| Benjamin
Creme: The people before whom he appears are in every
case fundamentalists of one persuasion or another.
Denominationally they vary tremendously but the
consistent factor is that they are all extremely
dogmatic in their beliefs. Maitreya appears to them to
soften them up. These are the groups from whom,
throughout the world, he expects the major opposition
and rejection. If he appears as The World Teacher and
they are expecting the Teacher in their own terms ―
as the Christ, Maitreya Buddha, Krishna, the Imam
Mahdi, the Messiah ― with their very fixed views,
they would be inclined to reject him.
The most important
thing is the creation of the healing waters, which is
done first. When Maitreya has magnetized the waters,
in due course ― it might take a few weeks ― he finds
a group of fundamentalists in a town nearby and
appears before them. He speaks to them in their own
language and many healings take place during the
process. He does not say: "I am Maitreya," "I am the
Christ," or "I am the Imam Mahdi," he just appears,
out of the blue, but in a form which they will
recognize ― as he did in Nairobi in Kenya, on 11 June
1988, an appearance of which we have photographs.
Maitreya leaves it to
the groups, in the thoughtform in which he has
appeared to them, to recognize him or not. Some of
them will say: "Beware, it could be the anti-christ:
before the Christ comes, the anti-christ is coming."
That is why they do not speak out and, if they do not
speak, the media does not speak. Occasionally at these
meetings there have been representatives of religious
newspapers who do not write about it. Why not? I think
they do not know what to do with this information: it
is too hot. Either they believe it is the Christ or
they believe it is the anti-christ; or they are
mystified because he has not said who he is. Perhaps
80 per cent of the people believe they had an
experience of the Christ, or the Mahdi, or the Messiah
― whomever it happened to be ― and they are
perfectly content to accept that and just wait for
something more to happen in connection with it. That
must do something to their awareness, even if they do
not talk about it except among themselves. When
eventually they see Maitreya on television they will
say: "That's the one who appeared to us ― perhaps he
is all right after all; perhaps he is not the
anti-christ."
The
appearance in Nairobi was reported and
photographed because the editor of the Swahili edition
of the Kenya Times was present and wrote it
up. It was picked up by various media and was a
two-day wonder around the world. The media in general,
as ordinary men and women, are deeply, profoundly
skeptical, and professionally, not only skeptical, but
cynical...
[From the March 1994 issue of Share International
magazine.]
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