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Maitreya: A name is derived from the Sanskrit 'maitri' meaning 'universal love'.
"Relying on certain Mahayana Buddhist citations and quotations, we believe that in this fortunate aeon one thousand Buddhas will appear. This is the time of the fourth Buddha, Buddha Shakyamuni, whose teaching is still existing, and the fifth Buddha will be Maitreya Buddha." — His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama.
Who is Maitreya?
“He has been expected for generations by all of the major religions. Christians know him as the Christ, and expect his imminent return. Jews await him as the Messiah; Hindus look for the coming of Krishna; Buddhists expect him as Maitreya Buddha; and Muslims anticipate the Imam Mahdi or Messiah. At this time of great political, economic and social crisis Maitreya will inspire humanity to see itself as one family, and create a civilization based on sharing, economic and social justice, and global cooperation. He will launch a call to action to save the millions of people who starve to death every year in a world of plenty. Among Maitreya's recommendations will be a shift in social priorities so that adequate food, housing, clothing, education, and medical care become universal rights. Under Maitreya's inspiration, humanity itself will make the required changes and create a saner and more just world for all”. (Source).
Creme talks about Maitreya being the 1st and 2nd initiations who "prepares the way" for this "Lord of the World" - "Sanat Kumara", the third initiation. David Spangler another Blavatsky/Bailey disciple makes no bones about the identity of this initiator. He calls this the "Luciferic Initiation."
Alice Bailey, in an address at the Arcane School Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, suggested that the "Shamballa force", the force from the invisible dimensions led by the Lord Maitreya will be "destructive." It will also, she said, eject unbelievers from the earth:
"The decision to release the Shamballa force during this century into direct contact with the human kingdom is one of the final and most compelling acts of preparation for the New Age. The Shamballa force is destructive and ejective ... inspiring new understanding of The Plan.. It is this force ... which will bring about that tremendous crisis, the initiation of the race into the mysteries of the ages.(Alice Bailey, The Externalizing the Mysteries, pt.1 p.171) [letusreason.org]
Read More About Alice Bailey HERE and HERE
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One of the earliest mention of Maitreya is a Sanskrit text, the Maitreyavyakarana (The Prophecy of Maitreya), stating that Gods, men and other beings will worship Maitreya and:
"will lose their doubts, and the torrents of their cravings will be cut off: free from all misery they will manage to cross the ocean of becoming; and, as a result of Maitreya's teachings, they will lead a holy life. No longer will they regard anything as their own, they will have no possession, no gold or silver, no home, no relatives! But they will lead the holy life of chastity under Maitreya's guidance. They will have torn the net of the passions, they will manage to enter into trances, and theirs will be an abundance of joy and happiness, for they will lead a holy life under Maitreya's guidance." (Trans. in Conze 1959:241) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya).
Benjamin Creme
Benjamin Creme of Share International (a non-profit educational group with sister groups in over 20 countries ) has long been the principal source of information about the emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher, and has travelled the globe “helping to create a climate of hope and expectancy for the World Teacher”. Creme claims that Maitreya is an Ascended Master, a perfected being who will appear on the scene out of nowhere and take advantage of a pre-existent global power structure that will immediately give him support.
“Throughout his early years Creme also studied various aspects of esoteric philosophy, in particular the teachings released in the late 1800s through Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, and more recently through Alice A. Bailey. Although these teachings led him to believe in the existence of the Masters of Wisdom, a group of perfected individuals who are the custodians of the Divine Plan for this planet. it nevertheless came as a complete surprise to him when, in 1959, he was contacted by one of the Masters. He was told, among other things, that Maitreya, the World Teacher, the Master of all the Masters, would return in about 20 years and that he (Creme) would have a role to play in the event if he chose to accept it.
More than a decade later, in 1972, Creme began a period of arduous training under his Master's direction to prepare him for his coming task: announcing to a skeptical world the emergence of the World Teacher, awaited by people of every religion under his various names ―? the Christ, Messiah, Imam Mahdi, Krishna, Maitreya Buddha. Creme's constant contact with a Master of Wisdom gives him access to up-to-date information on Maitreya's emergence, plus the total conviction needed to present this story”. (Source)
Creme and The Reappearance of the Christ
In 1980 Creme wrote a book called The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, which is an account of his telepathic communication with Maitreya and the history of his involvement with the occult dating back to the 1940's. These messages received from Maitreya represents the most dominate strain of the present-day New Age eschatological religion.
The following is collection of quotes from Creme's The Reappearance of The Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980). If what he says is true, then the infiltration of the government by Luciferic agents is already a reality today. These agents, we are told, are directed by the Hierarchy of Ascended Masters and are working together to bring about the New World Order right under our noses..
