The Service Of The Divine Avatars Maitreya Christ, Maitreya Buddha:

As this Bodhisatva is said "to assume any form he pleases" from the beginning of a Manvantara to its end, though his special birthday (memorial day) is celebrated according to the Kin-kwang-ming-King ("Luminous Sutra of Golden Light") in the second month on the nineteenth day, and that of "Maitreya Buddha" in the first month on the first day, yet the two are one. He will appear as Maitreya Buddha, the last of the Avatars and Buddhas, in the seventh Race. This belief and expectation are universal throughout the East. Only it is not in the Kali yug, our present terrifically materialistic age of Darkness, the "Black Age," that a new Saviour of Humanity can ever appear. SDI. 470.

In the spirit of the Three Festivals, I note that many Theosophists seek to promote the notion that there will be no reappearance of the Maitreya Christ in the relative near future as has been fore told in the teachings of Alice Bailey and the New Testament and those of Helena Roerich in Agni Yoga and of Francia La Due via the Teachings of the Temple. This esoteric philosopher seeks to point out that the Maitreya Christ will come in this sub cycle of Satya Yuga just as he did during the Kali cycle 2000yrs ago. JPC.

We finish Our writing on this Great Day, when one more step of Satya Yuga has begun. The step of ascent was proclaimed through scriptures long ago, but the dust of the bazaar dulled people's eyes. So it is today. HIER 460.

It has been denied that the prophesied Golden age - the Satya age - the age in which the Sixth Root Race will appear, could by any possibility be so close at hand as has been claimed by some writers, as such a long time must elapse before the close of the Kali Yuga. It would appear that such disputants might have forgotten or never knew that there must be a Satya cycle in the Kali Yuga. Theogenesis. Hilarion.

Epoch of Maitreya - The New Era when the Influence of Good will rise to ascendancy. They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create an epoch?" Answer, "If the Crusades created a complete epoch, then truly the Epoch of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." (AY, 1)

Reading the suggested books, you will find sparks. Place into one receptible the fragments of reverence to Maitreya. Thus, over the face of the Earth I Myself have laid the chips of the One Stone. A new miracle will bring the nations together. Our Ray will expel doubt. (HR. LMG II, p 123)

120. When slavery, the shame of the World, is manifested, then one must expect a change of epoch. Can one expect the advent of Maitreya to be possible only in four hundred thousand years?  Many times has confusion been caused by mere words. It is impossible to imagine the Earth submerged in darkness for another thousand of years. Just picture the progression of evil!  Therefore the most fierce Armageddon can be regarded as salvation. The wise cannot but feel an anguish of the spirit. FWII.

Maitreya's is the Age of the Heart! Only with the heart can one evaluate the treasures of Maitreya! Only with the heart can one understand how greatly all acquisitions, all straight-knowledge are needed for the future. (HR.H,74)

MAITREYA is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins -- the last MESSIAH who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle. SDI. 384.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the next Buddha will appear during the seventh (sub) race of this Round. The fact is that Maitreya was a follower of Buddha, a well-known Arhat, though not his direct disciple, and that he was the founder of an esoteric philosophical school. (TG)

The World Teacher - takes office cyclically. His cycles do not coincide with those of the Manu as the Manu holds office for the entire root-race. The World Teacher gives out the keynote for the various religions and is the emanating source for periodical religious impulses. The duration of his cycles are not given out. The Buddha held office prior to the present World Teacher and upon his Illumination His place was taken by the Lord Maitreya whom the Occidentals call the Christ. TCF. 240.

16. The prayer uttered by Christ when leaving Earth remained unheeded by men. The prayer uttered by Buddha remained unheeded by men. The prayer that Maitreya shall pronounce knocks like lightning at the gates of the human spirit. Thus is Earth stratified and the consciousness of the spirit created. Hier.

Kalidasa - (5th century A.D.) Greatest Hindu dramatist and lyric poet, often referred to as the "Shakespeare of India". Author of Sakuntala.Kalki Avatar - Maitreya corresponds to the Kalki Avatar in Hinduism (the "White Horse Avatar" - see the Revelation of St. John), and to the Messiahs of all nations. All the Messiahs are inevitably Avatars of Vishnu; therefore, they belong to One Ego. In the exoteric legends the difference between Maitreya and the Kalki Avatar is that while the Kalki Avatar will appear at the end of the present Kali Yuga for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of humanity and "the restoration of purity." Maitreya is expected earlier. (LHR II, p 153)

201. When the world is convulsed, the sign of Maitreya is given as an antidote. When the foundation of Our Works was laid, the forces of the spirit were strengthened. Thus the sign of Maitreya has been affirmed. And in Our Day, when the manifestation is affirmed, one can repeat, How vitally the power of the spirit has entered into life and how greatly this new power has been affirmed in consciousness. If we should call Buddha the Cause, then Maitreya is the Effect. (AY, 287)

