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Neville in 1959

Neville Goddard, better known as just Neville, was one of the quietly dramatic and
supremely influential teachers in the New Thought field for many years...In a
simple, yet somehow elegant one-hour lecture, Neville was able to clarify the nature
of God and God's relationship to every person. He spoke of God in intimate terms as
though he knew God very well, which he did.

Joseph Murphy, a writer and lecturer, who studied with Neville in New York City, said
of him: "Neville may eventually be recognized as one of the worlds great mystics,"

Born on Barbados in the British West Indies, Neville was the fourth child in a family
of nine boys and one girl. One day some of them were playing near an old windswept hut by the sea. A seer lived in the hut and told them their fortunes, The older
sons would go into the professions, into medicine, into business. The predictions for
them came true. The Goddard family is one of the most prominent and influential
families on the island.

"Do not touch the fourth one," the seer said, pointing to Neville, "he has a special
mission to perform in the world from God." And to Neville, "You will journey to a
distant land and spend your life there." This prediction also came true. As a young
man he went to America and worked in some of the department stores in New York
City. Later, he worked in the theatre with the Schuberts.

Under unusual circumstances, he met a black Jew, named Abdullah, who lectured
on Christianity. Neville went to hear him, somewhat under protest, to satisfy the
constant urging of a friend, "Whose judgment I did not respect, Neville said,
"because he made such poor financial investments."

Neville said he was seated in the auditorium waiting for the lecture to begin, when
the speaker - who had never met Neville - came down the aisle from the rear of the
auditorium to the stage.

"You are late, Neville!" Abdullah said, "six months' late! I have been told to expect
you." From this introduction, Neville studied with Abdullah seven days a week for
seven years.

"Abdullah taught me Hebrew, he taught me The Kabbalah, and he taught me more

about real Christianity than anyone I ever met," Neville declared.

Neville originally came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen.
In 1932 he gave up the theater to devote his attention to his studies in mysticism
when he began his lecture career in New York City. After traveling throughout the
country, he eventually made his home in Los Angeles where, in the late 1950s, he
gave a series of talks on television, and for many years, lectured regularly to
capacity audiences at the Wilshire Ebell Theater. In the 1960's and early 70s, he
confined most of his lectures to Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Neville once said that if he was stranded on an island and was allowed one book, he
would choose, The Bible, without hesitation. If he could squeeze in more, he would
add Charles Fillmores Metaphysical Dictionary of Bible names, William Blake, (...
Why stand we here trembling around, Calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in
whom God dwells?) and Nicolls Commentaries. These were the books he
recommended at his lectures.

In his lectures and books, Neville dealt solely with The Law until the year 1959, "For
I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within
me beginning that summer and continuing during the next three-and-one-half
years. And this is Scriptural," he would say, "read it in the of Book of Daniel where it
is referred to as a time, times, and a half.' It comes to 1260 days in your
experience of it."

In his use of The Law, he related how he made a sea voyage from New York to see
his family in Barbados during the Depression, without any money of his own. He
related how, by the use of imaginal power, he was honorably discharged from
military service to continue his lectures during World War 11. He gave his audiences
in San Francisco in the 1950's and 60s accounts of how others had made use of
The Law. He discussed it on television in the Los Angeles area, "Learn how to use
your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world
where everything is subject to his imaginal power," he taught.

In the latter part of the 1960's and early 70's Neville gave more emphasis to The
Promise after he had experienced it. The use of imaginal power can change
circumstances, but it is all temporary, and will vanish like smoke, he asserted
with another sweep of his hand. "Oh. you can use it to make a fortune, to become
known in the world all these things are done but your true purpose here is to
fulfill Scripture," so he subordinated it and became as eager to hear accounts by
those who had experienced The Promise, and sharing such accounts, as he had of

those with The Law.

In the last years of his life he said, "I know my time is short. I have finished the work
I have been sent to do and I am now eager to depart. I know I will not appear in this
three-dimensional world again for The Promise has been fulfilled in me. As for where
I go, I will know you there as I have known you here, for we are all brothers,
infinitely in love with each other."

This discovery Neville called Gods Promise." There is nothing any person can do to
earn it. It is sheer Grace and comes in its own good time.

If you do not experience it in this life, then what?

"You pass through a door -- that's all that death is," Neville said, "and -- you are
restored to life instantly in a world like this -- just this world," he was fond of saying
to his audiences with a sweep of his hand, "and you go on there with the same
problems you had here with no loss of identity not old, not blind, not crippled, if
you depart this life that way, but young. They grow, and they marry, and they die
there, too, with all the fear of death that we have here. And if they die there without
experiencing The Promise, they are restored to life again and again in a place best
suited to the work yet to be done on them. And it continues until 'Christ be formed
in you' and as 'sons of The Resurrection' you leave this world of death never to
enter it gain."

"You are born once through the womb of woman, once from above," Neville insists
you don't go through any womb again.

What about the fear many have of eternal hell and damnation? In response to this
often asked question, Neville replied with a quote from Scriptures, "Not one shall
be lost in all my holy mountain. You are God and how could God eternally condemn
Himself?"

Until we awaken and make this discovery, we are privileged to use a Law, given by
God, to "cushion the blows of life. The Law, stated succinctly is this, In Neville's
words: "Imagining creates reality,"

Neville spoke without notes and followed his lectures with questions and answers.
When he was asked if he had tapes of his lectures for sale, he replied, "I have no
tapes. Others here are making tapes for their own use, Perfectly all right. But I have
no tapes."

There are many tapes of his lectures In Los Angeles and San Francisco circulating,
thanks to the loyalty and dedication of many of Neville's students and friends who
have preserved much of What he said. His books are also in print.

Neville departed from the Earth plane on October 1, 1972, in Los Angeles.

Although Nevilles career peaked in the late 1950s and early 60s, his message
continues to find a place in the hearts of spiritual readers throughout the world
today.

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