Clipping announces Walter Lanyon speaking on 'The Magic of Goodness' at the Church of Truth.
Clipping announces four weekly Walter Lanyon appearances at Unity Headquarters in Manhattan during July and August.
A November 3, 1928 New York Times display ad advertised G. M. Akhmad Abdoullah's 'Soul Unfoldment' esoteric classes at 30 West 72nd Street.
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.
Newspaper coverage places a "Marriage By Contract" performance at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn dated December 31, 1928.
Celebrity trance medium Arthur Ford was hosted by the First Spiritualist Church at 30 West 72nd Street from 1929 to 1943.
Place: 30 West 72nd Street, Manhattan
Person: Arthur Ford
Elizabeth M. Maconochie, one of the women who helped incorporate Abdullah's church and who also surfaced in Unity Spiritualist filings, died in 1929.
Place: Atlantic City, NJ
John McDonald published "The Message of a Master" in 1929, describing a David B.
Neville marked 1929 as the year his mystical journey began, describing being 'taken in spirit into the Divine Council' in a pre-dawn experience, as recounted in a 1977-published lecture.<
Neville studied under Abdullah for roughly seven years, per this timeline reconstruction.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
When the Depression hit in 1929 and theaters closed, Neville's professional career as a dancer also ended.
Place: United States
Person: Neville Goddard
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
While studying with Abdullah, Neville recalled having no job or money and living in a basement on 75th Street while Abdullah rented the first floor of a Morgenthau-owned house at 30 West 72nd Stree
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.
Neville met Abdullah in 1929 in New York City and studied with him seven days a week for seven years thereafter.
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
Describes a specific Yonkers theater bill (Douglas Fairbanks Jr / Loretta Young film) matching the touring act line-up of media:1052.
- c. 1929
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 1968 (possible)
- c. 1918 (probable)
- before 1968 (probable)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 10 April 1968
6 April 1969(refuted)- 10 April 1968
- 2 December 1968
- 6 November 1959
- Source: The Value of Dreams ¶21 (My father stood on a beach in Barbados 30 years ago and saw it as a perfect place for a hotel. He never faltered in that dream.)
- Source: I Remember When ¶13 (He stood one day in a huge place, for little Barbados a huge place, he looked out to sea and said to my brother, “You know, Vic, this is an ideal place for buildings, lovely homes and hotels.”)
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Word ¶16 (And then looking over this fabulous land, thirty-five acres, and the frontage was a lovely beach, a heavenly beach, and he said to my brother Vic, “Oh, Vic, what a wonderful place for a hotel!”)
- Source: Foreknowledge ¶16 (When looking out to sea and looking over our land, he said, “This is a perfect spot for a hotel.” Then in his mind’s eye he saw the hotel, saw everything about it and then turned to the little ladies who owned it and said, “If you ever want to sell, thin…)
- Source: God's Almighty Power and Wisdom ¶30 (Then he turned to my brother Victor and said, “This would be the ideal spot for a hotel.” Now, this is years and years ago when I was still in my teens.)
- Source: God's Almighty Power ¶22 (Then, turning to Victor, he said: “This would be the ideal spot for a hotel.” A few years later the ladies decided to sell. One man with a great deal of money wanted those 35 acres very much, but was in Brazil the day my father - who had imagined owning …)