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Benjamin Creme was a Scottish artist, author, esotericist, and editor of Share International magazine.He asserted that the Second Coming, prophesied by many religions, would come in the form of Maitreya, the World Teacher. Maitreya is the name Buddhists use for the future Buddha, but Creme claimed that Maitreya is the teacher that all religions point towards and hope for, as well as the Head of the Spiritual Hierarchy on Earth. Other names for him, according to Creme, are the Christ, the Imam Mahdi, Krishna, and the Messiah.

Creme identified Maitreya as the World Teacher for the present cosmological cycle, the Aquarian Age. Expressing the Christ Principle, Maitreya is said to be immortal and omniscient. Creme also maintained that Maitreya had descended from the Himalayas, then moved to London on 19 July 1977. When speaking of Maitreya, Creme insisted that Maitreya was not a religious teacher in the traditional sense, but rather "an educationalist in the widest sense of the word, advocating changes in our political, economic and social life... He comes to show that the spiritual life can be lived in every department of human living – not alone in the religious field."



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✵ 5. December 1922 – 24. October 2016
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Benjamin Creme Quotes

“Sharing on a world basis is possible if you have the concept and the will. It is simply a recognition of the need and finding a way to fulfill it. The Masters have a very simple plan which has been worked out, not by Them but with Their help, by a group of initiates, economists and financiers of international standing, but who are also members of the Spiritual Hierarchy: Each nation will be asked to make an inventory of what it has and what it needs. In this way the world’s ‘cake’ will be known. Each nation will be asked to make over into a common trust that which it has in excess of its needs in any given commodity... a very sophisticated form of barter will replace the present economic system.”

Benjamin Creme

p143
Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993)

Way , World , Making love , Help

“[After the stock-markets crash] the number one priority will be the provision of adequate food for all the people; two, the provision of adequate housing for all the people; thirdly, the provision of adequate healthcare and education for all the people. These are the basic human rights needed everywhere by all people, yet there is no country in the world in which all of these pertain as a universal right. When the economic collapse occurs, humanity will begin to recognize its oneness, and the need to co-operate and share the world’s resources.Maitreya will present the nations with an alternative way of living, of conducting economic and political affairs... The new government which will emerge after the stock market crash will reflect the will of the people and stand for the people.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993), Chapter 4, Economic Change

Housing , Food , Country , People

“This will bring about a complete transformation of society: a new livingness will characterize our relationships and institutions; a new freedom and sense of joy will replace the present fear. Above all else, mankind will come to realize that living is an art, based on certain laws, requiring the function of the intuition for correct expression.”

Benjamin Creme

The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life (2006)

Law , Freedom , Art , Joy

“Before long, a great change will take place in our approach to life. Out of the chaos of the present time will emerge a new understanding of the meaning underlying our existence and every effort will be made to express our awareness of that meaning in our daily lives.”

Benjamin Creme

The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life (2006)

Time , Understanding , Effort , Life

“In the esoteric tradition, the Christ is not the name of an individual but of an Office in the [esoteric spiritual] Hierarchy. The present holder of that Office, the Lord Maitreya, has held it for 2,600 years, and manifested in Palestine through His disciple, Jesus, by the occult method of overshadowing, the most frequent form used for the manifestation of Avatars.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Christ

“We must show our ability to become One with All, the whole of this planetary life: with our fellow beings... We must stop exploiting the planet and misusing its resources; stop exploiting the lower kingdoms and misusing their life; show that this is One World, One Humanity, One Life. This is the destiny of mankind.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

World , Life

“To my mind, the Agni Yoga teachings constitute one of the major attempts of Hierarchy to prepare humanity for the new age. They are entirely relevant to the present----and future time. The first book of the series, The Call, was given by Maitreya Himself, and was intended to alert disciples to the fact of His imminent return. The Master Morya, as I have said elsewhere, is one of the first group of Masters to be seen by humanity, and is the stimulus behind the occult groups of all kinds. His immediate task is to regenerate and purify the teaching of these groups... [The Agni Yoga Teachings were given] by mental telepathy through Helena Roerich (a disciple of the Master Morya) in Russian... My information is that The Call is His [Maitreya's] sole personal contribution to the Agni Yoga series.. The Call is also titled: Leaves of Morya’s Garden, I.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. I (1986), p. 300/1

Time , Personality , Future , Books

“The young will rebel against the ideologies of old whether they are imposed on them by politicians, religious leaders or intellectuals. The surge of young voices is already being heard and their demands will have impact.”

