Other names
David (Neville's inner figure, Son of God)
David (biblical)
David (Pattern)
David (biblical/mystical)
David (the psalmist)
David (king)
David (Biblical)
David (Son of man)
David (Son of Man, biblical)
David (Son of Man symbol)
David (biblical king)
David (Neville's vision-son, of Biblical fame)
David (Neville's vision-son)

Events involving this person

Canyon resident reports birth, David, and splitting visions
Description
Neville reads out a letter he had waited for since 15 December, from a woman living in a rustic canyon, recounting three visions: the infant in swaddling clothes placed in her arms by her long-unseen brothers and her landlord at 3:30 a.m.; five months later the blond, blue-eyed youth David walking out of the canyons toward the sea; and four months after that, at 3:30 a.m., an earthquake and bomb splitting her being from top to bottom - she now awaits the descent of the dove.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
15 December 1967
Told
2 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: Your Husband ¶17 (Now let me share a letter I have been waiting to receive since the 15th of December. This lady’s home is in a small, rustic canyon.)
16 December 1967
On Saturday morning while shaving, Neville's wife told him David had phoned needing help — the soprano's long hairpiece for his show of the Magi at U.C.L.A.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts David standing in his presence and calling him Father, and the absolute mutual certainty of that father-son recognition.
before 1968 (possible)
In vision David appeared to reveal Neville's fatherhood, with homosexuals standing nearby looking concupiscently at David; Neville then told them the story of how David brought down the giant Goliath.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville points to Benny in the audience, notes how opposite they are in pigment, and says they are the same man because the same David called each of them Father.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville states that after his resurrection and return into unity, David called him Father.
Carter reports Neville's claim to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David, calling resurrection Neville's great theme.
Description

Carter reports Neville's claim to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David, calling resurrection Neville's great theme. [Date evidence: none in text (Neville's David experience is independently known but no date evidence appears here)]

Verbatim (witness's words)

It must come to mind immediately that this was Neville's great theme, resurrection. He claims to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David.

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 8 February 1968
Told
  • 20 June 1976
  • 8 February 1968
Sources
before 1968 (possible)
Neville states in the first person that having found David he anointed him with holy oil and David called him My Father, my God and the Rock of my salvation.
1968
Neville gives his own age as sixty-three and says his physical son, aged forty-four, calls him Father, but that he takes his own fatherhood of that son on faith from the boy's mother, whereas David's
Neville declares Benny the father of David before his third experience
Description
Neville tells the audience that Benny, present in the room, is literally the father of David, God's only begotten son, and expects Benny to have the third experience within a week or two.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 21 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
  • Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶12 (If I told any biologist, any surgeon, any doctor, anyone familiar with the human body and how it works, that Benny is the father of the blondest, blue-eyed boy that ever walked the face of this earth and his name is David; and David is God’s only begotte…)
before 1968 (possible)
A woman wrote Neville that a voice told her that whenever David calls you Father you are as the Ancient of Days; Neville confirms it from his own experience, saying that when David called him Father h
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts his own experience of the explosion in his head in which David stood before him and called him Father, so that he knew himself to be God the Father.
before 1968 (possible)
He describes his own experience of an explosion in his brain after which David of biblical fame stood before him and called him 'my Father'.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he read the evangelists' account over and over without seeing it, and only understood the Father/Son relationship when David stood before him; he has since discussed it with clergy and tr
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts that when he met David he did not have to ask his name — David so permeated the room with the feeling of who he was; likewise Abraham's name radiated as faith.
before 1968 (possible)
He recounts that until David stood before him and called him Father he had no knowledge of who he was, believing himself to be Neville Goddard born of Joe Goddard, a member of a very large family.
before 23 February 1968
Neville says he teaches only what he has himself experienced — the birth from above, the discovery of David as the Son of God who calls him Father, the splitting of his body/temple, the ascent of the
Benny sees David and is called Father
Description
Neville recounts that his friend Benny, to whom he had foretold on the 20th of October that it would come on the 6th of March, telephoned him the previous night — interrupting a dinner with two friends he had not seen in three years — to report his vision of David: left as a sitter at a party, a boy of about fourteen came through, whom he knew to be David and who called him Father, saying their Father would never leave them. Neville now prophesies the next experience for the 8th of July.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 10 March 1968
  • 6 March 1968
Told
11 March 1968
Sources
  • Source: Conception ¶13 (Now, my friend Benny on the 20th day of October had the birth of the child. Last night Benny called me.)
Benny sees David as his son and is called Father
Description
Neville shares a letter from his friend Benny, who was left to mind children at a party and was approached by a blond, blue-eyed lad he knew to be his son David, and who later discovered while retelling it that he had been dreaming; Neville interprets Benny as the Ancient of Days and prophesies he will be split in two on the 8th of July.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
13 March 1968
Told
  • 15 March 1968
  • 15 March 1968
Sources
  • Source: An Inner Conviction ¶24 (Now let me share the letter I received from Benny. He said: “Friends of mine (Negroes), a man and his wife, invited me to a party. On the way we stopped at their home, where a group of Caucasians in their teens were having a party.”)
Benny's letter confirms his March 6 vision of David
Description
Benny, whom Neville had told publicly that it would happen on a given date, pushed a letter under Neville's door at night; reading it next morning Neville found Benny's account of a vision in which, left to mind Caucasian children at a party, a blond blue-eyed lad he knew to be David called him Father — confirmed two days later by a doubling dream — and Neville goes out on a limb predicting the 8th of July for Benny.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 14 March 1968 and 15 March 1968
  • 6 March 1968
Told
  • 15 March 1968
  • 15 March 1968
Sources
Benny describes David calling him Father
Description
Benny came home on Saturday and described his vision of a fair, blond, blue-eyed lad who called him Father — David — and Neville, whose skin is olive and Benny's very dark, rejoiced that they are father of the same son and therefore one.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 16 March 1968 (probable)
  • 16 March 1968
Told
  • 18 March 1968
  • 18 March 1968
Sources
  • Source: Persistent Assumption ¶33 (I said, “Benny, tell me, what did he look like?” because we have fun together. It’s not because we have Martinis together, that comes regardless, not because of any Martinis, and I said, “Benny, what did he look like?”)
c. 22 March 1968
About three weeks ago Neville 'took' his friend David and his daughter, hearing something ecstatically good for both; his daughter, who quit her job after saving for two years to write for a year, has
before 1969 (possible)
He states that when he saw David, he himself was seated and David was standing - which is why he believes Browning had the experience.
before 1969 (possible)
He says he knows from experience that David found him and called him Father, God, My Lord and the Rock of his salvation, David being all the parts Neville has ever played fused into one youth.
before 1969 (possible)
He says David, in the Spirit, called him Father, so he knows his own name and is one with the awakened Christ.