Neville preaches repentance for twenty-one years before becoming a witness

Neville preached the story of repentance for twenty-one years, from 1938 until 1959, before he could say he was a witness to what he had seen.
Date (happened)
c. 1945
unresolved
  1. c. 1945 stated · probable · preferred
    Source What Must We Do Believe ¶5"twenty-one years", told in What Must We Do Believe (nid 1853)
  2. c. 1959 estimated · probable
    Source What Must We Do Believe ¶5passage 546871 ('twenty-one years'), read together with passage 546872 (nid 1853): 'I took the platform on the 2nd day of February, 1938'
    Why Corrects the existing 1945 claim, which double-counted from the wrong end of the twenty-one-year span.
    Reasoning The existing claim assumed 'twenty-one years' counted back from the 1966 telling date, yielding 1945; but the following passage anchors the start of his professional platform preaching to the stated date 1938-02-02, and 1966 minus 1938 is twenty-eight years, not twenty-one. Twenty-one years measured forward from that 1938 start places his becoming a witness at circa 1959, matching the event's own description text ('from 1938 until 1959'). The duration is a round spoken figure, so this is a circa year, not an exact date.
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 28 January 1966 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1966-01-28 (node:1853).
  2. 28 January 1966 stated
    Source What Must We Do BelieveWhat Must We Do Believe (nid 1853), telling 1853-0, told 1966-01-28
Sources

Source

  • What Must We Do Believe ¶5 (I know in my own case I told it for twenty-one years before I could honestly say, “And now I am a witness to what I have seen.”)