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Benjamin Creme (5 December 1922 − 24 October 2016) was a Scottish artist, esoteric writer, and editor of Share International magazine.
Creme asserted that the Second Coming, prophesied by many religions, would come in the form of Maitreya, the World Teacher. Maitreya is the name Buddhists use for the future Buddhahood, but Creme believed that Maitreya is the teacher that all religions point towards and hope for. Creme maintained that Maitreya had returned in a physical form, descended from the Himalayas, and then moved to London on 19 July 1977.
Creme said that he was first contacted Telepathy by his Master in January 1959, when Creme was asked to make tape recordings of his Master's messages.Creme, Benjamin The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of the Wisdom London: Tara Press 1980, p. 14 Creme first began to speak publicly of his mission on 30 May 1975, at the Friends Meeting House on Euston Road in London, England.Creme, Benjamin The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of the Wisdom London: Tara Press 1980, p. 19Creme, Benjamin (ed.). Messages from Maitreya the Christ. Amsterdam: Share International Foundation 1981 His central message announced the emergence of this group of enlightened spiritual teachers who would guide humanity forward into a new epoch, the Aquarian Age of peace and brotherhood, based on the principles of love and sharing. At the head of this group would be the one who occupies the office of the Christ, Maitreya, the World Teacher, expected by all the major religions as their "Awaited One": the Christ to the Christians; the Imam Mahdi to the Muslims; the Messiah for Jews; and the 5th Buddha (i.e., Maitreya) for Buddhists. As early as 1982, however, Creme emphasized that Maitreya would reveal himself fully only when Humanity began to live in right relationship to one another – most notably, by living in peace, and by beginning to share the world's resources more equitably.
After 1982, Creme made a number of additional predictions and announcements about the advent of Maitreya, based on his claims of receiving telepathic messages from a Master of Wisdom. Creme said that in January 1986, Maitreya contacted media representatives at the highest level in Britain who agreed to make an announcement about Maitreya's existence and stature. Under pressure from high religious and government officials, however, these statements were withheld.[1] Alcuin Bramerton: Christ and Jesus at the BBC - London 1986 BBC misses biggest story in English history. UK church establishment rejects Second Coming of Christ. Why did the BBC, the Queen and the Church of England bishops choose to ignore the Second Coming of Christ in 1986?
Nonetheless, Creme wrote, "On 26 February 1987 Maitreya gave an interview to the major American television company, Cable News Network (CNN). He was interviewed under His ordinary, everyday name, and did not call Himself the Christ. He did say, however, that, among other names, He was known as Maitreya. A group of His closest associates journeyed to the United States to arrange further interviews..." The CNN interview was made available for possible showing in 26 of a promised 29 countries in Europe, Scandinavia, North Africa and the Middle East, but was not broadcast in the United States. The CNN office in Atlanta maintained that they could not see a framework in which to present the interview.Maitreya's Mission Vol. II (1993)
In 1997 Creme again announced that there would be additional, global TV broadcasts from the Christ, although the media remained largely uninterested. Creme nevertheless asserted that there would be a Day of Declaration: "The Christ will come on the world's television channels, linked together by satellite. All those with access to television will see ... his. He will establish a telepathic rapport with all humanity simultaneously. While the Christ is speaking... everyone hundreds of thousands of 'miracle' cures to take place simultaneously."Creme, Benjamin Maitreya's Mission I 1986 p. 23
On 14 January 2010 Creme said that Maitreya had given the first interview which aired on American television. Soon afterwards, several people in the United States working from Creme's predictions concluded that the British-American economist and author Raj Patel was Maitreya. After newspaper articles spread this story around the world Creme responded that Raj Patel was not the coming World Teacher in an article in The Guardian under the headline "Raj Patel is Not Maitreya, But the World Teacher is Here — and Needed."
Creme gave lectures around the world for more than 30 years about Maitreya, and a network of volunteers worked with him to give his views to the public. In speaking about his work, Creme said: "My job has been to make the initial approach to the public, to help create a climate of hope and expectancy. If I can do that, I'll be well pleased."
