Events involving this person
before 1969
(possible)
He says his father, a perfect father, made no distinction in leaving his wealth, so that Neville — the prodigal son who went thousands of miles away while his brothers stayed home and worked — was nam
Neville's father nearly attacks the abusive schoolmaster
Description
His father, a big strapping strong young man at the time, had to be physically restrained from killing the schoolmaster.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 13 October 1969
Told
13 October 1969
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶47 (It took all the family to restrain him and the neighbors to restrain him, which was good because his intention was to kill him, and he would have. He could have…he was a big strapping strong man, my father, and in those days he was a very young man.)
before 1969
(possible)
As a boy in Barbados he lay in bed listening to a ship blasting for its captain, who was below on the veranda drinking with his father, a ship chandler, and his mind would travel to the next port.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his Father fusing with him as the Spirit of Love and sending him back wearing the form of power, and says Martha, now dead, saw him as power so that she would know the power of truth
Neville's father drinks heavily
Description
His father, who sold all the food and drink of the island, was himself a very heavy drinker, and rum was made in Barbados.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 30 January 1969
- before 9 January 1964
Told
30 January 1969(refuted)- 9 January 1964
Sources
- Source: The One Greater Than John ¶12 (He drank heavily; my father was a very heavy drinker.)
Neville's father says money does not care who owns it
Description
He quotes a saying of his father's about money.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
- 25 June 1969 (doubtful)
- 25 June 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Test Him and See ¶37 (My father had a saying: “Money doesn’t care who owns it.”)
Neville contrasts his parents' habits and deaths
Description
He contrasts his own parents: his mother, who never smoked or drank, died a painful death at 62, while his father drank heavily, ignored all health advice, and died at 85 of sheer exhaustion — which is why he ignores diet rules.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
28 September 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Biblical Language ¶28 (My mother never smoked or drank, yet she died a very painful death at the age of 62. My father drank like a fish. He broke every health code.)
before 1970
(possible)
He says he meets his dead friends and his father, mother and brothers at night when he lays down the physical body and sleeps, and teaches them this principle.
before 1970
(possible)
He says he has never wanted wealth: his income does not come from the sale of his lectures but from what his earthly father left him, and his passion is to tell the Word of God to the end of his days.
before 1970
(possible)
He describes the family concern he inherited from his father: he does not know where it is or what it is worth, only that the dividend checks show the book value is ridiculous, and says that when he a
before 1970
(possible)
He describes his origins in Barbados — a small unknown island twenty-one miles by fourteen — in a very large family with no financial, social or intellectual background, but whose father, mother and b
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recalls having had to say goodbye to his father, his mother, a niece, a nephew and many friends who have died.
before 1971
(possible)
He mentions the deaths of his father, mother and brother as proof that they did not cease to be when his senses lost them.
Neville's father and Victor rehearse desired business outcomes mentally
Description
His father sat every morning after breakfast in a West Indian Berbice chair with his feet up and eyes half shut, seeing the day as he wanted it and carrying on mental conversations with the men he would meet; his brother Victor did the same, and the family made millions in Barbados.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1971 (possible)
- before 6 December 1971 (probable)
Told
c. November 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Strong Imagination ¶33 (my father did that: every morning after breakfast he would sit down in what we call the Berbice chair, and put his feet out on the arms of a chair — it’s a chair made in the West Indies — and there he would simply, with his eyes partly shut, he would see…)
before 1971
(possible)
He gives his parents' ages at death — his mother at 61, his father at 85, who drank heavily while she did not — as the physical inheritance he wears but can modify.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes seeing his brother Lawrence, who died at sixty-two or nearly sixty-three, restored as a young man of about twenty-one or twenty-two — and his father the same.
between 14 February 1972 and 20 February 1972
(probable)
Neville says he has finished with physical genealogy: he dearly loves his father, mother, brothers and sister, but beyond them he neither knows nor cares about his ancestry, since his only real ancest
before 1972
(possible)
Neville remembers his father in his store, watching the very rich customers come in and saying to one of the children, 'God is really merciful.