Maitreya and the Coming World Order

August 9, 2005 Posted by Roger OvertoncloseAuthor: Roger Overton Name: Roger Overton
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Always make sure you’re near a television, or you just might miss him. Who? The Christ. Not Jesus the Christ, but Maitreya the Christ. I first heard about Maitreya in Warren Smith’s book, Deceived on Purpose. I as I stated in my review, Smith is incredibly knowledgeable about New Age spirituality and he tried to link Maitreya to Rick Warren (which he failed to do). Last Thursday I discovered Air America on my radio dial. This led to several hours of entertainment until I heard a rather creepy commercial. It was proclaiming the coming of Maitreya to the world; as well as his spokesman, Benjamin Crème, to Los Angeles on August 8^th.

You can learn more about Mr. Crème and Maitreya at their website, Share International. The commercial made several claims that you can find on the site, such as Maitreya being the one who all the world religions have been waiting for. According to Mr. Crème, Maitreya has been on earth for almost 30 years and has appeared to many, performing miracles of healing. He has been proclaiming “sharing and justice”, which is why (I’m guessing) Mr. Crème was interviewed on an Air America program. This intrigued me, I’d never heard a false Christ lecture before; so Amy (Face), a couple of her friends, and I went to hear Mr. Crème this evening.

Before the lecture a man played many songs on his guitar featuring the words and teachings of Maitreya. The evening was billed by the emcee as one that “could be life changing” and referred to it as an outreach event. After Mr. Crème was introduced, he looked at every individual in the audience giving each a personal blessing. He said nothing, but while this occurred audio was played from messages of Maitreya as recorded by Mr. Crème through “mental overshadowing or telepathy.” During this time we were instructed to “meditate or hold a high thought.” This lasted ten-fifteen minutes. We were told by the recording (Maitreya’s words) that we would “find the qualities of Jesus in Maitreya” because Jesus was a Christ. However, Maitreya’s “method of manifestation is more simple… I am with you and in you.” We were called to make Maitreya part of ourselves and allow him to manifest through us and know God.

“I would point the way to the new direction which man, if he would survive, must take: First, men must see themselves as brothers… sons of the one father.” Poverty, according to Maitreya (through Crème), is a crime that fills him with shame. The solution involves saving people from starvation and needless death. This is to be accomplished by listening again to the “true voice of God within your hearts.” Maitreya can’t fulfill his plan on his own though, “I need your help. I call on you to aid me in my task.” We were told that the success of his mission depends on us. If we will succeed, we must know that we are gods. When the blessing ended I looked up (I’d diverted my eyes from Mr. Crème’s “blessing”) to see some people with arms raised forward, and many with their eyes closed.

After the blessing, Mr. Crème began his lecture. Frank Sontag, a radio host at 95.5 KLOS, introduced the lecture. It was well over two hours, even though it was only scheduled to be ninety minutes. According to Mr. Crème, New Age teachings have come from “evolved,” “perfected” men. Most of the early teaching can be found in Theosophical writings, such as those of Alice A. Baily. They have been proclaiming the end of the Age of Pisces and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (queue the theme song). The New Age, according to Mr. Crème, is about looking forward in a fresh way in relation to the new alignment of the solar system according to the Zodiac. As the Age of Pisces declines, the energy that alignment gave us dissipates. As a result, all of the social structures built on the energy of Pisces will collapse and chaos and confusion will ensue if we fail to adapt to the new Age of Aquarius. It is at such times as this that war occurs, because “war is used by people who don’t know what to do.”

We are not at the end of the world, as many Christians would suggest. Rather, we are at the end of an Age. According to Mr. Crème, the world goes on for infinity, however, it will end when every grain of sand is perfected in its being. The Christ inaugurated the Age of Pisces through Jesus, and now he has returned in Maitreya to inaugurate Aquarius. Each age teaches us some necessary quality for our evolution. Pisces gave us the quality of individualism. We learned that human freedom and justice are “God given rights.” The United States likes the idea of freedom, but not equality. Justice is like what the Soviet Union did from 1913 until its collapse. It was an “experiment in justice.” It imposed equality on the physical plane through brotherhood (comrade).

Apparently Ronald Reagan was wrong- the Soviet Union was not evil, market driving forces are. They are “based on a scam” that “benefits the rich at the expense of the poor.” This evil has led to other evils, such as twenty-four countries owning nuclear weapons- particularly the United States and Israel. This will drive use to the edge of self-destruction. The way to get rid of terrorism is to get rid of greed, market-driven economies, and, especially, the G8.

Maitreya is the personal name of a man who is so pure and advanced he can “embody the Christ principle- love.” He is the head of other similarly evolved/perfect men who are the Masters of Wisdom. These men are here to advise the rest of us how we may evolve. Over the last 150 years our evolution has quickened, so Maitreya decided he could return. In 1945 he said he would return on the condition that some measure of peace would be restored, which means that sharing governs the world economy. However, in 1977 he decided to come whether we were ready for him or not. He took on a body that he had been creating for 7 or 8 years (no mother or father) and took up residence in the highest place of the Himalayas.

Incidentally, he wasn’t the first Master of Wisdom to come to us in our times. In 1975 five Masters entered the world, and shortly after two more followed. We were told only of one, named Jesus, who lives in Rome and is responsible for bringing together the Christian churches. Maitreya has “overshadowed” all of the religious teachers of the world- Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, etc., in order for us to be taught how to live- that “all of us are absolutely divine, not one more divine than another.” He has had many disciples, including President Roosevelt who instituted some of Maitreya’s plan in the formulation of the United Nations.

Maitreya is returning soon, maybe 2025 or 2050, Mr. Crème didn’t know for sure. He did know, though, that he’d be appearing on television. Also, if we fail to save the planet we would live in some dark corner of the universe in intense pain. To save the world, we must embrace “peace and justice.” This will be a good thing because human nature is to be happy and joyful.

My initial question, before anything had even started, was what the connection was between the New Age and socialism. I had no idea that almost the entire lecture would be an advertisement for socialism. Not just that, but also how corrupt and evil capitalism is. The New Age elements borrowed a lot from Buddhism- once we evolve and are perfected we can become a Master of Wisdom. Take out Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom, and you wouldn’t find much difference between what Mr. Crème said and Brian McLaren’s teachings (which are also similar to Buddhism). Another interesting similarity- one of their brochures, “What Can I Do?”, lists several websites that are advancing Maitreya’s plan. You might have heard of some- www.moveon.org, www.one.org.

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