CHAPTER 1 Maitreya: The New Age Messiah

Who is Lord Maitreya? Is he the antichrist? Is he already in the world today? Is he an ordinary man who is demonically possessed?

Only the insiders of the New Age Movement hierarchy know his true identity.

Maitreya is living somewhere. He eats. He sleeps. He paces the Floor. He studies world conditions. He knows his time is soon.

What do we know about Maitreya?

The full-page newspaper ads give us some clues. According to Tara Center, sponsor of the ads:

• He is a world teacher for all humanity.

• He is a modern man concerned with modern problems — political, economic and social.

• Since July of 1977 he has been emerging as a spokesman for a group or community in a well-known modern country.

• He has extraordinary spiritual power.

• His location is known only to a very few of his disciples.

• He will soon announce his identity.

• He will communicate to all humanity through a worldwide radio and television broadcast.

• He plans to build a new world.

Exactly what does the name “Maitreya” mean?

Maitreya is supposed to be the fifth reincarnation of Buddha. The world’s Buddhists are already expecting Lord Maitreya to return to earth. So, the name was a very shrewd choice.

In order to appeal to Christians, New Agers say Maitreya is the Christ. For Moslems he is the Iman Mahdi. For Hindus he is Krishna.

Maitreya’s followers are now in the last stage of the New Age scheme to take the world for Lucifer.

Lucis Trust — formerly Lucifer Trust — ran ads in the Reader’s Digest, which displayed The Great Invocation to Maitreya.

The Great Invocation refers to The Plan. It says, “Let Light and Love and Power restore The Plan on Earth.”

What is The Plan?

It includes the installation of a New World “Messiah,” the implementation of a new world government and new world religion under Maitreya.

They have numerous political, social and economic goals, including the following:

• A universal credit card system.

• A world food authority which would control the world’s food supply.

• A universal tax.

• A universal draft.

But there is more to The Plan — they intend to utterly root out people who believe the Bible and worship God and to completely stamp out Christianity.

They have stated that they plan to outlaw all present religious practices and symbols of orthodox Jews and Christians. The Movement is working quickly and efficiently to execute its scheme to take control of the world for Maitreya.

New Agers have threatened violence and even extermination of Jews, Christians and Moslems who fail to cooperate with Maitreya and his new religion.

The Tara Centers are part of international networks involving tens of thousands of different organizations behind the New Age Movement and its false Christ. Creme describes it as being worldwide.

During an interview with Jack Kisling of the Denver Post, Creme discussed Maitreya. Kisling gives this account:

“Benjamin Creme . . . told me . . . that not only has The Christ been back on earth since July of 1977, but that sometime in the next eight or nine weeks he will reveal himself in a worldwide ‘day of declaration,’ at which time the millennium will have dawned. … He explained that by The Christ he means not Jesus Christ, but the Master of Wisdom of whom Jesus and such other spiritual leaders as Mohammed, Brahma and Krishna are disciples. . . . Asked what will happen after the great galvanic day, Creme said progress will be slow but steady. World needs and world resources will be reassessed and redistributed and the groundwork for a single global religion will be started and probably flower fully within 20 years.

” ‘Won’t the advent of a single world religion annoy the hierarchies of all the current orthodox religions?’ I asked.

” ‘More than that,’ he said with a smile. ‘They will be shocked. I daresay they will be among the last to accept the Christ.’ ” . But, according to Kisling, Creme said confidently, “It will come, anyway, because it must. We will begin to live,’ he said … ‘as potential gods.’ ”

The Club of Rome is another very prominent New Age organization. It has drawn up the blueprints for a new world order.

How could this ever happen? What conditions must emerge to pave the way for a world takeover by the antichrist, or Lord Maitreya or anyone else?

Interestingly enough, in The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson comes flat out and makes an admission that the purpose of the LSD circulation in this country was to get people open, to get their channels open so they would have what she called a “religious experience.” But this is nothing more than possession.

Another New Age leader is David Spangler who is right at the top of Planetary Citizens which is the Secretariat for Planetary Initiative.

Spangler says that in order to enter the New Age we must take a Luciferic initiation. He says we’re heading into a vast planetary initiation, a mass initiation of people.