From these existing groups (New Age plants) in all fields of work — political, religious, social, scientific, educational and cultural — will be formed a nucleus who will be trained directly by the Master himself. Gradually they will be called upon for help and advice by governmental agencies, and their effective power to influence governmental decisions will increase.
Administrative and Governmental positions will be offered to certain members of the inner group who can then directly implement the needed changes. In this way a gradual transformation of society will be made...
The Hierarchy has plans already made and ready to put into effect. These involve the reconstruction of the world financial and economic order. A group of high initiates, themselves economists, industrialists, and financial experts of great experience and achievement, are working with the Hierarchy and have evolved a series of blueprints, alternative inter-related plans, which will solve the redistribution problems which are at the basis of the present world crisis. These can and will be speedily implemented when the need is seen and accepted, which acceptance will be forced on the United Nations of the world by the weight of a now informed public opinion. The cry for help and justice from the poor and starving nations will be too loud and too dramatic to ignore. See Ascended Masters
Creme also mentions that his group would often make contact with Maitreya in ceremonies that were held on the full moon, and at various times of Astrological significance. (Source)
Overshadowing
“At the beginning and end of every lecture Benjamin Creme is overshadowed by Maitreya for about 20 minutes each time. In this way Maitreya releases his energy to the audience as a special spiritual nourishment or blessing. Many people who have some degree of clairvoyance have seen this, but until now we have not had photographs of the event.
This photograph was taken on 26 September 2001 in Amsterdam at Benjamin Creme's lecture. The photographer, Ellen Bernards, was sitting in the front row on the left of the hall and took the picture just as the initial overshadowing by Maitreya was beginning.
When the photograph was developed she noticed that instead of two people on the platform ―? Mr. Creme and the translator ―? there are three figures. Mr. Creme, wearing a jacket and tie, was facing the audience, whereas the mysterious figure is facing the camera; he has no tie and the first few buttons of his shirt are open”. (Source)
The Future Coming of Maitreya
Maitreya’s coming is characterized by a number of physical events. The oceans are predicted to decrease in size, allowing the Maitreya to traverse them freely. On his "Day of Declaration", he will go on international television worldwide and telepathically every human being will hear his message for his plan to transform humanity in his or her native language but it will be telepathic. Then he will give what he calls this experience of himself so there will be no doubts in anyone's heart of who he is because people recognize him instantly when he does this. Maitreya's message is that humanity can be guided back onto the right path and through working with the Masters, bring new technology into our lives to bring these changes about. Creme claims that when Maitreya appears he will be known by a different, as yet ungiven name.
“Well we don't bother about the oil for we shall have a new technology...("We shall?") Maitreya calls it the Technology Of Light, which will give us unlimited power for all our activities for all industry for heating and lighting and transport and every other aspect!
Appearances
It is claimed that Maitreya has made many appearances since his first sudden appearance in June 1988 at a prayer meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, with a supposed 19 appearances in 2001 alone.
“On 11 June 1988, a man suddenly appeared before a vast crowd in Nairobi, Kenya, gathered to witness healing prayers. Instantly recognizing the tall, white-robed figure as "Jesus Christ," the crowds fell down overcome with emotion. The tall figure of a barefooted white-robed and bearded man appeared from nowhere and stood in the middle of the crowd. He was walking slowly towards the new church building away from the tent. Mary walked with him, side by side. I stared at the stranger without blinking. Strange, sporadic light wafted on top of his turbaned head, his feet and his entire body….In clear Swahili, which had no traces of accent, the strange man announced that the people of Kenya were blessed, especially those who had gathered at the venue that afternoon. "We are nearing the time for the reign of heaven. But before that I shall come back and bring a bucketful of blessings for all of you," the man said”. (www.shareintl.org/background/miracles/MI_nairobi.htm)
Other say
“Maitreya, in Buddhism, the future Buddha, a Buddha who will be reborn in a period of decline to renew the doctrine of the founder of Buddhism, the Buddha. Maitreya is believed to be a bodhisattva, one who refuses entry into nirvana, a transcendent state free from suffering, out of a compassionate desire to help others. At present, he is believed to reside in Tushita Heaven, where he awaits his rebirth which is expected to occur in 30,000 years”. (Source).
More About Benjamin Crème
Benjamin Creme was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1922. In his early years he studied widely in the "esoteric philosophy" (i.e., occult teachings) of such writers as Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey. (Details of Mr. Creme's biography are taken from the paper Benjamin Creme: A Messenger of Hope for Humanity, downloaded from the Share International web site (http:://www.hooked.net/shareint/).
