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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1968 (possible)
Neville describes his own habitual practice: touch being his strongest sense, he handles letters people write him about their desires, believing as he touches the paper that they are telling him of fu
before 1968 (possible)
He says he has awakened from the dream of life and has never met a person he felt was greater than himself, since there is only one being.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville explains his own lecture arrangements: because people cannot tell which nights he speaks on the world of Caesar, he has taken a small advertisement in tomorrow's paper announcing Mondays and F
A friend reports spiritual birth and a woman hears an invisible voice
Description
Neville tells of a friend who wrote to him about his experiences, and of a lady who was cursed by an invisible voice which, when she asked why, replied 'Because I want you.'
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 10 June 1968
Told
10 June 1968
Sources
  • Source: The Remnant ¶40 (But I will say to my friend who wrote his, he has been born from above.)
before 1968 (possible)
He has recorded the date of every great mystical event he experienced in his Bible next to the parallel passage of scripture, dating each one when it happened rather than filling dates in afterwards.
before 1968 (possible)
At a dinner party Neville told Aldous Huxley that the biblical characters were not persons; Huxley objected that Caesar and Herod really lived and are mentioned in scripture, and Neville answered that
before 1968 (possible)
Neville once tried and did not quite succeed in revealing to another the glory of the transformed body, though he says she is not far from seeing it herself.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts Vic challenging him to write a cheque for thousands and have it honoured, which Neville admits he cannot do while Vic can.
A woman friend told him she saw him in a vision: a self-propelled carriage drew up in a marble-pillared hall, he stepped
Description
A woman friend told him she saw him in a vision: a self-propelled carriage drew up in a marble-pillared hall, he stepped out in a blue cape and proclaimed sheer power, and she knew she was seeing God clothed as power wearing Neville's face; she died soon afterwards.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1968
Told
14 July 1970
Sources
  • Source: What Is Truth ¶16 (She said, “I saw Neville. I was seated in a huge, big area with marble pillars, all alone; and suddenly a carriage drove up, self-propelled, and the door swung open, and out you stepped. And, here you wore a blue cape. As you stepped out, I knew I was lo…)
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
before 1968 (possible)
Neville describes a black-and-white reproduction of Blake's Jacob's Ladder that he owns and keeps at home, and how he examined it with a magnifying glass to see what the descending figures carried.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he is no Hebrew or Greek scholar and so works daily from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, taking no scholar's interpretation for granted.
Other people without brothers report witnesses to the mystical birth
Description
Neville says he knows from his own experience down south that many people who have no brothers have nonetheless had witnesses to the birth of the child.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 26 July 1968
Told
26 July 1968
Sources
  • Source: Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶19 (I do not say that everyone has to have three brothers in order to have them as witnesses, for I know from my own experience down south that many have had it who do not have brothers, but they have had their witnesses to the event.)
before 1968 (possible)
He remarks that he and his wife often think the same thoughts, yet even that intimacy is nothing to what awaits when the garments are taken off.
before 1968 (probable)
Neville recalls his own early years of obscurity when he was unknown and could not sell a book or anything he wrote.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts his own vision in which a goose, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, lassoed with a silver chain, pulled him over the fabulous water.
before 1968 (possible)
Many years earlier Neville experimented while awake inside a dream by seizing a stationary object and refusing to let it go, and so learned that one wakes and returns by feeling solidity.
before 1968 (possible)
He recounts entering the kingdom by way of the ascended spine, and the storm and earthquake he himself caused in a tremendous effort to get out again.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville states that what he teaches came to him by revelation unfolding within him, not from any book or from any man's lips.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says of himself that he has no wish for fabulous wealth and does not want the responsibility it brings, believing the fabulously wealthy have no time for spiritual awareness.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts standing in the presence of the Risen Christ, being asked to define the greatest thing in the world, answering with Paul's words about faith, hope and love, and then being embraced by
before 1968 (possible)
Having received the knowledge that God in man is the human imagination from no man and no book but by revelation, Neville had no one to turn to and began to experiment with it; it proved itself, and h
before 1968 (possible)
He recalls seeing the New York Stock Exchange trading floor when the day's volume was only eight million shares, and thinking he was in Bedlam.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recalls practising double vision morning, noon and night with his teacher Abdullah, who told him to look at a lampshade, a carpet or a wall and report not what he saw but what lay beyond it, u
before 1968 (possible)
In that same night's vision Neville met a dear friend from Barbados who is still alive — a bachelor hotel owner, a name-dropper — unchanged and playing the same gay, light part.