Benjamin Creme

The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life (2006)

“Many will know for the first time that they count, that they matter in the scheme of things. An unfamiliar sense of self-esteem will replace their present hopelessness; drugs of all kinds will cease their hold on men. Quietly, men’s tears will flow in humble gratitude and longing for the good.”

Benjamin Creme

The Awakening of Humanity (2008)

Time , Gratitude , Self-confidence , Sense

“When we create an economic system based on co-operation and sharing rather than on competition and market forces, we will create a more moral economic structure. When the stock exchanges collapse, humanity will be brought face to face with its illusions about the nature of reality.”

Benjamin Creme

Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997)

Reality , Nature

“Maitreya will call for the creation of trust. There is no trust between the nations. No one trusts anyone. So no one can do anything. Banks don’t lend as they did before. He will talk about the need for trust, and without it how nothing can happen for the good. And competition of course destroys trust. It is the opposite. Co-operation is necessary for humanity. We are all hooked on greed and competition – and you see the result, we are living it. Every time you turn on your television you hear about firms going out of business, the banks don’t lend and so on. That is the result of competition and greed, and it is folly. Sharing is the only solution.”

Benjamin Creme

Quoted in Questions & Answers, Share International https://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2018/2018-10.htm#q-n-a (October 2018)
Share International Magazine

Business , Time

“Millions of humanity believe, ignorantly, that speculation and competition are the best things in life. They bring out the best in a person. From Maitreya’s point of view they bring out the worst in anyone. They bring out all the separation, the malice, the greed, the need to win. They separate humanity because they put brakes on the aspiration of humanity for a better life, and lead us into a super-commercialization which is destroying all life today. Commercialization reduces people to being pawns on a chessboard: they are useless unless they can bring more profits to the company that employs them.”

Benjamin Creme

Quoted in Questions & Answers, Share International https://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2018/2018-10.htm#q-n-a (October 2018)
Share International Magazine

Personality , Life , People

“Spirituality is the essential nature of our being, simply needing demonstration in outer forms. Whatever we can conceive of as human activity can be, in fact must be, spiritual. True morality is not to do with a code of values which humanity evolves to suit a certain society or a certain religious belief, but something which is intrinsic in our spirituality.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997)

Nature

“Without recognizing it as such, humanity is undergoing a great spiritual crisis that is focused through the political and economic field. That spiritual crisis can only be resolved by the resolution of our political and economic problems, which are based on the false sense of separation. If we would evolve, develop as a race, we must realize our oneness, realize that we are brothers and sisters of one family, under the one Divine Source, and identical with that Source. What happens in a normal family? They share whatever they have. A mother will not feed one child better than another, give one child 17 per cent and another 83 per cent of the food. We have to realize that we are one family, and therefore must share the resources of the world more equitably around the world.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997)

Family , Food , Problem , Falseness

“First to go will be the world’s stock markets. They are, as Maitreya has said, about to crash. They will come down because they stand in the way of right relationship. They really bear no relation to the needs even of trade between countries. They are an anachronism, what Maitreya calls, very accurately, “gambling casinos” which have no part to play in the future time, at least in their present form.”

Benjamin Creme

The Awakening of Humanity (2008)

Time , Country , Future , Way

“The achievements of the age, the aspirations of the millions, the readiness to share, the aid agencies, organizations like the United Nations and the various international groupings which, behind the scenes, unite people with people and give a sense of internationalism and co-operation, will be maintained and will grow; they can only flourish in the new situation. But those which stand in the way, those narrow, nationalistic structures based on competition, market forces and greed, will find it impossible to stand against the “onslaught of the new”, the ideas of the new time.”

Benjamin Creme

The Awakening of Humanity (2008)

Time , People , Way , Age

“It is very difficult for one person to change the actions of a government, but for one person to have a strong impact on a group at the local level is not impossible. This is happening all the time. People with something to say, with ideas that the community thinks are good and practical, are changing life in every country in the world. It is happening whether we are aware of it or not.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)

Time , Country , Strong , Personality

“If you want democracy, you have to participate. That means action. That does not mean leaving it to somebody else to participate — you have to do it. At a local level the more you do, the more effective you can become. If you participate as a group on a local level, your effect on a local level can be much more positive, actually more effective than it can be on the abstract level of national and international politics.”

Benjamin Creme

The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)

Democracy

“Local participation is the number one need. That is democracy. Politicians talk about democracy, but there really is not much democracy. They are the ones who make the decisions, and they are the government. In this way, your democracy is diminished. Democracy is democracy not only through voting but through participation. The more participation there is, the more democracy is a reality. Until that pertains we can only say there is a move towards democracy, no real democracy in the world.”

