between 1919 and 1923
(probable)
Abdullah is documented via advertisements and census records as active in Atlantic City between 1919 and 1923, before his later New York presence.
Place: Atlantic City, New Jersey
1919
Woodroffe, writing as Arthur Avalon, published The Serpent Power, the first Sanskrit-translated technical manual of Kundalini in the West, later cited as an influence on Neville's teachings.
1919
(probable)
Walter C. Lanyon published his book "Has It Ever Occurred to You?" via Ida C. Van Gundy.
Person: Walter C. Lanyon
c. January 1919
6 January 1919
c. 1919
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1919. Told 1 time (1971). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
A woman's father envisions a newspaper headline announcing war
Description
Neville tells a woman about his own father's habit of seeing business deals as already closed before they were proposed to him. She replies with a story of her own father, who in 1919 refused for weeks to buy a newspaper because, he said, he could already see the headline reading 'WAR!' -- and when he finally did buy one, that was exactly the headline. Neville uses the pairing to argue that imagination governs what comes to pass whether or not the imaginer consciously identifies its power as God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1919
(probable)
Told
10 November 1959
A Los Angeles schoolteacher last sees her brothers decades earlier
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1919 and 1928
(possible)
1919
(probable)
Neville's father loses junior partnership
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1919
Told
7 January 1966
1919
(probable)
1919
In 1919 in Barbados, his father - a ship chandler entertaining returning captains and officers - repeatedly declared at the family table that there would be another war in twenty years with Germany, J
c. 1919
(probable)
When Neville was in his teens his father came home a broken man, with eight of the ten children still in school and no one, including Neville or his mother, knowing why it had happened; his father, wh
1919
(possible)
A newspaper article reports Walter Lanyon's return from France.
5 March 1919
(probable)
Clipping ('LANYON AT MONTPELLIER') reports he received an appointment to attend the French university at Montpellier and had just arrived as of a letter dated March 5, matching the AEF's post-armis
Walter Lanyon writes home to his mother on his first morning at Montpellier
Description
On the morning he arrived at Montpellier, 5 March, Walter Lanyon wrote to his mother, Mrs. S. D. Lanyon of Carthage, Missouri. She received the letter the day before the Carthage paper printed it under the heading 'LANYON AT MONTPELLIER — Carthage Soldier Begins Studies at French University'.
He writes: 'We arrived in Montpellier this morning. Believe I am going to enjoy my school work fine, it is so beautiful here and every inducement is offered to make it attractive.' Of the university: 'We are going to school in a grand old university. I shall be proud to say that I attended school there. It is really a great, great opportunity and well worth taking advantage of while waiting for the division to go home — 150,000 men tried to get it. I think Harry Stewart went to another university, but this is the prize of them all.'
On his studies: 'My university work will consist of advanced French literature, possibly study of Moliere and some of the other classic authors. I will also have a good stiff course in diction and construction and when my outfit is ready to sail I will rejoin them.'
On the place and on his mother: 'Montpellier, as you probably know, is on the Mediterranean sea and is ideally located for spring. I wish you might be with me. We would enjoy it so much together.'
On his terms: 'I have a nice bed room and salon (drawing room), all for 50 francs per month, which is $10. The government pays all expenses and gives us full salary. I think it is one of the finest things that was ever instituted.'
Harry Stewart, named in the letter as a fellow soldier Lanyon believes went to a different university under the same scheme, is not otherwise recorded in this corpus.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
5 March 1919
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Walter C. Lanyon Photos & Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 79 (scan of the clipping carrying the letter)
Walter Lanyon witnesses the Luxembourg revolution and calls it a comic opera revolution
Description
The Carthage paper printed an eyewitness account of the revolution in Luxembourg 'told by Walter Lanyon', who was there with a headquarters detachment and was, in the paper's words, 'an eye witness' to it. He called it a comic opera revolution, 'as he expressed it'. The headline runs 'COMIC OPERA REVOLUTION EVENT IN LUXEMBURG', with the subhead reporting that France interfered and placed the Queen back on the throne.
In his letter he tells of arriving somewhere, of men who 'were with us in' — one name partially legible as 'Chester Dip[—]' — of being in Germany, and of someone being 'well and looking fine'. The detachment is described in the surviving text in connection with police duties and volunteers.
The same page carries the official proclamations, in fragments: declaring Luxembourg a republic, and hailing 'an era of peace, of liberty [and] prosperity for our little country', closing 'Long live the free people of Luxemburg'.
This scan's OCR is the poorest in this batch — two unrelated columns are interleaved line by line, so most of Lanyon's account does not survive as continuous text. Only fragments that read cleanly are quoted above, with gaps marked. The image is a strong candidate for re-OCR: the story behind it is substantial and mostly unrecovered.
Note on dating: the paper printed this on 27 March 1919, but the revolution Lanyon witnessed happened earlier — see the date claims. The article node's own title gives the publication date as though it were the event date.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 27 March 1919 (probable)
- c. January 1919 (possible)
- 10 January 1919 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Walter C. Lanyon Photos & Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 134 (scan of page three, masthead 'PRESS, THURSDAY ... MARCH 27, 1919')
2 December 1919
A December 1919 clipping notes Newark organist Ruth Thomas Reid, a former pupil of Marie Selika Williams, joined Guillaume's Bel Canto Conservatory.
1920
The 1920 census lists 'Abdallah G. M.', age 49, born in Algiers, as a musician living with wife Cora and a Moroccan lodger at 1708 Arctic Avenue, Apt. 89.
1920
(probable)
At age 46, Joseph Nathaniel Goddard went into the food business independently.
