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DECEMBER 2009 issue Volume 28 Number 10
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This is an abridged, electronic version of SHARE INTERNATIONAL
magazine.
The magazine has a non-paid staff only, carries no
advertisements and is published by SHARE INTERNATIONAL
FOUNDATION, a non-profit, non-governmental organization in
association with the Department of Public Information at the
United Nations.
SHARE INTERNATIONAL is a monthly magazine, bringing together the
two major directions of New Age thinking -- the political, and
the spiritual. It covers news, events and comments bearing on
Maitreya's priorities: an adequate supply of the right food;
adequate housing and shelter for all; healthcare and education
as a universal right; the maintenance of ecological balance in
the world.
Abridged hard-copy versions available in Dutch, French, German,
Japanese, Romanian and Spanish.
SHARE INTERNATIONAL's chief editor is Benjamin Creme, British
artist, esotericist and author. His challenging message has
evoked a world-wide response: Maitreya, the World Teacher, is
now among us in full physical presence.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Men will answer the Call
by the Master - , through Benjamin Creme, 8 November 2009
Questions and Answers
Letters to the Editor
Signs
Star signs
Two skeptics see the 'star'
by Frances Oman
Unity -- a compilation
The voice of the people
Trends
Background Information:
The emergence of the World Teacher -- in brief
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"Sharing alone, it will be found, will manifest the needed trust
and so create justice worldwide. Until justice reigns, there will
never be true peace. Step by step, men will come to see this
logic. They will come to understand that there is no alternative.
If men would live and prosper they must abandon injustice and
war....
Today, led by Maitreya and His Group, they will be inspired to act
for their own best interest and to answer the call for justice and
sharing."
The Master -
MEN WILL ANSWER THE CALL
by the Master - , through Benjamin Creme, 8 November 2009
Since the dawn of time, man has asked himself the question: why am
I here, what is the meaning of life? Despite the teachings of the
various religions and those of holy men of the past, most people
are baffled and unsure whether there is, indeed, any purpose or
meaning in what we call 'life', and wonder likewise what
experience, if any, awaits us after 'death'.
In this coming time, the answers to these long-held worries and
fears will become the common knowledge of all. This will in large
measure be the result of the open presence of Maitreya and His
Group of Masters. Your Elder Brothers will so stimulate the
consciousness of men and so exemplify the teaching They give that
in a relatively short period an enormous awakening will take
place. Gone, for millions, will be the doubt and fear of the past.
Men will know for sure, that they are, each one, engaged in a
great adventure of discovery which will take them, in due course,
to a perfection hitherto undreamed of. Such sense of meaning and
purpose will replace the present arid and fearful doubt that an
era of untold creativity and change will blossom and flourish.
Thus will it be, and thus will men awaken to their destiny as
exemplars of the divine. All men are divine but not all know this
to be true. More and more, men will realize this truth and so
change the world around them.
The Masters are readying Themselves for open recognition and work.
Their presence will provide the confidence that the needed changes
in our social life will be for the better and have long been
necessary. The aim is that the Masters and men should work
together in every field of endeavour, and thus expedite the
changes required.
The first priority is that war must be abandoned for ever,
utterly, totally. This requires a degree of trust as yet not known
in the world. Sharing alone, it will be found, will manifest the
needed trust and so create justice worldwide. Until justice
reigns, there will never be true peace. Step by step, men will
come to see this logic. They will come to understand that there is
no alternative. If men would live and prosper they must abandon
injustice and war. Can men meet the challenge? Men have faced and
overcome many vicissitudes in their long sojourn on Earth. Today,
led by Maitreya and His Group, they will be inspired to act for
their own best interest and to answer the call for justice and
sharing.
Many are the voices of the past which will call for caution and
delay, but when men hear Maitreya's voice sound within their
hearts, they will be kindled by a fiery longing for Justice and
Peace, for Sharing and Right Relationship, for Brotherhood and
Love.
Thus will it be.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS -- a selection
Questions dealing with the activities of Maitreya and the
Hierarchy of the Masters of Wisdom, and about the Ageless Wisdom
Teachings, which have not been answered in his books, are
answered by Benjamin Creme in this section. Benjamin Creme does
not seek to set himself up as an arbiter of the authenticity of
other groups' activities and communications. Please refrain
from posing such questions.
Send your written questions to: Share International/Questions,
PO Box 3677, London NW5 1RU, UK.
Q. It's 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell and German
reunification began. (1) Was this a great example of people power
or was there Hierarchical help being given behind the scenes?( 2)
What was remarkable about that historic moment is that it could
have got very badly out of control with police shooting at people,
people becoming violent and so on. None of that happened -- were
Maitreya and the Masters working to help maintain the calm and
euphoria so that it wouldn't spill over into conflict?
A. (1) It was a prime example of the forces of a united people's
will. (2) No. The time had come.
Q. Twenty years ago there was a huge surge of people power and the
overturning of the political order, the end of the Cold War -- a
definite change in the world's political climate. Suddenly freedom
and new possibilities filled the air. (1) What caused these
amazing changes? (2) Do you think it has led to a better world?
(3) When communism collapsed it left a vacuum for
commercialization and its attendant problems, such as widespread
criminality; has life improved in the former Soviet Union?
(1) The ending of the Cold War was foretold by Maitreya and was
set in motion by Him when He suggested to Mr Gorbachev to go to
America and talk peace with President Reagan. It also included
Maitreya's advice to Mr Gorbachev to open up the Soviet Union to
perestroika and glasnost. Maitreya's advice was carried out by Mr
Gorbachev but unfortunately in the process he lost his position.
(2) Yes. (3) Overall, yes.
Q. Could you comment on the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Barack
Obama? Do you consider it totally deserved, or premature? Or is it
a way to strengthen new political tendencies?
A. I consider it not yet deserved, therefore premature, but
hopeful.
Q. Will President Obama ever turn into the liberal leader that
many Americans were hoping for when they voted for him? Will he
end the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and close US bases around the
world and finally start spending all that military money on
something helpful for humanity and planet Earth? Will he turn out
to be the new Franklin D. Roosevelt? Are you working on nudging
him to be the 'liberal lion' that we had prayed for?
A. The answers to these questions lie in the hands of the American
people. It is up to them to bring the necessary pressure on their
government to implement the action you mentioned.
I am not working on nudging Mr Obama or anybody else. I am
preparing the way for the open demonstration of Maitreya and His
group of Masters. I would not be surprised, however, if Mr Obama
becomes enamoured by Maitreya's teaching and advice. His heart
seems to be in the right place.
Q. George Adamski describes the form of Motherships (spacecrafts)
as cigar-shaped. Are the 'stars' similar? What kind of craft are
they?
A. Many of the larger spacecraft which work to our benefit are
cigar-shaped but some are bell-shaped, some are fish-shaped and
some are saucer-shaped. The 'star' heralding Maitreya's presence
is also a spacecraft able to transform into different shapes.
Q. I would like to ask if the Space Brothers are planning to have
a 'First Contact' world press conference with President Obama
and/or other open-minded world leaders, which would give them an
opportunity to tell the world about Maitreya without saying who He
is. This can be done by 'them' saying something like this: "There
exists a very wise man on your planet who would like to speak to
humanity. Will you do this?" If the media does this it could mean
that the Day of Declaration could take place at this time instead
of waiting for the television interviews to take place.
A. Sorry, no, that is not the Plan -- nor even a good idea,
because it leaves out entirely the question of humanity's free
will.
Q. Recently I attended a discussion group that meets to talk about
UFO phenomena. They happened to be screening a Steven Greer
interview. I had the opportunity to talk about the 'star', and its
significance to Maitreya's emergence into the world. While people
were receptive and interested in the information, I was asked many
questions about the 'grays', 'reptilians' and 'abductions'. It is
my understanding that abductions are imagined since the Space
Brothers are here to help, not harm in any way.
I was wondering if you might shed some light on this -- whether
these 'grays' and 'reptilians' exist and how best to address this
question and the issue of abduction?
A. Once again let us put this question to rest. 'Grays',
'reptilians' and 'abductors' do not exist among the Space Brothers
who man the so-called UFOs visiting our planet. The work which the
Space Brothers do is not only harmless but is essential to the
further life of this planet. They come to aid, they are on a
spiritual mission, a mission of mercy. 'Grays', 'reptilians' and
'abductors' are the figment of people's imagination based on fear.
We can thank the governments of the world and the science fiction
filmmakers for this misinformation.
Q. Will we be able to meet the Space Brothers who pilot the UFOs
sometime in the future? The reason I ask is that it would be nice
to thank them for the things that they do for us, such as mopping
up our nuclear leaks which could harm us.
A. Yes, some people, on occasion.
Q. Are the recent earthquakes, tsunamis and other disturbances in
the Pacific region related to underground nuclear testing? If not,
what is the cause?
A. No, nothing to do with the nuclear testing. They are the result
of the natural movement of the tectonic plates of this highly
earthquake-prone area.
Q. Given that each of us is born at a certain point in evolution,
at what age do we begin to evolve further?
A. It depends on the point of evolution of the child. Evolution in
the meaningful, spiritual sense might take many years to flourish.
