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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

c. December 1959 (probable)
Neville tells of holding the Christ Child in his arms, asking "How is my sweetheart?" and seeing a heavenly smile break on its face before the vision dissolved; a few months later David appeared, and
c. December 1959 (probable)
Neville recounts his own mystical experience of David standing before him and being revealed as his son, which told him he himself was the father of the Christ child.
c. December 1959 (probable)
Neville describes, in the first person plural, the sequence of mystical experiences he teaches from — the birth with the three witnesses and the swaddling clothes, and then a few months later the seco
6 December 1959 (probable)
Neville recounts being born from above and, five months later, encountering David, who stood before him and called him Father, ending all doubt about who he is.
6 December 1959 (probable)
On the night he kept his promise he exploded, broke the tomb/grave, and his concealed son was set free to reveal him as God the Father.
6 December 1959 (probable)
Neville describes how, as each of his four mystical experiences occurred, he wrote it immediately into his Bible beside its parallel passage - the second on the 6th of December - not realising each wa
6 December 1959 (probable)
Asleep one night in Beverly Hills his skull exploded and David of biblical fame stood before him, with Goliath's severed head on the table, and he knew he was David's father — after which his memory r
6 December 1959 (probable)
In a vision two handsome men of about forty stood beside him looking with lust at his son, a boy of twelve or thirteen; Neville reminded them of David's victory over Goliath, pointing to the giant's s
6 December 1959
139 days after his birth from above, his head burst and he found himself in a modestly furnished room where a handsome youth leaning against an open door was known to him to be his son and David of bi
6 December 1959
Neville's vision of David as his son: unlike the account in First Samuel where David holds Goliath's head before the insane king, in Neville's experience the giant's head lay on a table before him; tw
6 December 1959
Neville recounts his own mystical pattern: awakening inside his skull as in a sepulcher and squeezing out to be born of Spirit, seeing three men who found an infant on the floor and said "It's Neville
6 December 1959
A vibration exploded in his head and David of biblical fame stood before him and called him Father; he recorded the date, December 6, 1959, against the 89th Psalm.
6 December 1959
Five months (139 days) after being born from above, humanity gathered into a single being stood before him and called him Father.
6 December 1959 (probable)
One night in Beverly Hills, asleep, his skull exploded and David stood before him with the severed head of Goliath on a table; he knew himself to be David's father, and his memory returned.
between 6 December 1959 and 7 December 1959 (probable)
Thrilled by the David experience he jumped out of bed early in the morning and wrote it down without waking his sleeping wife, and told her the next morning that he was the father of David; she took i
6 December 1959
He knew nothing of being the father of David until the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, having never heard or read it anywhere.
6 December 1959
Neville says the experience of being the Father of David happened to him on 6 December 1959, and that he afterwards found it confirmed in the Old Testament.
6 December 1959
The second sign: on 6 December 1959, at his home in Beverly Hills, a vibration at the top of his skull built until his head exploded, and he saw David of Biblical fame, a lad of twelve or thirteen, le
6 December 1959
One hundred thirty-nine days after the birth experience, the same intensity in his head bursts and he finds himself in a modestly furnished room where David of biblical fame, a handsome youth, leans a
6 December 1959 (probable)
One hundred and thirty-nine days later a similar vibration began at the top of his skull and exploded, sending David before him as his own son — and he knew with no uncertainty that he was David's fat
6 December 1959
The revelation that David is the son of God came to him 139 days after his resurrection and birth from above, something he had never seen even glimpsed in any book.
6 December 1959
Neville held the infant and called him sweetheart, wrote the story down and mailed it to his wife, and felt no change in consciousness until one hundred thirty-nine days later, when his head exploded
6 December 1959
About four and a half months (139 days) after the birth, his skull exploded and he found himself in a modestly furnished room facing a boy of about thirteen whom he knew to be David of Biblical fame a
6 December 1959
One hundred and thirty-nine days after his awakening and rising from the tomb, David, God's only begotten son, appeared and revealed Neville as his father.
6 December 1959
Neville tells of God awaking within him in the tomb of his skull and his coming out, and of David standing before him and calling him Father a hundred and thirty-nine days later.