between 1905 and 1915
(probable)
As a boy, before refrigeration, fish were caught in such quantity that any not sold by three in the afternoon had to be cleaned and salted to keep, or else used for bait or dung.
between 1905 and 1921
(probable)
As a child his mother told him the story of Jesus, and a gruesome picture of "The Slaughter of the Innocents" hung on the living-room wall, before which he stood and cried many a day; he took the stor
c. 1905
(probable)
Neville tells of his 92-year-old aunt in New Jersey, a self-styled marvelous Christian who once fled the room when he asked whether Jesus had brothers, then fetched her Bible and read Mark 6:3 naming
c. 1905
(probable)
As a boy Neville was always made to cry by the church dramatizations of the crucifixion story.
c. 1905
(probable)
As a child in a Christian home he was beaten bloody in a Bible class by a sadistic headmaster for being unable to produce a Bible to verify the correctly quoted 'Take up thy bed and walk' (the master'
Seventy-two-year-old woman relives a childhood verse in a dream
Description
A seventy-two-year-old woman wrote to Neville describing a dream in which she went back sixty-odd years and relived dictating a memorised verse to her father for her autograph book, recalling every word of it on waking though she could not have quoted it before.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1905
(probable)
Told
- 13 March 1967
- 13 March 1967
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶2 (The lady writes me, she said, “I am seventy-two years old…and here in my dream someone gives me an autograph book.”)
between 1905 and 1971
He speaks of himself as having 66 years of accumulated experience.
between 1905 and 1965
(probable)
Asked what determines the individual awakening, Neville answers from his own life: born and raised in a Christian home and taught that Jesus Christ was another being, he never suspected the truth and
between 1905 and 1907
(probable)
He recalls being conditioned in the cradle - spanked by his mother for certain things and criticised for others - until he built his own ethical code.
1905
Neville recalls his childhood in Barbados, born in 1905 and now fifty-nine, growing up with candlelight, oil lamps and gas mantles before electricity, outdoor plumbing, and a kitchen whose floor was b
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
As a boy certain things could not be done on the sabbath; later, as a theatre dancer, he loved playing Boston and Philadelphia because the law forbade dancing on Sunday, so the dancers worked six days
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville mentions his early dreams as a child, which he says were preliminary and preparatory to the fusion with God.
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
As a boy Neville had visions and knew from them that the priests and ministers his mother revered were talking nonsense, but he could never say so to his mother, for whom a priest was the wisest man i
1905
As a schoolboy, one of nine brothers and a sister pretending to study, he was caught by his mother having written out on his homework paper the song line "I wonder who's kissing her now?"; she took it
between 1905 and 1964
Neville states his age in passing, saying he has awakened in this world morning after morning in his fifty-nine years.
1905
He recalls that when he was born in Barbados there was no electric light, automobile, airplane or missile - only a little carriage drawn by a horse.
between 1905 and 1912
(probable)
As small children in Barbados, when the Goddard name meant nothing, his mother corrected them by asking 'Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?' — and the family became the biggest business people
between 1905 and 1921
(probable)
Neville says that from boyhood he had mystical or psychic experiences he could not understand and which frightened him.
c. 1905
He remarks that his present body began fifty-eight years ago, and that upon it and the garment before it something unbegotten was being molded.
1905
Neville recounts being placed on Barbados in 1905 among many brothers with no social, intellectual or financial background; his one corporal punishment was for the Bible - he answered his schoolmaster
between 1905 and 1911
He reflects that he, born in 1905, and his friend, born in 1911, both of humble background, came in this century to experience that God is the Father and that they are the Father; and he notes his own
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville recalls that as a boy nothing angered his father more than animals left unfed or unwatered — he would fire a man on the spot — though he kept a slaughterhouse; and he remembers the old mule wo
1905
Neville remarks on the absurdity of a man born in 1905 claiming to be the father of one born a thousand years before Christ.
between 1905 and 1963
(probable)
He recounts his own crucifixion experience: on a pilgrimage with thousands of people toward an invisible Mecca his hands, head, side and the soles of his feet became vortexes, and a voice out of the b
1905
He states plainly that he is a man born in 1905, and contrasts his traceable ancestry with the untraceable figures of scripture.
