Events involving this person
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.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville's mother taught him that Jesus was a boy born unnaturally who rose to manhood, died for us and was sacrificed on a wooden cross, and he believed it; at school he was flogged unmercifully by a
before 1966
(possible)
Neville first heard the mystery of Christianity from a black man who was not born a Christian; the blow demolished everything he had believed and he had to rebuild his world from ashes and then prove
Neville's mother bears twelve children and dies of cancer at sixty-one
Description
Neville speaks of his mother, who bore twelve children, lost two at birth and raised ten, and who died riddled with cancer at sixty-one, angrily rejecting the claim that she died because she did not love.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 19 February 1966 and 18 February 1967 (probable)
- before 1969 (possible)
- c. 1941 (probable)
Told
- 4 December 1967
21 August 1969(refuted)
Sources
- Source: He Supplies the Spirit in Us ¶25 (My mother who bore twelve children, and lost two at birth, and raised ten of us…and mother loved, truly loved.)
- Source: The Promise's Fulfillment in You ¶7 (Well, my physical mother bearing her ten children that she raised, she wove garments of flesh.)
before 1967
(possible)
Neville recalls his father, mother and brother each telling him that success is a matter of who you know.
Death of Neville's brother Lawrence
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- August 1967 (doubtful)
- c. 1953 (doubtful)
Told
- 30 October 1967 (possible)
- 26 October 1968 (probable)
1957(refuted)- 30 October 1967 (possible)
1957(refuted)- after 20 July 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶10 (My brother Lawrence, who took part in my drama of the finding of the child, departed four years ago; he’s just as alive to me, only he is young. He was 62 when he departed.)
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶42 (Would I not bring back my brother Lawrence, who, last August, closed his eye and departed this sphere?)
- Source: Imagination Fulfills Itself ¶30 (When my brother, Lawrence, was making his exit from this world, I told my sister-in-law that there was marriage in the next world and she – in a very light vein – said: “I don’t want to go now, but do you think Lawrence will be waiting for me so we can g…)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville was born and raised in a Christian environment but learned the truth of Christ in man nowhere in it - not in Sunday school, church, or home; his mother taught him the traditional story of an o
before 1968
(possible)
Neville keeps photographs of his dead father and mother in his living room, where he sees them daily, smiles at them and talks to them.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville's family had no financial, social or intellectual background, but his mother made the name Goddard important to her ten children and lived to see the family become important in the community.
before 1968
(possible)
From his own experience of entering a heavenly sphere he knows the Brotherhood there more intimately than he ever knew his own mother, father, brothers, wife, children or friends.
before 1968
(possible)
In passing, Neville notes that his own mother was not named Hagar, though in the language of scripture every woman who bears a child is Hagar.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls that words his mother used without offense in her girlhood have changed meaning and are no longer used today.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls being raised in the low church of the Episcopal world, his mother telling him priests were the wisest men in the world, and his believing that until he became a man and the visions beg
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says that when he was reborn in San Francisco he was already a grown man and a father of children, and his own mother had already died, so he reacted like Nicodemus to the idea of being born a
before 1968
(possible)
Growing up in Barbados the Goddards kept ducks and chickens fed on cheap fish scraps; if his mother wanted ducks for Sunday dinner she had one of her nine sons set a brace aside ten days early and fed
before 1968
(possible)
Neville identifies the linen clothes of the resurrection story with the body his mother wove for him.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville tells of being born into a large, very poor Barbados family with no background, and how his mother's rebuke "Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?" so ingrained the name's importance that
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls his mother rebuking the children with "Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?", though the family had no background at all, and by that alone making the name important.
before 1969
(possible)
He speaks of his own birth from the womb of his mother, whom he calls a very wonderful lovely mother.
c. October 1933
He describes exactly how he slept in Barbados in imagination — placing New York northwest of him by latitude and longitude, hearing the tropical noises, seeing the sudden red-to-green Barbadian sunset
before 5 February 1963
Neville recalls that his own mother and father held strange and wonderful concepts of God, but always a God outside themselves to whom they turned.
before 1969
(possible)
He was born and raised a Christian and taught that Jesus was the Son; neither his mother nor his schooling ever taught him that Jesus Christ was God the Father.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says his own mother wove the fleshly garment he wears and that he came forth from her womb, followed by the placenta.
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of the linen clothes in the tomb, Neville says his own mother wove his fleshly garment in her womb.