But a degree of evolution could start at around seven for many
people. However, in a relatively advanced individual, initiate to
some degree, their further evolution often begins around the age
of four. In a relatively few cases, evolution of a person would
begin soon after birth, at one or two years.
Q. I agree that sharing is the solution to many of the problems
the world faces. However, I believe that sharing must be
completely voluntary and cannot be mandated or forced or it will
not work. Many are concerned about their property being stolen by
the governments and transferred to a wealthy international
oligarchy. Many also believe the United Nations seeks to override
national sovereignty and control the peoples of the nations
through global financial institutions. Does Maitreya state that
the sharing needed to bring justice must be completely voluntary,
thus requiring changes in the way we see ourselves, and not
through the coercion of supra-national institutions?
A. Yes. If we are to implement the principle of sharing it is
obviously essential that it has the support of the vast majority
of humanity. Otherwise it would not work. Nothing that the Masters
do or achieve is allowed to infringe human free will. To the
Masters that is sacred.
Q. I am wondering if Maitreya has offered interpretations for the
crop circles that seem to be, most likely, messages to Him?
A. No. I can say with confidence that the crop circles are not
messages to Maitreya. Our Hierarchy, of which Maitreya is the
head, has long been in contact with the Hierarchies of our sister
planets.
The crop circles are the greeting cards of our visitors from
neighbouring planets and are offered to the general public rather
than our Spiritual Hierarchy, who already know of their existence.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR -- a selection
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cause delays and confusion.
>>>Window of opportunity
Dear Editor,
While staffing an outreach booth about the 'star' and Maitreya's
emergence at a psychic fair in San Jose, California on 22 November
2009, a middle-aged man with an intense gaze came to the booth and
said he had seen Benjamin Creme speak at the Masonic Auditorium in
San Francisco. He also said that he watched videos of the 'star'
on YouTube. I mentioned that some people thought that Maitreya
might be on television in the next month. He said: "There is a
window of opportunity open between Thanksgiving and Christmas."
Later, after looking through *Maitreya's Mission, Volume Three*, I
came upon a section in the chapter entitled 'The Art of Waiting',
called 'Windows of Opportunity'. Mr Creme discusses the illusory
nature of time, and the way the Masters' see the unfoldment of the
Plan in terms of "windows of opportunity". He says that even
Maitreya does not know the exact time for His first television
appearance. He sees a window of opportunity for His emergence in
terms of the manifestation of many factors, including Cosmic
energies and humanity's responsiveness to them.
Apposite of today's world situation, Mr Creme also mentions as
another factor, the Lords of Materiality, the forces of chaos,
who, knowing their time is over, seek to hold back Maitreya's
emergence through their influence over certain reactionary
political and religious groups, power-hungry politicians,
industrialists, military men, media moguls and financiers.
Considering the state of the world's crises in the environment,
the economy, and the war in Afghanistan, and humanity's response
to them, was this booth visitor somebody special alerting us to a
"window of opportunity" for Maitreya's emergence?
Rich Teich, San Francisco, USA.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the man was Maitreya.)
>>>Good tidings
Dear Editor,
In October 2008 I had to replace my boss in a meeting at work and
felt stressed regarding this task. I took the 'hand' of Maitreya
with me. When I changed trams at Enge station, two people dressed
in green (an older man with a beard, the other person wearing a
hat) came over the bridge and crossed in front of the people
waiting at the station. Both held the same red bag and looked
altogether friendly and funny. I smiled at once and noticed that
lots of other people were smiling too (which is rather unusual in
Zurich on a grey morning before work). Just when they passed by,
the man with the beard said smiling, and truly friendly: "Only two
days, then it's the weekend." I started thinking about the deeper
meaning of this phrase, it sounded as if it won't take too long
until humanity experiences better, simpler and less stressful
times. After this short encounter I felt deeply happy and blessed
and went on my way.
A few days later I saw them again, in the same outfits. They
passed by a bus stop and again the people waiting there were
smiling! I followed the two men for a short while but didn't find
the courage to talk to them.
I'd like to ask you, were they Masters?
B.K., Zurich, Switzerland.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms they were Maitreya and the
Master Jesus.)
>>>Fear dispelled
Dear Editor,
Some 15 years ago I went through a difficult period. I was very
afraid of death and had sleepless nights because of it. It was in
fact becoming an obsession. Then one afternoon the following
happened.
I arrived at my favourite bar "de Kakatoe" in Den Bosch. I had not
ordered anything yet and had just met up with two friends of mine,
when an Indian man walked in, whom I had never seen before. I
assumed it was my friend Arju's brother from India. At the time
Arju ran an Indian restaurant and he had told me that his brother
would be visiting. So, on that assumption I began to talk with
him. The man came to stand next to me and asked what I and my
friends would like to drink. We chose beer and he ordered three
bottles for us. Then I said, "You are Arju's brother, aren't you?"
He did not react to that, but immediately raised a
counterquestion. "Do you believe in God?" I was struck dumb,
because you do not want to give yourself away to someone you do
not know, do you, but something else happened: instead of reacting
defensively, I decided to answer him. It seemed as if I was forced
to give a straight answer. I said that I do not believe in God in
the way it has been passed on to me by the church and parents, but
I do believe that there is more between Heaven and Earth, and that
there is life after death. He forced me in a certain way to listen
to my heart. I say that now, but at that time I was not so aware
of it.
Then I turned to my friends for a while, we chatted for 20 seconds
or so, I turned back again: the man had gone! I asked my friends
if they saw the Indian man leave. They had not seen an Indian man
at all. When asked about the beer, they said that they got the
beer from me. I tried to find out what happened in another way, by
asking Roy the barkeeper, "How did I get this beer?" He said, "You
will no doubt have ordered it yourself." I said to him, "When I
order something, you always write it down for me to settle later.
Did you write anything on the account?" "No", he said, he did not.
Once again: "Where did my beer come from?" I asked. He said that
someone must have ordered it for me. I asked him who did but he
did not know. Like my friends he replied also, "No, I haven't"
when asked if he happened to have seen an Indian man.
I realized that I had experienced something unique, an encounter
with what I call a living angel.
Afterwards I understood that he helped me, for the fear of death
has faded away since then and I got at last a good night's sleep
again. After this I became more interested in spirituality.
(1) Would you please tell me if I met a special person and if so,
who it was? (2) How did we communicate?
A.G., Belgium.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that (1) the 'Indian man' was
the Master Jesus. (2) The means of communication was not
telepathy. You spoke normally but in a 'private space' created by
the Master Jesus.)
>>>Helping hands
Dear Editor,
Frequently in my house I've been seeing handprints and
fingerprints appearing on the window and the bathroom mirror. I
remember one day in June or July 2009, when I was a little angry
about something, I went to the bathroom and saw on the glass door
that separates the shower from the washbasin, a strange handprint.
A few months later it appeared again when I took a shower and one
night in August, when I was a little sad, I saw the handprint once
more. Were these handprints manifested by Maitreya?
T.S.A., Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the handprints were manifested
by Maitreya.)
>>>Repeat play
Dear Editor,
In December 2000 I was surprised when a tape of Maitreya's
Messages automatically began to play. I listen to the tape of
Maitreya every morning in my room before meditation. The automatic
playing began on 1 December, ten days after my first grandson was
born, then again on the 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 26 and 29 December.
Sometimes it played as soon as I entered the room and sometimes
when I was studying in the room. I checked to see if the tape
recorder was set to automatic start at a certain time, but could
not find it. It never happened when I was out of the room, because
the tape started from the first phrase of the Messages every time.
I would be very glad if you could explain my strange experience.
H.I., Tokyo, Japan.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the phenomena were manifested by
Maitreya.)
>>>Fleeting encounter
Dear Editor,
It was summer 1994. I was driving home at 3 or 4am on the Ronda
Litoral belt road in Barcelona. On the hard shoulder at my right I
saw a man walking with light footsteps. He was robust, had long
fair hair, denim shorts and a rucksack. When I came close to him I
had the impulse to stop; but for safety reasons I didn't. As I was
approaching him, he was turning his head towards me, but I
couldn't see his face clearly. A few moments after I passed him,
the name Maitreya came to my mind. I looked at the rear-view
mirror but he was already out of sight. Was this man a Master?
J.C., Barcelona, Spain.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the man was the Master Jesus.)
>>>A chance to tell
Dear Editor,
On 29 November 2000 in the checkout line at the supermarket an
Asian man in a brown coat and hat struck up a conversation with me
about a headline on the front page of the *World News* tabloid,
"The exact date Jesus returns to Earth!" I suddenly replied to his
words: "He is already here. I know in my heart he is here. Jesus
is working with him. They are called the Masters of Wisdom." He
continued to ask questions, to which I gave short sound-bite
answers, as we proceeded through the checkout line. I was thrilled
to be able to talk out loud about an issue I felt deeply about to
someone who was interested and who kept prompting me by asking
further questions. At the end of our chat, I could tell he had
hoped for more. Only days later on the morning of the next
Transmission Meditation meeting, did it occur to me that I might
have been speaking to, and been tested by, a Master. Was that the
case?
