One guess is that his name was Gabor Lehel. The only evidence that this could be true is taken from a playbill from the Hofburgtheater from a play he was believed to be in. However, this could just as easily be an earlier stage name.
Baba added to the mystery by giving him not one, but two nicknames. 'Panther' and 'Phoenix.'
The more one studies Pascal's life the deeper the mystery becomes. There are no records of his birth, until he was enlisted in military school by a mysterious priest at the age of 17. Sometimes he said he was of royal birth, other times to have been raised by gypsies.
Baba said that Pascal had an ancient connection to him, and said that he had special work for him in the future. Pascal died in 1954 of a mysterious cancer after being deemed clear of cancer by the Mao Clinic, complaining that he had been poisoned by an equally mysterious Chinese mistress he believed to be a sorceress. The Baba lover that paid his hospital expenses in turn fell out a window to her death two years later.
Pascal's wife Valerie Delacorte passed away in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in 2011 at the age of 97. Her biography of Pascal, The Disciple and His Devil, is well worth reading and mentions Baba several times. It also includes an apparently secretive meeting between Pascal and Baba in Bombay two years before his death that is not recorded anywhere else.
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