He Breaks the Shell by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

He Breaks the Shell, dated 1964, is built as four acts and a conclusion in which Neville describes what he calls God’s unveiling of his image in man. Much of the text is a chain of scripture quotations, from Genesis to Revelation, with short passages of his own between them. In the first act he presents resurrection as an awakening within one’s own skull, followed by a birth from it: a sound like a driving wind, three men seated where the body lay, and an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes as the sign. The second act concerns finding David, who calls the awakened man Father. In the third, a bolt of lightning splits the body from skull to spine, and he rises, fused with a pool of molten gold, in a serpentine motion into the skull. In the fourth, a dove descends and alights on him. Neville places these four experiences about three and a half years apart and treats them as parts of a single complex. The conclusion reads the skull as the tomb of Scripture and holds that Jesus Christ is the true identity of every man.