Up to the end of 2025, the online edition of Share International magazine presents a selection of items from the printed edition. Each online edition includes a complete article by Benjamin Creme's Master. Most other articles reproduced here, covering a wide range of topics, are excerpts. The online edition usually also includes a selection of Questions and Answers, Readers' letters, and photographs of Signs of Maitreya's presence. From the beginning of 2026, the printed edition is no longer being produced, but the entire magazine is available on this website.
See the full table of contents of the printed edition at the foot of the page.
From the inception of Share International magazine, Benjamin Creme’s Master provided an article every month for nearly 35 years. These were intended to be published not only at the time they were written, but also whenever appropriate according to world circumstances.
As the dark clouds of war gather and obscure the sunlit sky of peace, the response of humanity is twofold: mute acceptance and compliance with the will of the warmongers, or active and spirited resistance to their plans and ploys. Today, we see both reactions in equal measure. Half the world is caught up in the glamour of ‘a war against terrorism’ (without recognizing the underlying cause) and in terrorism itself. The other half deplores both terrorism and the lack of understanding of its genesis. They know that changes, on a major scale, alone hold the key to ending this atrocious evil, and call to the leaders of nations to recognize and address the inequalities which so unfairly divide the world. This latter group must grow and increase their resistance to the plans of those, now in power, who so threaten the stability of the world. They must find each other and work together, knowing that they work and speak for the vast but silent majority who share their longing for peace and manifested justice.
Peace will only come when justice reigns, when sharing has opened men’s hearts and awakened them to trust. Thus men must work and speak loudly for justice and sharing which alone will bring an end to men’s suffering, to terrorism and war. We, your Elder Brothers, are ready to do Our part. We will potentize all actions taken on behalf of the Common Good. We await the opportunity to manifest Our strength; to help to right the wrongs of the past; to show men the uselessness of war. We pledge Our support of all who call for an end to war, for the restoration of sanity and balance in the affairs of men, for the creation of justice and freedom for all.
Help Us to help you. Help Us to do Our part. We long to act, as always, in the interest of the Common Good, which, in Our understanding, is the best interests of all men. Thus it is that We advocate sharing; thus do We advise justice; thus do We see freedom and peace as the culmination of sharing and justice. Let us work together for the rescue of this world. Let us abandon differences in the interests of the race. Let sanity triumph and bring men to see their mutual need for peace, and the restoration of an ailing world.
Many await the future in dread, fearful that man has lost his way, that it is now too late to find the path to peace. We counsel otherwise. We know that the path to peace is simply found, needing only the creation of justice and trust. We know that sharing alone will engender that trust, and bring men to abandon both terrorism and war. Thus will it be, and thus will men respond to Maitreya’s message of Brotherhood and Justice, free at last from the glamours of fear and mistrust, ready to create the future in deed and in joy.
(Share International, January/February 2004)
These articles are by a senior member of the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom. His name, well-known in esoteric circles, is not yet being revealed. Benjamin Creme, a principal spokesman about the emergence of Maitreya, was in constant telepathic contact with this Master who dictated his articles to him.
“Love your brother; heed his need; give of your plenty and restore joy to the world.” “You are your brother’s keeper.” “Take your brother’s need as the measure for your action …” “Humanity is One.” “All for one and one for all.” “We can do so much more together. This is synergy!”
Not new. Not unfamiliar. Not even printed in this issue apart from on this page but the concept of shared responsibility and oneness encapsulates everything Share International stands for and aims to convey, directly and indirectly. These statements were made by Maitreya in his Messages, by Benjamin Creme and his Master, by the Master Djwhal Khul and by a spokesman for Maitreya or one of the Masters.
If ever there were a time for humanity to live by and act on these precepts it is now. We need to take action, in unison, in solidarity to give justice and peace a chance of being an established reality in every corner of the world. Every crisis, each dilemma that challenges humanity’s moral compass needs the mass of extraordinary, ordinary people to join together and make the voice of reason and compassion heard. We need ‘us’ — people power — to create the right conditions for freedom and equality to have any chance. If the future is to belong to us at all, it depends on people power. In that collective act is hope that will make a bright future possible. Hope lies in our conscious choice to act on behalf of humanity and our future, of sharing and justice on which peace can be built. Hope lies in knowing Maitreya and the Masters are here to inspire, to galvanize and support every effort towards brotherhood.
