1 December 1959
unresolved
Los Angeles
Barbadian writer (1905–1972)
| Date | Lecture or book | Telling | Passage |
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| 1968-10-21 [exact/certain/final] | Fall in Love with Christ | Now I know that many have had the experiences and they never once recorded it. Put it down next to the parallel passage of scripture. When mine happened, instantly I wrote it in the Bible against that parallel passage. Just like the scripture tells us, that paragraph was complete in itself. If I never had another experience, I wouldn’t know there were other experiences. And so, when on the 6th day of December the other one came, I put it against its parallel passage. But the first one did not depend upon the second to exist. That first one is a complete paragraph within itself. And the second… | 545927 |
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| 1966-09-16 [exact/certain/final] | Behold the Dreamer | Well, David, you know I am not familiar with the Oriental literature to the extent that maybe I should be, so I can’t say yes or no to that. I’ll take your word for it, for you’re a scholar and studied much, and so I would go along and say, “Well now, David said so.” I, personally, am not familiar with such literature. I’ve read the Upanishads, the Gita, and things of that sort, and I love them, as the Light of Asia, it’s beautiful poetry, I love it. But I do not know of anything outside of the Jewish-Christian faith that is so altogether true based upon my own personal experience. I have… | 550325 |
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| 1969-05-16 [exact/probable/final] | The Lord's Anointed | Now, who is the Father of David? You’re told in scripture it’s I AM. For the Father’s name is Jesse and Jesse is “any form of the verb ‘to be,’” which is “I am.” So, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all my will”. So, when you know this you can’t condemn any being in this world for what he has done and he is doing and what he may do. For when it all comes to the end you played them all anyway…you played every part. If you haven’t played it you could not conjure David. David comes at the end. He was destined before the foundation of the world, but… | 529420 |
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| 1969-02-14 [exact/probable/final] | We Are the Gods Who Came Down | Then in this picture, who would have thought that in the unfolding of the drama and everything that is ever made is love. No matter what it is, it is love. The most horrible thing in the world was made in love. And so here, when this night that I broke the shell…and then 139 days later when it was revealed to me by the only one who could ever reveal it that I am the Father, I didn’t become the Father at that moment. I was always the Father, but came down and took upon myself the cross that is man to raise it to that level. | 550618 |
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| 1972 [exact/probable/final] | God's Son | You have no idea how altogether wonderful it is until you’ve experienced it. The thrill that was mine when this thing happened with David. I jumped out of my bed and I wrote it down. It was early in the morning. My wife was sound asleep and I didn’t want to wake her. And the next morning when I told her, I said, “You may not believe this, but do you know I am the Father of David?” Well, she likes all the things that I have in my vision, and she never ridicules or makes little of anything I tell her, and it struck her forcibly. But I said, “Yes, honestly, I am David’s Father.” | 550747 |
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| 1959-12-06 [after/possible/bound] | The Word of God | So he has told us in the parable of the son who went into the vineyard, and they killed him, thinking, by killing him, we will now get the vineyard. And then came the father, and came the Lord himself: what would he do to those servants who killed his son, his only son? Well, that is the wonderful story: that son is David, and David, you’re told in Scripture, died, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. And the father comes to resurrect his son, but the father resurrects first — he has to raise up himself — then he raises up his son, and his son comes a hundred and thirty-nine days after… | 556161 |
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| 1968-11-11 [exact/probable/final] | Jesus Christ: Your Creative Power | So you search the scripture…well, who found David and David called him Father?—the Lord. The 89th Psalm: “And I have found David. He has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation’” . So then who is God? If David must call God his Father and he calls you Father…well, you can’t believe it. Is this really the entire play? Is this the plan that God in the beginning established for man? That it was his purpose in the very beginning to give himself to man, but so completely give himself that no restraint held him back? And if he was God the Father before his pledge… | 543547 |