Y. C. L., San Diego, California, USA.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the 'Asian man' was the Master
Jesus.)
[Photos for the next two letters below may be seen at
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor]
>>>Miracle rose
Dear Editor,
On her last birthday in November 2008, my friend Elly received
three white roses. Two of them behaved as cut roses usually do,
and faded after a week, but the third rose was still in good shape
four weeks later! In March 2009, amazingly the rose in the vase
grew roots, so she planted it in a flowerpot. In June it grew
another bud, which by the end of July bloomed into a rose, while
the original flower, although a little brownish, still had petals.
No gardener we asked has ever seen such an extraordinary
development from a cut rose, so we would like to know if possibly
one of the Masters created this 'miracle' rose?
F.B., Vienna, Austria.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms this was a miracle manifested by
the Master Jesus.)
Dear Editor,
While speaking about the Master Jesus with two friends from New
Zealand visiting Rome, I got a text message from my wife asking me
whether I or any of us had sent a picture to her cell phone of the
Master Jesus. According to her, it just appeared in her photo list
out of nowhere.
We said no, as we would obviously remember! She was at home and we
were in a restaurant so there was quite a bit of synchronicity,
and she would not have known we were speaking about the Master
Jesus.
Did the Master Jesus really materialize the picture?
M.V., Rome, Italy.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the picture was
materialized by the Master Jesus.)
SIGNS OF THE TIME
In His Message of November 1977, Maitreya said: "Those who
search for signs will find them". Ever since, an increasing
number of miraculous phenomena have flooded the world:
appearances, crosses of light, healing wells, weeping icons and
statues.
In May 1988, an associate of Maitreya stated in *Share
International*: "The signs of Maitreya's presence in the world
will continue to increase. He is going to flood the world with
such happenings that the mind can never comprehend it."
[The photo for the next article below can be viewed at
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor]
>>Quran verses on baby boy's skin
When wavy lines appeared on the skin of a baby boy in the Central
Asian republic of Dagestan, on the Caspian Sea, doctors first
dismissed them as birthmarks, then as irritation and postnatal
scarring. But when the family of nine-month-old Ali Yakubov took
him to a local Imam, the lines that appeared on his legs were
identified as the word 'Allah' in Arabic script.
Since then various verses from the Quran have appeared on Ali's
back, arms, legs and stomach twice a week, with the old markings
vanishing before the new words arrive.
Ali's mother Madina Yakubov explains that when the writings appear
the boy has a fever and doesn't sleep. Doctors are baffled and say
they cannot explain Ali's mysterious condition, but they insist
that the markings are not caused by someone writing on the boy's
skin.
Mrs Yakubov says she and her husband were not religious, but since
their son's skin began to display the holy texts they became
deeply faithful and began to pray earnestly.
(Sources: www.wunderkabinett.co.uk; YouTube: hikmat2359)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms this to be a miracle manifested
by the Master Jesus.)
[A photo of the cross of light described in the letter below can
be viewed at
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor]
Dear Editor,
For about three years Erika Amiet, from Bolligen near Berne, has
seen a beautiful cross of light through her bathroom window.
Street lamps produce two huge crosses of light and every light
which switches on in the neighbouring house adds a pattern. So the
phenomenon is always changing. It is really an extraordinarily
marvellous spectacle.
Also, when I walked home on 25 October 2009, I saw another nice
pattern on a window and wonder if this phenomenon is becoming more
common or if I was just lucky to discover it?
F.W., Berne, Switzerland.
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that these crosses of light are
appearing more and more around the world. The cross in Erica
Amiet's bathroom window and the one you saw on 25 October 2009 was
magnetised by the Master Jesus.)
>>>Teenagers shed tears of blood
Two teenagers in opposite parts of the world have been reported to
shed tears of blood.
In the USA, CNN reports that several times a day blood streams
from the eyes of Calvino Inman, a 15-year-old boy from Rockwood,
Tennessee, USA. No one knows what causes it. "Sometimes I can feel
it coming up, like a normal tear," Calvino explains. "I feel my
eyes watering. Sometimes it will burn as it comes out."
Doctors have conducted extensive tests on the boy, including MRI,
CT and ultrasound scans, but remain mystified as to what causes
the unusual bleeding, which lasts between a few minutes to an hour
and happens at least three times a day. The "stigmata-like medical
mystery", as it has been dubbed by the press, has attracted much
media interest.
Meanwhile in the Indian city of Patna, Rashida Khatoon has become
a 'human shrine' since blood started to drip from her eyelids
several times a day earlier this year. While local doctors are
stumped for an explanation, Hindu holy men have declared Rashida a
"living miracle". As a result, worshippers come to watch in awe as
tears of blood stream down from the girl's eyes. "I do not feel
any pain when it happens, but it's a shock to see blood instead of
water," said Rashida of her most unusual situation.
(Sources: CNN.com; *De Telegraaf*, the Netherlands, *Daily Mail*,
UK, weirdasianews.com)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that both of these reports are
authentic miracles. Rashida Khatoon's 'stigmata miracle' is
manifested by Maitreya; Calvino Inman's 'stigmata miracle' is from
the Master Jesus.)
>>>Madonna image in Samoa
An image resembling the Madonna has appeared in Samoa's capital,
Apia, on the wall of a building belonging to the Congregational
Christian Church of Samoa. The image, first seen on 14 September
2009, has brought hundreds of people to the building to witness
the sight.
The many stories of those who have seen the vision bring different
viewpoints. The president of the Church says it is a message for
all Christians. Some people who have observed the image believe it
means it is time to wake up and make a change, while others think
it means that Christ is coming soon and that it is a blessing for
Samoa. (Source: *Samoan Observer*, Samoa)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms this is a miracle manifested by
the Master Who was the Madonna, to ease the pain of the suffering
to come with the tsunami.)
>>>Weeping statue in Ireland
At a remote grotto in County Donegal, Ireland, a statue of the
Madonna moved and wept tears, and crosses appeared and disappeared
in the night sky, on 29 September 2009 at 8pm. The Kerrytown
shrine lies in a rocky outcrop near the town of Dungloe, and is
visited by pilgrims ever since an apparition 70 years ago.
Joe Coleman, a healer who claims that the Madonna has been
appearing to him for many years, said that the Madonna would
appear at the shrine on 29 September at 8pm. A group of 14 people
gathered to witness the event. "We went into the shelter facing
the rock and at a few minutes to eight someone suggested we should
start the rosary. We had no sooner started than someone shouted
'look up'. To the left of the cross another cross appeared in the
sky and as soon as it disappeared, another one appeared. It lasted
about 10 minutes," said Coleman. Then the white statue with the
red heart started changing colour and form. "She appeared to have
a human face and her head turned and she looked at people. She
looked down at the children who were at the front," he said. Said
one woman: "The tears were running down from her eyes," and she
went up to the statue to dry the tears. "It was a crazy evening.
It was absolutely amazing. I am still on an emotional high," said
another witness, James Boyle. (Source: *Irish Independent*,
Ireland)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that this was an authentic
miracle, another sign of Maitreya's emergence, manifested by the
Master Who was the Madonna.)
>>>Brazilian military document confirms "solid" UFOs
Brazil has released previously secret government documents on the
country's UFO sightings in the 1980s. The government has already
disclosed documents covering sightings during the previous three
decades. Thus far over 4,000 pages of documents and 300 photos
have been released.
Among the documents recently made public were multiple reports of
UFOs witnessed on 19 May 1986. On that date, 21 spherical objects,
estimated to be 100 metres in diameter according to military
sources, were seen and tracked by ground radar, and witnessed by
civilian pilots, over several states in southeastern Brazil. The
UFOs interrupted air traffic over major Brazilian airports, and
several military jets were sent into the air to pursue them.
Also included among the released documents is an 'Occurrence
Report' dated 2 June 1986, a few days after the 19 May UFO
sightings. The report is signed by the acting commander of the
Brazilian Air Command of Air Defense at that time.
The report concludes, referring to the UFOs of 19 May: "As a
conclusion of the observed constant facts in almost all
presentations, it is the opinion of this Command that the
phenomenon is solid and reflects intelligence by its capacity to
follow and sustain distance from the observers, as well as to fly
in formation, and are not necessarily manned craft."
The presence of UFOs in Brazil was also confirmed by the former
Minister of the Brazilian Air Force, Socrates da Costa Monteiro,
in a recent interview with *Brazilian UFO Magazine*. Monteiro said
that UFOs, or "electronic abnormalities", were regularly detected
on military radar, and that all such cases were registered, and
some investigated further by the Air Force. Monteiro was head of
the southeastern Regional Air Command during the 19 May 1986
sightings. He said that the speed of the UFOs that night was
astonishing and that the jet fighters sent in pursuit could only
get close to them for a few moments, because the craft would
escape at extremely high speed. "There was no way for us to get
closer, so we abandoned the search, which lasted for many hours
that night." (Source: unknowncountry.com, *Brazilian UFO
Magazine*)
STAR SIGNS
The 'star' that heralds Maitreya's emergence
"In the very near future, people everywhere will have the
opportunity to witness an extraordinary and significant sign, the
like of which has been manifested only once before, at the birth
of Jesus. Then, according to Christian teaching, a star appeared
in the heavens and led three wise men from the East to the
birthplace of Jesus. Soon, once again, a star-like luminary of
brilliant power will be seen around the world."