Place: Barbados
Person: Joseph Nathaniel Goddard
1920
(probable)
between 1920 and 1922
When the Goddard family was broke and Victor was running a tiny borrowed-capital shop on a Barbados side street, he passed one of the main street's biggest buildings every day and imagined its sign re
between 1920 and 1933
between 1920 and 1929
(probable)
between 1920 and 1934
During his theatre years in New York in the twenties and early thirties, an argument raged in his circle over who really wrote Shakespeare; a friend brought him The Tempest to show an acrostic suppose
1920
(probable)
between 1920 and 1929
(possible)
Neville's waiter friend serves a prominent physical culturist
Description
Neville recalls that in the 1920s a friend of his working as a waiter served the famous physical culturist -- who publicly preached against meat in his magazine -- an enormous steak behind locked doors in his suite.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1920 and 1929
Told
1972(refuted)17 July 1968(refuted)- 1972
Sources
- Source: The Pattern Man ¶87 (Well, a friend of mine was a waiter in the rooms, and this man had a huge suite of rooms. Well, he put in his order, and my friend -- being the waiter -- carried his order. He had a steak that big; but he ate it behind locked doors.)
Neighbour resents the loss of freely supplied milk
Description
In Barbados a neighbour's cow gave surplus milk which was given free each day to a neighbour, Mr. Seeon; when the cow dried up before calving and the gift stopped for four weeks, Mr. Seeon complained that he should never have been given it at all.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1920 and 1935
(probable)
Told
22 September 1967
Sources
- Source: The New Christology ¶6 (In our little island of Barbados we had a neighbour who had a cow. (Now, when I was young if you wanted milk you either kept a cow or a goat.) His cow had a calf and produced more milk than the neighbour could use, so the maid was sent to offer the exces…)
between 1920 and 1929
(probable)
As a young dancer in New York City, a taxi driver accused Neville of breaking the cab's glass, a policeman came to his hotel, and in night court the case was dismissed when the driver could only say '
Victor gains and loses a fortune through market tips
Description
Neville tells of a New York friend, Victor, a former vaudeville adagio dancer turned maitre d' in Greenwich Village, who came to his meetings, applied the law wanting $5,000, and rose through market tips to $100,000 before the market fell back and he panicked.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1920
(probable)
Told
9 December 1968
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Partakers of the Divine Nature ¶15 (So I can tell you of a friend of mine in New York City now. In the days of Vaudeville, he was an adagio dancer, strong, strapping…short fella but very strong. Then came the War and he was drafted. When he came out, he’d gone beyond the point where he cou…)
Neville's dancing partner repeatedly kisses a Jesus picture
Description
In his vaudeville days his dancing partner kept a picture she called Jesus, kissing it three or four times a day through thick grease paint for good luck, and replacing it with an identical one when the face wore away.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1920
(probable)
Told
24 March 1969
Sources
- Source: God's Plan of Redemption 1 ¶35 (In my vaudeville days, my dancing partner had a picture she called Jesus. Wearing very thick grease paint, she would kiss that picture three or four times a day for good luck. And when she could no longer see the face she would tear the picture up and ge…)
A young dancer relies on a Holy Mother figurine for stage success
Description
In his dancing years a pretty young dancer kept a figurine of the Holy Mother on her dressing table, smothered it with kisses before every performance and believed it gave her success on stage.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1920 and 1930
(probable)
Told
2 January 1972
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Feel After Him ¶24 (I can see it now when I was a young man in the dancing world, there was a young girl, a pretty young girl, and she had a little figurine of what she called the Holy Mother. And before she took the stage, she would kiss it.)
between 1920 and 1939
Neville recalls that during the Depression of the 1920s and 1930s one could buy eight beautiful glasses at Tiffany for seventy-five cents, gift-wrapped, while people too embarrassed to walk in paid mo
c. 1920
(possible)
The American Legion's 'Passing Show', directed by Miss Chloe Dysart, filled a high school auditorium and was repeated the following night.
1920
(possible)
A report of the joint installation of officers of the Masonic lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star in the Masonic hall, Carthage, before 125-140 witnesses (Miss Fagin's orchestra provided the eveni
17 January 1920
(probable)
between 17 January 1920 and 5 December 1933
15 February 1920
At the Church of the Religion of Love in the Currie Building, South Carolina and Atlantic Avenues, G. M. Abdallah begins a Sunday-evening lecture series accompanied by mediums.
between 21 April 1920 and 22 April 1923
(possible)
A newspaper item headed 'Walter Lanyon Writes Play' reports that the Webb City post of the American Legion is considering putting on a home talent play on April 21-22.
between 1 May 1920 and 27 January 1963
Responding to De Gaulle's veto of Britain's entry into the European Common Market, Neville quotes a British Foreign Office memorandum dated 1 May 1920 that predicted the French would never truly befri
22 August 1920
The First Church of Spiritualistic Love advertises an 8 p.m.
29 August 1920
A First Church notice announces G. M. Abda’llah ibn Ghaleym ibn Allah lecturing on ‘The Psychic Soul and Solar Spirit’ at 8 p.m.
15 October 1920
(possible)
Clipping announces the Bel Canto Conservatory's twelfth year beginning October 15, 1920 — a discrete, datable season-opening announcement distinct from the conservatory's 1914 founding (#709) and n
1921
Joseph Nathaniel Goddard formally established J.N. Goddard & Sons with his son Victor.
Place: Barbados
Person: Joseph Nathaniel Goddard
c. 1921
(probable)
Soon after arriving in New York, Neville took a job as an elevator operator for J.C. Penney at $15 a week before being let go.
Place: New York, NY
Person: Neville Goddard
c. 1922
After losing the Penney job, Neville worked Macy's shipping dock for $13 a week, then quit and resolved never to work for another again.
Place: New York, NY