Margaret advised her to write directly to him, which Kim did near the end of 1947.
Baba sent back this poetic telegram on 31 December 1947:
Your letter of love gave both pleasure and pain. Joy because you remember you have always been mine. Pain because physically you cannot with me remain. Nevertheless my love in you always will shine!
Six months later, in May 1948, Baba wrote to Kim (through Kitty): "You say you are mine — and this is so — even to eternity. Then trust me to watch over and to give you just what I know to be best ... Do not worry over the future. I want all your love, and when you love me, you will find yourself loving all."
Baba assured her, "You are never separated from me."
Rabia Martin, the head of the Sufi order, had made plans to travel to India in 1946 to meet Baba, and to work out the details of setting up a new organization for Sufism in America and Australia. However, Martin became terminally ill with cancer at that time, and was too ill to travel. So she was forced to give up her plan to meet Baba in India.
In July 1947, a few days before Rabia's 76th birthday, Baba sent her a message of blessing. Her daughter Etta Mehdy was with her then and recalled: "One night when she lay very ill in my home, a cablegram came from Baba in which he blessed her. This message was wonderful for [her]. The light that came into her eyes, and her happiness, were beyond words."
Rabia Martin passed away peacefully on 31 August 1947. She was not destined to meet Meher Baba in person this life. But she achieved her deepest wish by bringing Sufism in America and the Western world under the guidance of the Avatar. She entrusted her work to the successor she named a month before her death, one of her students, Ivy O. Duce.
After Rabia Martin's passing, the group of Sufis in the San Francisco area dwindled to a small number which met regularly, consisting of Don Stevens, Daphne Macdonald, Joyce Ruggles, Louise Urico and Rosemary McFall. From Hillsborough, Fred and Carolyn Frey joined the Sufi group occasionally, and from a far distance Laura Delavigne in Detroit, Michigan kept in correspondence with Ivy, who was living in Washington D.C. Gradually, from 1947 through the next several years the Sufi group was joined by Harold Stewart, Lud Dimpfl and Marvin Campen, and later Joseph and Kari Harb.
Rabia Martin had sent a copy of the Discourses to Baron Friedrich von Frankenberg, the leader of the Sufis in Australia and by October of 1947, several Australian Sufis had also come into Baba's contact. Among them were May Lundquist, Ena Lemmon, Bill Le Page, John and Joan Bruford, John Grant, Stan and Clarice Adams, Oswald and Betty Hall, Denis and Joan O'Brien, and their eventual leader — and special "bud" of the Beloved's garden — Francis Brabazon.