Who the heck is Maitreya?

This is not an easy question to answer. Maitreya is the head of the spiritual hierarchy of masters who have completed the earthly evolution. One of these masters is Jesus, who is said to be living in Rome at this very moment. Another of these masters is Master Racoczi, whose previous incarnations include the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon and, in the 18th century, Count St. Germain. The message of the coming of Maitreya, the world teacher, is presented by artist and visionary Benjamin Creme, who lives in London. For more than 30 years, Mr Creme has travelled the globe spreading the news of the coming of Christ (Maitreya), who represents the love principle. Maitreya and the masters have not come to establish a new religion, but to teach us the art of self-realisation.

My own encounter with Maitreya was a very disturbing one, taking me back to my childhood years. When I was about ten or eleven, I asked myself: Would people recognise Jesus if he were to return to our world today? After contemplating this question for several days, I came to the conclusion that people would not recognise him. Case closed. Of course, I heard of several people claiming to be Jesus, but I never took them seriously. However, in 1996 I came across an advertisement which read something like: The world teacher has come. It was as if I was struck by lightning.
I was completely unprepared and had forgotten about my thoughts during my youth. When I received the information from Share International in Amsterdam I hid it under my coat. I did not want to be seen with such ‘ridiculous’ information as the 'return of Christ’. I knew intuitively, however, that this was no hoax, but the real thing.
I purchased Maitreya’s Mission: Volume Two by Benjamin Creme. I was struck by two things, which I had intuitively known to be true since childhood: the illusion or lure of interest on money and the certainty of financial crises in the near future.

Intuition and understanding, however, are quite different. Another eight years would pass before I understood a little of the simplicity of the basic political-economic mechanism, which I presented in The political-economic DECOY. We create immense bureaucratic institutions in the form of political, marketing, insurance and pension companies to assure the future. Ultimately, it all boils down to one simple question: Are we prepared to share what is given to us by life itself? Hidden in each of us is the answer to the question: Who the heck is Maitreya? The most positive approach entails seeing Maitreya as a hypothesis that has to be investigated.

I am in no way affiliated with Benjamin Creme or his organisation Share International, although I do subscribe to the French edition of Share International. The reflections on Maitreya are my own and do not in any way reflect an official point of view, whatever that may be. More information: www.shareintl.org