When I was on my recent tour of Dorset , see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/08/dorset-tour.html,
somebody gave me a copy of Fortean Times,
a magazine that I regularly read which specializes in the paranormal,
cryptozoology, UFO's and other strange phenomena. It is issue number 349, for
January 2017. On page 24 is the "Necrolog", their obituary column,
and this time the tribute was to Benjamin Creme, the Scottish artist and
esoteric author who had just died at the ripe old age of ninety-three. Creme became
interested in the occult as a teenager and reports that in 1945 he was summoned
to a meeting in a parked car near Tower
Bridge in London
where some strangers told him that the Maitreya
had just been born. In Buddhism the Maitreya is a future Buddha. By "the
Buddha" most people generally refer to Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian
prince who lived in about the 6th or 5th century BC and became
"enlightened" after a long ordeal of meditation and ascetic
discipline. However he is not the only one. According to legend, there are many
others; in fact ten thousand Buddhas appear every kalpa. That sounds like a lot. Buddhas should be falling like
raindrops. That is until you find out that a kalpa is a very long period of
time, roughly 8.2 trillion years; far longer than scientists think the universe
has existed. If you do the maths you'll realize that even ten thousand means
they're still very occasional visitors and you'll be lucky to be alive at the
same time one appears. The concept of the Maitreya was closely copied by
Theosophy, a modern occult belief, in more recent times. It is not unlike the
Jewish ideas about the messiah or the Christian Second Coming. Creme was told
that the next Buddha was going to grow up in the Himalayas with his parents,
but would emerge publicly when the world was ready. Creme became a modern John
the Baptist like figure. He began writing and lecturing about the Maitreya,
something he did almost continuously for the rest of his life. In 1982 he escalated
his activities by taking out full page newspaper ads and speaking at press
conferences, some of which were televised. He announced that in 1977 the
Maitreya had left his home in the mountains and travelled to London .
He was now living in the Asian community around Brick
Lane in the East End . Very
soon the time would be right for the Maitreya to go public and he would emerge
onto a world stage to usher in an apocalyptic new era of happiness and harmony.
Here's Benjamin Creme's website: http://www.share-international.org/.
The reason I bring this up is that many people are curious about who this
Maitreya is. Creme refused to give many details, but he did reveal that he was
of the subcontinental persuasion, which is hardly unusual in London ;
but also he was very tall, about seven feet. This should make him stand out
quite significantly and fairly easy to identify. However, the most important
detail is that he was working as a porter at a London
hospital... Yes, the messiah is a HP! This should make him easy to spot. If you
are one of my EP&DBorSP's in London and you serve alongside an EP&DBP
who looks Asian and it seven feet tall, could you please let me know? According
to the article, in the early 80's he did permanent nightshift, but he may have
been redeployed since. He must be pretty old by now, about seventy-nine, but he
may not age as fast as mortal men. I'd love to meet him. I'm not religious, but
I would naturally accept him as my lord and master, simply and solely because
he is a HP. Interestingly, I've found out that there is a hospital called
"Maitreya", but it is not in London or even the UK; it is in India,
see: https://www.maitreyahospitals.com.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/apocalypse-soon.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-truth-seekers.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/apocalypse-soon.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-truth-seekers.html.