It would be dangerous in one respect; if this intellectual knowledge is imparted, at times the desire for God-realization and experiencing that state vanishes, and the aspirant is only satisfied with what he knows intellectually or sees. Then the desire for union does not remain as keen.
Suppose there is a vast treasure, or something of great worth beyond imagination, and there is a curtain between your room and it. This reading and intellectual knowledge would be equal to a literal explanation given by the one who has seen or experienced these things. You yourself don't see the treasure behind the curtain, but have only read about it or heard it described.
The next day at Meherabad, while explaining why the Avatar or Christ always has a person like Judas among his disciples, Baba drew a circle on the ground with his finger, and keeping his finger on the circumference of the circle, he disclosed:
Lord Ram had his Ravana, Christ his Judas. One of the twelve men in the circle is always like that. Suppose my finger was a compass. I, as the Master, am the point in the middle and the outside ring is my circle. Now observe what happens when the circle is complete and the compass is stationary. The pencil is still on one point of the circle. The one who is under the point shouts! That is Judas.
Eleven members of the circle are God-realized during my lifetime — the twelfth after I die. He being the "Dark Side," realizes me after I have physically departed.
On 19 September 1927, Baily came to see Baba and stayed at Meherabad for a few days. He was given permission to write articles about Baba for different English and vernacular publications. Later a new hand-drawn rickshaw arrived on the hill for Baba's use. Baba was requested to inaugurate it by sitting in it and taking a trial ride. Baba did so and selected Baily to be the first to pull him in it. Baily took his position between the two poles, picked them up from the ground, quickly ran with it to the railway line, turned around, and pulled it back up the hill where the others were waiting. G. M. Shah, a photographer from Ahmednagar, was called to photograph the Master seated in the rickshaw. Shah also photographed the Meher Ashram building and the schoolboys. On other occasions, another local photographer, S. S. Deen (who resided near Khushru Quarters) would be called to photograph Baba.