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Abdullah (Neville's teacher)
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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
c. 1930
(possible)
Neville Goddard said he studied with Abdullah for five to seven years, a span the article argues extends well into the mid-1930s.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
c. 1929
(probable)
Neville recalled living for almost fourteen years in a New York City apartment during his period of study with Abdullah, where he practiced imagining himself at the telephone in the hallway.
between 1930 and 1931
Neville recalled that Abdullah gave him two letters of Kabbalistic instruction, partly in technical Hebrew, around 1930 or 1931, which he rediscovered decades later in an old Bible.
c. 1931
(probable)
Neville recounts practising inner vision daily with his teacher Abdullah, who at dinner would ask him to look through a lampshade, a car, a house or a wall with his inner eye, whereupon he would see l
c. 1931
(probable)
At their first meeting Abdullah, who had never seen Neville before, called him by name and told him he was six months late, because the brothers had told him six months earlier that Neville was coming
c. 1931
(probable)
The man who urged Neville to hear Abdullah was David, a Fordham dropout and son of a Prohibition rumrunner who had lost his whole two-million-dollar inheritance on Wall Street in a year; Neville distr
c. 1931
(probable)
He speaks of his friend Robert (Bob) Cummings, whom he knew well in New York City back in the days of Abdullah and who came to his meetings twice last year, and notes he himself will be fifty-nine in
1931
(possible)
This source states that in 1931 Neville embraced the Ethiopian-born rabbi Abdullah as his spiritual mentor.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
between 1933 and 1933
(probable)
Between 1933 and 1936 Abdullah rented and occupied the first floor of the Morgenthau-owned house at 30 West 72nd Street, where Neville visited him while living nearby.
c. 1933
(possible)
Neville recalled that during his early 1930s study with Abdullah he was jobless and living in a basement on 75th Street while Abdullah rented the first floor of the Morgenthau-owned house at 30 Wes
1933
Neville recounted, in the lecture "The One Greater Than John," a specific statement Abdullah made to him in 1933.
Person: Neville Goddard
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
Neville's brother Victor sent him a steamship ticket and $50 for a Christmas trip back to Barbados (the 'You are in Barbados' Abdullah story).
Person: Neville Goddard
1933
In 1933 in New York he went to his old friend Abdullah, with whom he studied Hebrew for five years, full of superstitions - no meat, fish or chicken, no drink, no smoking, trying to be celibate - and
1933
(probable)
When Abdullah first met Neville and, without introduction, addressed him by name and told him he had come to do a certain work, he wrote out a saying for him on a piece of paper: 'The King of Kings, t
1933
Whenever Neville tried to reopen the discussion of how he would get to Barbados, Abdullah turned his back and walked into his little study room, refusing all discussion — a lesson Neville only underst
1933
In 1933, after Abdullah insisted that Neville was already in Barbados despite his poverty in New York, circumstances supplied the trip as a gift and Neville reached Barbados within six weeks for a thr
c. October 1933
(probable)
Neville went to Abdullah at 30 West 72nd Street and told him of his desire to go to Barbados; Abdullah insisted 'You are in Barbados' and taught him to live and sleep in Barbados in imagination, viewi
c. October 1933
He told Abdullah of his desire to go to Barbados; Abdullah answered "You are in Barbados" and told him to sleep in Barbados in imagination and view the world from there, which Neville did nightly from
c. November 1933
At the end of November, when Neville complained he was no nearer Barbados, Abdullah repeated "You are in Barbados," turned his back and slammed the bedroom door on him, teaching him a lesson in faith.
November 1933
In November 1933, after twelve unsuccessful years in America, he saw his parents sail for Barbados and was then seized by a desire to go himself; Abdullah told him he was already in Barbados and must
November 1933
Neville went from the boat to Abdullah, reported his desire to visit Barbados, and was told to occupy the fulfilled state: 'You are in Barbados.'
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
In the 1933 Barbados-trip narrative, Neville recounts that on the morning of the 3rd or 4th of December he received a letter from his brother Victor enclosing a $50 draft, inviting him home for a fami