In 1934, a broke dancer living in a basement apartment on 75th Street in New York during the Depression, Neville sat in contemplation and saw golden clouds and a quartz rock about 20 inches across, wh
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
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
A personal letter from Jerusalem describes Walter Lanyon's Easter observance at the tomb.
An 8 p.m. talk by former salesman and Message of a Master author John McDonald describes his success through applying truth principles.
At Oakland Metaphysical Studio, 17th and Harrison, John McDonald gives The Man Who Found Himself Sunday 11 a.m., Secret of Doing Big Things Sunday 8 p.m., and New Age Opportunity Monday 2:30 p.m.
c. February 1934
(probable)
Neville describes returning to New York in 1934, after roughly three 'heavenly months' in Barbados, transformed and no longer living under the strict self-denial he had practiced before -- he began dr
Neville recounts that after his friend and mentor Abdullah told him in 1933 'you will die but not surely die,' he traveled to Barbados still bound by a strict regimen of vegetarianism, total abstinenc
between March 1934 and March 1934
(probable)
Before Neville's Barbados trip, Abdullah told him he would 'have died' by the time he returned.
Walter Lanyon wrote a first-hand account of Father Divine's movement for 'The Rally', published at 9 Percy Street, London W.1, England, which carried it in its June 1934 issue.
Lanyon frames it as a
before June 1934
(probable)
Before writing his June 1934 report for the London paper 'The Rally', Walter Lanyon visited Father Divine's Kingdoms in New York in person and checked the movement's claims for himself.
He states in
The California Eagle, the Black newspaper published in Los Angeles, reprinted Walter Lanyon's first-hand report on Father Divine in full, under his byline and under the standing headings 'FATHER DIVIN
On learning of A.R. Orage's death, Gurdjieff wrote an invitation dated November 6, 1934 asking students to a memorial gathering at Alys Bentley's Carnegie Hall studio.
Gurdjieff convened a memorial gathering for the recently deceased A.R. Orage on Friday evening, November 9, 1934, at Alys Bentley's Carnegie Hall studio.
c. December 1934
(possible)
Nine 1935 copyright registrations for songs encoding 'The Law' list 30 West 72nd Street as Abdullah's address, corroborating Neville's account of where his teacher lived.
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.
Research describes Abdullah encoding his teaching of 'The Law' in nine songs written in 1935.
Person: Abdullah
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 30 + birth 1905 = 1935. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 1935 and May 1965
(possible)
Neville mentions that his tailor Louie has served him for almost thirty years and knows his taste well enough to talk him into new fabric on sight.
between 1935 and 1938
(probable)
Across several lectures in the mid-to-late 1960s, Neville repeats that he has been teaching this principle for 'almost thirty years' or 'these thirty-odd years' from the platform, dating his start to
Neville describes literally experiencing, about thirty years earlier, what scripture describes as being a pillar of cloud by day: walking down 55th Street, he suddenly began seeing everyone he passed
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
A copyright form names G. M. Ahmad-Abdoullah as author of words and identifies the composition as published in 1935.
Abdullah's song 'Manuka' was copyrighted January 10, 1935 under the name G. Mahmud Abdoullah, address 30 West 72nd Street.
Abdullah registered copyright for the song 'That That Is Me' (registration E pub. 46029) at his 30 West 72nd Street address.
24 January 1935
(possible)
A copyright application identifies Friendless Friend, a song of unrequited love, and G. M. Ahmad-Abdoullah.
30 January 1935
(possible)
A U.S. musical-composition copyright application names Peace and Rest and G. M. Ahmad-Abdoullah.
The song 'Somewhere, A Song of Trust in the Absolute' was published April 22, 1935, co-credited to Abdullah and Marjorie Cameron MacLean.
Abdullah registered copyright for 'A Madonna To Her Child' (registration E pub. 48217), filed the same day as his 'Ave Maria'.
A newspaper clipping dated October 4, 1935 (The Madison Eagle) describes G.
Walter C. Lanyon published his book "A Lamp Unto My Feet" (publisher not listed in the source).
c. November 1936
(probable)
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
Neville describes a profound meditation experience from 1936: while sitting quietly in the silence, a rock appeared before him, split apart, and reassembled itself into the form of a man seated in the
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