In May this year South Africa will mark 30 years since their first democratic elections in 1994 — four years after the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, jailed for his part in the struggle against apartheid. Mandela described the Palestinian struggle for justice as “the greatest moral issue of our time.” South Africans know what it is to suffer monstrous cruelty and inhumanity; thanks to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission they freed themselves of victimhood and the need for revenge. That it is South Africa which has brought Israel to the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague is a triumph of compassion and empathy with the sufferings of others. The South African case holds high the rule of law.
The following article, A time of decision, was written by Benjamin Creme’s Master and published in Share International in May 2002. While it deals with the trauma of 11 September, 2001 and the military response to it, today’s parallels can be seen and lessons learned: “When will these men learn that the world belongs to all? They are neither rulers nor policemen whose wealth and might confer control of others.”
The world is in a severe state of crisis, engendered, in the main, by the US President’s response to the terrorist attack of 11 September last year. The war in Afghanistan and the recent upsurge of Israeli brutality are linked, as is the proposed attack on Iraq. Basic to each is the settlement of old scores. Such behaviour of childhood is an ignoble and irresponsible method of dealing with events which threaten the well-being of the world. The Masters do not advocate appeasement of terrorism, but the manner of response in Afghanistan and the Middle East is not to Our taste. It takes no account of the causes of terrorism — the poverty, frustration, humiliation and despair — and merely perpetuates the violence and brutality. Lost in the glamours of self-pity and injured pride, America has lost also wisdom, caution and a sense of proportion.
Israel, meanwhile, stung into action by suicide bombings, as always over-reacts, using as excuse “a war against terrorism” to impose its will. In the shameless persecution and humiliation of Mr Arafat, Israel’s leaders and army should take no pride. The people of Israel, more than most, should understand the agony of the oppressed.
When will these men learn that the world belongs to all? They are neither rulers nor policemen whose wealth and might confer control of others. When they share that wealth for the General Good they will see the end of terrorism, and sleep at night more soundly. The men of power, who seek to run the world for the benefit of the few, are drunk on the power which they wield, unearned.
More and more, it becomes evident that a wiser voice is needed in the world, one that will be listened to from many points of view. Such a voice, the voice of Maitreya, will soon be heard above the cries for revenge and hate. Soon, the world will awaken to His presence in our midst and the Great Choice will be offered to men. Thus is this a great testing time for humanity.
Thus is this the time of decision, a time without precedent.
When men understand this, they will rally to the banner of Maitreya and make known their demands for justice and freedom. They will show their willingness to share and to serve, and thus remake this world.
Thus will it be, and thus will men renew their ancient pledge, and retrace their footsteps to divinity.
At every lecture he gave around the world, and virtually every day of his life, Benjamin Creme was asked numerous questions covering a vast range of topics. We draw on this large recorded resource and present here answers provided by Mr Creme and his Master over the years. Some of them were first published in earlier issues of Share International magazine.
Share International has a reserve of unpublished letters which were confirmed by Benjamin Creme and his Master to be genuine encounters with Masters, or with a ‘spokesperson’.
In the spring of 1992, I was driving my car home from high school, a couple of days after a snow storm. As I went around a familiar corner, I hit a patch of slush and slid serenely off the road. My serenity was remarkable considering that I knew I was heading over the edge of what was nearly a cliff, and there was nothing I could do about it. Somehow the car stopped short of tumbling down the hill, but instead came to rest with both uphill wheels off the ground, the rear one three feet in the air. I very carefully managed to escape out of one of the front doors. When the tow truck man came, he refused to touch the car, saying “It’s about to go.” Instead, he evacuated the house which was at the base of the 80ft cliff the car was perched on, and called another tow truck to help. The two of them were able to pull up my car without a problem.
Did I receive ‘special’ help to avoid what looked like probable death?
Share International’s stance, informed as we are by Benjamin Creme and his Master, is that UFOs are not only real but here on a mission. According to Benjamin Creme, the UFOs and the people in them are engaged on a spiritual mission to ease humanity’s lot and to save this planet from further and faster destruction. Our own planetary Hierarchy, led by Maitreya, the World Teacher, now living among us, works tirelessly with their Space Brothers in a fraternal enterprise to restore sanity to this Earth.
