence
Told / reported
  1. 5 May 1970 estimated · probable
    Source The Secret of Goddelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 2194 -- confirmed page header 'May 5, 1970', sharpening the lecture's other delivery claim (Jan-May 1970 bound, from the 'He Is Dreaming Now' next-lecture announcement) with no conflict
    Reasoning Passage 555281 is Neville himself recounting, in first person, coming out of the Ebell Theatre one night after his lecture and seeing the Hollywood hills aflame, destroying Aldous Huxley's home and his unpublished D. H. Lawrence manuscripts; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 2194, is dated 1970-05-05 by its confirmed page-header delivery claim, which sharpens (and does not contradict) the lecture's coarser January-May 1970 bound. The telling inherits the header claim's exact/probable precision and confidence.
Sources

Source

  • The Secret of God ¶4 (But one night I came out of the Ebell Theatre, having given my lecture there, and I looked into the hills of Hollywood, and here the whole hill is aflame.)