MAITREYA - "Maitreya", the Lord Master expected by the Buddhists, is, in fact, a fiction created by the New Ager Benjamin Creme... he says it is not a religion, but he advises people to meet weekly in "Maitreya Groups" to create good Energy... - Benjamin Creme, born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1922, is a co-editor of the New Age magazine "Share International", and considers himself to be like another John the Baptist, the precursor of "Maitreya", "to make the initial approach to the public, to help create a climate of hope and expectancy". - "Maitreya", the "Master", in Creme's fiction, is supposed to be the "Christ" expected by the Christians, the "Messiah" expected by the Jews, the reincarnation of Krishna expected by the Hindus, the "Iman Mahdi" expected by the Muslims, the "Lord Maitreya" expected by the Buddhists.
- Creme attracted much attention in the early 1980s announcing the coming of the Lord Maitreya by 1982; whe Maitreya failed to appear, Creme's popularity quikly died. - However, Creme says that Maitreya is already alive, emerged from the Himalayas in 1977, and is living in London, in the Pakistani- Indian community as an ordinary man... but on the "Day of Declaration" the international television networks will be linked together, and Maitreya will be invited to speak to the world; we will see his face on television, but each of us will hear his words telepathically. - Creme says that Maitreya is already making unexpected apparitions in different countries, like in Kenya in 1991, in Uganda with the healing of 400 patients with AIDS, and the healing waters in Tlacote (Mexico), Nordenau (Germany), Nadana (India) ... but all of them unsubstantiated... he appears and disappears, without anybody's notice, claims the fiction story of Creme!. - Creme claims Maitreya predicted the fall of Communism and dozens of world social and political events, but all unsubstantiated, predicted after they had happened!. - A major event predicted by Maitreya, through Creme, in 1988, was "an international stock market crash"... but now, in 1997, still did not happened! - Creme calls him "the Master of all Masters", including the Master of Jesus Christ... "the Head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters", "the World Teacher", "the Lord Maitreya"... though Maitreya calls himself the "Teacher". ... For Creme, "Maitreya" means "the Lord of Joy and Gladness", dedicated to the reunification of all religions and humanity, and for the economic, social, and political welfare of the whole world. - For me, Maitreya is another Hindu-Buddhist cult, a false Messiah... Maitreya is not God, as Creme claims... the face of Maitreya exists, a good looking Hindu or Buddhist man, as given by the fiction story of Creme.
