Events involving this person
c. November 1941
Neville recounts his mother's death in 1941, about a month before Pearl Harbor: he had just returned to New York from three weeks with her in Barbados, where she was a terminal cancer case, and sittin
c. 1943
(probable)
One deep winter in New York, wanting only warmth, he slept as though under the palm trees of the Indies; distressing news then came, and 48 hours later he sailed from New York in wartime, reaching Bar
c. 1944
(probable)
Neville describes his family: his mother never worked and had ten children with a full complement of servants, his sister lives at home with servants, and his wife worked until, about two years after
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 1956
(possible)
Neville recalls being raised in a Christian household where grace was said at every meal, his mother invariably ending it with "For Jesus' sake, amen" - and nothing came of the prayers beyond the food
between October 1957 and December 1957
(probable)
He spent three months in Barbados over Christmas and New Year, honoured with party after party, drinking only water and eating only vegetables while his mother cooked for him.
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…)
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
before 1959
(possible)
Neville refers to his own birth, saying God entered the grave of the body when he jumped in his mother's womb.
20 July 1959
On July 20, 1959 in San Francisco, Neville experienced what he described as awakening from a tomb within his own skull, an event that marked a turning point in his lectures.
20 July 1959
Neville says he was born from his own skull in 1959 in the city where he is lecturing, eleven years before this coming Monday, whereas the body he wears was born from his mother's womb 65 years earlie
Neville's mother imagines noble futures for her children
Description
Neville recalls his mother darning the children's socks while dreaming a noble future for each of them — and not sparing her shoe when they did wrong — and says she left the world with that dream fixed in her mind and it came true.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 10 November 1959
Told
10 November 1959
Sources
- Source: The Only Christianity ¶32 (I know my mother when she darned our socks dreamed for each of us of a future of which she would be proud. Everyone of us is living a noble life and I know she dreamed it for all of us. She never spared her shoe, wham! If you did something wrong.)
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 1963
(possible)
Neville's brother Bruce was a sleepwalker from birth who would come downstairs at night, unlock the larder, make himself bread and milk, walk around the obstacles his brothers deliberately placed in h
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
28 January 1964
Neville says his mother, his wife and his daughter, like all women, will one day confront David as David's father.
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.
before 1965
(possible)
One Sunday morning as a boy Neville skipped church and was sitting shoeless in the street in a little shirt when his father got off the car, saw him and struck him a deafening blow across the face.
before 1965
(possible)
He identifies the linen cloth of Blake's vision with his own body, woven for him by his mother.
before 1965
(possible)
Answering a question, he uses his family as an analogy: his mother bore twelve children, two of whom did not survive and ten still living; his niece has had four children by Caesarean; and his wife bo
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.
Neville's mother imagines success while darning socks
Description
Neville recalls that his mother, sitting alone darning her sons' socks, would talk to herself and build in her mind's eye the future she wanted for the son who wore that sock — and all her sons became successful; she never compared them to neighbors or found them wanting.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
- 28 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 28 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 26 November 1965 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Teach Us to Pray ¶32 (The sock reminded her of the one who wore it and she would talk to herself, but she was talking to her son. Actually as she darned that sock she was building in her own mind’s eye the future she wanted for that son.)
before 1965
(possible)
A second telling of the same childhood teaching, joined to his own resurrection: the power possessed him and he rose within himself, entombed, having been taught by his mother and teachers that the re