![<em>USA</em> — On 28 November 2023, a witness in Ridge, Maryland reported seeing an object with pulsating lights hovering in the sky about 1/2 mile above the Potomac River. The witness said the object “hovered with no sound [for] approximately 5 minutes and then disappeared.” (Source: National UFO Reporting Center)](https://rsrc.share-international.org/images/202401-ufo_ridge_maryland_20231128.jpg)
We present a selection of quotations about Maitreya, The World Teacher, His presence in the world and His inspiring impact on our lives. This selection is taken from Maitreya (Messages from Maitreya the Christ), Benjamin Creme’s Master (A Master Speaks Volume Two) and Benjamin Creme’s writings.
Maitreya is at the beginning only of His task to guide men into right relationship; but already He finds that His words encourage, and soon will galvanize, millions to act and claim their destiny, not through revolution but through revelation of their own divinity. (Benjamin Creme’s Master, from ‘Men awaken to Maitreya’)
All men essentially are One. They are My brothers and I love each one. (Maitreya, 27 March 2008, A Master Speaks, Volume Two)
It is a priceless opportunity to be given a glimpse into what may have been the last human incarnation of a Master of Wisdom; of his character and actions, his thoughts and loving counsel, his faithful example for how life should be lived. Such a glimpse rewards the reader of Love is a Radiant Light: The Life and Words of St. Charbel by Father Hanna Skandar. A briefly sketched biography, anecdotes of his life, and most importantly, his own homilies all bring us close to the saint and his profoundly inspiring and eternally relevant message, illuminating a divine expression of the spiritual path.
“You cannot become a saint without becoming a human being first,” St. Charbel is known to have said. Born 8 May, 1828 into a pious Christian family as one of five children, his life began as Youssef Antoun Maklouf, in Bekka Kafra, the highest village in the mountains of Lebanon. His father died when he was only three, so his paternal uncle then raised him. The village priests taught him to read and write, and, from early in his life, he was known to have always carried a prayer book. Due to this and other saintly qualities noted by the local villagers, he was nicknamed “the Saint”. At the age of 23, his maternal uncle, a priest named Father Daniel, brought him to the monastery where he resided, and Youssef is said to have joyfully entered the novitiate, taking his vows and studying for one year. He then entered the Lebanese Order of Maronites at the St. Maron monastery in Annaya, taking the name Charbel, meaning ‘Story of God’, after a second century martyr of the Church of Antioch. His superiors sent him to the Theological Institute of the Saints Cyprian and Justina in Kfifan to study for the priesthood. There he excelled in theology. He was ordained as a priest on 23 July, 1859, and spent much of the remainder of his life living as a hermit at several different monasteries and hermitages, practicing deep prayer and asceticism, and presiding over daily Mass. At the age of 70, while in the midst of performing the Mass he suffered a stroke, and died six days later, on Christmas Eve.
After his death, many remarkable happenings occurred related to what was found to be his incorruptible body, which, up to 1965 — nearly seventy years after his death — did not show any signs of decomposition. Villagers noted that, after he was entombed in the monastery, bright lights could be seen illuminating the area at night where his body had been laid to rest. The body was exhumed numerous times over the decades and is said to have exuded water and oil which were shown to have tremendous healing properties. More than 13,000 miraculous healings attributed to St. Charbel have been compiled in the records of the monastery in Annaya. These miracles continue to this day, curing and helping many who are made aware of St. Charbel and pray to him. St. Charbel was canonized by Pope John VI on 9 October 1977. …
It is in his own homilies that we come to an intimate experience of the deep faith and eternal wisdom of St. Charbel. Students of the Ageless Wisdom will note echoes of these teachings in his beautifully illustrated analogies. In them, he reminds us that the kingdom of heaven is within, and that holiness is a choice that one must truly live: “God predestined you to holiness and not to death. Holiness is not luck, holiness is a choice. …”
He reminds us that we ourselves create our own reality and that we must free ourselves from our own thoughts and beliefs: “Free yourself from the cords that tie you up. Your thoughts, your own beliefs, and your inclinations fetter you like the ropes that immobilize the ship at the dock and secure it, but they do not let you sail. Let the word of God release you from your bonds by breaking them one after the other, even if it causes you suffering.” If we listen humbly, he assures us, we will understand the truth, and it will set us free.
The Parents Circle — Families Forum (PCFF) — is a non-profit organization based in Israel and Palestine that was formed in 1995 by Yitzhak Frankenthal and several Israeli families. The organization brings together families of both Israelis and Palestinians who have been killed in the decades-long conflict between the two peoples. It is overseen by a united Israeli and Palestinian board with teams located in both Palestinian territory and Israel. Yuval Rahamim serves as the PCFF’s Co-General Director. He was interviewed for Share International by Jason Francis.
