Baba left Cairo on 23 December 1932 and traveled out of the city to Helwan, where they stayed at the English Visitors' Hotel . On Christmas Day, he went to Sakkara to see the ancient pyramid of Djoser. Baba had wanted to go by train, but Quentin suggested going by car and hired an antiquated model. There was no luggage rack, and Kaka had to arrange the luggage on the mudguard and running boards. It seldom rains in this part of Egypt, but that day it began raining heavily after they had gone five miles. Baba became quite upset with Quentin, who thereby learned not to make his own suggestions once Baba had expressed a preference.
Returning to Cairo on the 26th, Baba went back to Alexandria on the 29th, and returned again to Cairo, where he obtained a visa for Ceylon. He went to the Cairo Museum and viewed the fabulous Tutankhamen collection. On the 31st, he again went to the old Coptic Church.
"Christ was in Egypt for six months when he was 33," Baba related. "He was there with members of the circle and in the crypt of the Coptic Church passed two hours in the spot where Joseph and Mary had taken refuge in their flight to Egypt when he was an infant. They [Jesus and his apostles] smoked a pipe with herbs passed around to everyone as a symbol [of fellowship,unity; or as a ritual act of communal bonding.]"
On New Year's Day of 1933, Baba visited the Sphinx and the great pyramids of Cheops and Chephren at Gizeh.
On Monday, 2 January 1933, Baba left for Port Said, setting sail the next day at 4:00 P.M. on the SS Baloeran bound for Ceylon.
During the voyage, Baba asked Quentin if he had noticed anything unusual about a Dutch girl who was traveling with her family. Quentin at first noticed nothing out of the ordinary, but he then saw that she walked with a limp and seemed in poor health.
Baba said she was subject to fits and explained, "Many, many years ago in India, she was a yogi. She was then in a male form. While attempting to attain a higher state of consciousness through fasting and meditation, while in samadhi, he had a stroke and died. Since then she has had many minor lives and five main lives. In every incarnation since, he or she has limped. In order to free her from this affliction, it will be necessary for me to win her affection."
Baba proceeded to gradually draw the girl toward him. She spent more and more time with him each day, playing Ping-Pong and draughts (checkers). By the end of the voyage, a marked improvement in her health was noted.
During their travels, Baba explained to Quentin:
On the inner planes there are 7,777,777 agents working for Baba. 770 of them are called chiefs, Itfar: It = anything far = accomplished. 232 of the 770 are females; 2 of them are of no sex. There are 14 males always around Baba.
Baba further explained:
When a master holds a meeting on the inner planes, it is callled a mehfil. A special meeting is called a khas mehfil (great meeting), and with the Emperor a shas mehfil.
A Perfect Master sometimes is so overloaded by work and the burden of the world
that he passes on some of the load to one of his nearest ones. This act of passing it on is called teveggio and is usually passed on to someone who can throw it off easily. Christ passed it on often to Peter but once he was so borne down with the load that he bit Peter's hand.
... None of the circle at present are on any plane but the first. All of the circle on the first plane now do not have to strive for spiritual advancement on to the other planes, on account of past connections. They will all jump to the seventh plane the moment after I speak and get Realization. Some will be unconscious for a few hours.
In explaining the seven planes of consciousness, Baba remarked that St. Catherine of Siena was on the sixth plane.
"St. Francis was on the sixth plane with his head over the gulf, practically between the sixth and seventh plane. A Master can only send a member of his circle to the seventh plane. An Avatar can send anyone, even thousands, to the seventh plane."
Nearing Ceylon, Baba indicated to Kaka and Quentin that he wished to rest there for a month in solitude before returning to India.