Neville says his knowledge came not from study but by revelation, and recounts the shock of discovering that he is the Father and David is his son — a relationship of which he is more certain than of the fatherhood of his own son Joseph Neville Goddard.
Date (happened)
before 25 April 1972
unresolved
before 25 April 1972
estimated · possible · preferred
Why
Uses the LATE end of the delivery range as the safe bound.
Reasoning
The event's existing field_date claim ('before 1972', possible) was a phase4 L6a envelope placeholder using only the telling lecture's year. The lecture's best-evidenced delivery window is now 1972-02-19 to 1972-04-25; the safe upper bound (true even if the actual telling fell at the late end) tightens to before-1972-04-25.
before 1972
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [555796] belong to telling lecture nids [2269]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Told / reported
between 19 February 1972 and 25 April 1972
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 555796 is Neville testifying, live in the lecture, to the shock of discovering David as his son more surely than Joseph Neville Goddard; the lecture's best-evidenced delivery claim is a certain range (1972-02-19 to 1972-04-25), so the telling date inherits that same range and confidence.
Sources
Source
- Foundation Stone ¶20 (And what a shock to me when I discovered that I am the Father — a father — the David is my son. I have a son, and my son — although I trust my wife to tell me that I did sire him, and I believe it a hundred percent, I’ve never doubted it — yet I know mor…)