Share International: How did your personal journey after suffering the loss of your father in 1967 during the Six Day War bring you to where you are today?
Yuval Rahamim: When my father was killed in the war, I was eight years old, so I did not become a peace activist at that time. I had the normal reaction of anger, hate, fear and revenge. Later, in high school, I joined the military academy because my thoughts at the time were really romantic like, “I will avenge the death of my father.” I did not know who killed my father, of course, but killing Arabs seemed, at the time, like a good reaction for me. So, I joined the military. In Israel it’s mandatory. I served for six years after graduating from my military academy in high school. I was lucky not to kill anybody. I was in the intelligence forces. Then I left the army and launched my civilian life, got married, had children, and a career.
Gradually, I forgot my thoughts of revenge and understood that nothing of that kind would ever give me peace of mind. Wars continued year after year with Lebanon and with the Palestinians. There was the Yom Kippur War in 1973. I saw that wars just keep going on and on and people keep dying in wars and attacks on both sides. And nobody feels better after taking revenge. But only when I reached the age of 50, when my children started to go to their military service, did I start to question, again, my position. I looked for what I could do to change the course of things and not just sit and wait for our leaders to end this war. It didn’t seem at the time they were going to do anything.
There were attempts by Yitzhak Rabin [Prime Minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995] to end conflicts with the Palestinians. But once he was killed, that track was abandoned and the conflict with the Palestinians has continued until today. About 10 or 15 years ago I found this organization, which seemed like a good fit to become more active toward peace, reconciliation, toward ending this conflict.
That’s, briefly, my journey. But, of course, it had many stops and many insights along the way where I gradually understood we must listen to the Palestinians and see them as human. And whatever we were told about the other side was part of the normal narrative that each nation tells itself during a conflict: we are the good ones, they are the bad ones; we are the moral ones, they are the animals. Every nation in conflict educates its people and students with the same principles. You get to understand that this is completely wrong and we must start to change it. Once you understand that, you start to interact with the other side on a human level. We have to change it from the grassroots. We have to change it from the people’s level and the community level. …
SI: Could you talk about the Narratives Project?
YR: This has been going on for more than 10 years. We have already had more than 55 groups, each consisting of 15 Israelis and 15 Palestinians. Most of the time they share some common ground. Sometimes it’s a group of women only or educators, healthcare workers, lawyers.
We take them on a journey in our seminar that lasts a few days or a few weeks. They get to meet each other on a really personal level because they spend a lot of time together in sessions, dinners, in a party, and tours that they take. The discussion is about the personal and national narratives of both sides. They share together in the groups so that gradually they trust each other because the time spent is really intimate and secure. Then they begin to see the others from a completely different perspective.
Some of the sessions are role games where I have to be a Palestinian, for example, and describe the conflict from the Palestinian point of view. Or how does it feel to be Palestinian? As an Israeli, I have to tell the group how I feel as a Palestinian. Or what questions do I want to ask the Israelis from the Palestinian point of view? That’s a mind-blowing experience. We have almost 1,500 alumni already. All of them have reported a very deep change in perspective towards the other side. And they keep meeting after the session is over.
That’s the Narratives Project we are running. It’s a highly effective and deep experience to get people from one point to another. And it’s not just about the conflict. When they learn how to understand the narrative of the other side, they can implement that with their families and neighbors. Once you understand that if somebody else has a different narrative than you, it doesn’t mean one of you is wrong. That’s a really good lesson in life. If you can implement it, it can be a really good road to reconciliation. …
SI: Is there anything further you would like to add?
YR: The most important message from me to your audience is that we do not want to export this conflict to anywhere else on the planet. We don’t want any nation to think they should take sides – that they should support the Palestinians in their just fight or they should support Israelis in their just fight to defend themselves.
They should support peace because those two nations do not know how to end this conflict. The most important, and only, support we need from the international community is to stand and say, “End this. Nobody is going to get all they want but everybody is going to have peace.” And when you have peace, you can start to prosper and start developing relations. You can start not thinking about who is going to try and kill you next….
We need the international community to step in and say: “You must stop the war and find the ways, and we will give you the guarantees that nobody is going to attack you. You must find a way for both Palestinian and Israeli nations to live in peace together side by side.”
[Further information: theparentscircle.org]