(Benjamin Creme's Master, 'Maitreya's first interview', *SI*
Jan/Feb 2009)
On 12 December 2008 *Share International* distributed a news
release announcing that in the very near future a large, bright
star would appear in the sky visible throughout the world, night
and day, heralding the imminent appearance of Maitreya in His
first interview on a major US television programme. Since the end
of December 2008 sightings of the star have been reported all over
the world and hundreds of sightings have been sent to *Share
International*. We include a selection of the latest reports from
the media, *Share International* readers, and sightings from
YouTube. All the photographs show genuine sightings confirmed by
Benjamin Creme's Master to be the 'star-like luminary' heralding
Maitreya's emergence.
>>>US astronomers see the 'star'
On the evening of 17 October 2009 a group of amateur astronomers
noticed a strange object in the clear night sky. The group of five
amateur but experienced astronomers had gathered for a night's
sky-watching at the RMCC Observatory, in Mounds, near Tulsa,
Oklahoma, USA.
The group sent their report to the Mutual UFO Network website
(MUFON); the story was also featured in a regional newspaper the
*Examiner* under the headline "UFO hovering over Oklahoma skies
baffles astronomy club members".
"With many years of experience in observing under our belts we
were needless to say quite qualified to identify most anything
that we would see. Between approximately 6.40 to 7pm one of the
members noticed something off in the West ....
"First and foremost it was bright, more or less as bright as
Jupiter, yet setting about ten to twelve degrees above the
horizon, due west. At our first sighting most of us thought that
it was nothing more than an airliner reflecting sunlight from the
setting sun but that determination was tossed aside shortly
thereafter. If it had been what we first thought it was it
would've lost its size and brightness fairly quick as it shifted
positions in relation to the sun while in flight."
The object remained motionless. That in itself was significant
since all planets would gradually shift position; the group
concluded that it was not a known celestial body. "That alone
became puzzling since the obvious -- Venus, Mercury -- are now
tracking in the morning eastern sky, not the evening western sky."
The group continued to observe the unusual object wondering
whether it could be a high altitude research balloon, but since
balloons also move and the object maintained its position that
idea was jettisoned.
"As we watched it more closely it was surprising as to the manner
in which it morphed into various shapes and sizes. Its brightness
would vary some but that was easily seen as being caused by the
low-lying clouds on the horizon. As we commonly call it -- it was
'sitting in the soup'. When they [the clouds] would move in front
of it the object's brightness would dim some. Otherwise it would
maintain its brightness. That was easily seen via binocular
observations.
"The longer we watched it the more curious we became and with that
growing curiosity we quickly set two telescopes onto it. Two
different sized telescopes were used, one, Celestron 11-inch
Schimdt-Cassegrain telescope and a smaller Orion 4.5-inch
Dobsonian telescope. Between the two we could pull in for a much
closer look in a very inquisitive effort to determine just what it
actually was. Charts and websites were checked also to make sure
we weren't forgetting perhaps one event that may explain what we
were now seeing. Nothing could be found.
"Close to 8pm we started to notice what appeared to be a ring of
lights that was rotating around the bottom portion. The lights
were seen in the same location that the bluish-green colored waves
were at. Several of us noticed this while looking at it through
the telescopes. Needless to say this was surprising to us all.
This carried on for one to two minutes and then suddenly the
object started to move. The movement was slow at the beginning but
increased very rapidly ... Within two seconds it had totally
disappeared from open visual sight but I still had a lock on it in
the eyepiece. Fast, very fast it moved from dead center in the
eyepiece field of view upwards and at the same time was getting
smaller and smaller as it flew away. Two or three seconds later it
was totally gone from view in either of the telescopes.
"The speed that it moved was without question way beyond anything
that we have knowledge of or is publicly known to be in our
military. At the rate it flew away would make a SR-71 Blackbird
look very old and slow. Could it have possibly been a new
experimental aircraft? Possibly yes, but if so what was something
such as that doing in Oklahoma? Most generally new experimental,
top-secret aircraft of that type are being tested at either
Edwards AFB or Area 51, not Oklahoma.
"In a nutshell, we will never know. It was unidentifiable, it was
in the air and flew away and it most certainly was an object of
some unknown kind/type. From this alone it could be justifiably
categorized as a UFO." (Source: examiner.com)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the object was the
'star-like luminary'.)
>>>The 'star' reported in Norwegian press
On 5 November 2009 Norwegian newspaper *Innherreds
Folkeblad-Verdalingen* featured an article entitled 'Alternative
light in the sky', after Share International co-worker Terje
Wulfsberg introduced a journalist to photos and videos of the
'star'. The newspaper asked: "Is this a planet? Or is it a star?
Is it a UFO?"
The journalist reports how Terje Wulfsberg filmed this unusual
light in the eastern sky. "'It was a starlike object, but it
behaved in such a way that I do not believe it to be a star. The
behaviour did not fit any well-known objects in the sky,'
Wulfsberg says." The journalist then reports Wulfsberg's
explanation for this bright star as a herald of Maitreya the World
Teacher's first interview, and finishes by recommending an "open
mind. People must find out for themselves", and gives a link to a
video on YouTube. (Source: *Innherreds Folkeblad-Verdalingen*,
Norway)
[To view photos for the captions below, please visit
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor]
Two photographs taken in a southerly direction, at 7.45am on
Saturday 17 October 2009, in Samnanger, Norway, by T.W.
*Texas, USA* -- A couple in an east Texas town saw an object in
the sky early in the morning of 31 October 2009 that changed shape
and colour. Michelle Hampton and her husband, of Hallsville,
Texas, videotaped the event. "We looked up and saw a shiny object
in the sky and I don't know what it was, but it was going crazy,"
Michelle Hampton said. "You could tell it was doing something but
you really couldn't tell what it was. It was getting bigger and
changing different colours. It would get smaller and bigger and go
everywhere." (Source: KLTV.com)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms it was the 'star'.)
Taken by H. K., in Kuppenheim, Germany.
Photograph taken on Saturday 17 October 2009 at 8.30pm in a
south-easterly direction looking 40 degrees up in the sky in
Amsterdam, by C.Q., from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He reports:
"Strangely enough it looked much 'closer' than other stars."
[To view photos for the next five reports below, please visit
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor
>>>The 'star' seen on YouTube videos
Hundreds of videos of the 'star' can now be seen on the YouTube
website, and people are wondering what this unusual star-like
object is, with its unique behaviour: changing colour, rotating,
pulsating, expanding and retracting, staying still for hours or
moving rapidly. Many people are discussing this worldwide
phenomenon and its significance.
We include a small selection of footage where the camera's zoom
capacity is sufficient to reveal a more close-up image of the
'star'.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 19 September 2009
"I filmed what looked to be a weird colored weather balloon. It
glowed and was at times translucent. It stayed very still for two
hours before being blocked from our view by clouds." (YouTube:
kaufmanfan420)
Sedona, Arizona, USA, 19 July 2009, 11.10pm:
Filmed by a honeymoon couple who report: "We went on our balcony,
which overlooks the mountains, and saw a brilliant light in the
sky, above the mountain. At first I thought it could be an
airplane or helicopter but then realized it was too high for a
helicopter. And that an airplane would not stay still for so long
-- there were also no red blinking lights that an airplane has
when flying at night. There were few stars in the sky, due to some
storm clouds and light pollution -- it was the only light...
When we viewed the video enlarged, it appeared to be a gyro sphere
shape made of mostly energy. You will see a rotating ball of light
in the center of the screen. We left the camera on a tripod so it
stayed stationary. As you will see it just hovers in the sky."
(YouTube: carolnoelstevenson)
San Isidro, Argentina, 29 September 2009, 11.23pm:
"More and more are showing up like never before. What is going on
people? You do notice the plasma-like glow? How could this plane
or kite or balloon or toy or UFO be all over the planet on film?"
(YouTube: Vik456) Adds one commentator to the video: "I always see
this type of glowing orb in the sky here in Belize, Central
America. It's weird. At first I thought it was a star, but it's
too close to be a star ... But there is something going on with
all this."
Two photographs from Rome, Italy, 26 October 2009 (YouTube:
stefanosniper)
Erlanger, Kentucky, USA, 6 June 2009:
Around 2.30am while on the way home "I noticed an oddly bright
light in the north sky. It appeared about 3-5x bigger than the
brightest star in the sky. Just a little more than enough to
clearly define that it was not a star. When you looked close with
a naked eye, it seemed to be strobing through different colors ...
In the zoomed video you can clearly see the strobing plasma lights
and its overall, beauty ... It's really bright and weird auroras
and strobes are visible, clearly ... I knew it was a craft of some
kind, beaming with light energy, or something!" (YouTube:
tremontavenue)
From our own correspondent
TWO SKEPTICS SEE THE 'STAR'
by Frances Oman
Soni is a district manager in California for a large national
corporation. She has never been interested in phenomena like UFOs,
or even wanted to read science fiction or watch a *Star Wars*
film. "I am a level-headed kind of person," Soni said. "Oddly
enough, on 31 July 2009, my co-worker asked me whether I had ever
seen a UFO. I answered, 'No, but I wish I could see one.'" After
saying that casually, she kept thinking about it, hoping to see a
UFO if they really did exist.
