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Abdullah (Neville's teacher)
Events involving this person
Abdullah breaks his vegetarian diet after a divine vision
Description
Neville tells of his old friend Abdullah, an Ethiopian-born Jew and strict vegetarian of over forty years who had never touched pork, to whom God said in a vision, 'If you will not eat the food that they place before you, why do you expect them to eat the food you place before them?' — and who then, as honoured guest at a banquet, was served a roast suckling pig with a sweet potato in its mouth and broke his diet on pork.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 10 May 1963
Told
10 May 1963
Sources
- Source: Incubate the Dream ¶22 (My old friend, Abdullah, he was born in Ethiopia. He was born of the black race, of the Hebrew faith.)
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(probable)
His friend Gene, a year short of ordination at Fordham, inherited two million dollars and lost it all on Wall Street in a year; Gene urged Neville to meet Abdullah, whom Neville avoided for six months
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Neville used to sit in the park with his old friend Abdullah, who read meaning into everything that passed — two people walking by, birds in flight — and who would get up at a certain moment because h
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(probable)
Neville tells how, only a few months into Abdullah's class and knowing no Hebrew, Abdullah put him at the blackboard to teach Hebrew; when the class's Hebrew teacher objected, Abdullah said he did not
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(possible)
After seven years in which he ate no meat, fish or fowl, drank no alcohol, did not smoke and had no sex, his friend Abdullah told him he would 'die' before returning from Barbados; he lived three mont
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(probable)
Neville recalls advice his old friend Abdullah once gave him: when someone tries to make himself important at your expense, picture him performing his normal, natural functions and he is reduced to hi
Woman sees Neville as an ancient Chinese philosopher who frees her from a cocoon
Description
A woman gave Neville a letter after a Friday night lecture describing how, the previous Monday, his face appeared to her throughout the lecture as an ancient Chinese philosopher, and how seven years earlier in a psychic experience that same ancient Chinese in a white garment had led her to a cave and broken a cocoon which she knew was herself on a peak of granite; Neville connects it to what Abdullah told him in 1931 about a life in China, which he himself cannot remember.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- c. November 1967 (possible)
Told
November 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: A Lesson in Scripture (Second Version) ¶30 (Well, that’s what Ab told me in 1931. But to this day I know I have no knowledge of it whatsoever, because I swore in the beginning not to be confused, to empty myself completely and take upon myself the form of this slave, and become obedient unto this …)
c. 1846
(possible)
Based on Neville's descriptions of Abdullah as in his late eighties when they met (1929-1931), researchers estimate his birth year at roughly 1845-1848.
before 1890
(doubtful)
Researchers speculate Abdullah may have arrived in the US before 1890, based on unconfirmed immigration candidates of similar name.
Place: United States
Person: Abdullah
Neville recalls his old teacher Abdullah, an Ethiopian-born Negro Jew, telling him years ago never to think of Christ except as a child.
Neville says Abdullah repeatedly instructed him never to think
He recalls a night in Abdullah's small class, mostly Negroes with only four Caucasians, when Abdullah looked at him and asked whether he could embrace a very black person if he knew the occupant was h
Neville recalls Abdullah, years earlier, eating everything while Neville abstained, telling him that the same food would poison Neville because he had quibbles.
before 25 June 1910
(probable)
The Freeman's Atlantic City society column for 25 June 1910 reports a recital given by one of the town's ladies' club organisations, at which 'Prof. Abdallah, the noted baritone' assisted.
1929
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 20 + birth 1905 = 1925. Told 1 time (1964).
28 May 1927
On May 28, 1927, G. Mahmud Ahmad Abdoullah spoke at the Waldorf-Astoria for the Woman's Press Club of New York, delivering a lecture alongside Dr. J. Campbell White.
29 January 1928
(possible)
Advertisement announces a free afternoon lecture titled What Is Truth?
8 April 1928
(possible)
Advertisement announces an afternoon lecture titled The Ancient Way Restored.
17 December 1928
On December 17, 1928, Abdullah represented Islam on an interfaith panel alongside Swami Yogananda, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Dr. Frederick Lynch under the Three-Fold Movement.
1931
The Wikipedia chronology dates Neville's meeting with his teacher Abdullah, a turbaned Black man of Jewish descent, to 1931, with the pair working together for five years.
1929
Neville met Abdullah in 1929 in New York City and studied with him seven days a week for seven years thereafter.
c. 1929
Neville recalls first meeting Abdullah: he had delayed attending because a man he did not trust had urged him, and at the meeting's end Abdullah greeted him by name saying he was six months late, the
between 1929 and 1936
(probable)
A Joseph Murphy-sourced account states Neville studied with Abdullah seven days a week for seven years, a longer duration than the 5-6 year figures given elsewhere.
Place: New York City
c. 1929
Neville recalls that when he first met Abdullah he resented and resisted the teaching that no creature is guilty, and that Ab was adamant about it.
1929
(probable)
Neville studied under Abdullah for roughly seven years, per this timeline reconstruction.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
between 1930 and 1931
A Catholic priest named David, who had lost a two-million-dollar inheritance on Wall Street, told Neville about Abdullah roughly six months before Neville finally attended one of Abdullah's cl