Two lectures (1033 and 1394), and it is the only prophecy Abdullah is recorded making about Neville. Before the 1933 voyage home he said: so you're going to Barbados. May I tell you, you're going to die but you will not surely die - and, like Blake, he never would tell the interpretation of his own statement. Neville went off thinking he would die in Barbados. He did not; he died to everything he had been doing. For seven years he had eaten no meat, fish, fowl or eggs, drunk nothing and stayed celibate, and he kept it up through three months of Christmas parties given in his honour, drinking water while the island drank and eating vegetables in the house that had supplied the island with meat. Then on the ship going north, at a table of six or eight strangers, the man to his right ordered wine and Neville did not say no; the soup came and he did not ask whether there was meat stock in it, as he had for seven years; then fish, then meat, and the wine poured all through - and so for the ten or twelve days at sea. Everything I had not done in seven years I did that night. Then I understood what he meant, you will die. The state died, not the man. At 1394 he confirms it in one line: his prophecy proved to be true, for when I returned, I had died to everything I had not done for the previous seven years. Keep it beside M242 and M241.
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Abdullah | you’re going to die but you will not surely die
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LectureThe One Greater Than John
Then I understood what he meant “you will die.” That state called John the Baptist, which does violence to itself, you must pass through it. If you are not now in it, you will be in it.
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LectureThe One Greater Than John
Abdullah said to me, “So you’re going to Barbados. May I tell you, you’re going to die but you will not surely die. . .but you will die.” He didn’t explain.
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LectureThe One Greater Than John
So I didn’t ask if there’s meat stock in this as I’d done for seven years; I drank the soup.
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LectureThe Supreme Ideal
He said, “You will not surely die.” He’s contradicted himself. He said, “You’ll die.” But we do die but we don’t really die.
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