That evening during a visit to her parents in Stockton,
California, Soni saw what she believes may have been a UFO. Her
father pointed out a mysterious light in the sky, unaware that
Soni had just told someone that she wished she could see a UFO.
...
She first saw the object in the sky at 8.45pm. They looked at it
through a telescope and saw that it changed shape and color.
...Still at her parents' home the next day, she looked for the
object around the same time as the previous night, and was
surprised that it was there. It was glowing and changing shape and
color. She kept watching it until 3am, wishing that she had her
video camera with her.
The following morning Soni retrieved her video camera to take back
to Stockton, hoping to video the object that night. The entire day
she kept hoping to see it. It did reappear on 2 August and behaved
in the same way as before, sometimes appearing as a cross,
sometimes as a sphere, and changing colors. Soni watched it every
night for nine days altogether. "It couldn't have been a plane or
satellite," she said, "because it wasn't moving fast enough. It
couldn't have been a star or planet because it was changing shape
and color. I put the footage up on YouTube to see if anyone else
knew what it might be."
Since then many people have sent her web links to similar videos
taken throughout the world. One of those people suggested she go
to hear Benjamin Creme who was scheduled to speak in San Francisco
the following weekend. Soni had never heard of him but said: "I
felt that there was a purpose behind me seeing that object," so
she went and heard about how a "star-like luminary" was a sign
like the Star of Bethlehem. "I am not of a Christian upbringing,
but what Mr Creme said about the financial and political crisis
and this 'star' all seemed quite rational to me. It seems to me
that there is a purpose behind my experience and I hope there is a
wide discussion of all of this so the truth of what it is can be
verified for all."
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the mysterious light in the
sky was indeed the 'star'.)
>>>Ex-US Air Force officer sees "bright objects in the sky"
Tom has spent his life working in science and technology. He has
degrees in science from the University of California at Berkeley,
a Systems Analysis degree from the US Air Force's Institute of
Technology, and also spent time in the US Air Force. "From being
in the Air Force I was familiar with the concept of UFOs and the
fact that many pilots have seen these kinds of objects. I didn't
think UFOs were non-existent but I never had any personal
experience with anything like that."
After leaving the Air Force, Tom moved to Canada where he and his
wife live on a hundred acres of land. One evening, when Tom and
his wife were out of the house, their daughter saw something
burning in the hay field. "Who the heck would be lighting a
bonfire on our property?" she wondered. Then she realized that the
fire was well above the ground. "She's the kind of person that
this kind of thing does not appeal to at all," Tom said. It was
literally a fireball. She was just barely beginning to absorb that
this might be something unusual when the fireball suddenly
disappeared and then reappeared about 30 degrees to the right of
where it had just been.
"I'm certainly the kind of person who doesn't jump to conclusions
about anything without going through the scientific process and
having good evidence," Tom said. He looked on the internet and
found a couple of websites that covered the history of crop
circles in England going back to the 1970s. "In looking through
all of that I realized that there was really something here. We
don't have the technical skills to produce things the size of
several football fields in less than a few minutes or even during
a single night. This, of course, threw my thinking back to the UFO
business again."
Tom wanted first-hand evidence, so in September 2008 he and his
wife visited an area near the base of Mount Shasta in northern
California with a group, hoping for a UFO sighting. The very first
night everyone saw unusual phenomena in the sky.
The first inexplicable sight was what they called "flashbulbs."
Every now and then they saw random flashes go off in the clear
night sky above the mountain. "I know aircraft, and they were
nothing to do with aircraft. They were just isolated in space and
would sometimes vary from yellow to red or green or white." There
would be nothing for about half-an-hour and then the group would
see more "flashbulbs".
Suddenly a very bright silvery object appeared out of nowhere in
the sky and stood still. Out of that object came a large flash and
"what was incredible about it was that the flash was square in
shape," Tom said. "It wasn't circular at all. It was like a screen
and we could all see just briefly that there was some sort of
pattern on it. Then it was gone. That was pretty amazing and got
everybody excited. As we stayed there, every night we would see
similar objects of about that size. They might zip out briefly and
then make a sudden turn and then disappear again. It was quite
intriguing."
One night near the end of their visit Tom and his wife were out
with a large group in the same wooded area where they had seen
these phenomena. At a certain point, through a gap in the trees,
they saw a huge bright object in the southern sky. It looked about
one-quarter the size of the moon, much larger than the stars
around it, but there was no moon that night. The object was
utterly motionless and so bright that it cast clear shadows of the
trees. It was as bright as a large full moon.
A few months later Tom came across a *Share International* news
release on the internet and read that there would be an appearance
of a large bright 'star' that could be seen both day and night.
"Just that description alone made me think of the object that we
had seen, because it was so large and bright that it could easily
have been seen during the day, even though I only witnessed it at
night."
Several months later, after midnight on 16 August 2009, near
Sausalito California, Tom was with several people who were sure
they were witnessing the 'star'. Tom, true to his skeptical
nature, thought the object in the sky was Jupiter, and went to
bed. Later the same night, a woman who had also thought the object
was Jupiter, saw it blink or pulse rhythmically for about 15
minutes while it remained motionless in the sky. Another person
kept watching it through a telescope and saw it "blink out" at
around 4am.
Talking about the news release announcing the 'star-like
luminary', Tom said: "Benjamin Creme has an explanation of why it
would be there now. This part is a little more challenging for a
person like me who has to have cold hard facts in order to believe
anything. He talked about it representing a sign that Christ was
returning to the world. When I read that I immediately connected
the star he was talking about with the Star of Bethlehem and the
wise men, and the fact that the star literally moved to guide them
to Bethlehem. I've known people who've speculated that that could
possibly have been a UFO.
"So while this seems like a pretty way-out story, I'm also quite
familiar with what is going on in the world today. We're facing
unprecedented crises everywhere. Prophecies of this kind of crisis
are common to many of the world's religions. So in that respect I
find it interesting that my reaction to Mr Creme's statement is
much more positive than skeptical."
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the light seen over Canada
was a fiery sign put out by a spacecraft which itself remained
invisible.
The lights over Mount Shasta were emitted by spacecraft while
themselves remaining beyond the range of vision, and the silvery
object which suddenly appeared was a spacecraft from Mars. The
"huge bright object" seen later at Mount Shasta was a UFO, a small
mothership from the planet Mars.
The object seen in the sky on 16 August 2009 near Sausalito,
California, was the 'star'.)
[To view the photo-caption listed directly below, please visit
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2009/2009-1
2.htm#letters2theeditor
All photographs are taken from Soni's video on YouTube
UNITY -- A COMPILATION
We present a selection of quotations on the theme of Unity from
Maitreya (*Messages from Maitreya the Christ*, and *Maitreya's
Teachings -- The Laws of Life*), Benjamin Creme's Master (*A
Master Speaks*), and Benjamin Creme's writings.
Against all the odds, and in spite of all appearances to the
contrary, mankind is about to emerge from its chrysalis of
darkness, its impotence and fear. With growing boldness and
assurance, the steps of men are set in the direction of unity and
justice, co-operation and sharing, simplicity and trust. (Benjamin
Creme's Master, from 'The need for trust')
My children, My friends, I have come more quickly, perhaps, than
you expected. But there is much to do, much that needs changing in
the world. Many hunger and die, many suffer needlessly. I come to
change all that; to show you the way forward -- into a simpler,
saner, happier life -- together. No longer man against man, nation
against nation, but together, as brothers, shall we go forth into
the New Country. (Maitreya, from Message No.1)
Everyone looks to identify with something larger than themselves.
That sense of unity is essential because everyone is looking for
it whether they know they are looking for it or not. Unity is the
soul's awareness of the unity of cosmos. Nothing less than that.
And where you create unity in your work, in your group, in your
nation, or in the group of nations, you benefit humanity.
(Benjamin Creme, *The Art of Co-operation*)
Evolution is moving towards greater unity, fusion, blending, the
creation of the one humanity -- not the sameness of life but the
unification of all diversity. The greatest unity with the greatest
diversity is the evolutionary aim. Market forces work in the
opposite direction, by creating more and more divisions. Maitreya
calls market forces "the forces of evil", because of their
in-built inequality. They have created division in the world which
has now reached crisis proportions. He can no longer stand aside
and watch what He calls "the massacre of the innocents". So He has
come into the world with the knowledge that there is a large body
of people who are longing, and able, to co-operate, whose view of
life is one of co-operation, justice and freedom for everyone. He
is here to inspire and confirm those who see co-operation as the
way forward, and awaken those who are holding on to the old
competitive modes. (Benjamin Creme, *The Great Approach*)
In unity there is diversity. The time has come to awaken. Be what
you are. Do not follow one another. Gradually you will become
evolved. No two persons are alike. No two persons can be carbon
copies. The moment you take on another's personality you are
creating a distance between Me and you. The moment you are what
you are, you begin to enjoy bliss, serenity, tranquility. Then
there is no distance between us. (*Maitreya's Teachings -- The
Laws of Life*)
Underlying the search for meaning in the life of everybody is the
search for unity. They want to be part of the group, of the human
existence, because they are souls. They are already divine, and
the nature of divinity is unity. There are countless millions of
manifestations of that divinity in the universe, but the nature of
the absolute divinity from which it all came is unified, unmoving,
endless, eternal, never changing. That is behind each one of us.