The Lord Buddha Dipankara came from the fourth Chain of the Venus Scheme; the physical globe of that Chain was the Moon of Venus, which was seen by Herschel but which has disappeared since his time. He was one of the members of the General Staff, spoken of on p. 14, who may be sent to any Chain needing help. The Lord Dipankara was followed in the great office of the Buddha by the Buddhas of the Earth Chain; we know of the Lord Kashyapa, for instance, the Bodhisattva of the third Root-Race, taking Buddhahood in the fourth; and the Lord Gautama Himself, the Bodhisattva of the fourth Root Race, taking Buddhahood in the fifth. He was succeeded by the Lord Maitreya, the Bodhisattva of the fifth Root Race, who will take Buddhahood in the sixth. He will be followed by the coming Bodhisattva of the sixth Root Race-- now known as the Master K. H.--who will take Buddhahood in the seventh. Man, Whence, Whither. AB. CL.

METTEYYA. And the Blessed One replied: "I am not the first Buddha who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. He will reveal to you the same eternal truths which I have taught you. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax, and glorious at the goal, in the spirit and in the letter. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and pure; such as I now proclaim." Ananda said: "How shall we know him?" The Blessed One said: "He will be known as Metteyya, which means 'he whose name is kindness.'" Buddha The Gospel.

The three major Rays, being dual, are their own sufficient explanation. They are at present the mode of expression of the three aspects, and demonstrate under their appropriate Logoi, Who manipulate world affairs through the three departments, of which the rulers on our planet are the Lord Maitreya, the Manu, and the Mahachohan. TCF. 599.

A self-sacrificing, compassionate helper of humanity. ... Physically indistinguishable in any way from the rest of humanity, they nevertheless differ completely in their psychology, constantly being the heralds of the principle of the common welfare ... What qualities must a Bodhisattva possess? In the Teaching of Gotama Buddha and in the Teaching of Bodhisattva Maitreya, given by Him to Asanga, according to tradition in the fourth century, the maximum development of energy, courage, patience, constancy of striving and fearlessness were first of all underlined. Energy is the basis of everything, as it alone contains all possibilities. Buddhas are eternally in action; immobility is unknown to Them. Like the eternal motion in space, the actions of the Sons of Conquerors manifest in the worlds. (LHR I, pp 365-366)

Compassion, Lord of - "The Lord of Compassion" is a title of the coming Maitreya, but it could be equally applied to all the great Sons of Light. (LHR II, p 190)

. . . "The Sun is stationed, for all time, in the middle of the day, and over against midnight, in all the Dwipas (continents), Maitreya! But the rising and the setting of the Sun being perpetually opposite to each other -- and in the same way, all the cardinal points, and so the cross-points, Maitreya; people speak of the rising of the Sun where they see it; and where the Sun disappears, there, to them, is his setting. Of the Sun, which is always in one and the same place, there is neither setting nor rising, for what is called rising and setting are only the seeing and the not seeing the Sun." (Vishnu Purana, Book IL, ch. viii.) SDII. 155.

The Sacred Action of the Cosmic Magnet pre-ordains all creative moves in the name of Maitreya. (HR. INF II, 129)

Say the Buddhists; When Buddha [the Spirit of the Church] hears the hour strike, he will send Maitreya Buddha - after whom the old world will be destroyed. SDIII. 159.

When the practices taught by the Vedas, and the Institutes of Law shall have nearly ceased, and the close of the Kali Yuga [ the "Iron Age" of Virgil ] shall be nigh, an aspect of that divine Being who exists of his own spiritual nature in the character of Brahm  and even is the beginning of the end [ Alpha and Omega ], . . . shall descend upon earth: he will be born in the family of Vishnuyashas, an eminent Br hman of Shamballah . . . . endowed with the eight superhuman powers. By his irresistible might he will destroy . . . all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will then re stablish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of the [ Kali ] Age shall be awakened and shall be as pellucid as crystal. [ At the close of our Race, people, it is said, through suffering and discontent will become more spiritual. Clairvoyance will become a general faculty. We shall be approaching the spiritual state of the Third and Second Races.] The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings [ the Shistha, the survivors of the future cataclysm ], and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita [ or Satya ] Yuga [the age of purity, or the "Golden Age"] For it is said: "When the sun and moon and Tishya [asterisms] and the planet Jupiter are in one mansion the Krita Age [the Golden] shall return. [Vishnu Pur na. IV., 228. Wilson's translation.] SDIII. 348.