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| 1965-05-18 [exact/certain/final] | The Implanted Word | So last week I said to myself, now I know that my prayer has been answered. So I will now bring up a little scene and imagine the phone is ringing and he wants to see me, and he’s here in my living room, and here the two of them are seated, and he has paid me what he owes me. I did this on Wednesday. On Friday about 5:30 he asked me if I was busy. I said, I’m giving a lecture tonight. He said, well, we want to come. So he came over to the lecture, we drove home together, had a perfectly nice quiet evening at home, and five minutes before he left, his wife opened her purse, and took from her… | 533034 |
| No date on record | It Is Within | Here’s a simple little story. Two weeks ago, just before I closed, I was about to close, and my wife said to me, “You know, here’s a little unfinished business. A friend of ours owes you some money. You’ve never asked him for it. You’ve never written. You’ve never mentioned it to anyone, but he owes you the money. You’re closing up for the entire summer, you’ll not be here until late fall. I don’t think it’s fair to him, fair to you, fair to me, that he continues indefinitely without ever mentioning the fact that he owes you the money.” I said, “All right, do you want the money?” She said,… | 555429 |
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| 1971-04-16 [exact/certain/final] | Order Then Wait | You grow, and you outgrow, and you grow and you outgrow; and all these things that we kept and kept and kept for fourteen years, we accumulated them. Where we kept them, I really do not know: under the bed, under this, . . all places. And finally came the day of moving. That’s why, not to burden my wife, I hope I go first, that she will have the pleasure of weeding out what we have now, because I couldn’t face it, really . . the thought of all that you accumulate. We have been here now ten years in the present apartment. And knowing what happened after fourteen years, I despair when I think… | 541585 |
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| 1966-01-28 [exact/certain/final] | What Must We Do Believe | So what I did, no one to be hurt, I simply assumed that I was happily and blissfully married to the girl who bears my name. I went to sleep for one solid week in that assumption, that there she slept and here I am, and I wouldn’t be this happy if it was at the expense of someone else. I couldn’t hurt someone else. So that’s all that I did. | 546902 |
| 1972-04-28 [exact/certain/final] | Consummation | And she met me on the outside and said, “That’s a very decent thing of you to do, Neville; give me the papers for my divorce.” Well, I didn’t have any papers with me. So, I took her home to my place and I gave her the papers, a thing I’m told legally I’m not supposed to do. But I nevertheless gave them to her and I got my divorce in New York City. She only responded to my dear and deep need: I wanted a divorce. So, she was forced to do what she did based upon what I was doing within myself. I was sleeping in the assumption that I was blissfully happy and married to the girl to whom I am now… | 542317 |
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| 1969-03-14 [exact/certain/final] | The Bible's Mystery | Let no one frighten you about the world coming to an end. Only your journey will end. When scripture mentions the buildings falling, that’s all symbolic. I experienced that back in 1960 when I watched all of the buildings fall, but they were not buildings here but beliefs by which I lived. After my visions I could no longer believe in the little historical Jesus or what my mother taught me in the Christian faith, so all of the structures of my mind by which I lived had to fall. Then I had to build a new foundation from scratch, and the only foundation is the Christ. | 552609 |
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| 1967-09-22 [exact/certain/final] | The New Christology | When our late President Hoover addressed the GOP convention in San Francisco, he said: “The rise and fall of nations could be traced to the rise and fall of ideas implanted in the mind of man.” Here is a man who rose from the very bottom. He had no money, put himself through college, yet left millions to his family and various charities. Time will prove that Mr. Hoover was a truly great man. He didn’t cause the depression but tells us that it can be traced to the rise and fall of ideas implanted in the mind of man. He sent me an autographed copy of his address and asked for a copy of my book,… | 535909 |
| 1968-04-15 [exact/probable/final] | Jacob's Ladder: Christ | So I tell you, Mr. Hoover was perfectly right…condemned as he was. He sent me his little pamphlet. I gave it to a man to use on NBC and he never returned it. Mr. Hoover signed it for me and asked me to send a copy of my book Awakened Imagination, which I did. He said he would put it in his library at Stanford University. So he accepted my book and he sent me his pamphlet. I, in turn, gave it to Elmer Petersen, was his name, who was on NBC in the news department and I never received it from him. But I gave it to him. It was signed by the [...], in which he thanked me for my concept of… | 551906 |