Through these teachings, he came to believe in the existence of the so called 'Masters of the Earth', Blavatsky's term for a collection of beings, formerly human, who having been perfected through countless cycles of re-incarnation, now serve as guardians of the 'Divine Plan' for the human race. (Various beliefs about the 'Ascended Masters' are rampant in New Age circles; these beliefs are traceable through Blavatsky and others to the Hindu teachings on re-incarnation and the 'perfected man'.) See Ascended Masters
In 1959, Creme was contacted by one of these same 'Masters', who revealed that the Christ, the Master of all Masters, would return to earth "in about twenty years". In a kind of cosmic "Mission Impossible" scenario, Creme was told that he would have a role to play in this coming return of the Christ "if he chose to accept it".
The following is an extract from In Search of Maitreya An Evening with Benjamin Crème by John W. Moore)
“…in an attempt to reconcile the coming of Maitreya with Jesus' prophecy that the world would see the Son of Man return "on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory"(Matt 24:30b, NASB) a Creme cohort, the Rev. Howard Carey, offers this gem:
Nevertheless, many of the predictions about the Second Coming are being fulfilled, even if in an unexpected manner. The prediction that Christ would come "on the clouds of heaven" (Mt. 24:30) has already been fulfilled, but in a far different way than expected. In July 1977, having created for Himself an adult physical body, and having left His ancient retreat in the Himalayas, the Christ flew to London in a jet plane, thus fulfilling the Biblical prophecy of returning "on the clouds of heaven. (From Bible Prophecy And The Second Coming by Reverend Howard Ray Carey). Share International gopher - shareintl.org:7004. Top Menu Item #10 - Traditional Religion and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings Title: Bible Prophecy and the Second Coming.
While this example may be laughable in its crudity, not all of Creme's apologetics are so easily dismissed. The central scenario, for example, of the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ, a damnable blasphemy to be sure, nevertheless has a certain macabre consistency, the fascination of horrific evil. Consider this example from an article by Peter Liefhebber, co-editor with Creme of the monthly Share International Journal:
In reality Jesus was a fourth-degree initiate and one of the older disciples of the Masters of Wisdom. He appeared before in biblical times as Joshua, the son of Nun, then as Isaiah, and again as Joshua in the book of Zachariah. In Palestine he made the great sacrifice of allowing himself to be used by Maitreya to fulfil His mission during the three years following the baptism in the River Jordan. During his life, Jesus also symbolically enacted the five initiations which lead one to Mastership. The experience on the cross was the enactment of the 4th initiation for Jesus (his birth, the baptism, and the transfiguration on the mount symbolize the first three), while at the same time Maitreya underwent a higher initiation. (from Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ, by Peter Liefhebber).Share International gopher - shareintl.org:7004. Top Menu Item #10 - Traditional Religion and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. Title: Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ.
As a "doctrine of demons" it deserves a kind of horrified respect.”
Benjamin Crème - Maitreya Meetings
In an interview with Art Bell, Benjamin Crème was asked he had physically met with Maitreya in London. To which he replied:
I have, but not in his real form. I met him, uh, as a woman, a refugee woman in a train in London with a child and she, heheh, so-called "she", asked me for some money, I gave her some money. The child looked miserable and she went up and down the, the uh, train, you know, begging, but ("Yes...") in the carriage where I met her there was no one else in the carriage so she wasn't making much money. And uh, the child actually was the Master Jesus. And this sort of happening occurs all the time. The Masters work together. Maitreya and the Master Jesus seem to be incredibly close and they work together all the time. Sometimes one is a man. The other time the other one is a man, and so on... they change positions and change appearance and so on. Although he is said to communicate telepathically with Englishman Benjamin Creme, who serves as Maitreya's official mouthpiece.
And that he last time he met Maitreya was in California:
“Yeah, Berkley, California where he appeared as uh, I suppose you would say as a modern day, slightly hippie, quite casually dressed, but nicely dressed, uh, with a little bomber jacket on and uh, and a hat and he asked me for a couple of dollars to, for gas for his uh, truck. I couldn't see any truck so I gave him a couple of dollars. And that was Maitreya!... I'm in touch with one of the Masters, I have a moment to moment contact with one of Maitreya's closest disciples. And through this moment to moment contact I can verify any experience I have. And if Maitreya wishes to appear as a, as a beggar man as he has often does, and hundreds of people have such experiences, I can ask the master, "Was that Maitreya" and some days "No it wasn't at all" and some days "Yes it was, and that was the Master Jesus". I have seen the Master Jesus years ago, who came to my house in London, and uh, asked if I could give him something to eat...” (home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/artbenn2.htm)
This is the same Benjamin Crème who said, in an interview with Rollin Olson, in response to a question of who we are really:
“We are really gods in incarnation. We need to recognize our threefold constitution: We are a spark of God; every religion has postulated this and has kept the idea of our divinity before humanity for thousands of years. But it can be seen more scientifically and still correctly. Speaking as an esotericist, I would say that the divine spark is so refined in vibration that it cannot manifest directly on the physical plane. It reflects itself, therefore, as the individualized human soul. The soul, in its turn, reflects itself in the human personality, with its physical, emotional, and mental bodies. Through the physical plane personality, the soul enacts its reincarnational process, until finally the individual on the physical plane, the man or woman, reflects perfectly the quality of the soul, which is the divine quality of the spark of God”
The Origin of Benjamin Crème’s Information.
