Was Abdullah—Neville Goddard’s mysterious teacher—an Ethiopian Jew shaped by hidden migrations through Egypt? This chapter traces mythic names, vanishing colonies, and Afro-Judaic crossroads from Mahalla al-Kubra to New York, uncovering the diasporic trail of a man fluent in Hebrew and Kabbalah, yet absent from every...
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The wandering figures profiled here—scribes, sailors, fraudsters, Masons—occupy a twilight zone between history and myth. They were laughed at, imprisoned, honored, and recorded. Some passed Masonic tests and Torah exams. Others faltered under scrutiny. But together, they formed an overlooked substratum of the American metaphysical...
Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was a ferment of religious innovation, esoteric experimentation, and Black intellectual renaissance. Within this climate, spiritual teachers, mystics, rabbis, Freemasons, Theosophists, and metaphysical lecturers shared halls, disciples, and occasionally doctrines. This section includes all major figures and movements active...
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DR. FLOOD first became interested in divine metaphysics in 1937, through the efforts of Dr. Emmett Fox. She knew Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity School of Christianity, and took all Unity courses offered. After that Dr. Flood came under the tutelage of Neville, Neville Goddard...
During the 1920s and early 1930s, New York City was home to several active Rosicrucian societies. This era between World War I and World War II was a “bubbling cauldron of occultism,” with many groups teaching mystical and esoteric philosophies. At least four Rosicrucian organizations...
With permission by Jean-Claude I have received many questions from fellow students asking what Neville meant when he advised us to ‘live in the end’ or ‘think from the end’ as opposed to ‘thinking of the end’. In the following lines I will attempt to shed some...
Found this intro would be a good recap for readers new to Neville's teachings it is a kind of chronology in a nutshell. It is the prologue to William Walker Atkinson's The Arcane Teaching with Formulas By JT Thayer (see resources below) In resources and here is...