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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1968 (possible)
He says he has heard the new song of the 144,000 - a heavenly chorus calling him by name - and being lifted up through his skull into a world with no sun.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he has repeatedly imagined a state and watched it externalise itself as a physical fact, and has taught others to do the same.
before 1968 (possible)
Retelling of the same commission: he was sent by sheer might, by a God who did not use vocal chords but simply thought the words "Time to act!" and Neville heard them.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he never heard the mystery of the Bible from anyone and never saw it in his reading; like Paul, he was not taught it but received it by revelation — an act of God self-revealing in him.
A subway rider claims a seat after receiving an impression of pregnancy
Description
Neville retells a story he heard in New York City of a young girl who rushed into the subway asking a gentleman for his seat as a pregnant lady, and when he asked when the baby was expected, replied that she did not know because it had just happened.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 15 March 1968
Told
15 March 1968
Sources
  • Source: An Inner Conviction ¶39 (It reminded me of a story I heard in New York City. This young girl came rushing into the subway, and standing in front of a gentleman she said: “Would you please let a pregnant lady have your seat?”)
before 1968 (possible)
In listing examples of the technique, Neville recalls a time when nobody knew him and he could not sell a book or anything he wrote.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says that from his own experience, when he speaks from the platform or on radio or television, he draws argument because what he says conflicts with people's prefabricated misconceptions of sc
before 1968 (possible)
Standing in the presence of the Ancient of Days, Neville was asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answered in Paul's words that the greatest is love, and was embraced by infinite love and fu
before 1968 (possible)
Neville describes the affection and the gulf between himself and his brother, whose passion is business while Neville's is the Word of God, and says his brother thinks him insane for working with no r
before 1968 (possible)
When he tells clergy that Jesus Christ is God the Father and that His son is David, they are horrified, and he answers them from the Second Psalm.
Benny Gould receives David after his birth from above
Description
Neville says he was born among black people on Barbados, where there are blue-black people, and tells of Benny Gould, the blackest man he has ever seen, in his Los Angeles audience, who has had the birth from above and into whose arms was placed a blond, blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked child - David, the Christ Child.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968 (possible)
Told
between 15 July 1968 and 15 July 1971 (possible)
Sources
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)
He came to America unknown, uneducated, with no one to receive him and feeling the world against him; after he began having and applying his visions he was never barred from any club, and was invited
Woman dreams of Neville's mansion and proxy brides
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vision in which she saw him and a lady leave a glorious mansion in a white car, and then a second dream of brides in a department store buying brides' Bibles and being married by proxy, one saying she was going to Paris while the dreamer said she was getting married next month.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 3 May 1968
Told
3 May 1968
Sources
  • Source: Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶9 (Now, another lady wrote, saying: “I found myself in a glorious mansion surrounded by beautifully kept grounds. Looking out of the window I saw you, Neville, and a lady, leave in a white car; yet I knew you were going to return.)
before 1968 (possible)
Neville tells of watching people repeat the same actions over and over, and of one night telling a group crossing a bridge that he had watched them cross it unnumbered times, though they would not bel
before 1968 (possible)
Neville was born and raised in a Christian environment but learned the truth of Christ in man nowhere in it - not in Sunday school, church, or home; his mother taught him the traditional story of an o
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.