The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom - Softcover

Creme, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093660400X ISBN 13: 9780936604008

Publisher: The Tara Press, 1980

Synopsis

SYNOPSIS
In this first of 16 books, Benjamin Creme makes the startling announcement that Maitreya (the Christ), as World Teacher for the coming age, is already among us--gradually emerging into full public recognition. Expected by various religions under different names, he is here to promote cooperation among the many ideological factions, galvanize world goodwill and sharing, and inspire sweeping political, social, economic and environmental reforms. Creme puts the most profound event of the last 2,000 years into its correct historical and esoteric context and describes what effect the World Teacher's presence will have on both the world's institutions and the average person. Through his telepathic contact with a Master of Wisdom, Creme offers insights on such subjects as the soul and reincarnation, telepathy, nuclear energy, ancient civiliations, problems of the developing world, a new economic order, the anti-Christ and the 'last judgement'.

About this title

About the Author:

Since 1974, British artist Benjamin Creme has been the source of further revelations concerning the Ageless Wisdom and, in particular, about the reappearance of Maitreya, the Christ and World Teacher for the coming age--information which Creme receives through his moment-to-moment telepathic contact with a Master of Wisdom.

Creme lectures throughout the world on this subject and has given hundreds of radio, television and print interviews. Compiled from these lectures, his books have been translated and published in numerous languages by groups responding to his message. He is also co-editor of Share International, a monthly magazine circulating in over 70 countries. Creme receives no remuneration for this work and makes no claims about his own spiritual status.

Review:

When people hear the claim that someone called Maitreya, a new World Teacher as powerful as the Buddha or the Christ, is in our midst, most are curious about the source, the rationale and the evidence. For 40 years, Benjamin Creme, the main source for this revelation, has ... provided the rationale and pointed out mounting evidence that such a remarkable being is, indeed, among us. Benjamin Creme begins by explaining how a perfectly sensible, practical family man and dedicated artist could set aside his life s work in favor of a very different task.

In the late 1950s, he was telepathically contacted for the first time by his Master, who he later learned was a senior member of the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. The Master gave him a series of transmitted messages containing advice, guidance or spiritual instruction ... Then in 1959 ... he was given a discourse on His Reappearance by Maitreya, the Christ, Head of our planetary Hierarchy, and the startling news that he would have a part in the Plan.

It is an enormous, and embarrassing claim to have to make that the Christ is giving messages through oneself. Yet by the time I met Benjamin Creme in 1980, there was no sign of embarrassment or discomfort.... he was quite matter-of-fact when discussing his work, whether speaking to hundreds in a large auditorium or relaxed at a family dinner table. Over the years, he has always been the same extremely intelligent, immensely kind, modest, witty and completely dedicated to his work...

Creme acknowledges ... that he makes various prophetic statements which are, by their nature, impossible of immediate proof [which] may have been impossible to prove in 1977, but a quick review of ongoing world events since then renders them remarkable in their accuracy.... Ultimately, Creme observes, the need for change will become so overwhelmingly obvious that the most privileged among us will find themselves increasingly powerless to stop the momentum ... [and] international banking and financial institutions will prove to be among the last to accept the fact that a complete change in the world s financial and economic order is imperative. (In 1980, when Benjamin Creme spoke of these future developments during a casual conversation, I responded, That can t possibly happen! He calmly said, Wait and see. )

Creme was asked to introduce ... a new science of meditation Transmission Meditation: a meditation for the New Age. Throughout his worldwide travels making known information about the Emergence, this meditation has been of central importance and today Transmission Meditation groups exist in large numbers throughout the world. The brief chapter titled The Great Invocation , which is used in this group meditation ... provides visualizations which animate each of the Invocation s phrases and offers guidance to those who wish to form a telepathic conduit between yourselves and Hierarchy . Through that conduit the energies thus invoked can flow. There is nothing better you can do for the world or yourselves, than channel these great spiritual potencies.

The longest section of the book is composed of audience questions and Creme s responses, largely drawn from meetings at Friends House in London in the late 1970s. They provide a snapshot of the period leading up to 1979-80, when the world experienced tectonic power shifts politically, economically and technologically.

[Included] are 12 messages given by Maitreya between 1977 and 1979. On 18 April 1978, Maitreya offers a very simple recipe for hope: ... the problems of Mankind can be solved: through the process of sharing and just redistribution the needs of all can be met. Sounds impossible? Wait and see.

Review by Maureen Girard, California, USA --Share International

About this edition

• Publisher: The Tara Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 093660400X
• ISBN 13: 9780936604008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 252