Neville describes Abdullah's Ethiopian birth and religious background
Description
Neville describes his teacher and old friend Abdullah: born in Ethiopia, a black man raised in the Jewish faith who understood Christianity and the law better than any man he met.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 6 December 1933
(probable)
Sources
- Source: All Imagination Lecture ¶7 (He was born, so I am told, in Ethiopia. He was a black man, raised in the Jewish faith, but really understood Christianity as few men that I ever met understood it.)
- Source: Abdullah How We Got Together Qa (Neville describes Abdullah as North African, born to Jewish parents and raised Orthodox Jewish.)
The steamship company could only give Neville third-class sleeping accommodation; Abdullah refused to accept it, saying he had already gone first class, and on the morning of sailing the ticket agent
The steamship company could only offer him third class; Abdullah rebuked him — "you went first class" — and on the morning of sailing the agent told him a cancellation had freed a first-class berth.
In a lecture Neville recalled meeting playwright Eugene (Gene) Conrad in New York in 1934; Conrad was the one who introduced him to his dancing partner Amerique.
Place: New York, NY
between 20 July 1959 and 1 January 1963
Neville compares his own 1934 quartz-to-Buddha vision (a solid quartz breaking apart and reforming into a seated lotus-posture figure) to a parallel experience Carl Jung had in 1944, published posthum
Neville's mother took each of her sons aside separately and persuaded him privately that he was her favorite and must never let her down; only when he returned home after twelve years in America, over
Returning to New York in 1934 after three months in Barbados, he drank and smoked and did everything he had abstained from for years, remembering Abdullah's remark that he was "good for nothing", and
Sitting in the silence in his living room with eyes shut, Neville saw a quartz stone appear, reassemble into a man in lotus posture who was himself perfected, glow, and explode.
Reading this morning's paper he found the deaths of three men he knew, one well: the playwright Eugene (Gene) Conrad, whom he met in New York City in 1934 and who introduced him to his dancing partner
Neville described a 1934 vision of his perfected individualized self appearing as a quartz-to-Buddha transformation, later recounted in multiple lectures including Five Lessons (1948).
between March 1934 and March 1934
(probable)
Before Neville's Barbados trip, Abdullah told him he would 'have died' by the time he returned.
He tells of buying clothes he then did not want and giving them away — a suit chosen with his tailor Louie of almost thirty years, which his wife refused to be seen with him in, so he gave it to someo
About thirty years ago, walking down 55th Street, Neville suddenly saw every person surrounded by an enormous pillar of cloud passing through the walls of buildings, and by night the cloud appeared fi
The Boston Globe of September 27, 1935 reported Amerique and Neville, billed as ballroom dancing favorites, opening at the newly renovated Cascades room atop the Hotel Bradford.
Neville met his wife in 1936 and knew at that very moment she would be his wife, telling her so although he had no social, intellectual or financial background to recommend him.
Because New York's archaic divorce law made it nearly impossible to be free of his first marriage, Neville slept for one solid week as though he were happily married to the girl who now bears his name
Neville was telephoned to appear in a New York federal court where his first wife, from whom he had been separated almost fourteen years, had been arrested for shoplifting; he took the stand, pleaded
Seated in his living room in 1936, eyes shut but awake, he saw a quartz rock fragment and be reassembled by an unseen force into a man in the lotus posture bearing his own face perfected, which then g
Neville describes, in a manifestation-technique story, meeting and marrying the woman who bore his daughter (Catherine), and says of the relationship 'it's been since 1936' — the same date this corpus
He met his wife in 1936 and fell in love with her instantly, telling her at once that she was going to be his wife, although he had no social, intellectual or financial background to justify it.
Neville recounts, in a first-person lecture story, receiving a court summons because his estranged wife had been arrested for shoplifting; he testified for leniency, citing their long separation and t