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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 1964 (possible)
Neville says he put the name I AM to the test in countless ways and found that only I AM responds, not the words Jehovah or Jesus.
before 1964 (possible)
Speaking of saints, Neville says he would be embarrassed if God loved him more than he loved his mother, knowing what she has meant to him.
Neville's friend dreams of a white horse aboard a British warship
Description
A friend, an American aboard a British man-of-war in his dream, sent Neville the dream of a white horse that boarded the boat, caused injury and confusion, then jumped overboard, after which the ship ran aground and a spear went through the captain.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1964 (possible)
  • before 8 December 1964
Told
  • 12 August 1964 (doubtful)
  • 8 December 1964
Sources
  • Source: For Hatching ¶37 (a friend of mine sent me a dream where he was on a boat and there was a white horse who got aboard the boat, and it knocked someone down, even injuring others, and there was confusion.)
before 1964 (possible)
Answering a question, Neville confirms he has had an experience of the void, distinguishing it from the solid worlds he enters in vision.
before 1964 (possible)
He alludes to the objection people make against him — that he has been married twice, has children, drinks and eats meat — and answers it from scripture.
before 14 January 1964 (possible)
Neville states that his own Son David proves the fatherhood of God — that everyone, of whatever sex, is the father of his Son David.
before 1964 (possible)
Neville insists he is not theorizing but speaking from experience, and says that when challenged he affirms that God truly stood before him and that he looked into the face of man.
23 February 1948 (probable)
He admits he has not always succeeded, and that his many failures would convict him if he claimed to have mastered his attention.
c. 1964 (probable)
Neville recounts that his family, lifelong Republicans, went out and campaigned (time and money) for Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater. Neville states he himself voted for Goldwater.
c. 1964 (possible)

Decades after their 1926 encounter, Neville and Arthur Ford crossed paths again in New York; Neville said this was about three or four years before his 1968 lecture.
Place: New York, NY

before 1964 (possible)
Neville says he has himself repeatedly assumed and become what he desired to be, and that this is why he is on the platform at all.
Woman recovers stolen furniture after silence with Neville
Description
A woman who lost all her furniture while a year in Europe, and whose search through the police and a paid detective agency failed, sat with Neville in the Silence imagining she was on her own furniture; disturbed by railings outside a Madison Avenue bank she turned the wrong way, recognised her maid's ankles at the end of the block, and was taken straight to the furniture.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964 (possible)
Told
  • 11 February 1964 (possible)
  • 11 February 1964 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: The Power of Faith ¶24 (She and I sat in the Silence and simply saw the furniture, and sat on it, and saw the lovely family pictures on the piano, and all the things where they would be were it true.)
before 1964 (possible)
Neville describes his sister-in-law, his wife's sister and a pillar of the Episcopal Church in Jersey, who tolerates his living because he is a good husband and father but flatly refuses to believe a
before 1964 (possible)
Neville tells of standing in the presence of the risen Christ, who asked him what is the greatest thing in this world; he answered "Love, the greatest of all is love," and infinite love embraced him,
before 1964 (possible)
He confesses that after finding Christ he still secretly kept his horoscope in mind to justify failure, because he had successfully foretold events by cards and stars for countless people in New York,
before 1964 (possible)
Bill's letter refers to a story Neville had told his audience about a dove nesting in the tree outside his window.
before 1964 (possible)
His elocution teacher held him up before a class of forty as an example of a voice that could never earn a dollar, and he refused to waste the 600 dollars his father had given him for six months of dr
before 1964 (possible)
Neville describes his own practice of learning from his correspondents' letters, and asks the audience to write and tell him how they used the law.
before 1964 (possible)
Neville tells of being brought into the presence of the Ancient of Days, answering his question correctly with “the greatest thing in the world is love,” being embraced and fused into the body of God,
between 1964 and 1965 (probable)
In Barbados this past year Neville told his brother Vic that this is his last time around, that he has already made his will out and has left the stage for the last time - but Vic, seeing only inherit
before 1964 (possible)
Gene Conrad never attended any of his meetings because he knew the physical Neville and its limitations, and wanted no part of the experiences of the one who wears the garment.
before 1964 (possible)
He says he searched the Bible himself for any time interval longer than three days and found none.
before 1964 (possible)
Neville mentions that he published the seventy-year-old woman's story in his latest book.
Lecture attendee prospers despite family objections
Description
A man who came to his lectures for the law went from owing a thousand dollars to eighty-odd thousand with no investment, against the objections of his mother and brother who said going to Neville was not Christian; when he won, they credited their own church-going, and the man then would not let Neville disturb his fixed idea of Christ.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1964 (possible)
  • before 6 February 1964
Told
6 February 1964
Sources
  • Source: In a Vision of the Night ¶4 (For from this platform he heard the law, and through the hearing of the law and applying it he came from behind the eight ball where he owed a thousand dollars into eighty-odd thousand dollars with no investment, but no investment.)