Correspondents see Neville's divine identity in visions
Description
Neville says people now write him letters day after day telling him of visions in which they saw him as the Being he knows himself to be.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1957
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶17 (And now it is coming into my world day after day, writing me the letters, telling me in visions they saw me as the Being what I know that I am.)
He describes his own household as the test of a change in himself: his wife keeps the books and knows every rise or fall in his fortunes, including whether the dividend check comes that year, and he u
Neville says he admires Lincoln and owns biographies of him by many different writers.
Audience woman reports dream of directing imaginal activity
Description
A woman present at this lecture told him a dream in which she was discussing the principle of imagining with others and directing the vision rather than being its victim; he asked her to write it out for him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Neville says he recorded his experience of the world standing still in one short passage of one of his own books, and that the only parallel he has found is in the Gospel of James in the Apocryphal Ne
Students report foreshadowing spiritual experiences
Description
Neville says members of his southern class in L.A. and of his New York audience write to him reporting their experiences, many of them marvelous foreshadowings rather than the Word itself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1957
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶32 (There are those in my southern class down in L.A. and those in New York who write me of their experiences, but I do know they are all human enough to want to write me and tell me it has happened to them.)
Woman friend's vision of Neville as an infinitely loving loan-company owner
Description
Just before he came up to speak, a woman friend with an "incurrent eye" told him a vision in which she went to a loan company to borrow money and found Neville behind the desk as owner and Chairman of the Board, Infinite Love who would grant any request without collateral; she thought "He is a victim of his own love," and on the way out met a distraught woman turned down everywhere else who she knew would also be granted her loan.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Predestined Glory ¶74 (Just before I came up, a friend of mine who has a wonderful incurrent eye . . an incurrent eye is the eye that actually sees inward in to the world of thought, into Eternity.)
Neville says that when Vicki goes away, she and her housemate bring the birds and the dog to his home, where he must change the birds' paper, water and feed them and keep Stanley - even though his own
A BOAC passenger manifest for flight BA072/643 dated 5 January 1957 lists Neville Goddard with family, travelling from Barbados via Bermuda to Idlewild, New York.
Ralph Lowe dreams Willy Shoemaker will lose the Kentucky Derby
Description
Neville watched on television the Kentucky Derby of two years ago in which Willy Shoemaker misjudged the finishing line and stood up in the saddle, losing the race exactly as the horse's owner Ralph Lowe had dreamed it the night before and had told the jockey.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
4 May 1957
(probable)
c. 1966
Sources
- Source: Live the Answer Now ¶35 (I was one of the millions watching it. I could hardly believe my eyes, because here is Shoemaker, a truly great jockey, always ahead of the pack at the end of the year.)
A distinct radio/public appearance ('addresses the...Breakfast Club today') on May 11, 1957, two days before the May 13 lecture-series opening (#977) — not itself a lecture and not documented by an
An article previews Neville's lecture series opening at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater on May 13 on the general topic of imagination as the creative power of the mind, listing a different subject
between 13 May 1957 and 1957
Neville delivered an extensive dated lecture series from May through October 1957, including The Creative Power of Love, Bridge Into the Future, and Release Barabbas and Crucify Jesus.
Neville discussed the 'I AM' during a Thursday night lecture that week, which Margaret relayed to Carlos over tea in September 1957.
Place: Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles
Neville's twice-weekly Wilshire-Ebell lecture series ran from September 1957 and was confirmed by a Dec 25 article to continue into spring 1958.
Place: Wilshire-Ebell, Los Angeles
9 September 1957
(probable)
A notice reports that Neville, who developed his philosophy studying with Abdullah in New York City and has written ten books, opens a lecture series in the Fine Arts Theater of the Wilshire-Ebell
In vision Neville was confronted by a hair-covered monstrous speaking creature and a radiant angelic being; he struck the monster and it grew stronger, then realised he had fathered it out of his own
A woman imagines her court-martialed brother returning with an honorable discharge
Description
Lecturing in San Francisco to about a thousand people, Neville was asked by a woman whether she could free her court-martialed brother; a week later she reported that after rehearsing the scene of his return the brother arrived home with an honourable discharge.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Signs From Above ¶14 (In San Francisco, about ten years ago, I was teaching an audience of approximately one thousand, when a lady stood up and said: “My brother is in the army. I do not know what he did, but I do know that he has been court-marshaled and sentenced to six mon…)
Neville's wife dreams Death takes and releases her hand
Description
Neville tells of a morning seven years earlier at El Comino when, after seeing his daughter off to school and reading his Bible, his wife came out at brunch and told him a dream within a dream in which a hand — Death's hand — took hers, and she told Neville she did not want to die but was not afraid, at which the hands disengaged.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
7 December 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶41 (Well, here is a true story. Seven years ago when we lived on El Comino, I rose early one morning as I always did, got breakfast for my daughter and saw her off to school.)
Neville refers to his own birth on a tiny unknown island with no social, intellectual or financial background.
Neville stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days, who asked him to name the greatest thing in the world; he answered with Paul's words 'faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love', wa
Neville's wife, before they married, slept as though wearing the wedding ring he had not yet given her; a sensitive asked her why she had taken off her wedding ring and began to guess his name, 'Neb -
Neville says he meets his dead father and mother, who died at eighty-five and sixty-one, restored in their twenties, and that he encounters such people all the time.
Neville says he came to his conviction about prayer through his own experience, having been led to brood upon the nature of prayer.