As Maitreya puts it, that is the Being of humanity. The becoming
is what happens when that takes the form of living. We go through
the process of evolution; that is the becoming. Essentially we are
the Self, which is the Divine. Divinity, when we grasp it, when we
understand it, recognize it, gives us the experience of what we
call life. That is the meaning and essentially the purpose of who
and what we are. (Benjamin Creme, *The Art of Living*)
The greatest diversity within the greatest unity, or put the other
way, the greatest unity with the greatest diversity, is the ideal
which humanity is seeking, and is in alignment with the Plan of
our Logos for the development of this world. It is not a boring
sameness -- in fact, the very opposite. Maitreya in one of His
early messages [No.3] said: *"Let Me take you by the hand and take
you into a land where no man lacks, where no two days are alike,
where the joy of brotherhood manifests through all men."*
(Benjamin Creme, *The Art of Co-operation*)
New temples dedicated to religions in the New Age will be opened
soon ... They will be centres not just for religious faiths but
for the arts and sciences. These temples will be unique because
they are the symbols of the fountains of wisdom and knowledge
sought by poets and scientists. The temples will begin to unify
diverse faiths. It is still important that there are different
faiths and beliefs, for without diversity there is no unity. "As
the Self is unified in Me so it retains its separate identity."
(*Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of Life*)
The Teaching of Maitreya -- to be honest in mind, sincere in
spirit and detached -- helps the Self to move into creation and
not play the role of guru, saint or prophet, but with humility to
respect, revere and obey the Divine Will which governs Creation.
Therefore you will experience freedom in Creation: freedom in
Oneness and Manyness; freedom in Unity and Diversity and
ultimately salvation which comes from the Supreme Divine Will.
When you reach this stage in life, there is no difference between
the soul and the Almighty, in which there is no beginning and no
end. (*Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of Life*)
Sharing and justice alone, Maitreya will say, will ensure the
future of men. Strive for unity and co-operation for the men of
Earth are One. "See your brother as yourself" and take the first
step into your divinity. "Take your brother's need as the measure
for your action and solve the problems of the world. There is no
other course." Thus will Maitreya speak to the people of Earth.
Thus will He endeavour to change the direction of their thinking.
(Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'The blasphemy of war')
It is not the evolutionary Plan that one form of government,
democratic or otherwise, should prevail. The needs of men are more
real and more important than ideologies. Tolerance of difference
unites, while ideologies divide.
When Maitreya speaks openly, therefore, He will show that unity in
diversity is the key to future harmony. That all the nations have
a destiny, unique and sacred. He will point the way to achieve
this blessed state and encourage men to open their hearts to a
wiser understanding of the Plan. Under Maitreya's guidance, men
will come to appreciate and value the richness of the achievements
of themselves and others. The urge to compete and to dominate will
gradually subside and a new chapter will open for men in
brotherhood and peace. Thus will it be. (Benjamin Creme's Master,
from 'Unity in diversity')
If you could see this world with the eyes of a person living 2,000
years ago, you would be astonished by radio and television,
facilities for travel and so on. A completely different world
pertains today from 2,000 years ago. If you had the vision to see
ahead say, 1,000 years from now, you would be astonished by the
world which would await your gaze at that time: modes of travel
which today you cannot even imagine -- thinking yourself to
Australia if that is what you want to do. Can you imagine the
world 1,000 years from now? A world in which unity is the keynote,
in which synthesis actually prevails; in which there are no wars,
no hunger, no great divisions; a world living in unity, in
harmony; a world in which the cities are beautiful. (Benjamin
Creme, *Maitreya's Mission, Volume Two*)
Gradually, all opinions, religions and divisions will be united.
"I want My garden to be restored. It will be full of diversity,
yet united. It will be beautiful and flourishing." (*Maitreya's
Teachings -- The Laws of Life*)
The time is soon coming when men will see for themselves that the
direction on which they are now embarked is false, fruitless for
their future happiness, and doomed to failure. Seeing this, they
will pose the questions: Why this emptiness? Why do we fail to
achieve the peace we seek? Where have we gone wrong? Turning then
to Maitreya, they will evaluate His words, testing them for
relevance to their plight. They will find that central to
Maitreya's thought is the concept of Oneness. Men must, He will
assure them, see themselves as One, each part of a united Whole --
the human family -- and that all that they do must reflect that
Oneness. The present failure to appreciate this reality, He will
contend, is responsible for all our difficulties and troubles, our
disharmony and fears, our conflicts and wars.
"See your brother as yourself," says Maitreya. Create an
International Storehouse from which all can take. Only thus, by
Sharing, can the world be renewed, is His Teaching. Only by
Sharing, He will affirm, will men find the happiness they seek.
Sharing alone will bring Justice and Peace. (Benjamin Creme's
Master, from 'The Oneness of Humanity')
Each age confers on humanity a specific quality of achievement.
Pisces, the age now at an end, has given to men the divine
achievement of Individuality, together with the qualities of
Devotion and Idealism. These are mighty advances in the long
journey of evolution and have prepared mankind for the blessings
of Aquarius.
The new age, Aquarius, has, too, its intrinsic quality --
Synthesis -- and in this coming time will, indeed, cause this
divine attribute to manifest its beneficent Unity throughout the
world. This present time of turmoil, division and separation will
gradually give way to an era in which the ever-increasing forces
of Aquarius will perform their magic, blending and knitting
together the disparate, unruly, parts. Thus will men undergo an
extraordinary transformation, greater and faster than ever before
in their long history. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'Aquarius --
the Giver of Unity')
The old, mechanistic views of nature and of the forces at work
within her are fast disappearing and a new awareness is dawning of
the unity underlying all manifestation. More and more, the concept
that all is energy, that energy and matter are different states of
one reality and can be affected by thought, is being accepted on a
wide scale and is changing men's view of life. Enlightenment is
growing apace and soon the methods and technology will be found to
demonstrate this fact. This is of profound significance for the
future evolution of the race. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from
'Growth of consciousness')
[Unity] achieves beauty because it reflects a divine purpose. If
it is true to say that the purpose of all life is the creation of
unity, then indeed it is behind the divine idea in the mind of the
Logos of our planet. In other words, it is God's will that beauty
should express the strength and the reality which we call unity.
... Unity has to be seen as a continuous gain, something into
which you put time, energy and nourishing love, and out of that
comes the beauty of the unity which can only be achieved in that
way. (Benjamin Creme, *The Art of Co-operation*)
As we near the beginning of a new era, the thoughts of men turn to
the sky and the possibilities which exist for future travel
between the planets. Already, instruments probe deep into space,
gathering the information which may throw light on the nature of
the system in which we live. Men's thoughts turn upwards and
outwards for the first time. This concern is new for man. Seldom
before has his thought reached further than his own hearth,
restricting his vision of the vast scope of cosmos which awaits
his exploration. At the same time, new discoveries about the
nature of Life Itself are awakening men to the need for an outer
expression of the unity which, they now know, underlies our
Universe. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'The Divine science')
Essentially, all men inwardly seek unity and find its reflection
in conformity of thought and ideas. This instinct is behind the
formation of political parties and other groups. The ideological
consensus acts as a magnet and strengthens the potency of the
whole.
Groups and parties founder when the inner unity is disturbed.
Unity is a soul quality and essential for the cohesion of the
group. Too great an emphasis on individuals and personality
differences thus tends to weaken the unifying ties which hold the
group together. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'Unity')
Mankind is not only a unity, it is a unit. It is a fused Being,
and each unit in that Being is held together in a dynamic
relationship by that energy we call Love. So that it is absolutely
intrinsic to our nature. When we demonstrate hatred or anything
else but Love we are only demonstrating Love in a distorted
fashion. Goodwill is Love on a lower level, hatred is Love on the
other side of the coin. That Love is everywhere in the universe;
there could not be a universe without the manifestation of the
energy we call Love. There are other, higher aspects than Love --
and the Christ comes to show a higher aspect which includes Love.
That is the New Revelation. (Benjamin Creme, *The Reappearance of
the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom*)
I shall show you wonders of which you cannot dream. I shall
release from your eyes the blindfold of ignorance. I shall drive
from this earth forever the curse of hatred, the sin of
separation. Let Me take you with Me, My friends, back to your
Source, back to the cradle of your Being, and release in you your
Godhead. My Masters will serve you, too, will teach you to live
together in true brotherhood, in justice and harmony. Forget not,
My brothers, that you are One, that the Father of All has created
you in His Divine Image, that through you shines the same blessed
Light of Love and Truth. The time is coming, My friends, when the
Light of Truth shall shine all around you, when Man shall take his
brother to his heart and know him as himself. Let Me lead you, My
friends, into that blessed state. Say yes to My Advent. Say yea to
My Coming, and be enfolded in the blessing of My Love. May the
Divine Light and Love and Power of the One Most Holy God be now
manifest within your hearts and minds. May this manifestation lead
you to see yourselves, together, as children of the One Father.
