The group at the hotel included Fred Marks, Tom and Dorothy Hopkinson, Charles Purdom's son Edmund, Delia's brother Jack DeLeon, and Anita and Roger Vieillard came. Baba also saw his brother Adi Jr. and his wife, Franey, and son, Dara, who had moved to London recently. (Adi Jr. had become partners with Fred Marks in an antique business.)
On 18 July, starting at 9:30 A.M., Baba granted fourteen individual interviews. Hedi was the first one called. Baba spoke to Anita and Roger about Philippe Dupuis. Philippe had first met Baba in Myrtle Beach in 1952 and was one of the Western men who participated in the "Three Incredible Weeks" program at Meherabad in 1954. Baba asked Roger to phone Dupuis, saying if possible he should come and see Baba for five minutes and then return. Will Backett brought Joffre to see Baba. Keith Secker, the young man from Manchester who had met Baba in Satara, was the next to be given an interview.
Arnavaz's brother Homa Dadachanji was also in London. He had been greatly saddened by his brother Nozar's death in a plane crash.
Baba comforted him, "Until his last breath Nozar remembered me and he is with me now. So you should be happy. All are in me, don't worry. He has come to me."
After seeing Irene Billo privately, Baba explained to J. M. Puinell about the three types of knowledge and conviction: intellectual, through sight, and by Becoming.
An actor with two small children, Edmund Purdom, 31, had recently gotten a divorce.
Baba told him, "Don't disregard attachments, but do not become a slave to them, either — by thinking of me sometimes."
Edmund replied, "Of course, I have been brought up by my father in an atmosphere of your love and teachings."1
A French couple, Robert Antoni, 47, and his wife Yvonne, 52, had come from Paris to meet Baba with Andrée Aron. Yvonne had first heard of Baba in Paris in 1940, during a German air raid. She had been visiting a friend when the attack came, and both hurried down into the basement shelter. When the alert was over, the elevators were not functioning, so they had to walk back up to the sixth floor. In doing so, they helped an elderly lady reach her
apartment on the fourth floor, and when they arrived at her front door the woman
folded her hands saying, "Thank you, Baba."
Footnotes
- 1.Ironically, some years later, Edmund Purdom was hired as the host/narrator of a documentary about Biblical prophecies, Seven Signs of Christ's Return.