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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1969 (possible)
He says he has come out of the garment of flesh and blood and saw it - the linen garment his mother wove for him.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recalls that he acted in six plays on Broadway and was never the characters he played, only the actor. Source document 2216 quotes Israel Regardie’s statement that Neville featured in six Bro
before 1969 (possible)
At Abdullah's small Hebrew-teaching meetings of a dozen or twenty, Abdullah would have Neville rise and expound; he interpreted the 14th chapter of John in the light of his Barbados trip, to Abdullah'
19 February 1905
He tells of being born after that into a world of poverty, in a family of twelve children (two of whom died), always thirteen at table because his grandmother lived with them, and says he needed that
c. 1969
Neville recounts having flu with a temperature of 104 and 105 the previous year, and taking his daily shower in secret because his wife and family would have protested.
before 1969
Neville recounts his own vision in which, his skull having become translucent, a dove floated about twenty feet above him; he raised his left hand and extended his index finger, the dove descended ont
1969
He mentions reading, that same day, a scholar writing about the little child of Matthew 18 and wondering who the child was, treating the passage as secular history.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recounts his own mystical experience in which David came out of him, stood before him, and he knew instantly who David was and their relationship, before David called him father.
before 1969 (possible)
He was born and raised a Christian and taught that Jesus was the Son; neither his mother nor his schooling ever taught him that Jesus Christ was God the Father.
before 1969 (possible)
Answering Judith, Neville says he knows from his own knowledge that his mother, his father and his brother were restored after death at about the age of twenty in an environment suited to the work bei
before 1969 (possible)
He recounts that when he awoke there was no one else present to lift him up — only the wind and the breath — so he awoke within himself.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville insists his teaching is not theory but personal experience, received - like Paul - through a revelation of Jesus Christ rather than from any man.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes himself walking the earth wondering where the next dollar is coming from while those in eternity see him dreaming on a golden couch.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he has himself arrested an activity that seemed independent of him and found that although the forms were independent, their life was his own.
Women who insisted on one man later marry someone else
Description
People have repeatedly told him it must be one particular man or no man; he asks whether they would still want to marry if that man dropped dead, and he has sat in church at their weddings to someone else.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 30 September 1968
Told
  • 19 March 1969 (refuted)
  • 30 September 1968
Sources
  • Source: I AM in You ¶30 (I have had them say to me, “Either that man or no man.” I haven’t gone down the aisle with them, but I sat in the church when they got married and they looked and smiled as they walked by because it wasn’t that man.)
A woman sees Neville arrive in a self-propelled carriage and recognizes him as God
Description
He recounts a woman's vision in which he arrived in a self-propelled carriage wearing a cape and carrying a briefcase, proclaimed the power of God, and vanished; she said to herself 'That is Neville, and yet it is God.'
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 7 January 1969
Told
7 January 1969
Sources
  • Source: Maker Maker Things ¶19 (Then I told the story of a lady who found herself sitting in a chair in a very large room, when a self-propelled carriage appeared. The door opened and I stepped out, wearing a cape and carrying a briefcase.)
before 1969 (possible)
Night after night he passes beyond the world of dream into a world of reality entirely unlike this one, and returns each morning through the world of dream into this world of death, and will do so unt
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes the shock of discovering, having been raised a Christian, that Christ is not an outside being to worship but his own human imagination, which turned his world upside down for a while
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says his mother wove the garment he entered and called him Neville, and that in time he claimed to be Neville until the "I" who entered awoke to discover it was God, whereupon God's son called
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his own family: he was raised Protestant, but his brothers fell in love with and married Catholic girls, agreeing their children would be raised Catholic, so half the family is Catho
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that he did not know the 40th Psalm's word to be true until the Spirit of truth awakened in him, that he searched for and found Jesus Christ to be his own human imagination, and that he
before 1969 (possible)
He says that in the fullness of time he looked and found the Son calling him "Father", so discovering the fatherhood of God in himself.
Claims that Shakespeare encoded his name in Psalm 46
Description
Neville mentions having read the joke that Shakespeare wrote Psalm 46 and hid himself in it as the 46th words from each end, and the claim that Rufus, living in the 16th century, said the psalm inspired his hymn.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 9 June 1969
Told
9 June 1969
Sources
  • Source: The First Principle ¶24 (I have read where certain people in their little jokes claim Shakespeare wrote it, incorporating himself into the chapter by making the 26th word “shake” and the 46th word from the end “spear.”)
before 1969 (possible)
He recounts his repeated experience of being out of the body and fully awake there, touching and embracing solid people and objects in a world as real as this one, so that no one can persuade him the
before 1969 (possible)
After his experiences he began experimenting with imagining what reason and the senses denied, became it, and then taught the method to others who tried it and proved it.