Date (happened)
between 1930 and 1965
(probable)
passage 533208 (lecture nid 1209): 'I've been teaching this since the thirties -- this is now the sixties -- I'm going back into the thirties when I started...'
Told / reported
28 May 1965
lecture nid 1209 'The Law: Self-Circumcision' -- THIS transcript's delivery date is 1965-05-28, corroborated independently by catalog #283 and a chrome dateline recovered from the transcript's own opening header ('5/28/65'), further supported by a weekday check (Friday, one of Neville's regular lecture nights). This lecture's own dating trail explicitly demotes the node's other two claims (1965-02-19, bare 1968) as unwitnessed by this specific transcript.
Neville reflects that he has been teaching this message since the 1930s and is 'now in the sixties'. When he started, he says, he was completely unknown and unsteady in his own foundation, speaking to New York City audiences of a thousand or more who regularly challenged him from the floor.