Agnes Baron had come from Ojai, California, and was called to discuss the situation at Meher Mount. John Cooke, the young Britisher who had helped her overcome certain financial problems in holding on to the property, was to have come but did not show up. Baba now informed Agnes that he did not want John Cooke associated with Meher Mount or any of his work. John had contracted polio, and it had affected his mind.

Baba gave Agnes certain instructions and then asked, "Now, do you know what you have to do?"

"No, Baba, I am more confused than ever," Agnes said, as she left the Lagoon Cabin. This was an excuse on her part so that Baba would call her back the next day to go over things again! Thus, she saw Baba privately several times during his stay.

Baba stopped giving interviews at noon, and after lunch, resumed them at 2:30 P.M. for an hour. Two chiropractors, Dr. R. C. Bolen and Dr. Star, met Baba at this time. The three types of knowledge were explained, and Dr. Bolen declared, "Baba, you are the greatest light in the world!"

At 3:30 in the afternoon, when he had finished the interviews, Baba invited everyone to come to his house. The whole group, now about 80 persons, walked behind him for half a mile through the woods to his house. The day was hot and humid, and Baba wore only light cotton pants and a sadra. When they arrived, Baba sat under the large oak trees at the edge of the cliff. Filis wrote: "As we sat in a semicircle 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, given to him by "Elinorkit."  The seven shells, tied together with a string of seven colored ribbons, were ornamented with various figures, meant to represent the seven main evolutionary stages from unconscious stone to conscious man.  Baba pointed to the garland and said, "It represents the seven stages of man." Noticing one figure had broken off, he joked, "The animal kingdom is gone ... the missing link!" Then he playfully took Ben Hayman's white golf cap and put it on his own head, again amusing all.