Although most press coverage of Creme and his information has been skeptical,Citations will be added here, of skeptical articles written about Creme some members of the news media had positive views of him, such as Canadian broadcasting host/producer Max Allen, who stated, "The Maitreya story is important and Creme is an admirable spokesman." Creme died in October 2016 at the age of 93.
In 1958, Creme met George Adamski and said he could personally vouch for the authenticity of Adamski's UFO contacts.Creme, Benjamin The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of the Wisdom London: Tara Press 1980, p. 13 Creme maintained that most of the UFOs that travelled to Earth came from Mars and Venus, in space-ships manufactured on Mars through a process in which thoughts have the power to materialize things. In addition, Creme believed that the most highly evolved beings of Mars and Venus (that are visible only on the etheric level) have long played a role in not merely uplifting early animal-man, but also in protecting Humanity from its own self by sending UFOs to heal the Earth's negativity and pollution. Creme asserted that nuclear radiation was the most dangerous of all pollution, while emphasizing that all the nuclear power plants continually leak, but such seepage escapes scientific measurements at this time as radioactive pollution exists largely on the etheric plane. Creme underscored that it is there that the radioactive waste does the most harm; it is in that realm that nuclear power threatens all life on our planet and beyond.
During an interview in 2006 Creme confirmed his views on the importance of UFOs and their role in creating crop circles. "The crop circles are there to draw attention to the fact that the Space Brothers are there... They are made in seconds by the 'ships' of the Space Brothers...They appear all over the world, but the majority are in the South of England. Why? Because Maitreya is in London."
Over time, Creme explained how interdependent Humanity's existence has been with other, far more advanced, planetary civilizations. He underscored that "the have an enormous part to play in the security of this planet at the ecological level. The a new science that will give us energy directly from the sun. Oil will become a thing of the past. No one will be able to sell energy in the future."
Between 1989 and 1991, Creme's magazine Share International published a series of purported excerpts of talks given by Maitreya in the London area, recorded by a close associate, and then transmitted to two journalists, Patricha Pitchon and Brian James. Covering modern problems such as addiction, crime, and corruption, Maitreya's dialogues proposed the technique of "honesty of mind, sincerity of spirit and detachment" as the cure, leading to growing awareness. The excerpts also contained prognostications of ongoing world events, including the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the ending of Communist rule in the Soviet Union, the release of Nelson Mandela and the ending of Apartheid in South Africa, the release of Terry Waite, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, and many more.
Sceptics ridiculed the story presented by Benjamin Creme, noting that several of the predictions were incorrect."Francis Wheen's Diary". The Independent 27 January 1991: "Alas and alack, on the great issue of the day poor Mr Maitreya seems to have stubbed his toe rather badly. After Saddam sent his tanks across the border last August Maitreya suggested that a mystical power and force in nature will make Iraq withdraw totally and unconditionally from Kuwait. In November his message was unequivocal: The Gulf Crisis: Maitreya has made it clear from the beginning that there will be no war.""Kiwis Prove to Aussies They're Not That Gullible". The Evening Post 4 December 1995. "But it's not just the eruptions at issue. Benjamin Creme, based in London and a five-time visitor to New Zealand as ambassador for Maitreya, the saviour he claims is awaited by all religions, has extended the connection. John O'Donnell of the New Zealand Transmission Meditation Network said Mr Creme had told him the 5.9 South Island quake on Friday, November 24 had been caused by the fourth French atomic test two days before. Nobody has yet predicted plagues of locusts, frogs, flies, rivers of blood or other disasters for the fifth and subsequent tests."Ron Rosenbaum (15 August 2005). "Voices in Our Head: Where is Good Old American Weirdness?" , New York Observer Some fundamentalist Evangelicalism sources and other detractors accused Creme of being part of a satanic conspiracy and placed him among a number of "antichrist potentials".David V. Barrett, The New Believers, 2001 , page 349 Yet Creme emphasized that those who read his own books or listened to his lectures would do best to engage actively with the information he presented, and to verify it for themselves. Creme stated, "I have never presented Maitreya as a messiah figure who comes to make all things bright and beautiful for a supine humanity. Maitreya himself is at pains to clarify his position that every stone and brick of the new civilisation must be put in place by humanity itself; humanity's free will is sacrosanct."
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