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Abdullah (Neville's teacher)
Events involving this person
Abdullah explains his selective kosher diet
Description
Neville recalls his old friend and teacher Abdullah, born and raised a Jew, who refused kosher meat because it was too tough for his teeth and wanted aged hung meat, but insisted on kosher calves' liver of that day and freshly killed kosher chicken.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 30 March 1965
Told
30 March 1965
Sources
- Source: The Bible Is the Word of God ¶31 (So my old friend Abdullah, he didn’t want any kosher meat, and he was born and raised a Jew. He said, “My teeth can’t stand it any longer, it’s too tough. I want nice ripe aged meat that’s been hanging for awhile.”)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville recalls his teacher Abdullah saying that even an undigested piece of beef as the cause of a dream does not make the dream unimportant, and recommends Bayley's two volumes on the lost language
before 1965
(possible)
Walking down Central Park West with his friend Abdullah, they saw the word 'purity' on a sign on the Ethical Society building, and Abdullah mocked it - 'Pure what, Neville?' - with a graphic story of
Abdullah changes after receiving revelation and visions
Description
Neville describes Abdullah as having been a strict orthodox rabbi in diet, dress and habit all his life until revelation and visions came to him, after which he spoke of the little child.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 15 January 1965
Told
- 15 January 1965
- 15 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Cabala ¶34 (But here, you wouldn’t think this orthodox rabbi…for that’s really what he was all of his life until the revelation came, the visions came. A strict Jew in all that you would consider the orthodox Jew to do concerning diets, dress, everything, all the ha…)
Norma's mistaken astrology chart produces the promised payment
Description
Neville took Norma, a widowed former Scranton schoolteacher, to Abdullah, and when she could not grasp him taught her astrology instead; she wept after casting a chart for a businessman from the wrong page of the Ephemerides — a man not born for ten years — yet her conviction brought the promised $100 by Western Union that same evening while Neville sat in her hotel rooms.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between September 1965 and November 1965
(probable)
Told
4 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Your Future ¶27 (But she said, “Neville, I drew a chart of a man who was ten years not yet in this world.” And what’s wrong with that? Did you convince him?)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recalls Abdullah's meetings, where the seventeenth chapter of John had to be committed to memory by everyone, recited standing together at the close with no reading of books, and Abdullah alwa
31 October 1966
Neville describes returning from that other state with the memory of having met Abdullah, his father and his brother - all dead - embracing and kissing them and finding them as solidly real as this wo
before 1967
(possible)
Neville recounts the exercise his old teacher Abdullah gave him: sitting daily in his living room with eyes closed, assuming he was in the chair by the hall telephone and then feeling himself back aga
Abdullah teaches unity through shock and gesture
Description
He describes Abdullah's manner of teaching — by shock, with physical gestures demonstrating passages of scripture, always opening the meeting with a set phrase about unity.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 2 December 1966
Told
27 January 1967(refuted)27 January 1967(refuted)- 2 December 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: God Plays All the Parts ¶15 (He always began the meeting, “Praise be unto that unity that is our unity.” Always, the oneness of us all!)
before 1967
(possible)
He recalls sitting in the park with Abdullah, who counted the people and birds passing by and tried to teach him the symbology of it, and who said you could tell the future of a bus ride from the peop
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls practising double vision morning, noon and night with his teacher Abdullah, who told him to look at a lampshade, a carpet or a wall and report not what he saw but what lay beyond it, u
before 1969
(possible)
Abdullah told him cryptically that he would have died by the time he returned from Barbados; Neville, then seven years a strict vegetarian, non-smoking, non-drinking celibate after a disillusioning fi
Abdullah ends forty years of vegetarianism by eating roast pig
Description
Neville retells what his old friend and teacher Abdullah told him: raised in strict Judaism and a vegetarian for forty years who had never tasted pork, Abdullah heard a voice ask how he could expect others to take what he gave if he would not eat what they gave, and he broke his fast at a party where, as guest of honour, a whole roasted pig was brought to the table.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 27 January 1969
Told
- 27 January 1969
30 January 1969(refuted)
Sources
- Source: The Mystery of Inspiration ¶48 (My old friend, Abdullah, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, said, “Not only was I raised in the most orthodox environment in Judaism, but for forty years I was a strict vegetarian.)
- Source: The One Greater Than John ¶13 (My friend Abdullah who taught me this story, he was in it for forty years. He hadn’t touched anything that was meat, especially pork. He was born and raised in the Jewish faith, and for forty years he touched nothing that was meat.)
- Source: The Mystery of Inspiration ¶40 (My old friend, Abdullah, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, said, “Not only was I raised in the most orthodox environment in Judaism, but for forty years I was a strict vegetarian. I had never tasted pork in my life, no part of the animal.)
before 1969
(possible)
He used to go to the movies with Abdullah; after taking him to see The Count of Monte Cristo, Abdullah asked him to interpret it, and was thrilled when Neville read it as teaching that there is nothin
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recalls that he was one of those who believed they would get into heaven by abstaining, and that Abdullah, having observed him for a while, told him he was so good he was good for nothing, bec
before 1969
(possible)
At Abdullah's small Hebrew-teaching meetings of a dozen or twenty, Abdullah would have Neville rise and expound; he interpreted the 14th chapter of John in the light of his Barbados trip, to Abdullah'
before 1969
(possible)
Before he sailed Abdullah told him he was going to die but would not surely die, and refused to interpret it; later Abdullah said only that 'The Brothers' had told him, meaning the Elohim.
before 1971
(possible)
When he complained months later that he would miss the boat, Abdullah rebuked him and slammed his door in Neville's face — his manner of teaching.