Neville Goddard

Confirmed NOT the same as
Other names
Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Spouse
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Mildred Mary Hughes
Children
Victoria Goddard
Joseph Neville Goddard
Relatives
Cecil Goddard
Victor Goddard
Lawrence Goddard
Fred Goddard
Collin Goddard
Art Goddard
Carl Goddard
Bruce Goddard
Daphne Batterson (Neville's sister)
Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
Wilhelmina Goddard
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Wikipedia URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Goddard
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

c. May 1971
unresolved
Friend sends books to Neville in April 1959
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1971-06-18 [exact/probable/final] Who Paul Really Is Now, here we only have two lectures left, and these will be in order, even though they seem repetitious. They cannot be repeated too often. Man so quickly forgets! You go away for a month, and those you thought really understood you . . when you return, they try to tell you, “I just found the most wonderful book on diets” . . the most wonderful book on how to get into Heaven in another way. A friend of mine . . I thought he understood it . . I thought he did, for he made extravagant claims, and in the last month he sent me books by men that I knew before they died here. We mustn’t judge from… 529004
April 1959
certain
Neville's golden-circle vision
Los Angeles
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away And then you allow this fabulous mystery: “unless I go away” — and so, “a little while, and you’ll see me no more, again a little while, and you’ll see me” — so God disappears from man, sinks himself in man, and then you do not see him for a little while, then comes the six thousand years of a deadly sleep — “well, I will come, and shine as far as the east, so shall the Son of Man be” — and you read it, and I read it, I couldn’t get it — “lightning coming out of the east, shining” — is always, and in this way, those of the sons of mankind, they didn’t understand — until the morning of April… 555941
April 1959
certain
Neville sees a golden circle ascend in April 1959
Los Angeles
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away And then you allow this fabulous mystery: “unless I go away” — and so, “a little while, and you’ll see me no more, again a little while, and you’ll see me” — so God disappears from man, sinks himself in man, and then you do not see him for a little while, then comes the six thousand years of a deadly sleep — “well, I will come, and shine as far as the east, so shall the Son of Man be” — and you read it, and I read it, I couldn’t get it — “lightning coming out of the east, shining” — is always, and in this way, those of the sons of mankind, they didn’t understand — until the morning of April… 555941
between April 1959 and 10 May 1959
unresolved
Neville rejects books recommended by a friend
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1971-06-18 [exact/probable/final] Who Paul Really Is Now, here we only have two lectures left, and these will be in order, even though they seem repetitious. They cannot be repeated too often. Man so quickly forgets! You go away for a month, and those you thought really understood you . . when you return, they try to tell you, “I just found the most wonderful book on diets” . . the most wonderful book on how to get into Heaven in another way. A friend of mine . . I thought he understood it . . I thought he did, for he made extravagant claims, and in the last month he sent me books by men that I knew before they died here. We mustn’t judge from… 529004
8 April 1959
probable
Neville's Vision, 8 April 1959
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-02-12 [exact/certain/final] Esau-Jacob-Israel One night I saw these two fantastic creatures; I saw Esau and he is just as he is described, covered from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet with red hair, just like a huge big ape. And here, Jacob – instead of being a man – Jacob is the most glorious female you could ever imagine. Here is an angel beyond angels, and here is Esau, this monster-thing thriving on violence, thriving on everything that is evil in this world, living on it. And I thought when I saw the two of them that they existed independent of my perception of them. I didn’t know they did not. I did not know I had… 529553
18 June 1971
unresolved
Neville remarks that he is no longer physically strong
Los Angeles
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1971-06-18 [exact/probable/final] Who Paul Really Is Now, here we only have two lectures left, and these will be in order, even though they seem repetitious. They cannot be repeated too often. Man so quickly forgets! You go away for a month, and those you thought really understood you . . when you return, they try to tell you, “I just found the most wonderful book on diets” . . the most wonderful book on how to get into Heaven in another way. A friend of mine . . I thought he understood it . . I thought he did, for he made extravagant claims, and in the last month he sent me books by men that I knew before they died here. We mustn’t judge from… 529004
before 16 June 1959
unresolved
Neville reads shortly before his June 16, 1959 lecture
