Events involving this person
1941
Explaining why Catholics defend the Pope, he speaks of his own earthly parents: he would justify any mistake of his father and would not stand for anyone criticising his mother, who died in 1941.
1942
His father as a young man always wore spats and a cane when he came to a cold climate, and his father-in-law, who owned about twenty canes, would not be seen without cane and spats until his death in
between 1955 and 1957
(probable)
Neville sent the first copy of his first book, Your Faith Is Your Fortune, to his parents with an inscription saying he would ask for no greater parents if he had to return by reincarnation; his fathe
before 1957
(possible)
Neville says he always loved his earthly father, always submitted himself to him, and that his father was always generous and kind.
1959
Neville notes that his father died at eighty-five in 1959, and describes him as an authority he always trusted, always generous and kind.
1922
Following his father's death, Neville received an equal share of the roughly $20 million Goddard Enterprises estate (about $2M).
Person: Neville Goddard
1959
Neville describes being the son of a man with ten children and not two pennies to rub together, who when he died five years ago left a fortune that means Neville need not work — and says he would rath
Neville's father leaves ten children independently wealthy
Description
Neville recounts his father's poverty, the family he had to feed, his mother's death in 1941, his father's refusal to remarry, and his father's death in 1959 at 85, leaving each of the ten children independently wealthy in company stock, now managed by his brother Victor.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
Told
- 4 September 1965 (doubtful)
- 1972 (probable)
- 7 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Order Your Conversations Aright ¶6 (But when he died, that poor man could leave a family of ten independently wealthy – each, not just collectively.)
- Source: Believe It In ¶63 (So when my father died at the age of eighty-five, he hung his so high he could leave a family of ten financially independent, when all the others went across the veil holding their hats so low they were in the gutter.)
- Source: Who Is Jesus ¶14 (But my father had the ambition, and he had the capacity to dream — he was well named, Joseph Nathaniel — and so he could dream all right, and he dreamed his family into being. Brought ten children into being, a lovely wife, and raised the ten and gave ea…)
Neville's father builds business through objective vision
Description
Neville describes his father's power of objective vision — sitting alone conjuring men, women and situations before him, arresting the state just before sleep, and later finding others setting in motion the deals he had already closed in imagination — without ever identifying that power as God.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1959 (possible)
- before 10 November 1959
Told
10 November 1959
Sources
- Source: The Only Christianity ¶3 (The whole vast world that he built for his ten children, he built out of his wonderful imagination. He would sit alone and conjure before him men and women and see situations as he wanted to see them.)
Neville's father rebuilds after losing everything and becomes a major community benefactor
Description
Neville's father lost everything he owned; one person believed in him and from that black day he built the great dream, and by his death last October he had given his community more than anyone before him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
October 1959
Told
4 November 1968(refuted)- 1 December 1959
Sources
- Source: The Foundation Stone Imagination ¶20 (My father lost everything he owned, and that proved to be the beginning of the great dream he brought to pass. One person believed in him and he started on that, and when he made his exit last October, he had given to his community much that no one had e…)
between 2 November 1959 and 6 November 1959
During a week of experiences with his dead father, Neville dreamed he was with his father, who knew he was dead though his sons could not see him; his brother Collin — an employer of two to three thou
Woman asks whether her father's prophecy doomed her brother-in-law
Description
A woman telephoned Neville the day of the lecture, quoting back what he had said about his father's objective vision, and asked whether her own father's prophecy had doomed her sister's worthless husband and whether she should keep helping her sister.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1959
Told
10 November 1959
Sources
- Source: The Only Christianity ¶3 (Today a friend called me concerning a personal problem. She said, “You said your father has objective vision. He could see the images of his imagining as real as the forms of Nature.”)
Neville's father succeeds without exploiting others
Description
Neville recalls his father, a very successful businessman in Barbados who was incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain and left a fortune to his family; he says the same ethical code held in his own family.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 30 April 1963
Told
- 30 April 1963
- 30 April 1963
Sources
- Source: The Kingdom ¶15 (I can go back to my own personal experience in my father’s life. A most successful businessman, very successful, incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain, in a highly competitive society, little, tiny Barbados, very competitive; but he …)
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he has seen many of his own people die — his father, mother, brother, nephew, friends and hundreds he knew.
before 1964
(possible)
He recalls a saying of his father's about wealth being impermanent.
before 1964
(possible)
Raised in the Christian faith, Neville once held Christ Jesus to be a man on the outside; when he had to die to those beliefs he could not explain it to his mother and father, who had been trained as
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls the humorous toast his father always used when toasting a friend.
Neville's father passes safely through a Barbados uprising
Description
During a wealth-against-poverty uprising in Barbados that lasted about twenty-four hours, Neville's brothers fled home guarded by their servants, but his father had his colored chauffeur drive him straight down to the wharf through a crowd of tens of thousands armed with sticks and knives; a voice called "It's the chief, let him through" and the car went through untouched.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 12 January 1965
Told
12 January 1965
Sources
- Source: Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶41 (My father sat right next to him confidant that not one person could dare touch him. He heard a voice say, “It’s the chief, let him through.”)
Neville's father conducts successful inner business conversations
Description
Neville's father, born a poor white man in Barbados, heard him speak in New York City for the first time and afterwards told him he need not close his eyes, explaining that his own morning 'nap' after breakfast was really him conducting controlled inner conversations with the men he meant to do business with that day.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 4 September 1965
- before 4 September 1965 (doubtful)
Told
- 4 September 1965 (doubtful)
- 4 September 1965 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Order Your Conversations Aright ¶5 (But now let me share with you a story I know well, the story of my father. He was born a very poor white man in the Island of Barbados. My mother was born poor. She had nothing; he had nothing. And they proceeded to have children. Twelve children were bo…)
before 1965
(possible)
A minister visiting the house could not answer Neville's questions or explain his visions, and his father then told him he must be an apostle; his mother had felt while carrying him that he would be a
before 1965
(possible)
He describes his own known background: an earthly father and mother, brothers and a sister, a large family, no education, no wealth and no social position.
Victor imagines the family owning a building and gains a financier
Description
Neville's second brother Victor, with no money, imagined a sign implying the family owned a building; a casual acquaintance financed the lot at six percent, the family moved in that day, and when the financier died twenty-five years later he left Victor $150,000 in cash and property, calling him his best friend.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
12 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶18 (When my brother had nothing and he saw that sign, a man that he knew casually the very day of the sale of that lot, the most desirable lot, he came in and said, “Vic, are you going to buy it?” He said, “With what?”)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says no one — not his mother, his father or his minister — ever told him he was destined to be God; like Paul it came to him through revelation, and he simply tried it and it worked.
c. February 1965
(probable)
Neville tells how his father never smoked but drank two bottles of whiskey a day and died at 85, supposedly of TB, while his mother never drank and died at 61; his niece, visiting for a week, asked hi
Neville's father recounts his poor beginnings and marriage
Description
Neville's father met his mother when she was about three and he about eight, married her when she was eighteen, and told Neville's little niece at a lavish party that when he married her grandmother all he could afford was a half-punched rug to celebrate the union.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 23 February 1965
(probable)
Told
23 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Dreamer ¶14 (When I married your grandmother, I could still afford a half-punched rug. And so we had a half-punched rug to celebrate the union. This wonderful wedding.)