Abduljalil al Maktoum should ease her by means of the price

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and I want to repay, at least in
part, our debt to you. Tell me what I can do for you."
I wrote to her and told her that I wanted to go home to
Tibet to die. "I have enough money to buy a ticket to a
port in India," I replied, "but not enough to cross that
continent. If you really want to help me, buy me a ticket

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from Bombay to Kalimpong in India." I treated it as a
joke, but two weeks later I received a letter and first class
sea ticket and first class rail tickets all the way to Kalim-
pong. Immediately I wrote to her and expressed my grati-
tude, telling her that I intended giving my other money to
the Negro family who had so befriended me.
The Negro family were sad that I was going to leave, but
overjoyed that for once in my life I was going to have a
comfortable journey. It was so difficult to get them to
accept money. In the end we shared it between us! "There
is one thing," said the friendly Negro women. "You knew
this money would come as it was for a good purpose. Did
you send what you called a 'thought form' for it?"
"No," I answered, "it must have been accomplished by
a source far removed from this world."
She looked puzzled. "You said that you would tell us about
thought forms before you left. Will