1905
He says that he, born in 1905, found on the return of memory that David - written of 1000 BC - stands before him as a youth who knows him as his father, and that he awoke in a tomb with witnesses to h
1905
He remarks that he was born in the 20th century and could not believe anything written before his birth — beyond what was said of his earthly father, mother and grandparents — had anything to do with
1905
He states his own appearance in time, in 1905, some 150 years after Blake's.
between 1905 and 1920
(probable)
As a boy in the Episcopal Church, Neville and his three brothers were sent by their mother — on an interfering neighbour's advice — to try out for the choir; Neville led them in deliberately singing e
c. 1905
(probable)
Neville admits that as a child he pulled the wings off butterflies and flies, doing it when his father or mother was not around to stop him.
c. 1905
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados in a family of ten children with his grandmother at the table, his mother would have the cook coop up three ducks a week before Sunday and stuff them with corn and sour milk, beca
Paterson NJ jail holds Samuel Valskabomann, 'educated Ethiopian', efforts made to secure his release
2 March 1905
(probable)
A Paterson, New Jersey newspaper reports that Samuel Valskabomann, described as a 38-year-old 'negro Jew' and 'Educated Ethiopian' born near Cairo at a place called Mockombar, is held in cell 26 of th
1905
(possible)
The Jewish Chronicle printed a letter from the Falashas of Abyssinia to their European and Palestinian co-religionists, carried by the Jewish traveller M. Taitlevitch.
19 February 1905
Neville Goddard was born on Sunday, February 19, 1905, at 9:15 at night, on the island of Barbados -- the fourth of nine boys (and one girl) born to the Goddard family.
between 19 February 1905 and 18 February 1923
(possible)
19 February 1905
In passing, Neville remarks he has never had hair as close to his skull as David's shaved head, possibly not since he was born.
March 1905
(possible)
According to Margaret Ruth Broome's tribute to her late teacher, one March morning in 1905 an uncle climbing the stairs of a Barbados home to see his newborn nephew -- not yet named -- suddenly heard
between March 1905 and 1927
(probable)
Neville was baptized at three or four weeks old, and later, to please his mother who believed the child could not go to heaven otherwise, he took his two-year-old son to church to be baptized.
Broome recounts the voice that named the newborn Neville
Description
Broome's narration of a story Neville told: in March 1905 his uncle, climbing the stairs of a wooden frame house in Barbados to see his sister's newborn son, heard a voice say "His name is Neville", and the mother said she already knew.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
March 1905
before 3 March 1905
(probable)
According to the Shepherdstown Register's account of his imprisonment, Samuel Valskabomann — spelled 'Valekabomann' in the same column — 'came to this country to write a number of sketches for the for
c. 12 March 1905
(probable)
When Neville was about three weeks old, his mother wondered what to call him and heard a voice say that his name was Neville.
12 March 1905
Neville tells of the moment his own personal name was given: when he was only three weeks old, his mother heard an inward voice say, 'Call him Neville,' a name never before used in the family.
19 August 1905
(probable)
In August 1905 the Williams & Walker Glee Club, including Guillaume, was invited to sing at Booker T. Washington's summer home.
Place: South Weymouth, Massachusetts
1906
(probable)
In 1906 the Williams & Walker Company (which Guillaume belonged to) staged the Broadway show Abyssinia, celebrating Ethiopian history.
Place: Broadway, New York City
1906
In 1906 William Walker Atkinson wrote and published 'Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World,' a work often linked to Neville's later teachings.
c. 1906
(possible)
Neville relays a story told to him by his friend Rosy, who grew up on the poorer side of a religiously and ethnically divided neighborhood: every school day as a boy, Rosy had to run a two- or three-h
c. 1911
(probable)
c. May 1907
(possible)
Same commencement program as media:1671 (valedictorian Harlow Shapley, graduate Walter C.
1907
At the institute’s essay contest, Walter C. Lanyon presented ‘Joan of Arc’; Lloyd H. Langston won first prize and Irene Reniker second, followed by the president’s reception.