Neville took care of the funerals of two of the three friends he was serving in the dream, many years earlier in New York City, and has not heard from the third for a very long time.
Years ago Neville became aware of two beings - a beautiful angelic woman above him and a monstrous hairy ape-like creature below that called her 'Mother'; when he pummelled it and it fed on his violen
Poor woman inherits a fortune and abandons her friends
Description
A poor woman who came faithfully to Neville's meetings was brought by her wealthy-minded neighbour, who applied the teaching for her; within the year a relative died and left her $600,000, after which she cut off Neville, all her teachers and her friends out of suspicion that they were after her money.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1900
(doubtful)
before 19 November 1965
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶2 (This lady…well, many years ago she came every Tuesday, every Friday, and when I spoke on Thursday, every Thursday, never failed. She had no money, very little; she was the poor member of a very large family of wealthy people.)
Clare hears deceased Randy affirm Neville's teaching
Description
Neville recounts a letter from his friend Clare, who told a plant worker named Randy about Neville's teaching for two years; after Randy died under an operation, Clare heard Randy's voice within him saying 'Clare, you are right.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Closing Summary 1967 ¶2 (My friend writes me this story…this goes back now quite a few years…but I only got the letter this week.)
Neville recalls Abdullah, years earlier, eating everything while Neville abstained, telling him that the same food would poison Neville because he had quibbles.
Neville says he was sifted long ago, was not satisfied with the environment he was born into, grew restless knowing he was destined for something different, and began the search to unveil the Christ i
c. 11 November 1900
(refuted)
A humorous friend, newly showing him around after Neville came out west, took him to Forest Lawn, pointed out the graves of actors and notables, and remarked that the lots on top of the hill cost more
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados Neville paid a boy who worked for his father six cents — the price of a pit seat — to laugh at the wrong moments during the twice-weekly picture shows; the boy, Mashama, nicknamed
He says that he, born in 1905, found on the return of memory that David - written of 1000 BC - stands before him as a youth who knows him as his father, and that he awoke in a tomb with witnesses to h
Neville, born in 1905 with no social, intellectual or financial background, and a friend of his present at the lecture, born in 1911, both experienced being God the Father when David stood before them
He mentions his own birth year while denying it in the eternal sense.
He recalls that when he was born in Barbados there was no electric light, automobile, airplane or missile - only a little carriage drawn by a horse.
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
Neville refers to being taught as a child that Jesus sacrificed himself for us 2,000 years ago, a teaching he now calls belief in a lie.
He retells the childhood obstacle race: men tied the tarpaulin down so tightly that the little children crawled under it like cats and came out exhausted, then went through barrels, over a hurdle, up
Neville says that in his fifty-nine years he has given the world the art of revision, which he discovered though it was not new.
between 1905 and 1921
(probable)
Neville remembers his mother's beautiful garden in his childhood: she was passionately fond of it, always carried a parasol because she was so fair the sun blistered her, and directed her gardeners an
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville mentions his early dreams as a child, which he says were preliminary and preparatory to the fusion with God.
As a schoolboy, one of nine brothers and a sister pretending to study, he was caught by his mother having written out on his homework paper the song line "I wonder who's kissing her now?"; she took it
Neville says he was placed on the island of Barbados in 1905 with many brothers, in a limited environment with no social, intellectual or financial background, and grew restless there.
Neville tells of his lifelong childhood hunger to know the reality of God, and that the only physical beating he ever took from a schoolmaster was over the Bible — a sadist who tore his legs apart unt
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
He recalls that as a boy his family had little money but some position, so they had their own church pew marked "Mrs.
As a child in a Christian home he was beaten bloody in a Bible class by a sadistic headmaster for being unable to produce a Bible to verify the correctly quoted 'Take up thy bed and walk' (the master'
Neville recalls his childhood in Barbados, born in 1905 and now fifty-nine, growing up with candlelight, oil lamps and gas mantles before electricity, outdoor plumbing, and a kitchen whose floor was b
Neville Lancelot Goddard was born to Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Goddard, the fourth of ten children.