| 1968-06-03 [exact/certain/final] | Imagining Creates Reality | Mr. Hoover made the statement at the convention in San Francisco when he addressed the GOP, I think the year was 1958, no, 1960. I know because he sent me a copy of his address and requested a copy of my book Awakened Imagination. Now, when that came out I do not know, but that was what he requested. He sent me his autographed message. This is what he said, “Human history with its many forms of government, its revolutions, its wars, in fact, the rise and fall of nations could be written in terms of the rise and fall of ideas implanted in the minds of men.” | 535797 |
| 1968-07-16 [exact/certain/final] | There Is No Other God | Now, when men like our late President and the late Churchill and the present Anthony Eden will make these bold statements – if you tell people as they listen to you, who said it, they are inclined to accept it because the men were prominent when they lived here. And, so, here, Mr. Hoover – he sent me an autographed copy of his address that he gave in the City of San Francisco the last time he spoke at the G.O.P. Convention and he said that nations with its many forms of government, its revolutions – all the things concerning a nation – “The rise and fall,” he said, “could be written in terms… | 538496 |
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| 1967-03-27 [exact/certain/preferred] | Become Like a Child | But, that goes back…I haven’t time tonight to go on…to a vision that preceded it by several years ago. But every race and nation in the world is so selfish. Really, the individual only personifies that collective body called nation, called race. They will get together in partnerships only until it suits their purpose to break it and then take over. And that is nothing, because this is a world of death. Until you believe in Jesus Christ, you’re going to be in a world of death. Believe in him. All things are possible to him who believes in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is your own wonderful… | 534793 |
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| 1966-12-02 [exact/probable/final] | God Plays All the Parts | My very dear friend who is my partner, Grace Griffith, she and Jack were home a few years ago when this series appeared on TV on Sunday afternoon. It was simply the great ages of man, the kings of England. I can’t recall if it was Richard III…and lovely words would come out of his mouth as Gielgud would now explain them. And Grace said to me quite innocently, “You see, they were not really that evil at all.” I said, “Grace, my darling, Shakespeare said that.” “Oh, yes, yes, Neville.” One second later, “You see, they were not so bad at all.” I said, “Grace, dear, Shakespeare said it.” “Yes,… | 535057 |
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| 1967-11-13 [exact/probable/final] | The Promise Is the Fulfillment of God's Word | Fifteen or sixteen years ago, in vision, I saw these wonderful men walking like stags. Such majesty, with antlers coming out of their heads so high they disappeared into the sky. Then I saw a man who at that time was third in the government of England. [A very controversial figure, he disliked aristocracy, wealth, or anything that he considered noble. He tried to nationalise all industry, and in the trying he nearly broke England.] This man took a tree from the outside and put it on his head, stood on the highest hill, jumped, and fell flat. Getting up again, he climbed the hill, placed the… | 552843 |
| 1967-11-13 [exact/certain/final] | The Purpose of Life Is to Fulfill the Word of God | Now this night I would say fifteen, sixteen years ago, I saw this wonderful forest and I saw these men walking like stags. They were men but such majesty—antlers, beautiful antlers that would go out of sight, and yet a man carried it. Then I saw a man, he was the third in the Labor government of England, a very controversial figure. He’s gone now…in fact the three of them are gone: Atlee is gone, Bevin is gone and he is gone. He was a Welshman and he tried to completely change the whole structure of the economy of England. He disliked heartily the aristocracy; he disliked anything that was to… | 536540 |
| 1972-01-31 [exact/certain/final] | What Is Man | I recall my vision of maybe twelve years ago, that man is now gone from this world. He was second in the Labour Party when Clement Attlee [1883–1967] was prime minister. And I saw him in this wonderful vision one night. I came with a group of men, all turned up. They were like human stags, antlers reaching up almost to the sky, growing out of the brain. And he took a branch and placed it on his head, thinking it would give him the same power that they enjoyed. And he ran and jumped and fell flat on his face. Went back again, he couldn’t quite understand how they could cross a chasm with no… | 549561 |