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Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1971 (possible)
He stood in the presence of infinite love personified as a man, was asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answered “Love,” was fused into the body of love, and was sent out with the command “
A woman dreams of killing a rattlesnake after removing its rattlers
Description
Neville tells from the platform a woman's dream in which she saw a rattlesnake, her husband said he must take off the rattlers first, and she handed him a hammer to beat the snake to death, waking as she beat it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1971 (possible)
  • before 7 June 1971
Told
7 June 1971
Sources
  • Source: The Mystery Called Christ ¶58 (In her dream, she saw a snake . . a rattlesnake, and the husband said, “I must take off the rattlers first,” so he began to take off the rattlers, and she handed him a hammer to beat it and to beat the snake to kill it.)
before 1971 (possible)
Neville describes his own inner vision in which the room and the whole world rise like a three-dimensional curtain ascending and are instantly duplicated, and says he wishes he could take his listener
before 1971 (possible)
During his travelling theatre years he had dentistry done all over the country, in London and in Barbados, always patched up because he was only in a town for a week at a time.
People see Neville compelled to play many roles in their visions
Description
Neville says people have seen him in many roles, including harsh ones, in their visions, and that his conscious reasoning mind is always removed from certain parts he is under compulsion to play at night.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1971 (possible)
  • before 12 April 1971
Told
12 April 1971
Sources
  • Source: The True Exodus ¶24 (So, you will see me in many roles. Many of you have seen me in different roles. Yet my conscious, reasoning mind has always been removed on my return from certain parts that I had to play, for I am under compulsion to play those parts, after being awaken…)
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says he came to America as a stranger but from the day he landed never thought of himself as anything but an American, refusing to call himself an American Barbadian or American West Indian.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville states from his own experience that he stood in the presence of the One and was incorporated into it without loss of identity, knowing himself to be the body of the risen Christ.
before 1971 (possible)
He states that he believes Shakespeare's 'all the world's a stage' absolutely because he speaks from his own experience, and extends it beyond the span from cradle to grave.
before 1971 (possible)
He recounts, as his own experience, the four mystical events of the pattern: awakening sealed inside his own skull (the scarab) and pushing his way out, the unearthly wind and the nativity imagery, th
before 1971
A friend told Neville that although state universities require a college degree to lecture and he had none, a U.C.L.A.
before 1971 (possible)
In a night vision he was with Blake, who showed him the fall he should take; falling like a meteor through space and steadying himself, he saw in the distance a single glorious man whose heart was a b
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says that before that union he had 'gone a-whoring' into harlotry, believing in powers outside of God, and that some people today say they are afraid of him because they fear they may believe
before 1971 (probable)
Neville recounts a vision in which he was confronted by two creatures - a hairy, guttural monster who called the angelic being "Mother" and grew stronger with every blow Neville struck, and a glowing
before 1971 (possible)
Neville recalls that his old teacher used to call the conscious circle of awakened humanity 'The Brothers'.
before 1971 (possible)
In a vision one night he walked among a vast field of sunflowers whose faces were human faces, anchored in the earth and moving in unison like an orchestra, and felt that although limited he was freer
before 1971 (possible)
He describes his own experience of the crucifixion, which was ecstatic rather than painful, held by vortices rather than nails.
before 1971
Neville says he has met the child Melo only twice and that she does not know him socially.
before 1971 (possible)
He states, with Blake, that he has seen the states in his Imagination — seen at a distance one man, and near at hand multitudes of nations.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville uses himself as the example of the name I AM preceding every identity - his own name, his American nationality, his race.
before 1971 (possible)
He mentions owning books at home that interpret the book of Revelation, and dismisses their interpretations as stupid.
before 1971 (possible)
He found David, who cried to him the words of the 89th Psalm calling him Father, and by that he knew he was one with God.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville states that he has himself proved the Law, bringing into being things he dared to assume because he wanted them to be.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says in passing that he knows the thirteenth verse from experience — standing face to face with the risen Christ.
before 1971 (possible)
He describes meeting his son David, an eternal youth with human face, voice and hands but an indescribable body, who embraced him so that their bodies became one.
before 1971 (possible)
He describes his own experience of total forgetfulness of who he was, and of memory now returning to him through the Spirit of Truth.