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-06-16 [exact/certain/final] The Cup and the Cross I was just reading this master work on psychology which claims the past has ceased to be, but influences the present through memory. So it is said in this wonderful work that it has ceased to act save through the gathered experiences stored as memory. It cannot be acted upon. It has not ceased to be at all. The sentient are not now in these states. A man who went through a gas chamber is no longer going through it. The forms remain and the day will come when they will see that he never went through a gas chamber. There are many forms of the remembered past. 529072
c. 16 June 1959
probable
Neville reads and rejects a psychologist's claim about the past
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-06-16 [exact/certain/final] The Cup and the Cross I was just reading this master work on psychology which claims the past has ceased to be, but influences the present through memory. So it is said in this wonderful work that it has ceased to act save through the gathered experiences stored as memory. It cannot be acted upon. It has not ceased to be at all. The sentient are not now in these states. A man who went through a gas chamber is no longer going through it. The forms remain and the day will come when they will see that he never went through a gas chamber. There are many forms of the remembered past. 529072
July 1959
certain
Neville teaches the gospel only as law before July 1959
San Francisco
2 sources
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-12-10 [exact/probable/preferred] Repent and Believe in the Gospel So repent and believe in the gospel. The gospel, I tell you, is literally true, word for word. I had no idea until 1959, in the month of July, that it was literally true. I taught it as law and got wonderful results from coast to coast in all the major cities. But I didn’t know the story, that I must believe in the gospels and believing in it that it was literally true, but no idea that everyone in this world would experience, when that fullness of time had come relative to him, everything said of Jesus Christ. He gives the banquet. He is Messiah. And unnumbered thousands wait for him to come… 550349
July 1959
certain
Neville links his age in 1959 to John 8:57
San Francisco
2 sources
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1969-05-05 [exact/probable/final] The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us My dear, from the time I was a little boy I had things I could not understand, so I can’t go back to that. But I had mystical or psychic experiences that I did not understand that scared me to death. My one great one that began it all was when I was taken into the divine assembly and brought before the risen Lord. I’ve told you that story and I have written it. Well, that happened in 1929, in the summer of ’29. Thirty years later began the unfolding of these mighty acts of God within me: the resurrection and the birth, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the splitting of the curtain of… 547079
July 1959
certain
Neville's mystical experience comes with understanding
San Francisco
2 sources
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1965-01-12 [exact/certain/final] Twenty-Seven Heavens Well, it didn’t come that day, that year, but it came in 1959. So here, in 1959…prior to that I had had the experience of meeting God, embraced by him, but it was almost like something too green to be understood. It didn’t really come into the mind with understanding until July of ’59. Almost thirty years prior to that, yes, I met and stood in the presence of God, infinite love; but you can’t believe that you, this small, little thing, could be that welcome, could be that, I would say, graced. Because you know your limitations, you know your weaknesses, you know all that you are, and you can… 532488
c. July 1959
certain
Neville returns after two months having verified what he taught
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-09-08 [exact/certain/final] The Birth of the Babe When I left two months ago I asked you to join in testing with me what I have heard and told you, but now I can say as did Job “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes seeth thee.” Tonight as I stand here I can say what he said centuries ago. When I left I had heard of this principle and I had proved it but I had not seen it; but now I have seen it so I can stand here and tell you something I could not have told you two months ago. 529096
c. 8 July 1959
probable
Neville departs for a two-month absence and San Francisco lectures
from Los Angeles
to San Francisco
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-09-08 [exact/certain/final] The Birth of the Babe When I left two months ago I asked you to join in testing with me what I have heard and told you, but now I can say as did Job “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes seeth thee.” Tonight as I stand here I can say what he said centuries ago. When I left I had heard of this principle and I had proved it but I had not seen it; but now I have seen it so I can stand here and tell you something I could not have told you two months ago. 529096
19 July 1959
certain
Neville dines with a friend before his birth-from-above
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1968-07-26 [exact/certain/final] The Signs of the End On Sunday – this was the 19th – a friend of mine joined me for an early dinner at the hotel at 5:00 o’clock. We went upstairs and I called Beverly Hills to speak to my wife and daughter, and he was a friend of my wife and daughter; and we simply spoke. He was working at the Fairmont as a checker. He said, “I have to go early because I have to be up early to check the waiters in and the food in.” So he left early, and I retired. I must have been in bed – oh, before eleven. 551216