Replying to a query about the origin of his information, Creme said
“ Much of it comes from the Theosophical teaching, which was introduced by Madame Blavatsky between 1875 and 1890. Her major opus, The Secret Doctrine, embodies the preparatory teaching given to the world for the new age which is now dawning. The Alice Bailey teachings are the intermediate phase. Maitreya Himself brings the next, the Revelatory, phase”. (lightinfo.org/maitreya/agleswis.htm)
Wayne Peterson i
Is a recently retired career US Diplomat who served the United States for 32 years. The Following extract from his site says it all..
“After a most unusual happening, Mr. Peterson finds himself lying face down, looking down a portal to the room far below where friends at the cocktail party he has been attending seem to be sleeping or in suspended motion. He is in a strange room somewhere over the Gobi desert, and is offered the chance to meet Maitreya, the World Teacher and Christ returned, whom he read about in Mr. Creme’s book just months before. Peterson accepts, and during his one-hour audience with the Lord Maitreya, he is shown the past, present and future, and his place in it all… Peterson learns that the World Teacher has not come alone, but rather with a group of perfected men, the Masters of Wisdom, who form the inner government of the planet and watch over the evolution of humankind. He becomes used to some of them visiting in the early hours of the morning, generally when he is asleep, to impart their teaching on the nature of the Self and life” (From Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Beings by Wayne Peterson. in which Mr. Peterson describes his direct encounters with spiritual masters such as Maitreya, a spirit being working to help humanity evolve. (www.waynepeterson.com/).
Misleading The Elect
from (In Search of Maitreya An Evening with Benjamin Crème by John W. Moore)
“That Creme and company have an intense interest in injecting the virus of Maitreya into the body Christian is obvious. One curiosity that bears mentioning in this respect is the reported Maitreya sightings that are dutifully noted in each issue of the Share International Journal. In each monthly journal, Maitreya is reported to have appeared in various locations around the world, appearing to such and such a group of people in Canada, appearing to another group in Liverpool, and always -- "water was magnetized in the area". Whether these reports have any basis in reality cannot be confirmed or dis-confirmed by this reporter. What is remarkable about these reports, regardless of their veracity, is that Maitreya is overwhelmingly reported to appear to groups of Christians, usually described as "conservatives" or "fundamentalist". With each account is a brief synopsis of the group's reaction: "surprisingly open", "very good reception", etc. The intention is plain: Maitreya would seek to "mislead, if possible, even the elect" (Matthew 24:24b).
Maitreya the Anti-Christ?
“So, who is Maitreya? A false christ, certainly. But is he the false christ, as Creme's pretensions would suggest, or just another demonic trial balloon. It is not clear, at this point, whether even the demons themselves are sure; but the evid ence would seem to indicate the latter. Whatever the case, a couple of conclusions can be drawn:
1) God alone is sovereign. Not even the demons know the details of the timetable for the revealing of the "son of perdition". They can draw conclusions based on their experience of thousands of years of history, and presumably based on super-human intellect, but in the end no one but God knows when the "time of the end" will be.
2) The man of sin, when revealed, if not actually Maitreya, will likely resemble Maitreya in many ways, particularly with respect to Maitreya's claims to the Christhood and claimed relationship to the historical Jesus of Nazareth.
But we already knew these things.
Creme claims that Maitreya will soon make a televised announcement in the USA on a "major network". Shortly thereafter, Creme claims, will come the "Day of Declaration" when Maitreya will make a global simulcast announcing his arrival. But then, of course, Creme has been making these claims for years. If however, by off chance, you happen to be flipping through the channels sometime in the "near future", and come across a bearded, scowling figure who calls himself 'Lord Maitreya' making fantastic claims about his own historical importance, rest assured that I, for one, will be holding out for a Christ who doesn't arrive by jumbo jet. Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. (Matthew 24:42, NASB) (In Search of Maitreya An Evening with Benjamin Crème by John W. Moore). [Also See The AntiChrist]
 The Maitreya Project
Maitreya Project's 500ft / 152m bronze statue will be built at Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The Maitreya Buddha statue and its throne-building will provide the public with temples, exhibition halls, a museum, library, audio-visual theatre and hospitality services. All will be set in beautifully landscaped parks with meditation pavilions, beautiful water fountains and tranquil pools. The buildings and grounds of the Project will contain a remarkable and inspiring collection of sacred art. .. It will be constructed as a Buddhist cathedral for the public and will be designed to last at least 1,000 years so it can act as a catalyst for peace for a full millennium." [www.maitreyaproject.org].
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