Events involving this person
28 June 1942
Victoria Goddard, daughter of Neville Goddard, was born in 1942.
Person: Victoria Goddard
The source identifies Victoria as the daughter of Neville and Catherine.
between 19 November 1942 and March 1943
Drafted into the Army in November 1942 and sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana, Neville applied for discharge and was refused by his colonel; he then slept each night imagining himself back in his Washington
March 1943
1943
Coming out of the army in 1943 he and his wife looked for an apartment; the rent was higher than the sum they had fixed on, but he persisted in his imagined figure, and in the third month the manager
March 1943
Neville's Petition for Naturalization gives the discharge day as 15 March.
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
1945
When he first came to this city in 1945 the head of the organization that had invited him objected that he did not treat the Bible as secular history and forbade him to say from that platform what he
Neville's wife reverses the Music Hall producer's treatment through imagination
Description
Neville tells how his wife, a costume designer at the Music Hall for eleven years, was treated unmercifully by the head producer until Neville had her imagine, as she walked the five blocks to work, that he praised her designs and begged her father to raise the budget - which happened within twenty-four hours.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1945
Told
16 July 1969
Sources
- Source: Many Mansions ¶44 (How long do you think it took for him to actually change his attitude towards her? I’ll tell you: twenty-four hours! When she came downstairs with this wonderful collection of designs, he raved about them, and he actually went to her father and begged hi…)
1 May 1945
Stranded in Barbados after the war with no ship until September and a lecture series due in New York on the first of May, Neville imagined himself walking up the gangplank; he, his wife and his daught
1946
In 1946, unable to travel to Barbados, Neville lay on his bed in New York and assumed he was lying on his dying nephew Billy's bed in the family home so that his sister would see him instead of her so
Neville's wife returns from retirement for six special shows
Description
After his wife retired in 1946 the same producer begged her to return, and she did about six special shows for him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
after 1946
Told
16 July 1969
Sources
- Source: Many Mansions ¶45 (And after she retired in 1946, he begged her to come back and do special shows. She went back and I think she did about six special shows for him.)
before 1948
(possible)
Neville says he enjoys telling his plans to his wife because they both get a thrill when the plans come into being.
Neville foresees Neville Mark's November birth
Description
Neville saw in vision a four-year-old boy who told him his name was Neville Mark and that he was coming on the 10th of November; he told his wife and then a pregnant friend, and the boy was born to that friend on November 10th.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1948
(probable)
Told
10 March 1967(refuted)10 March 1967(refuted)- 28 April 1969 (probable)
Sources
- Source: A Riddle ¶4 (Before he was born he stood before me in vision and I felt I was his father. Appearing to be about four years old, he told me his name was Neville Mark. When I asked him when he was coming, he said the 10th of November. This was now September.)
Sally enters nursing school and marries an American doctor
Description
His niece Sally came from Barbados to New York, was rejected by the head nurse at St. Luke's for inadequate schooling, and after Neville imagined her happily married to an American doctor she was accepted at Columbia's nursing school, met and married a young doctor, and now lives in Cincinnati with several children.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1950 and 1954
Told
c. 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Word ¶8 (And I said in a light, light way, I said, “Sally darling, you came here for one purpose, you came here to get married to a perfectly wonderful American doctor. That’s your purpose really, and so I will see that you’re happily married to a perfectly wonde…)
1951
Neville and his wife sailed to Barbados for about three months, leaving about two weeks after Sam's visit and returning to a family dinner on their first day back.
c. 1951
On a months-long stay in Barbados with his wife and small daughter, Neville met Major Morrison of Trinidad, who was enthusiastic about his teaching, and an elderly retired English professor of chemist
Sam obtains management of Rockefeller family funds
Description
In 1951 Neville's brother-in-law Sam, stuck in the Trust Department of the Bank of New York and unable to see how to put his two children through college, came to him for help; Neville told him to sleep each night in the feeling of a heavenly day investing enormous funds, and while Neville was away three months in Barbados Sam was offered the job managing the Rockefeller brothers' private funds.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1951
- 1950
Told
- 6 January 1969
- 6 January 1969
- 1 April 1968
Sources
- Source: The Mystery of Imagination ¶7 (“When you go to bed tonight—I don’t mean tomorrow night or the next night—I mean tonight and every night thereafter, you feel as though you had the most heavenly day in business, that you invested fantastic funds.”)
- Source: Whom Do Seek 4 1 68 ¶8 (I said, “All right, go to bed tonight and sleep as though you had an agreement this day with the most wonderful company or foundation to invest money, and keep on doing it night after night, and it will work.”)
between 1952 and 1953
(probable)
About 1952 or 1953, living in Beverly Hills on El Camino, he saw and walked into a luminous palatial building in the wee hours, found himself shut out of this world, told two ladies in the hallway it
1952
He learned by letter today that Randy, his eastern doctor and dear friend who cared for his pregnant wife and his family, died a few weeks ago at sixty-five; he recalls that in 1952, after a serious o
12 April 1953
Neville's wife woke one Sunday morning to a voice telling her to stop spending her thoughts, time and money because everything in life must be an investment; she wrote it down, looked the words up in
12 April 1953
Neville describes the effect the revelation has had on him personally since he heard it, making him conscious of every moment.
Neville foretells the birth of Neville Mark on November 10
Description
Before the child was born Neville saw in vision a four-year-old boy who called himself Neville Mark and said he was coming on the 10th of November; his wife thought it impossible, and a pregnant friend expecting a girl in late December was rushed to hospital on the 10th of November and bore a boy she named Neville Mark.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
September 1953
(probable)
Told
10 March 1967
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶4 (This lad stood before me and I felt I was his father. His name was Neville Mark; he was about four. We talked and I said, “When are you coming?” He said, “On the 10th of November”…this is now September.)
George receives two job offers after the imaginal act
Description
While shaving last Friday, Neville imagined telling his wife wonderful news about George, a friend in the city who was in debt and out of work, and three hours later George telephoned to say two good jobs had been offered him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
9 April 1954
Told
16 April 1954
Sources
- Source: Good Friday / Easter ¶4 (I thought of him and I instantly, while in the act of shaving, imagined I was speaking to my wife, and I said to her, “Isn’t it wonderful, the good news concerning George?” Then I allowed her, in my imagination, to say, “Yes, isn’t it wonderful?” Three h…)
September 1954
(probable)
In vision, before his birth, a boy of about four told Neville his name was Neville Mark and that he was coming on the 10th of November; Neville told his wife and then told a pregnant friend that if he
Pagination
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