divan, where so many met Him in 1952. The place where one meets the living Avatar face to face for the first time becomes a place holy in memory.

Around 12, when Baba came out, Adele Wolkin and I followed Him and asked His permission to write to Mehera and His sister Mani and give them news of the tour. He kindly nodded. Then we asked Him if we might copy His jacket and make Him a new one while on the trip. What a grin He gave us! He said that we might, if we did not miss being with Him. How well He knew we would never get it done for months!

At around 12, lunch was served al fresco in the dining room and breeze-swept terrace. By 2:30, every one again had crowded down by the lagoon bridge to await Baba's return from the Guest House. He came walking across (Baba's walk is a brisk run, as most of us soon learned), clad only in His white sadra and cotton trousers, for the day was very humid. Everyone followed Him up the steps, and again, stood about as He continued the private interviews in the cabin. The content of these naturally is private, but each one who was called in bears something memorable in his heart. Around 3:30 the Beloved was through for the day and invited us all to come and visit His house. The whole group, now about 80 strong. walked behind the Master down the road about half a mile through the woods, to the house built for Him.

Baba, the first to arrive, sat down under the large live oak trees at the edge of the cliff, with the sun shining on the blue lake and ocean beyond. As we sat in a semi-circle facing the beloved Master, it seemed that history was repeating an age-old pattern, and the lake sparkling through the trees might have been the lake of Galilee.

On top of His pink coat which He had re-donned, Baba was wearing a symbolic garland made of seven "sand dollar" sea shells, strung together by Betty Thibodeau and given to Him by "Elinorkit." The seven shells, ornamented with various figures, were meant to represent the seven main evolutionary stages from unconscious stone to conscious man. The shells were tied together with a chain of seven-colored ribbons and on the back was written: "O, all ye works of the Lord, Praise Him and magnify Him forever." For those who like to find symbolism in natural things, these snow-white shells bears the mark of the cross like the five-petalled dogwood blossom, a five-pointed "Bethlehem Star," and five holes or notches for the five wounds of Christ.