Benjamin Creme - Messages from Maitreya the Christ

Messages from

Maitreya the Christ One Hundred Forty Messages Share International Foundation London / Amsterdam / Los Angeles Copyright 1993, 2004, 2013 Benjamin Creme Estate, London Published by Share International Foundation All rights reserved ISBN/EAN: 978-90-71484-77-3 First eBook Edition, 2017 The painting reproduced on the cover, painted by Benjamin Creme in 1974, represents The Flaming Diamond , the Greater Rod of Initiation, used at the third and higher Initiations by Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World, on Shamballa. Charged at each World Cycle from the Central Spiritual Sun, it focusses Electrical Fire through the centres of the Initiate. There is a Lesser Rod used by the Christ at the first two Initiations. Table of Contents Foreword Knowingly or not, the world stands ready to recognise the Christ. His long-awaited and hoped-for reappearance is now an accomplished fact. On July 19, 1977, the Christ, Maitreya, the World Teacher, Head of our Spiritual Hierarchy, emerged from His ancient retreat and is now in the modern world.

With His Disciples, the Masters of Wisdom, He will inaugurate the New Age of Synthesis and Brotherhood. Benjamin Creme, British artist and esotericist, explains: Early in September, 1977, I was taken before Maitreya Who asked if I would take, publicly, communications from Him which, since 1974, I had received in the privacy of the group with which I work. I said I would try, do my best. On September 6, 1977, the first public Message was given at Friends House, Euston Road, London, experimentally, to find out how I stood up to this kind of mental overshadowing and spiritual telepathy in public, a very different thing from the privacy of ones own group. The Messages are relayed by me to the audience. No trance or mediumship is involved, and the voice is mine, strengthened in power and altered in pitch by the overshadowing energy of Maitreya.

They are transmitted simultaneously on all the astral and mental planes, while I supply the basic etheric-physical vibration for this to take place. From these subtle levels, the Messages impress the minds and hearts of countless people who are gradually made aware of the thoughts and the Presence of the Christ. A great thought-form is being built on the inner planes, embodying the fact of the Christs Presence. This thought-form is then tuned into by the sensitives, clairvoyants and mediums of the world who, from now on, will increasingly bring in (in more or less distorted form) the information of the Christs return. He releases in this way fragments of His Teaching, to prepare the climate of hope and expectancy which will ensure His being accepted and followed, quickly and gladly. It is an enormous and embarrassing claim to have to make that the Christ is giving messages through oneself.

But if people can rid their minds of the idea of the Christ as some sort of spirit, sitting in heaven at Gods right hand; if they can begin to see Him as indeed He is,a real and living man (albeit a Divine Man) who has never left the world; who descended, in 1977, not from heaven but from His ancient retreat in the Himalayas, to complete the task He began in Palestine; as a great Master, an Adept and Yogi; as the chief actor in a Gospel Story which is essentially true, but much simpler than hitherto presented if people can accept that possibility, then the claim to receive telepathic communications from such a closer and more knowable Being is also, perhaps, more acceptable. In any case, I leave it to a study of the quality of the Messages themselves to convince or otherwise. For many people, the energies which flow during the overshadowing convince. Many who come to the meetings at which these Messages are given are clairvoyant in various degrees, and their visions of the overshadowing as it takes place is for them the most convincing evidence of all. The previous statement is extracted from the preface to The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom by Benjamin Creme (Tara Press, 1980). Through these communications, Maitreya, the Christ, suggests the lines that social change must take.

He gives hints on how to recognise Him and urges His listeners to make known the fact of His Presence. He evokes also the desire to share and to serve humanity and Himself. It is interesting to note how He returns to His themes again and again, presenting them differently and with growing emphasis. It is interesting, too, to see how every tenth Message (Nos. 10, 20, 30, and so on) stands out from the others; how in these He describes Himself in abstract terms as the embodiment of Divine Qualities rather than as the simple man, the brother and friend of humanity, which He is at pains to emphasise elsewhere. It is recommended that readers take one Message at a time and read it aloud.

In this way the rhythmic (mantric) quality of each Message can be better felt. It is almost impossible to say these Messages aloud, with attention, without invoking the Christs energy, His heart response. They are apparently simple, sent from heart to heart, but work on various levels and should be meditated upon for their full meaning to come through. Some people find it best to select one Message daily and meditate on that. Many, singly and in groups, use in their meditations the tapes from which these Messages are transcribed. The Christs energies, magnetised onto the tape as the Message is given, are released again at each replaying, thus enhancing the quality of the meditation.

BENJAMIN CREME Message No. 1 September 6, 1977 My dear friends, it will not be long until you see My face. When that time comes I shall take your hands in mine and lead you to Him Whom we serve together. My Manifestation is complete and accomplished. I am, verily, in the world. Soon you shall know Me, perhaps follow Me and love Me.

My Love flows ever through you all. And that Love, which I hold for all mankind, has brought Me here. My brothers and sisters, My Return to the world is a signal that the New Age, as you call it, has commenced. In this coming time, I shall show you beauties and wonders beyond your imaginings, but which are your birthright as sons of God. My children, My friends, I have come more quickly, perhaps, than you expected. But there is much to do, much that needs changing in the world.

Many hunger and die, many suffer needlessly. I come to change all that; to show you the way forward into a simpler, saner, happier life together. No longer man against man, nation against nation, but together, as brothers, shall we go forth into the New Country. And those who are ready shall see the Fathers face. May the Divine Love and Light and Power of the One God be now manifest within your hearts and minds. May this Light and Love and Power lead you to seek That which dwells always in your hearts centre.

Find That, and make It manifest. Message No. 2 September 15, 1977 Good evening, My dear friends. I have taken, again, this opportunity to speak to you, and to establish firmly in your minds the reasons for My Return. There are many reasons why I should descend and appear once more among you. Chiefly they are as follows: My Brothers, the Masters of Wisdom, are scheduled to make Their group Return to the everyday world.

As Their Leader, I, as one of Them, do likewise. Many there are throughout the world who call Me, beg for My Return. I answer their pleas. Many more are hungry and perish needlessly, for want of the food which lies rotting in the storehouses of the world. Many need My help in other ways: as Teacher, Protector; as Friend and Guide. It is as aIl of these I come.

To lead men, if they will accept Me, into the New Time, the New Country, the glorious future which awaits humanity in this coming Age; for all of this I come. I come, too, to show you the way to God, back to your Source; to show you that the Way to God is a simple path which all men can tread; to lead you upwards, into the light of that New Truth which is the Revelation that I bring. For all of this I come. Let Me take you by the hand and lead you into that beckoning country, to show you the marvels, the glories of God, which are yours to behold. The vanguard of My Masters of Wisdom are now among you. Soon you will know Them.