They intend to give us our mark or number in that Luciferic initiation ceremony.

No wonder God told us if we take the mark, we go to hell — no “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts” about it. It is literally a choice between God and Lucifer.

You will have to pledge loyalty to Lucifer or Maitreya to get a permit to do business in the New Age.

We also note another distinguishing characteristic of the New Age Movement — the 666.

Within the Movement there is extensive usage of the numerals 666. I have noticed the 666 in various books by David Spangler. One example is a little booklet called Love Is by The New Troubadours and published by the Findhorn Foundation. There are numerous triple six formations worked into the pictures in the book.

New Agers consider the 666 a sacred number.

Those who so freely use the numbers 666 honestly believe they are sending signals to outer space, or to what they call the superior intelligences which they believe inhabit our planet. They are asking those superior intelligences to come in and bring a new advanced civilization.

They believe that the more times and the more places that the numerals 666 are used the quicker that new civilization will come.

The Bible teaches that Satan will try to deceive the very elect of God.

When Maitreya goes public yet another imposter will come forward saying, “I am the Master Jesus.”

This Master Jesus will say: “Now all you Christians and all you church members, you come forward and worship Lord Maitreya.”

Actually, the New Age Movement correlates many of its aims with Bible prophecy. A letter from an organization called “Mission of Maitreya” from Albuquerque, New Mexico, contains the following statement:

“The word Maitreya has always been associated with messiah, who will come to unify the world and synthesize all religions under one banner. This expectation is now fulfilled. Known to Christians and Jews as the Messiah, Buddhists and Hindus as Maitreya and Moslems as Mahdi or Mohammed. Maitreya is called by all these names. The names Maitreya, Messiah and Mohammed are given to him; he did not call himself by these names, so besides other prophecies, the prophecy that ‘many shall come in my name’ would be fulfilled.”

They say that all the prophecies Jesus made concerning those that would come in his name are now fulfilled. Jesus said, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Matthew 24:5).

Although the full-page newspaper ads said Maitreya would soon appear, he has not done so yet.

This worries me. For it could cause many Christians to develop a false sense of confidence over the fact that he has not yet appeared.

The average false Christ — and there have been many — is not bashful. He comes out, collects his followers, his accolades, and especially the money. Then, he lives like a king.

The real antichrist cannot appear until the Lord permits it. And I believe the Lord will not let it happen until his people are fully warned.

Everyone will know when Jesus comes to earth again. It will be as clear as a flash of lightning in the sky.

I believe the New Agers will attempt to give the impression to Christians that the emergence of Maitreya is actually the return of Christ.

Revelation 13:13-15 is an interesting prophecy. It says:

“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

“And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the

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sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

That prophecy puzzled me until I studied the New Age Movement in depth. I have learned that the Movement has devoted a great deal of research and attention to the use of holographic images. These are three-dimensional images created in space by use of laser beams.

David Spangler said in a meeting in Southf ield, Michigan, February 1, 1982, that laser beam projectors had been installed for use on top of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Episcopal, in New York City.

1 talked to lighting experts to see what laser beam projectors are capable of and I was told they can be beamed onto telecommunication satellites.

The New Agers have several of these at their disposal. When the lasers bounce from the satellite back to earth, the light rays can be bent in such a manner as to appear that flames are coming from the sky. These satellites can also be used to project a three-dimensional holographic image viewable by up to one-third of the earth’s population.

There is even technology to make the image speak in the language of the areas to which it is beamed. Of course, we also know that lasers can be used as weapons.

New Agers deify Lucifer and that is the worship of devils.

Through transmissions to Benjamin Creme, Maitreya has claimed that Jesus is one of his disciples. This can be documented in Creme’s books. The Reappearance of Christ, and The Masters of Wisdom.

How widespread is this New Age Movement? According to Marilyn Ferguson and other New Age sources, they are in every city and institution in the world.

Their people are in the United Nations, prominent scientific, legal and medical circles and even at the congressional and cabinet levels of the United States government.

Christians should remember that the motive behind the New Age Movement is Lucifer’s desire to be worshipped as God.

Maitreya, if he is indeed the antichrist, will be worshipped. As Satan possesses Maitreya, he in turn will receive that worship he has sought since he was expelled from heaven.