One of the chief mistakes of the Orientalists when judging on "internal (?) evidence," as they express it, was that they assumed that the Pratyeka Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas, and the "Perfect" Buddhas were a later development of Buddhism. For on these three chief degrees are based the seven and twelve degrees of the Hierarchy of Adeptship. The first are those who have attained the Bodhi (wisdom) of the Buddhas, but do not become Teachers. [The Pratyeka Buddha stands on the level of the Buddha, but His work for the world has nothing to do with its teaching, and His office has always been surrounded with mystery. The preposterous view that He, at such superhuman height of power, wisdom and love could be selfish, is found in the exoteric books, though it is hard to see how it can have arisen. H.P.B charged me to correct the mistake, as she had, in a careless moment, copied such a statement elsewhere.-A.B.] The human Bodhisattvas are candidates, so to say, for perfect Buddhaship (in Kalpas to come), and with the option of using their powers now if need be. SDIII. 416.

Shambhala - (Sk.). A very mysterious locality on account of its future associations. A town or village mentioned in the Puranas, whence, it is prophesied, the Kalki Avatar (Maitreya) will appear. Some Orientalists make modern Muradabad in Rohilkhand (N.W.P.) identical with Shambhala, while Occultism places it in the Himalayas. (TG)

A Mysterious Land - (Page 417) "Perfect" Buddhas are simply "perfect" Initiates. All these are men, and not disembodied Beings, as is given out in the Hinay na exoteric books. Their correct character may be found only in the secret volumes of Lugrub or N g rjuna, the founder of the Mah y na system, who is said to have been initiated by the N gas (fabulous "Serpents," the veiled name for an Initiate or Mah tm ). The fabled report found in Chinese records that N g rjuna considered his doctrine to be in opposition to that of Gautama Buddha, until he discovered from the Nagas that it was precisely the doctrine that had been secretly taught by Sh kyamuni Himself, is an allegory, and is based upon the reconciliation between the old Br hmanical secret Schools in the Him layas and Gautama's Esoteric teachings, both parties having at first objected to the rival schools of the other. The former, the parent of all others, had been established beyond the Him layas for ages before the appearance of Sh kyamuni. Gautama was a pupil of this; and it was with them, those Indian Sages, that He has learned the truths of the Sungata, the emptiness and impermanence of every terrestrial, evanescent thing, and the mysteries of Praj  P ramit , or "knowledge across the River," which finally lands the "Perfect One" in the regions of the One Reality.

But His Arhats were not Himself. Some of them were ambitious, and they modified certain teachings after the great councils, and it is on account of these "heretics" that the Mother-School at first refused to allow them to blend their schools, when persecution began driving away the Esoteric Brotherhood from India. But when finally most of them submitted to the guidance and control of the chief shrams, then the Yog ch rya of  ry sanga was merged into the oldest Lodge. For it is there from time immemorial that has lain concealed the final hope and light of the world, the salvation of mankind. Many are the names of that School and land, the name of the latter being now regarded by the Orientalists as the mythic name of a fabulous country. It is from this mysterious land, nevertheless, that the Hindu expects his Kalki Avat ra, the Buddhist his Maitreya, the P rs  his Sosiosh, and the Jew his Messiah, and so would the Christian expect thence his Christ-if he only knew of it. SDIII.

Chapa-Thog-mad is the Tibetan name of  ry sanga, the founder of the Yog ch rya or Naljorchodpa School. This Sage and Initiate is said to have been taught "Wisdom" by Maitreya Buddha Himself, the Buddha of the Sixth Race, at Tushita (a celestial region presided over by Him), and as having received from Him the five books of Champaitehos-nga. The Secret Doctrine teaches, however, that he came from Dejung, or Shambballa, called the "source of happiness" ("wisdom-acquired") and declared by some Orientaliss to be a "fabulous" place. SDIII. 431.

Each Lord has his keynote. The Epoch of Maitreya proclaims woman. The manifestation of Maitreya is linked with the confirmation of the Mother of the World, in the past, present, and future. (HIER, 13)

Those who do not comprehend the new ways are greatly in need of understanding the Epoch of Maitreya. (HIER, 390)

Our flaming Mother of Agni Yoga must manifest Fire to humanity in the Epoch of Maitreya during the great period of shifting. (INF II, 290)

The coming epoch will be under the Rays of three Lords-Maitreya, Buddha, and Christ. (LHR II, p 353)

The Great Spirit who is at the head of the New Cycle must contain within Himself all synthesis, all the greatest Images of the past Cycle. That is why the Synthesis of Maitreya includes all the Rays. (LHR I, p 266)