Benjamin Creme

The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)

Democracy , Way , Reality , Decision

“Complacency results from separation — the sense that we are separate and that by competition we become superior — and that superiority allows us to live what we call ‘well’. But we cannot live ‘well’ when two-thirds of the world are living and dying in absolute poverty. It is not possible to do so with impunity, and we do not. The result is crime. The result is catastrophe of one kind or another — governments which create wars for oil, for example. That is a catastrophe, and it is only possible because we are complacent, because we do not acknowledge the needs of millions of people who cannot take for granted what we take for granted: regular food, leisure, education and healthcare.”

Benjamin Creme

The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)

Food , War , People , World

“The real evil, the fundamental cause of all the problems of the world today — the fact that two-thirds of the world live in absolute poverty, on less than a dollar a day, while others have not even that, and are dying in the millions — the root of all of that is our complacency. If we were not complacent we could not bear to live in a world in which these events were happening, these people were dying in the midst of plenty. We would not allow it to happen if we were not complacent. This is something which we need to remember... because this is the root of all the troubles in the world. It is a sign of our separateness.”

Benjamin Creme

The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)

World , Problem , People , Evil

“I am the Stranger at the Gate. I am the One Who knocks. I am the One Who will not go away. I am your Friend. I am your Hope. I am your Shield. I am your Love. I am All in All.”

Benjamin Creme

Message No. 10
Messages from Maitreya the Christ (1981)

Love , Making love , Hope

“There will come a time when humanity will look back on this time as the 'barbarian age.'”

Benjamin Creme

So far from the possible ideal is the present dying civilization that future men will wonder how, and for so long, were we able to sustain it.
Source: A Master Speaks (1985)
The end of the 'barbarian age https://share-international.org/archives/Master_--/Mas-end-barbarian.html (April 1999)

Time , Age

“Environment and energy will be the top priorities of the new era. Last will be defense, because there will be nothing to defend. When light is at your command you do not need guns and bullets.”

Benjamin Creme

Share International Magazine

Light

“The easiest way to do Transmission Meditation is to join an existing group. If there is no group in your area within a reasonable distance, you can form your own group by joining with two other people. More people are more useful, but a basic group of three is a practical working group.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age (1983)

Way , People

“A tree is known by its fruit and it is by His love, wisdom, spiritual potency and work for humanity that you will recognize Maitreya and know Him for what He is.”

Benjamin Creme

Maitreya's Mission Vol. I (1986)

Love , Tree , Making love , Wisdom

“There is a general time period, cosmically determined, but the exact timing of such events depends on humanity’s readiness and ability to respond.”

Benjamin Creme

Maitreya's Mission Vol. I (1986)

Time , Dependency

“Maitreya will present the nations with an alternative way of living, of conducting economic and political affairs... The new government which will emerge after the stock market crash will reflect the will of the people and stand for the people.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993), After the stock markets collapse, Chapter 4, Economic Change

Way , People

“Capitalism without socialism is like a great shark in the waters that will eat up everything in sight, and has no group sense or social responsibility. We need to take the best of both systems and bring them together....a fusion of the best aspects of both. Both are necessary.”

Benjamin Creme

Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993)

Sense , Water

“Two thousand six hundred years ago, Gautama Buddha made a prediction that at this time would come another great teacher who would inspire humanity to create a new and brilliant golden civilization based on righteousness and truth. His name would be Maitreya, a Buddha like Himself.”

Benjamin Creme

Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993)

Truth , Time , Teachers

“The time is fast coming when there will be no need for prisons, as individuals can be controlled from space. Terrorism will disappear because there will be no place for terrorists to hide.”

Benjamin Creme

Share International Magazine

Time

“Our prime task now is to look after the environment. This will become the responsibility of every individual, politician, guru, saint and scientist. Our energies will be spent in making it healthy again. When that happens there will be less suffering, disease and poverty.”

Benjamin Creme

Share International Magazine

Making love , Suffering , Disease

“Maitreya is sending a clear message to the world's political leaders: no wars can now be won, and spending vast amounts of money on international arms programmes is a complete waste.”

