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Open main menu Search Infinity symbol Language Watch Edit The  infinity symbol  ( {\displaystyle \infty } ,  ∞ , or in  unicode  ∞) is a  mathematical symbol  representing the concept of  infinity . In  algebraic geometry , the figure is called a  lemniscate . ∞ Infinity symbol In  Unicode U+221E   ∞  INFINITY  (HTML  ∞   ·   ∞ ) Different from Different from U+267E   ♾  PERMANENT PAPER SIGN  (HTML  ♾ ) The ∞ symbol in several  typefaces History Edit John Wallis  introduced the infinity symbol to mathematical literature. The shape of a sideways figure eight has a long pedigree; for instance, it appears in the cross of  Saint Boniface , wrapped around the bars of a  Latin cross . [1]  However,  John Wallis  is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his  De sectionibus conicis . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]  Wallis did not explain his choice of this symbol, but it has been conjectured to be a variant form of a  Roman n

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Neville Goddard Books The World's Greatest Mystic Search for:   Neville Goddard’s Teacher Abdullah   The Master Revealed? Was there a real esoteric teacher named Abdullah who taught Neville and Joseph Murphy? A plausible candidate exists. He is found in the figure of a 1920s and 30s-era black-nationalist mystic named Arnold Josiah Ford. Like Neville, Ford was born in Barbados, in 1877, the son of an itinerant preacher. Ford arrived in Harlem around 1910 and established himself as a leading voice in the Ethiopianism movement, a precursor to Jamaican Rastafarianism. Neville Goddard’s Teacher Abdullah?      Mystic Arthur Josiah Ford Both movements held that the East African nation of Ethiopia was home to a lost Israelite tribe that had preserved the teachings of a mystical African belief system. Ford considered himself an original Israelite, and a man of authentic Judaic descent. Like Abdullah, Ford was considered an “Ethiopian rabbi.” Surviving photographs show Ford as a dignified, s