(Maitreya, from Message No.51)
There has never been an Avatar better equipped for His task than
Maitreya. There has never been a need for such an Avatar, but this
world is now so complex, so divided, so riddled with both good and
bad, positive and negative, that all of these forces have to be
reconciled. This is His aim, this longing in the heart of the
Christ for unity, for using His powers, His insights, to establish
His nature, which is love, in the world. In this way He teaches us
how to love and, as the Master says, *"love again."* To love again
is not to love in a normal, reactive sense, but to love totally,
unconditionally, in the way that the Masters do. This will
establish the brotherhood of man. (Benjamin Creme, *Maitreya's
Mission, Volume Three*)
Maitreya will emphasize the utter necessity for peace, and that
the complete renunciation of war can only be achieved by trust.
Sharing alone, Maitreya will affirm, can engender that trust. Thus
will Maitreya speak, thus will He foster the sense of the One
humanity and the need for sharing. Needless to say, not all men
will respond to Maitreya's call for Unity and Brotherhood, but as
the voice of reason and justice penetrates the hearts of men, more
and yet more will see the truth of His insight and the necessity
for change. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'The people awaken')
Take unity as your banner and walk the way of power. Unity makes
all things possible. Without unity nothing is certain; the finest
possibilities come to dust. Achievement lies in the right use of
the given capacities; lacking unity, the highest potential may be
wasted.
Unity is a manifestation of Spirit, for the true nature of
humanity is One. All that leads to unity benefits the race and
lends wings to the journey. Unity is invincible; the dark ones
beat on the shield of unity in vain. The time is coming when unity
will be achieved but the first steps in that direction must be
taken now. Useless it is to wait for others to start; the move
towards unity must be made by each one. Nothing so pierces the web
of unity as criticism. A thousand possibilities are lost in this
way. Keep silent the tongue of criticism and protect the precious
fabric so carefully spun.
Each in his own way knows the power of unity; each seeks from his
neighbour approval and consent, but mechanical conformity of
thought here has no place. Each move in the direction of unity
adds power to the whole and lightens the task of the Toilers
behind the scenes. Create unity and know the true nature of man.
Preserve unity and allow the Spirit of man to flourish. Teach
unity and unleash the love in your brother's heart. (Benjamin
Creme's Master, from 'The need for unity')
My Teaching will bring to you a new but simple Truth, and show you
to yourselves as God. My Teaching will release in you that
Godhead, and further, thus, God's Plan. Many await My coming with
trepidation, fearing the loss of all that they have loved, all
that they have amassed and gained. Fear not, My friends, for the
loss will be the loss of separation only, of division and fear, of
envy and hate. To clear these from the world all must be remade.
Know this, My friends, and be ready to share, to see your brother
as yourself, to clasp him in your arms and call him friend. In
this way, My brothers, you manifest God's Plan. Towards the
completion of that Plan do I work and call you to My side. Work
with Me, My friends; together we shall make all things new. Good
night, My dear friends. May the Divine Light and Love and Power of
the One Most Holy God be now manifest within your hearts and
minds. May this manifestation lead you to see your brother as
yourself. (Maitreya, from Message No.125)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
In this section *Share International* focuses on the rising tide
of people power which will continue until, under Maitreya's wise
guidance, the people will lead their leaders into the creation of
a just society in which the rights and needs of all are recognized
and met.
>>>Historic action by 56 newspapers worldwide
The following editorial was published on 7 December 2009 by 56
newspapers around the world in 20 languages including Chinese,
Arabic and Russian. The text was drafted by a team of journalists
at the UK's *Guardian* newspaper, during more than a month of
consultations with editors from over 20 of the papers involved.
Like the *Guardian* most of the newspapers took the unusual step
of featuring the editorial on their front page.
Copenhagen climate change conference:
'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
"Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step
of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so
because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will
ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The
dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the
facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the
warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's
inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.
In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans
are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the
damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and
half-hearted.
Climate change has been caused over centuries, has consequences
that will endure for all time and our prospects of taming it will
be determined in the next 14 days. We call on the representatives
of the 192 countries gathered in Copenhagen not to hesitate, not
to fall into dispute, not to blame each other but to seize
opportunity from the greatest modern failure of politics. This
should not be a fight between the rich world and the poor world,
or between east and west. Climate change affects everyone, and
must be solved by everyone.
The science is complex but the facts are clear. The world needs to
take steps to limit temperature rises to 2C, an aim that will
require global emissions to peak and begin falling within the next
5-10 years. A bigger rise of 3-4C -- the smallest increase we can
prudently expect to follow inaction -- would parch continents,
turning farmland into desert. Half of all species could become
extinct, untold millions of people would be displaced, whole
nations drowned by the sea. The controversy over emails by British
researchers that suggest they tried to suppress inconvenient data
has muddied the waters but failed to dent the mass of evidence on
which these predictions are based.
Few believe that Copenhagen can any longer produce a fully
polished treaty; real progress towards one could only begin with
the arrival of President Obama in the White House and the reversal
of years of US obstructionism. Even now the world finds itself at
the mercy of American domestic politics, for the president cannot
fully commit to the action required until the US Congress has done
so.
But the politicians in Copenhagen can and must agree the essential
elements of a fair and effective deal and, crucially, a firm
timetable for turning it into a treaty. Next June's UN climate
meeting in Bonn should be their deadline. As one negotiator put
it: "We can go into extra time but we can't afford a replay."
At the deal's heart must be a settlement between the rich world
and the developing world covering how the burden of fighting
climate change will be divided -- and how we will share a newly
precious resource: the trillion or so tonnes of carbon that we can
emit before the mercury rises to dangerous levels.
Rich nations like to point to the arithmetic truth that there can
be no solution until developing giants such as China take more
radical steps than they have so far. But the rich world is
responsible for most of the accumulated carbon in the atmosphere
-- three-quarters of all carbon dioxide emitted since 1850. It
must now take a lead, and every developed country must commit to
deep cuts which will reduce their emissions within a decade to
very substantially less than their 1990 level.
Developing countries can point out they did not cause the bulk of
the problem, and also that the poorest regions of the world will
be hardest hit. But they will increasingly contribute to warming,
and must thus pledge meaningful and quantifiable action of their
own. Though both fell short of what some had hoped for, the recent
commitments to emissions targets by the world's biggest polluters,
the United States and China, were important steps in the right
direction.
Social justice demands that the industrialised world digs deep
into its pockets and pledges cash to help poorer countries adapt
to climate change, and clean technologies to enable them to grow
economically without growing their emissions. The architecture of
a future treaty must also be pinned down -- with rigorous
multilateral monitoring, fair rewards for protecting forests, and
the credible assessment of "exported emissions" so that the burden
can eventually be more equitably shared between those who produce
polluting products and those who consume them. And fairness
requires that the burden placed on individual developed countries
should take into account their ability to bear it; for instance
newer EU members, often much poorer than "old Europe", must not
suffer more than their richer partners.
The transformation will be costly, but many times less than the
bill for bailing out global finance -- and far less costly than
the consequences of doing nothing.
Many of us, particularly in the developed world, will have to
change our lifestyles. The era of flights that cost less than the
taxi ride to the airport is drawing to a close. We will have to
shop, eat and travel more intelligently. We will have to pay more
for our energy, and use less of it.
But the shift to a low-carbon society holds out the prospect of
more opportunity than sacrifice. Already some countries have
recognized that embracing the transformation can bring growth,
jobs and better quality lives. The flow of capital tells its own
story: last year for the first time more was invested in renewable
forms of energy than producing electricity from fossil fuels.
Kicking our carbon habit within a few short decades will require a
feat of engineering and innovation to match anything in our
history. But whereas putting a man on the moon or splitting the
atom were born of conflict and competition, the coming carbon race
must be driven by a collaborative effort to achieve collective
salvation.
Overcoming climate change will take a triumph of optimism over
pessimism, of vision over short-sightedness, of what Abraham
Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature".
It is in that spirit that 56 newspapers from around the world have
united behind this editorial. If we, with such different national
and political perspectives, can agree on what must be done then
surely our leaders can too.
The politicians in Copenhagen have the power to shape history's
judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to
it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing
to avert it. We implore them to make the right choice." (Source:
*The Guardian*, UK)
>>>International day of climate action
An emerging global grassroots movement demonstrated its strength
on 24 October 2009 when people in 181 countries took part in 5,200
events to highlight the need for strong action on the climate
crisis.
The focus of the international effort was the number 350. The
figure is most generally accepted by scientists and climate
experts as the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, measured in parts per million (ppm). Until about 200
years ago, the Earth's atmosphere contained 275 ppm of carbon
dioxide. The current figure is 390 ppm, and is increasing by 2 ppm
each year.
