Neville describes Abdullah's Ethiopian birth and religious background

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.
Date (happened)
No date
  1. before 6 December 1933 bound · refuted
    Source Earliest pre-1973 telling only: 1933-12-06; Abdullah's birth and upbringing necessarily predate Neville's 1933 telling.
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 001): The only telling (lecture 3963) is 'after 1933-12-06 (doubtful)'; an 'after' floor cannot serve as a 'before' ceiling. The passage begins 'from the boat, I went to my old friend Abdullah', after the Dec 1933 - early 1934 Barbados trip, so the telling postdates it.
    Reasoning Bounded before the earliest live telling after an event-specific retrospective reading. Abdullah's birth and upbringing necessarily predate Neville's 1933 telling. The testimony genre proposes a backward bound, but wording controls direction; prospective announcement wording would veto or invert it. This claim is not preferred.
Place
New York City
Persons
Abdullah
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. after 6 December 1933 estimated
    Source passage 556346 (lecture nid 3963 'All Imagination Lecture'), delivery claim d0 bound/after 1933-12-06/certain (dated sailing-to-Barbados reference)
    Reasoning Passage 556346 is Neville directly describing his old friend and teacher Abdullah -- born in Ethiopia, a black man raised in the Jewish faith who understood Christianity better than any man he met. The lecture containing this passage, nid 3963, carries only one delivery claim, a certain lower bound (after 6 December 1933, from Neville's own dated account of sailing for Barbados, recounted as a completed voyage). No claim gives an exact day or upper bound, so the telling is written as the same open lower-bound claim at the same certain confidence.
Sources

Source

  • I Am All Imagination ¶6 (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.)
  • Abdullah How We Got Together Qa (Neville describes Abdullah as North African, born to Jewish parents and raised Orthodox Jewish.)