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May 10, 1952
Filis Frederick Meets Meher Baba
May 10, 1952: Filis Frederick Meets Baba Thirteen years ago. on March 19, 1987, Filis Frederick passed peacefully to Baba, beginning what she called her "grand adventure." Of her, Meher Baba once said, "Fills is wonderful." Here is an account of Filis' first meeting of Baba at the Meher Center, Myrtle Beach. South Carolina, on May 10, 1952. Filis writes: "As we got closer and closer to the Center, it was like coming closer and closer to the center of the universe. It was like being on a spaceship. and after traveling eighteen million light-years, finally coming to the end of your journey. I felt like that. Fred slowed down the car just as we drove past the gate of Meher Center. and a breeze of love came out of it and enveloped me. "At the hotel, Elizabeth phoned ·confirming that we were to come at nine o'clock the next morning. 'Baba is waiting for you,' she said. I almost dropped the phone. h seemed incredible to me. He's waiting for me? I had written to Kitty and found out Baba liked blue, so I was making a blue dress to see Baba in." Darwin Shaw drove Filis, Adele and John Bass to the Center on the morning of May 1Oth. They had been waiting nine long years for this moment. Fills described that first meeting: "It was 9:30 A.M. when Delia, standing on the steps of the Lagoon Cabin, said, 'Meher Baba, this is Filis Frederick.' How would Baba look? I did not know. I thought of Jesus, but at my first glimpse of Baba the thought flashed in my head. He looks Egyptian! The long eyebrows. dark almond eyes. the golden skin. He embraced me. and my heart beat fast: 'He is mine. He is mine.' He gestured to a chair beside Him. Baba asked through Adi. 'How do I look?' I said to Adi (because someone had misinformed me we could not speak directly to Baba in the New Life), 'He looks ill.' "As soon as l said it. l felt. No! He looks beautiful.' Eyes like black diamonds looked lovingly into mine. I felt my heart overflow with His love. He seemed so familiar. so intimate, so close. 'I heard about you from Norina. Elizabeth. Donkin and Margaret,' Baba stated. 'and I heard you from within. When I see such souls who love Me. I feel happy and strong. People like Filis are intimate ones. I love you because you love Me so much.' After 15 minutes. Baba called In Filis' "twin", Adele Wolkin. age 34. "She has eyes like Babajan. "He remarked, "very large. Grey-blue eyes." He spelled out to them both: "I have heard so much about you both. I feel so happy that at last I have seen you. Are you not nervous?" "No,'' they said. "I am overjoyed. Are you happy?" "Very happy." "No more happy th;ml am in seeing you. When you know Me. you will love Me like a little child. I am a child-grown up. I love humor. I love to tease and work hard here, and at various places. while talking to you now. And when you love me with pure, simple love, there should be no barrier. Love. pure and simple. then all doubts will vanish until the mind gets tempted to doubt. Even if love is there. the mind goes on working. But love does not bother: it loses its all in the Beloved. Do you love Baba honestly?" "Yes. Baba!" they replied. "What can I do for you?" asked Adele. "What more can you do for the Beloved? I want love, nothing else. Love me, and let God love us. That is what I want. When you love Baba. God will love you. and God's loving means everything. So. Baba Is very happy. One who is the humblest of the humble is the greatest of the great. But it has to be in all honesty, in all truth. So. let us love. love. love; all else is illusion. So. Adele and Fills. what more can you do if you really love Me? Do you love Me?" "Yes." "Do you know where that love is coming from? When you love Baba. Cod's love means everything. Fills later recollected. "At that moment. I felt the circulation of love from His heart to our hearts, back to His, so strongly. never again could I say. 'I love God.' That love is His gift. To say it is mine would be like a drop of dew saying 'I am the sun' when it sparkles." The next morning, May 11th. Baba allowed a few of His lovers private interviews in the Lagoon Cabin. He even sent Adi outside. who was reading the alphabet board. Filis recalled her interview at 9:45A.M. as follows: "I was alone with God! And I felt very shy. but happy. I was overcome by His beauty. He spelled slowly on the board. "Any questions?" and I shook my head. But of course. a deep question welled up within my heart: Why all that suffering? Why did I go through all that l did? "Baba silently answered me. He took my hand. It was like holding a child's hand. or a rose; the flesh was pure, almost transparent. I could feel His blood going through me-like a blood transfusion-and I felt His suffering. "He took my wrist in His hand. and I felt a mystical sense of sharing His suffering, He sharing mine. It was a wordless answer. "Then l silently said to Him, 'Baba. I always wanted you for my Master-all the way to the end.' "And Baba nodded in reply. I’ll be with you to the very end. He called Adi back in the room with a clap. Then He spelled out on the board, 'One who asks for nothing. gets everything.' Again He spoke of love for God as the only thing that is real, and ended by saying, 'Your love for Me is so genuine, real and pure that I am deeply touched. Do you know why you love Me? Because I love Me."' From LORD MEHER. Volune 11/12 Copyright Manifestation and AMBPPCT
