THE TEACHER

He is known to people of different religious traditions as:

  • the Christ
  • the Kalki Avatar or Lord Krishna
  • the Messiah
  • the Imam Mahdi
  • the Bodhisattva
  • the Fifth Buddha, Maitreya Buddha
  • the World Teacher

But He prefers to be known simply as 'the Teacher'.

Students of the esoteric tradition know all these as different names for the same individual --- the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher, the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters and they look for His imminent appearance on the world stage now. His personal name is Maitreya (My-Tray-uh). 

Christ
According to esoteric teachings the word "Christ" is a title for a position or function within the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters (also known as the Brotherhood, the Church Invisible, etc.). It is a group of very advanced beings with high degrees of 'Christ Consciousness' who guide our evolution from behind the scenes. Whoever stands at the head of this Hierarchy is known as the Christ. The present holder of that office, Maitreya, the Master of all the Masters, has been the Christ for the past 2,600 years. His energies work through men and women of goodwill everywhere, regardless of religious, philosophical, or political affiliations.

Maitreya embodies the energy we call the Christ Principle. He has held the office of the Christ for over two millennia. In Palestine He manifested Himself as the Christ through Jesus to inaugurate the Age of Pisces, then beginning. The method He used is called spiritual overshadowing. His consciousness informed and guided the actions and teachings of Jesus for the three year period between His Baptism & the Crucifixion. It was actually the consciousness of Maitreya which was seen and experienced by those around Jesus. These Two continue to work closely together and will soon be seen 'shoulder to shoulder' on the world stage on...

Excerpts of His Teachings

"If you personify Me," He warns, "you will create nothing but confusion, chaos, destruction.

If you parade Me, you do not know who I am. Even my signs create only momentary happiness. The happiest moment is when you see me within your heart."

"I do not want you to believe in Me. First experience Me within you. When you experience Me then you become aware of My presence within you: it is not a matter of belief first. I do not want you to accept or reject me --- it is your inner experience which counts." What you experience yourself, says Maitreya, is your wealth, the richness of your own Being. The living truth is a matter of experience."

"Do not try to worship Me, Maitreya counsels. If you worship Me, you are trying to lower yourself. I do not want this. I want you to be equal. You are a spark of the Supreme Being. Do not think you are below Me. "

"The Self alone matters," Maitreya teaches. You are that Self, "an immortal Being." Suffering is caused by identification with anything and everything which is not Self. Ask yourself, "Who am I?" You wll see that you are identified either with matter (the body), or with thought (the mind), or with power (spirit). But you are none of these. "Mind, spirit and body are temples of the Lord; the Self experiences in these "the supreme Being and Becoming of the Lord."

From 'MAITREYA'S MISSION VOL. II, by Benjamin Creme;
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The Tibetan:

"When He comes at the close of this century and makes His power felt He will come as the Teacher of Love and Unity, and the keynote He will strike will be regeneration through love poured forth on all...

"It is a fallacy to believe, as some do, that the main trend of Christ's work will be through the medium of the churches or the world religions...He will use all available channels whereby the consciousness of man may be enlarged and right orientation be brought about...the churches are but one of the teaching avenues He will employ...

"It is light and--above all else--"life more abundantly" which Christ will bring, and until He brings it we know not what it signifies; we cannot realise the revelation which this will entail and the new possibilities which will open up before us..." (The Tibetan)

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