Benjamin Creme

Share International Magazine

Money , War , World

“The coming stock market crash will inevitably cause much unemployment. This will lead to a complete change of government priorities: the supplying of adequate food, shelter, health-care and education will become paramount responsibilities of all forward looking nations. The waste of resources as today, in armaments and competitive practices, will cease. A rational and sustainable economic structure based on sufficiency will become the norm. Leisure will be the natural by-product of such a structure. p.156”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993), After the stock markets collapse

Food , Health , Nature , Education

“The Mystery Schools are the schools in which the training and disciplines for initiation are received. Colleges will be created from which those seen as ready for initiation will be drawn. The Mystery Schools themselves will be of two categories: preparatory and advanced. The aim is that all humanity should have taken at least the first initiation (and thus enter the Spiritual Hierarchy) in this coming Aquarian cycle. There will be a preparatory school in Japan, an advanced one in China; a preparatory one in Scotland, an advanced one in Ireland; a preparatory one in the American Midwest, an advanced one in California; a preparatory one in New Zealand, and advanced one in Australia; a preparatory one in Greece, an advanced one in Egypt; a preparatory one in Sweden, an advanced one in Russia; a preparatory one in France, an advanced one in Italy. Thus, the world as a whole will be covered to give precise teaching to those disciples who are ready for preparation for initiation.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993), p. 181

Training , World , School

“Hope, I would say, is of two kinds: there is the hope which is a wish-fulfilling fantasy... It can go a long way in sustaining the person in difficult circumstances. It is the kind of hope of Mr Micawber, a famous Charles Dickens character. He was always in dire straits, impecunious, but always living in hope, waiting “for something to turn up.””

Benjamin Creme

That kind of hope is astral desire, and will take you, as it took him, through a whole book, but will not of itself do other than sustain your ability to live life from day to day.
Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993)

Way , Waiting , Hope , Personality

“When you have a divergence of man's will from God's Will for long enough, disaster comes.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

God

“When the will of man and the Will of God coincide, you have right living - the Plan goes forward. There are no downfalls.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

God

“Man is divine. He is also human and he has free will. And he is given the chance to exert that free will.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Chance

“The planets are of two kinds. Those which are sacred planets, and those which are non-sacred. The Earth is not one of the sacred planets... Sacred planets have no evil.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Evil

“Another great entity standing behind the Christ is the Spirit of Peace or Equilibrium. He is overshadowing the Christ, in a very similar way to the way the Christ overshadowed and worked through the disciple Jesus in Palestine. He works very closely with the law of Action and Reaction, and His function is to transform the prevalent discord, confusion, chaos, turmoil in the world into its opposite, so that we shall enter an era of tranquility and peace - in exact proportion to the present discord. The violence and hatred of today will be transmuted into goodwill, and again, in exact proportion to the intensity of the hatred and violence. This is the great Law of Action and Reaction functioning. The law stated is that action and reaction are equal and opposite, and this great Cosmic Entity, the Spirit of Equilibrium, is working now through the Christ, producing the transformation of the world.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Way , World , Peace , Law

“I love space exploration; I think it is a great thing. What space exploration has done for mankind is to begin the process of realization that we are only one tiny centre in a huge solar system which itself is a tiny centre in a great galaxy, a fantastic Entity, which we call 'space.'”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Thinking , Love

“There are two kinds of thoughtforms: those which are mental and those which are the result of man's fears - these are unreal. But they become real, because every thought is real. Even if it is an astral thoughtform, it is still a potent force although it has no essential reality.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Reality , Fear

“A completely new attitude will take place in relation to work. Through the power of sound, man will build and create the artefacts of his civilization and control his environment, relating it to his real needs.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

“When the will of man and the Will of God coincide, you have right living - the Plan goes forward... When you have a divergence of man's will from God's Will for long enough, disaster comes.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

God

“Mankind is beginning to realize that it is not alone in the universe, not alone in the solar system.”

Benjamin Creme

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Universe

“There is a special need all the time. This is a day-to-day problem, not something that can be solved now and again with a few dollars of aid.”

Benjamin Creme

The Great Approach (2001) p. 19

Time , Problem

“This planet itself is a living, breathing, incarnating entity. It does not incarnate in exactly the same way as we do, but does so in relation to the Plan of our Solar Logos.”

Benjamin Creme

Source: The Great Approach (2001) p. 9

Way

“Over the ages, if we had had a more open attitude to knowledge, to change of consciousness, to change of perception of the possibilities of life and the nature of the reality in which we live, people like Galileo or Copernicus would have had altogether easier lives.”

Benjamin Creme

The Great Approach (2001)

People , Nature , Knowledge , Reality

“For myself, I am totally convinced that these are the true happenings of our time; that, even as I write, these events are unfolding. As they further unfold, I believe they will prove to your fullest satisfaction that this is the true condition of our present time in history.”

Benjamin Creme

The Great Approach (2001) p. 1

Time , History