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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

Friend and wife practice the Law together in Paris
Description
The friend tells Neville that he had lived by this law long before meeting him, having first heard of Neville through his wife, and that they took to the teaching together while in Paris.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971 (possible)
Told
  • 1971 (probable)
  • 23 April 1971
Sources
  • Source: Consigned to Disobedience ¶12 (Long before I met you Neville, . . long before I ever heard of you. I heard of you only through my wife. She heard of you and heard the Law, and we sort of struck it off together when we were in Paris)
before 1971 (possible)
Neville asserts from his own experience that one's Maker is one's Husband and that the two become one.
before 1971 (possible)
In his imaginal act his brother Victor carried his daughter Victoria up the gangplank with an excuse about Neville's arms not being strong enough, and that is exactly what Victor did on the day itself
before 1971 (possible)
He states that he meets those who are called dead and that they are not dead but restored.
before 1971 (possible)
He says he meets night after night those the world calls dead, and knows from experience that they are not dead.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says he has seen the whole world dead and frozen, and then something starting within him animated everything.
Neville's skeptical friend repeatedly sees him off aboard a plane
Description
A friend of his whose favourite remark was that a sign "didn't say it positively" came aboard a plane at New York City smoking a cigarette and bringing another friend on board to see Neville off, several times.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971 (possible)
Told
1971 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: I Say You Are Gods ¶37 (He flew with me — I’m flying out of New York City, and here he came out, bringing a friend with him too.)
before 1971 (possible)
He says remarks about the physical background of the little thing called Neville cannot offend him, because the being wearing it cannot be touched.
before 1971 (possible)
He insists his teaching came from his own experience, not from books; he only found it in the Bible after he had experienced it.
Grace Roosevelt rents her New York apartment after imagining Long Island
Description
Grace Roosevelt, who came to him monthly for private appointments in New York, could not open her Long Island home unless she rented out her New York apartment out of season; he told her to sleep that night in imagination in Long Island, and the next morning she phoned from Long Island to say a single man had taken the apartment at once, paid in advance, and demanded immediate possession.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1971 (possible)
  • before 21 June 1971
Told
21 June 1971
Sources
  • Source: Secret Imagination ¶31 (I said, “Tonight you sleep in your home in Long Island.” “But,” she said, “I can’t do that. How could I go and sleep there?” I said, “You don’t do it physically. Tonight you sleep physically in New York City in your apartment, but in your imagination, wh…)
before 6 December 1971 (possible)
He says his own visions of the night are solid and cubic like waking reality, and that his visions are given him either when someone asks help of him or out of the Bible.
c. 1971 (possible)
He woke at about 1:30 on the previous Sunday morning expecting to bring his wife home from the hospital that day, made everything ready, but in fact brought her home on the Tuesday.
Maylo dreams that Neville drives away a devil torturing her father
Description
He received a letter last Friday night from a little girl named Maylo, about nine, describing a dream in which her father was being tortured underground by a devil holding a fork with fire on it and a spoon bearing Neville's picture labelled 'Enemy'; Neville appeared carrying her sister, the devil screamed and faded, her mother went to kiss him and he faded, and a voice said he is what others call dead, what others call a spirit, what we call the God in us.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1971 (probable)
  • c. 0 (probable)
  • c. 1971 (probable)
Told
1971
Sources
  • Source: Invisible ¶10 (This past week, I received a letter last Friday night, and she said, “You are in my dream. I dreamt of you, a devil, mom, dad, my sister, and me.”)
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says he, too, had to forget everything to become man, and that he kept his promise to come and awaken the sleeper in the world of men.
before 1971 (possible)
He describes the ascent into Zion: the body split from top to bottom, a golden liquid pulsing light at the base of the spine, fusion with it, and one spiral fiery assault upward with the skull reverbe
before 1971 (possible)
He states he has been married twice, that his first wife bore him a son and his second wife a daughter, and that he has no doubt they are his own children — yet the certainty when David stands before
1971
Neville tells his audience that the Goddard family business has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, having started on borrowed money and grown while remaining privately held by the nine brothers
before 1971 (possible)
Neville says he was born with the sense of humour that made him amused rather than offended by the man playing Christ.
Neville's students dream of teaching clergy the Law of Imagination
Description
Neville says he is thrilled by the letters his students send him describing dreams in which they instruct a priest, rabbi or minister in the Law of Imagination.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1971 (possible)
  • before 31 May 1971
Told
31 May 1971
Sources
  • Source: God-Given Talent ¶30 (I can’t tell you how thrilled I am when I get your letters where, in your dreams, you are teaching the Law of Imagination!)
Grace Roosevelt imagines her bearded son clean-shaven
Description
Grace Roosevelt was embarrassed by her son's huge beard after his return from Egypt; Neville told her to feel his smooth cheek and kiss it, and he later saw a newspaper photograph of the son beardless at a fashionable wedding - though she credited the bride's demand rather than her imaginal act.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1971 (possible)
  • before 21 June 1971
Told
21 June 1971
Sources
  • Source: Secret Imagination ¶34 (“Well then, put your hand on his face and he doesn’t have any beard, and then kiss him and feel that smooth skin that is your son’s face when he has no beard.”)
before 1971 (possible)
He states that the whole teaching was revealed to him in the depths of his own being, that he is not speculating, and that he wants no church or organization.
before 1971 (possible)
Neville saw, while lying on his bed, a vision of an unoccupied hotel suite, entered it in consciousness so that it took on cubic reality, explored a dressing room and corridor, told two frightened lad
c. 1971 (possible)
After asking in meditation for a revelation to share with his audience, he dreamed a drama of intrigue and betrayal in which men he sheltered in his home were part of a government plot to intimidate h
before 1971 (possible)
Neville recounts his own resurrection experience, in which the heavenly chorus sang the fall into division and the resurrection into unity, and sang out 'It is finished' as he walked by and everyone w
before 1971 (possible)
He notes he has only met the child Maylo twice and that she does not know his face.