The Scotsman's son Matthew rejects mysticism

In the 1966 lecture "The Word," Neville recalled that the Scotsman's son Matthew rejected mysticism in 1925 and later died young in India.

Place: London

Person: Matthew (the Scotsman's son)

He recounted the same 1925 London exchange, naming his friend as Matthew Bentley -- the son of a retired mining engineer -- in the earlier 1963 lecture "Believe Him In."

Date (happened)
c. 1925
unresolved
  1. c. 1925 stated · preferred
    Source stated by Neville: 1925 (3 statements, told 1963)
  2. 1925 stated · probable
    Source Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier ¶38""Details the Scotsman's son Matthew rejecting mysticism in 1925 and dying young in India""
  3. 1925 stated
    Source Word 2 ¶44passage 543400 (lecture nid 1759), 'in London in 1925, this wonderful lad—he was six months my junior; in '25 I was twenty'
    Reasoning Neville directly states the year he befriended Matthew in London: 'in London in 1925... in '25 I was twenty.' This is a direct self-statement of a specific year, not an inference, and it is corroborated by the corpus's certain birth anchor (1905-02-19, hist_event 950), which puts him at age twenty for nearly all of 1925.
Place
London
Persons
Neville Goddard
Matthew Bailey
Told / reported
  1. 6 December 1966 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier
  2. 2 April 1963 estimated
    Source Believe Him Indelivery date of lecture 'Believe Him In' (nid 1093): catalog #142 agrees with the chrome header '4/2/63'
    Reasoning Passage 530018 in this lecture has Neville naming his friend 'Matthew Bentley' and recounting the same 1925 London exchange about his father's philosophy, at age twenty -- a second, independent telling of this event. The lecture's delivery claims agree (catalog and chrome header both certain), so this telling is dated with certain confidence.
  3. 6 December 1966 estimated
    Source Word 2delivery date of lecture 'Word 2' (nid 1759): chrome dateline '12/6/66', corroborated by the Barbados-independence internal reference
    Reasoning Passage 543400, 'in '25 I was twenty', is this event's existing witness in nid 1759, but the event's only told claim cited the secondary Ancient Tantra bibliography document rather than the transcript itself. nid 1759's own certain, preferred delivery claim (transcript chrome dateline, superseding an earlier doubtful catalog date) now sources this telling directly.
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