About Abdullah Neville Goddard Research New York

“About Abdullah” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #1 Editorial note: This post was written before the archival work that positively links the Atlantic City “G. M. Abdoullah” to Neville Goddard’s teacher at 30 West 72nd Street. For the consolidated, source-based account (with clippings and research), please refer to the Abdullah series. Part 1: Harlem’s Secret Fire — Esoteric Currents of the 1920s–30s.n1562 ¶1

Scene-setting: mysticism, street lectures, Hebrew schools in mystical Harlem. Part 2: Obelisks, Lodges & Ethiopian mystics. Tracking the Black Freemasons, Ethiopian mystics across the occult underground.n1562 ¶2

Part 3: Mokomba, Mahalla & the Names That Vanish. Mytho-historic clues from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Caribbean. Part 4: Abdullah Identified – The Baritone Mystic of Atlantic City and 30 West 72nd Street. The first documented trail of Abdullah, linking his Atlantic City advertisements and census records to his later presence at 30 West 72nd Street in New York. Which Abdullah? Sorting Evidence from Myth in Neville Goddard Research Part 4.5: Abdullah Identified (Again): A Little Houdini on the Trail from Atlantic City to West 72nd Street The Final Link to 30 West 72nd: This Is Neville Goddard’s Real Teacher, Abdullah Part 5: The Man Behind the Silence — The True Identity of Abdullah This is Part #1 of on-going research into the identity of the Ethiopian rabbi Abdullah who Neville Goddard studied with for seven years in the 1930s in New York City. “Abdullah’s Real Name” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #2 30 W 72nd Street: Henri Zay, The Anthroposophical Society, Neville Goddard and the Search for Abdullah According to the excerpts below, the last time he saw Abdullah was in 1956 and his secretary said he went to Ethiopia to die in 1957. ( It says he met Ab in 1929 when he was in his late 80s almost ninety…that would place Ab’s birthday sometime in the 1840s. He said Ab lived to over 100…but if we calculate from the below Ab would have been over 115 at least in 1957. “He said to me in 1933 (I met him in ’29)…and he did everything, he ate everything, he drank everything. He didn’t smoke only because he just didn’t enjoy it, but he did everything. An old, old man, he was then in his “He and I studied…I studied with Abdullah for seven years in New York City, seven days a week. We were inseparable. Ab was an old man when I met him, he was then about ninety.n1562 ¶3

He was born in Ethiopia of the Negro race in the Hebraic faith. That was his background. I was born as you see this garment (I’ve worn this from birth) in the Christian faith.n1562 ¶4

And we were inseparable. He taught me scripture as I never heard it from my mother’s knee or from my minister or from anyone who taught me the Bible before. It became a book that was alive to me under the guidance of Abdullah. Well, here is a man, you look at him, here is a Negro, this brilliant, wonderful gentleman. Never once for one moment made any other claim, he would only say to me, “I picked up this garment . He always described it as a garment that he wore, just a garment.” and had one consuming desire, to put the body back where he picked it up which was in Ethiopia.n1562 ¶5

The last time I met Abdullah was about eight years ago in New York City. About s and she voiced that request of his, and said he was planning to return to Ethiopia. I haven’t seen or heard from Abdullah or the secretary since.n1562 ¶6

All of the above excerpts say he lived on 30 West 72nd Street (see Reddit “I am standing in his place on 72nd Street, off Central Park West; that’s where he lived. He lived at 30 West 72nd Street. “I didn’t have a job, I had no money, and I was living in a basement on 75th Street and he (Abdullah) lived on 72nd Street, in a very lovely home that was owned by Morgenthau, whose son (Henry Morgenthau Jr) was then the treasury (sic) of our country, a cabinet member (US Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt), but his father owned this house, but he didn’t live there, and he rented the first floor to my friend Abdullah. Hartmann’s 1931 International Directory of Psychic Science and Spiritualism You can see there were quite a few “classes” going on in that same building.n1562 ¶7

It’s not at all certain that Neville’s Abdullah is the same Ab Allah of , but because I was curious, typed out and edited the two Lanyon books “It Was Told of a Certain Potter Abd Allah” ” in the “treatment” section in Lanyon’s book and “ That for now. Will continue researching. If you feel like tipping so I can take the time to investigate further and type out all these books and articles Much gratitude and appreciation for your support. If this free archive of Neville Goddard’s lectures has helped you on your journey, consider helping keep it alive for others.n1562 ¶8

"About Abdullah" Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #1 Research about the Ethiopian rabbi Abduullah who Neville Goddard studied with for seven years in the 1930s in New York Cityn1562 ¶9