When Neville was seven a lady told him she had had a vision concerning him — that he would do something for man that the centuries would not undo, and that hundreds of years later he would be named as one of three men; late in the lecture he says that after fifty years on earth he believes this teaching of revision is what she saw.
Date (happened)
c. 1912
stated · preferred
c. 1912
estimated · possible
Why
Passage 527734 (the event's existing reverse-direction witness) is his later callback to this same story, not a second telling.
Reasoning
Age-seven claim in passage 527716 combined with Neville Goddard's established birth date (person 6, 1905-02-19) places the event around his seventh year; exact month is not given so this is year-level circa/possible, not a precise date.
Told / reported
1954
stated
Why
Corrects, does not replace, the existing 1969-03-28 certain field_told row, which is left standing per the never-delete rule.
Reasoning
The witnessing lecture has three delivery claims (certain/preferred at 1954, possible at 1964-04-20, doubtful at 1969-03-28); this event's existing field_told used the doubtful one. The certain, preferred claim is 1954. Internal evidence in the very passage -- Neville places this telling 'after fifty years on earth' per this event's description -- fits 1954/55 (age ~49-50) and rules out 1969 (age 64), further supporting the certain claim over the doubtful one.
between 1954 and 28 March 1969
estimated · possible
Why
Flag for another lane: lecture 1010's three catalogue-sourced delivery claims need adjudication.
Reasoning
No basis to prefer one of the three mutually-exclusive certain delivery claims on lecture 1010 over another — none is transcript- or chrome-dateline-sourced, all are unreviewed legacy catalogue claims. Per the inheritance rule the told claim is written as a between range spanning the conflict at possible confidence rather than inventing precision the source lacks.
28 March 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `certain` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1969-03-28 is refuted on the source lecture (nid 1010) and no live claim on that node supports it, so the corpus can no longer say WHEN this was told. ⛔ The row is KEPT, not retired: it also records THAT nid 1010 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date. || v1.1/l7/told-close-residue: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1010, 1969-3-28) is now refuted. The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1954-?-?. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Pruning Shears of Revision ¶0 (When I was a boy of seven, a lady said to me, “I have had a vision concerning you. I’ll make it now very, very clear to you–I do not know what it is you are going to do, but I’ve been shown you will do something that through the centuries after you are g…)
- The Pruning Shears of Revision ¶0 (When I was a boy of seven, a lady said to me, I have had a vision concerning you)