The mysterious man was most likely one of the Master's spiritual agents who worked on the inner planes for him in America.
Baba and the women mandali flew from New York on Pan Am Flight 50 on Wednesday, 30 July 1952 at 3:00 P.M. Charmian was permitted to accompany them. Five men lifted Baba in a chair and carried him up the stairs of the plane. Baba grabbed the neck of Darwin's shirt, and this was all Baba had to hold on to. The five men stretched him out on three seats whose armrests had been removed.1 Newspaper reporters were everywhere, as the newly crowned 18-year-old Miss Universe (Armi Kuusela from Finland) and a 25-year-old British Empire heavyweight champion, Johnny Williams, were on the same flight.
It was the first year that the Miss Universe pageant had been held, and Age smiled at the irony: Miss Universe was being feted by the public, while the Creator of the Universe was ignored! It reminded Age of how crowds in London had lined the streets in 1931 to catch a glimpse of Mahatma Gandhi, while the Avatar was quietly passing through the same streets.
Baba and the women arrived in London at 10:00 the next morning. They were met by Will and Mary Backett, Delia and Don (Donkin), who took them to the Rubens Hotel on Buckingham Palace Road, where they were to stay a week. Delia, Purdom and the Backetts had arranged their accommodations. The men mandali had left New York on the 31st at 4:00 P.M., but in Newfoundland their plane developed engine trouble and they were detained at the airport the entire night. Much delayed, the mandali arrived in London at 2:00 A.M. on 2 August. Will had missed them at the airport, and so they had to spend all morning hunting Baba down, as they did not know where he was staying.
Don had consulted Dr. Reginald Watson-Jones, a famous orthopedic surgeon, about Baba's leg. Baba was taken to see him on the 2nd, along with Goher and Don. That day his cast was removed, and his leg wrapped in an elastic bandage. Just a few days before, the doctors in New York had said he would have to wear the cast for two months. Dr. Watson-Jones advised Don that Baba could start weight-bearing exercises after a week.
Arnavaz's brother, Homa Dadachanji, who had come to England according to Baba's instructions, was with them at the doctor's office.
Baba asked Homa, "Have you any idea how my leg pains?"
"Yes, I do," Homa replied.
Surprised, Baba asked, "How can you have an idea of it?"
"My leg also pains," he replied.
It was for this reason that Baba had advised him to come to London.
Footnotes
- 1.The men mandali flew to London on a later flight.