On 13 October 1938, Baba wrote to Will:
I note what you say in your letters about the different ones you are helping, and how, through your love for me, they too are drawing closer to me, and also finding they can lean on me and feel my help, even though they may not have seen me in the flesh. To some, it is a greater help to know me through my disciples. Not all can understand the human side of God. It is more difficult for some to follow and obey God in human form, due to preconceived ideas of God.
Ghani's brother Abdur Rehman saw Baba on 13 October and requested Baba's help in a court case. His landlord and his wife had been murdered in Lonavla, and the police were questioning him and his father about it, due to a dispute between the landlord and Ghani's family, who were owed money. Khak Saheb also saw Baba that day.
From the 15th, Baba began spending alternate nights in the Tin Cabin and in the Jhopdi in lower Meherabad. He began working in seclusion after seven or seven-thirty every evening until the morning.
On 2 October 1938, Baba had written Delia DeLeon in England:
The world is in a state of fear and perplexity. No one knows what is going to happen. But wait and see. I know all, the present and the future, and nothing can stop the work that I am here to do. Am I not the Avatar? The world will know it soon and accept me as such. Be patient. Be calm. Be steady and firm as a rock in your faith and love for me. I can then use you as a channel for my work — the work of divine love for the upliftment of humanity.
As you know, I need none of you. I can work my will independently, but I have chosen, for my own reasons, a few to help me in that work.