Date (happened)
- c. 1000 BC (probable)passage 539841 (lecture nid 1443), 'I said this was 1,000 B.C., this passage is 1,000 B.C. and it is said in the Psalm of David'
- c. 1000 BC (probable)passage 543083 (lecture nid 1755), 'Read it in the 2nd Psalm, a psalm written one thousand years B.C.'
- c. 1000 BC (probable)passage 547525 (lecture nid 1871), 'I've read it, it's the 2nd Psalm, written 1,000 B.C.'
- c. 1000 BC (probable)passage 554564 (lecture nid 2173), 'scholars tell me, well, that was written a thousand years BC, and here is the twentieth century AD — that means it's three thousand years ago'
- c. 1000 BC (probable)passage 556308 (lecture nid 3961), 'there you'll find it, written one thousand years B.C.'
Told / reported
- 25 April 1969delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 1443 'Persons Represent States in Scripture' (chrome dateline '4/25/69', removed in Pass 0 revision 9017)
- 17 July 1968delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 1755 'The Pattern Man' (chrome dateline '17-Jul-1968 San Francisco', removed in Pass 0 revision 9094)
- 14 October 1968 (possible)delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 1871 'The Head, the Source' (chrome dateline '10/14/68', PRE revision vid 8450, standing alone at the top of the transcript)
- 1971 (probable)delivery claim [d0] on lecture nid 2173 'Those Who Know Thy Name' (Neville lectures catalog #1128, provisional)
- 24 July 1968delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 3961 'The Man Within (Lecture 1)' (chrome header 'By Neville Goddard - 07-24-1968', removed in Pass 0 revision 9397)
Across five separate lectures spanning 1968 to 1971, Neville repeatedly cites the same scriptural evidence for his central teaching that Jesus Christ is God the Father: the 2nd Psalm's words 'Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee,' which he consistently dates to around 1,000 BC, roughly three thousand years before his own lifetime. He uses the Psalm's antiquity to argue that his own experience of 'David' calling him 'Father' fulfills a prophecy far too old to have been written about him personally, proving instead a pattern that repeats in whoever awakens to it.