“Maitreya is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins - the last Messiah who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Secret Doctrine I, p. 384

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occult writer 1831–1891

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