Neville recounts that after leaving Barbados for America at seventeen, he later -- at about the age of twenty or twenty-one -- fell into a period of strict self-denial: he gave up meat, fish, and fowl entirely, stopped drinking alcohol, and remained celibate, sustaining this for seven years. He frames the period as an example of the biblical 'state of John the Baptist,' a stage of doing violence to one's own appetites that, in his teaching, every person passes through before entering the higher state represented by 'the one greater than John.'
Date (happened)
between 1926 and 1933
unresolved
between 1926 and 1933
relative · possible · preferred
Why
Consistent with the following passages (528241-528244) placing him still celibate/abstinent when he met Abdullah in 1929 and during the Barbados voyage of December 1933 — a different, already-witnessed story, not restated here.
Reasoning
He gives his age loosely as 'a little after twenty, say twenty-one' for the onset; hist_event 950 gives a certain 1905-02-19 birth date, so onset is circa 1926. He states the period lasted seven years, bounding the end circa 1933. Possible rather than probable because the starting age itself is given as an approximation, not a fixed year.
Told / reported
between 1957 and 30 January 1969
bound · possible
Why
Flagged for another lane: lecture nid 1033 needs its own dating pass; none of its three catalog claims can currently be preferred over the others on internal evidence.
Reasoning
Three mutually exclusive legacy catalog claims are all marked preferred=1 and certain, and the human processing notes explicitly say 'I did no dating' — no internal evidence in this lecture adjudicates between them, so per the L4 rule this is written as a between range spanning all three at possible confidence rather than silently picking one.