The  predictions  and  prophecies  of  the  holiest,  most  self sacrificing souls of all time ; all science and invention ; even the very stars in heaven, as well as the sun that is now entering the sign of the Water-Bearer, all prefigure the second coming of the Son of Man and the servant of the people, and the period of his coming. Deep unrest, widespread rebellion, passionate demands for freedom in all walks of life,  all proclaim  the  same  tidings ;  for  without  the  latter  the  former would be  inadequate.  One  demands  and  the  other  supplies  the necessary information.  The  before  mentioned  prophecies  and revelations also predict or indicate the evolving of "peculiar children", in whom  the long atrophied psychic senses of the race will be again aroused, and through whom many of the long hidden mysteries of life will  be  unsealed.  As  has  also been  foretold, many  false  teachers  are appearing who "if it were possible would deceive even the elect", the prepared. Therefore, we, who bring the message that has been sent to you, can only leave it to your own soul to decide the authenticity of the Message and its application.

Thirty-five  years  ago  there  came  a  call  from  the  long  waiting Seers  of  past  ages,  to  a  body  that  had  been  many,  many  years  in process of preparation, to go out into the world and make ready a still larger  body  for  the  receipt  and  dispersion  of  vast  revelations. Ten years ago there came another call from the same Seers, to the faithful of the first body ; to stand ready to deliver to the world the message they brought and assist the people who would accept that message to recognize the Messenger  when  he  comes. Within  the  last  year  that message has been deciphered and has been prematurely delivered by some  whose  inner ears  were  partially  opened,  and  who,  therefore, caught some portions of it when it was first delivered to its custodians. We who send the full message to you were of the first and second bodies  before  mentioned.  We do  not  claim  for  ourselves  anything [TT VI]  that  you  may  not  have if  you  will  fulfill  the  necessary conditions.

We  only  ask  you  now to  review  your  own  past  spiritual experiences,  the  instructions  or interpretings  of  your  own  pastors  or teachers, the revealings of your own higher selves as to the necessity, probability, and possibility, of a return to earth of the great soul called Jesus of Nazareth, according to his own prophecy ; and also, ask what is the possibility of your recognizing him or any other great soul with no more knowledge of the nature or substance of the soul or body in which  he must  come  than  the  average  person possesses ? When one realizes  that  he  would  not  be  able  to  recognize his  own  father  or mother  without  previous  association  and  mutual experiences,  the difficulty in the way of the recognition of a Saviour or Avatar, without adequate preparation, is obvious.

Not  all  the paraphernalia  of  the  heavenly  spheres,  the  sound  of trumpet or voice of angel would prove the identity of such an one, for we  are  told  the satanic  emissaries  could make  use  of  similar means. Something must  be done  to  or  within  us  individually  to make  such recognition  possible and,  according  to  the  words  of  the message  we bring  to  you,  it  is quite  possible  to  make  such  preparation  for  the coming Christ, and to make it first in our own hearts. Temple Teachings.  FLD. MH.

Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter III - Humanity Today - The New Group of World Servers e. The World Servers and the May Full Moon The Month of May is one of deepest significance to all who are affiliated with the Great White Lodge (as are all true esotericists) in that the Wesak Festival takes place and is of moment and deep import. The period is always one of prime interest and rare opportunity, but the Wesak Festival of 1936 was unique and the Lodge of Masters prepared for it for six months. May I add also that the Buddha Himself in His high place and the blessed Lord Maitreya (known to Christian disciples as The Christ) have since then been in close communication with each other and cooperating in order to bring about a receptivity on the part of the human family to a possible outflow of spiritual force which may serve to turn the tide of the present distress, depression and uncertainty and thus inaugurate an era of peace and of soul-culture. This item of information is of interest, is it not? In connection with these Festivals every May, I am presenting you an opportunity to serve and to bring about the desired objective of peace. pg 684.

Those aspirants and disciples who can train themselves to the realization of an increased spiritual responsibility and can preserve an inner quietness and a focused esoteric attentiveness can be swept into this tide of spiritual force and can then and thus serve humanity's need. As transmitters they meet that need; as interpreters they increase the capacity of the human being to respond and to understand. In order to effect this transmission of force, a peculiar interchange of ideas and of cooperation is going on between the Lord Buddha and the Lord Maitreya, and They are subjecting Themselves to a most definite form of training in order to present to these interested Spiritual Beings Who are seeking to help the planet, more adequate channels of service. EPII. 685.

I would assert here that the great and satisfying reply to all human questioning and human need is to be found in the doctrine of Avatars, and in the continuity of divine Revelations. This is the persistent belief -ineradicable and unalterable - that (at major moments of world need) God reveals Himself through Appearances, through a Coming One. This doctrine is found in all the basic world religions, in every time and age; it appears in the doctrine of the Avatars of the Hindu faith, in the teaching of the return of Maitreya Buddha or the Kalki Avatar, in the belief in the Western world in the return of Christ and His Advent or second Com