Unless humanity can rapidly reduce the carbon dioxide
concentration to 350 ppm, there is a serious risk of irreversible
impacts to the planet -- such as the melting of the Greenland ice
sheet and major methane releases from increased melting of
permafrost. This according to Bill McKibben, co-founder of
350.org, the group that organized the 24 October event. What took
place on that day, McKibben said, "was ordinary people rallying
around a scientific data point to send the message that our
leaders actually need to lead."
McKibben said: "Parts per million CO2 sounds too obscure an idea
to attract crowds on six continents, but there were thousands of
people in the streets from Togo and Ethiopia and Paraguay to
Seattle and London and Sydney." In front of the 'Hollywood' sign
in California, the White House in Washington, the pyramids in
Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and thousands of other
locations worldwide, people called attention to the number 350 in
creative ways and sent their photos to the 350.org website.
As the next step in this growing global movement, millions of
people plan to take action on 12 December 2009 during the UN
climate change conference in Copenhagen. (Source: www.350.org)
TRENDS
In this section, we review developments and opinions which
demonstrate that there is an increasingly powerful undercurrent
sweeping the world in the direction of synthiesis and sharing,
relaxation and co-operation, of new relationships and new
approaches.
>>>Wealthy Germans call for higher taxes
A group of wealthy Germans have offered an unusual contribution to
aid Germany's economic recovery by demanding to pay higher taxes.
The 44 signatories to a petition which calls on the government to
raise taxes for the rich say that simply donating money will not
be enough to deal with the problems. Since they have more money
than they need, the petitioners say, they want a change in the
government's approach. Worried about the increase in unemployment,
poverty and social inequality, the group wants the extra tax
revenue used to fund economic and social programmes: "The path out
of the crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology,
education and social justice".
The petition, which will be presented to the German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, says the country could raise 100 billion euros in
two years with a five per cent wealth tax for the richest.
According to Dieter Lehmkuhl, the retired doctor and heir to a
brewery who started the petition, there are 2.2 million Germans
with a fortune of 500,000 euros or more. One of the signatories,
Peter Vollmer, told AFP news agency he supported the proposal
because he had inherited "a lot of money I do not need". (Source:
BBC News Online, UK)
>>>Gene therapy experiment improves sight in 12 patients
An experimental gene therapy has improved the vision of 12 people
suffering from a rare congenital disease. The therapy, which
involves a single injection of genes, helped improve worsening
eyesight caused by an inherited disease called Leber congenital
amaurosis, or LCA. The disease makes most patients blind by the
age of 40.
"All 12 patients given gene therapy in one eye showed improvement
in retinal function," according to a report written by a team of
researchers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their report was
published in *The Lancet* medical journal.
LCA causes the retina to degenerate and the researchers found that
the younger the patient treated with the therapy, the better the
effects. Although the experiment was intended mainly to prove that
the treatment was safe, it showed surprisingly strong effects,
according to researchers Dr Katherine High and Dr Jean Bennett.
"This study reports dramatic results in restoring vision to
patients who previously had no options for treatment," said Dr
High. "These findings may expedite development of gene therapy for
more common retinal diseases, such as age-related macular
degeneration."
In a commentary written for the report, Dr Frans Cremers and Dr
Rob Collin of Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands, said:
"The study by Bennett and co-workers will further boost gene
therapy trials and provide hope for patients with inherited
blindness and other genetic disorders." (Source: Reuters)
>>>Free market flawed
A new worldwide poll conducted for the BBC World Service has
discovered widespread discontent with free-market capitalism. Only
about one in ten of those questioned across 27 countries thought
that it still works.
Many said that regulation and reform were required, and nearly a
quarter of all those who responded thought that capitalism was
fatally flawed. In France, that figure was even 43 per cent, in
Mexico 38 per cent, and in Brazil 35 per cent. A majority around
the world think that wealth should be distributed more evenly, and
that governments should intervene more to regulate business.
(Source: BBC, UK)
THE EMERGENCE OF THE WORLD TEACHER -- IN BRIEF
All the great religions posit the idea of a further revelation
to be given by a future Teacher. Christians hope for the return
of the Christ, the Buddhists look for the coming of another
Buddha (the Lord Maitreya), while Muslims await the Imam Mahdi,
the Hindus a reincarnation of Krishna, and the Jews the Messiah.
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 return now.
In July 1977, Maitreya emerged from His centre in the Himalayas,
when least expected, "like a thief in the night". Since then, He
has lived in London as an ordinary man concerned with modern
problems -- political, economic and social. Since March 1978, He
has been emerging as a spokesman in the Pakistani-Indian
community. He is not a religious leader, but an educator in the
broadest sense -- pointing the way out of the present world
crisis. According to esoteric teaching, Maitreya manifested
Himself 2,000 years ago in Palestine by overshadowing His disciple
Jesus -- now the Master Jesus. This time Maitreya has come
Himself.
Maitreya's spiritual teaching: Maitreya does not intend to build
a new religion around Himself, nor to create followers, but to
teach humanity "the art of Self-realization". The first steps are
"honesty of mind, sincerity of spirit and detachment."
Maitreya's social concern is reflected in His list of priorities:
an adequate supply of the right food, adequate housing and shelter
for all, healthcare and education as a universal right. His
social message can be summarized in a few words: "Share and save
the world." Maitreya knows we will accept His advice and that we
are on the threshold of an era of peace and goodwill.
Since late 1991, Maitreya has been carrying out a series of
appearances like the one in Nairobi, Kenya. There, on 11 June
1988, He appeared miraculously, "out of the blue", at an
open-air prayer/healing meeting. He was photographed addressing
(in their own language) thousands of people who instantly
recognized Him as the Christ. Similar events have now been
witnessed by large numbers in different countries. In this way,
more and more people will receive proof of His presence and,
hopefully, in due course will demand media response. Maitreya
expects this approach to lead to the Day of Declaration, when He
will leave no doubt that He is the World Teacher. Maitreya will
mentally 'overshadow' all of humanity simultaneously. Each of
us will hear His words inwardly, telepathically, in our own
language, and all will know that the World Teacher is now among
us.
The information about Maitreya's emergence has been presented to
the public since 1974 by Benjamin Creme, chief editor of the
magazine *Share International*. His training for this work,
under a Master of Wisdom, began in 1959.
To summarize the historical perspective:
1982, 14 May: Creme reveals during a press conference in Los
Angeles that Maitreya lives in the Asian community in London,
and challenges the media to invite Maitreya to come forward.
Unfortunately, the media do not react.
1987, August: Benjamin Creme announces: "In the coming three
or four months, Maitreya will be working intensively to bring
about a breakthrough in international relationships in the
world." Less than a month later, the breakthrough comes, in the
political meetings between the Americans and the Soviets,
followed by the armaments agreement in December that no one had
thought possible.
1988: Maitreya appears, both in person and in dreams, to
well-known leaders in various countries, and to many ordinary
citizens. Manifestations of crosses of light are reported in
the US media and are seen by many thousands.
1989/2001: Crosses of Light are seen and filmed, from Canada to
Japan and from the Philippines to Slovenia.
1995, Sept/Oct: Peope world-wide witness the miraculous
disappearance of milk offered to statues of Hindu gods.
1991/2002: Maitreya appears miraculously before large groups of
people all over the world. In Tlacote (Mexico), Nordenau
(Germany) and Nadana (India) healing wells charged by Maitreya
attract growing numbers of visitors. By means of these
'miracles', Maitreya seeks to create a climate of hope and
expectancy in which He can emerge as the Teacher for all
humanity.
Since April 1988, through one of Maitreya's closest associates
in the Asian community of London, *Share International* has
received a series of articles. These outline Maitreya's
teachings and draw attention to developments which He expects to
take place in the world.
Outer events have demonstrated Maitreya's insight. As early as
1988, He foresaw the release of Nelson Mandela and the process of
*detente* in South Africa. Again in 1988, when Mrs Thatcher was
at the very peak of her powers, Maitreya said that she would
resign. In the same year He stated that governments everywhere
would have to give way to the "voice of the people", a statement
which found its most impressive proof in Eastern Europe.
Furthermore, Maitreya forecast the cease-fire between Iran and
Iraq; the withdrawal of foreign troops from Angola; the global
*rapprochement* between guerrilla forces and national governments;
the Armenian earthquake in 1988, and those in California and China
in 1989; the internal problems of the Soviet Union; the
establishment of peace in the Lebanon. In 1988 He promised:
"Many people will be healed from AIDS through the practice of
prayer". Dutch television announced in October 1995 that more
that 400 people have been cured of AIDS through prayer in Uganda.
Maitreya also forecast the election of a Democrat as President of
the United States and the positive developments in the relation
between Israel and the Palestinians. (Statement made in 1988:
"The Israeli army, against all expectations, will withdraw from
the West Bank and Gaza and return to its homeland.")
*A major event* which, Maitreya says, we may expect to see in the
near future and which he announced as early as 1988: *an
international stock market crash, beginning in Japan*.
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Venerable Rinpoche
> . . . I would not be surprised, however, if Mr Obama
> becomes enamoured by Maitreya's teaching and advice.
Funny!
--
One thousand blessings