I have brought the manuscript here, and when I am free, I will go through the whole thing and make necessary changes.1 This book will be the first and last of its kind. Today I will show you just the chart on which it [the book] is based, and when it is ready, I might hand it over to you to publish.
This book will be the Koran, Bible, Avesta of Baba. Unique.
Baba went on to explain the three types of conviction. Ivy and Francis openly confessed, "We know nothing ... We are zero."
Baba stated:
When you say you know nothing, there is hope of knowing. What I want is:
A) That Sufism in the East and West should be under my guidance;
B) Workers should do exactly as I tell them to; and
C) Workers should, first of all, thoroughly carry out, for nine months, instructions that I will give them to attain Light themselves. Then Sufism will be able to lead others to Light, and not just lead them in ignorance. That is why I am going to Europe, and also staying in Algiers to contact two or three persons there whom I have not seen physically, but whom I know.
Francis should be back in Australia before the 10th of July to start work there by that time. And, if possible, return to the United States by November 15. If, in the meantime, I order you to come to India in November, you should do so, because November is the month for my Fiery Life to begin. Blindly do as I tell you. You won't be following the blind! I know! Do as I tell you.
And you [pointing to Ivy] begin doing from July 10th what I tell you now ...
Baba then gave both of them instructions for meditating nightly for an hour from 11:30 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. for nine months from 10 July 1952 and ordered both to keep silence on the 10th, also.
At her first meeting in India in 1948, Ivy Duce had asked for Baba's guidance, as she had been appointed to lead the Sufi order after Rabia Martin died and knew that she was not a Realized soul. Baba assured her not to worry about her limitations; he would see to the welfare of the organization and restructure it with himself as its head.
In Myrtle Beach, after Ivy and Francis left the Lagoon Cabin on the 9th, Baba asked Adi to go out and try to think of a new name for this Sufi order.
Footnotes
- 1.This book was to be God Speaks. It was published three years later, in 1955.