A tremendous spiritual impetus will be given to the whole of humanity, and a world-wide awakening will take place.
I do not need to tell you what a privilege we feel it to be, to be able, however humbly, to participate in the task of paving the way for these things to happen. It is, we have felt, what we have been preparing for, consciously or unconsciously, all our lives ...
I shall hope to be able to bring you in contact with Shri Meher Baba when he returns this spring ... You have a rare experience awaiting you — the greatest of this lifetime, and possibly of many.
Josephine Grabau wrote these words (on 11 December 1931) after Baba left, which reflected what many were feeling:
Like the flame burning upon the altars of a thousand thousand hearts you came, and from every altar rose sweet clouds of incense.
Wherever you went you took Light with you and people's lives blossomed into new beauty.
At last we knew what Love was. At last we understood why Jesus had such power over men's hearts. Looking at you, we saw Jesus, and loving him, we loved you the more.
Love and Joy and Beauty, Peace and Light and Life — these we found incarnate in you. And our faith was turned into certainty. Hitherto we had believed in God; now we knew that He existed for we found Him in you.
Life became a succession of days of flaming glory and radiant beauty — and you were that glory and that beauty. Every moment was filled with divine joy — and you were that joy. Our hearts burned with a love we could hardly understand — and you were that love.
You were the center of the universe, the sun toward which we turned as naturally as do the flowers in summer. And you warmed us and fed our starving souls with pure beauty that was the essence of your being. We found sanctuary in your arms, and in your presence, holiness.
And then — like a light blown out by the wind — you went, leaving us bereft, groping in the darkness of our ignorance. We have dreamed a beautiful dream and wakened to a world that has lost its savour and a life that, without you, is less than nothing.
Now we live only to remember you. When the light of life within us flickers and burns low, we rekindle it at the fire of our thought of you.