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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

Woman sees a temple of former identities she could wear
Description
He reads out a letter received the day before from a woman in his audience who, during his lecture of the 7th on John 14, found herself standing at the entrance of a huge temple lined with columns, doorways and statues she knew she could put on like a garment, and realised she had already played them all.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1970 (probable)
  • 7 December 1970
Told
  • 1971 (probable)
  • 1971
Sources
  • Source: The Eternal Body ¶7 (Now let me share with you a letter that came to me yesterday. The lady and her husband are here tonight.)
before 1970 (possible)
When his wife was about five months pregnant a little girl of four or five appeared to him, called him Daddy and said her name was Victoria; he told his wife they would have a girl called Victoria, an
before 1970 (possible)
Neville says his maid Doris comes to clean once a week and he treats her as a friend, refusing to think her below him because she works for him.
before 1970 (possible)
Neville reports that from his own experience, an assumption persisted in - for himself or for another - invariably comes to pass.
before 1970 (possible)
Neville recounts his own mystical undergoing: that he gave up eternal glory, 'died' into the dead world, passed through all its horrors, and then his son stood before him and his ancient memory of tha
before 1970 (possible)
He says he meets his dead friends and his father, mother and brothers at night when he lays down the physical body and sleeps, and teaches them this principle.
before 1970 (possible)
His resurrection was a mystery to him, never described in scripture beyond the empty tomb, and he only understood what was found in the tomb after it happened to him.
before 1970 (possible)
He describes his own lack of scholarship: he never studied scripture as a scholar, does not know Greek, Aramaic or Latin, understands only a little Hebrew, and English is the only tongue he really kno
1970
Neville says he has personally experienced everything said of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, yet stands lecturing that night mortal and hoarse with a cold, still bearing the burden of the body.
Audience member imagines his neighbor's bamboo removed
Description
A man in his audience, hearing that story, applied it to bamboo trees that his next-door neighbour had planted and that blocked his view of the city from the dining table; after a week of imagining the unobstructed view, his wife met him to say the neighbour had removed all the bamboos.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1970 (possible)
  • before September 1964 (probable)
Told
  • 1970 (refuted)
  • September 1964 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Spirit Gives Life ¶14 (But when he came home beginning of the second week, his wife met him and said, “Do you know what has happened today? Our neighbor has removed all the bamboos.”)
before 1970 (possible)
Neville says he has never in his life felt inferior to anyone, admiring the rich and their beautiful homes without being impressed or diminished.
Freedom's stolen piano is returned after Neville imagines hearing it
Description
Neville retells how his friend Freedom's piano was stolen in transit along with the truck and driver, and how Neville, three times in one week, imagined hearing Freedom play a piano concerto and thanked him for it - after the last act, on the night he listened to a concerto on KPAC, the piano was delivered back at 4:30 the next morning.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1970 (possible)
  • before 8 June 1970
Told
8 June 1970
Sources
  • Source: The Pattern of Scripture Is Real ¶41 (But that night, I turned on KPAC, and this lovely piano concerto was coming through, and I used it to aid my imagination and I imagined I was hearing Freedom play that concerto. And I so reveled in the music!)
before 1970 (possible)
Neville states repeatedly that what he teaches comes from his own experience and visions, and that when he departs this life those with eyes to see will recognise the quality of his message.
before 1970 (possible)
He describes awaking as the Dreamer within his own skull, wondering who put him there and how long he had been there, and finding the Dreamer to be the Lord Jesus Christ.
A friend who lives under an active volcano on St. Vincent stayed a month as his guest in New York and, terrified by a 3
Description
A friend who lives under an active volcano on St. Vincent stayed a month as his guest in New York and, terrified by a 3 a.m. thunderstorm, leapt out of the guest room she shared with his daughter into his wife's bed.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1970 (possible)
  • before 14 July 1970
Told
14 July 1970
Sources
  • Source: What Is Truth ¶25 (A friend of mine who lives under a volcano on the Island of St. Vincent came to New York City as my guest for about a month.)
before 1970 (possible)
Neville says he has known suffering like everyone else — physical suffering and the emotional suffering of losing a friend and losing a state in the world — and describes losses of parts of the body t
Woman hears voices define a prophet and an apostle
Description
He reads a second letter, received the same day, from a woman who woke to a clear dictating voice saying a prophet sees and an apostle is sent and experiences, got up as though shaken awake, wrote it all down, and closed her letter with 'Hallelujah'.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1970 (probable)
Told
  • 1971 (probable)
  • 1971
Sources
  • Source: The Eternal Body ¶26 (Now here was another one that came this week. Both came yesterday. He said, I woke and the words were so clear.)
before 1970 (possible)
As a child Neville's mother would take him on her knee and tell him the story of Jesus – the fatherless son who claimed to be the Father, the miraculous birth, John the Baptist, David calling him 'my
before 1970 (possible)
Neville describes his own birth from above: the child was placed in his hands, it smiled at him, and he heard an unearthly wind coming from within and seemingly from without.
before 1970 (possible)
Sitting one day in the silence a rock of quartz appeared before him, fragmented into numberless pieces, drew itself together into a man seated in the lotus posture whom he recognised as himself, then
before 1970 (possible)
He told a strictly fundamentalist aunt that Jesus had brothers; she denied it, read the names herself out of her own Bible in Mark's 6th chapter, then shut the book, ran into her room, slammed the doo
before 1970 (possible)
The betrayal by a kiss happened to him: he was kissed on the right side of the neck and kissed the other on the right side of his neck, and the other stretched his arms out like a cross.
before 1970 (possible)
Neville was sent into the presence of the Risen Christ to answer a question put to him and then be incorporated into his body; he did not turn around, and says that had he turned he would not still be
before 1970 (possible)
Neville says he memorized the child's letter word for word and adds that he had earlier led the child's own mother up to the reclining king, where his face became translucent and the mother then saw h
before 1970 (possible)
He states plainly that he has a son, a daughter and a wife, and that in Eternity they are all his brothers.