28 Facts About Benjamin Creme

Benjamin Creme was a Scottish artist, esoteric writer, and editor of Share International magazine.

Maitreya is the name Buddhists use for the future Buddha, but Benjamin Creme believed that Maitreya is the teacher that all religions point towards and hope for.

Benjamin Creme maintained that Maitreya had returned in a physical form, descended from the Himalayas, and then moved to London on 19 July 1977.

At the age of thirteen Benjamin Creme began painting, inspired by the works of Rembrandt.

In direct parallel to his artistic exploration, Benjamin Creme said he became interested in the occult at the age of fourteen, when he read With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel.

Benjamin Creme reiterated that it was this Spiritual Kingdom, or Fifth Kingdom on Earth, that has helped guide human evolution since Humanity's inception.

Benjamin Creme said that he was first contacted telepathically by his Master in January 1959, when Benjamin Creme was asked to make tape recordings of his Master's messages.

Benjamin Creme first began to speak publicly of his mission on 30 May 1975, at the Friends Meeting House on Euston Road in London, England.

Benjamin Creme then stated in these newspaper advertisements that the Second Coming of Christ was to occur within the next two months.

Benjamin Creme alerted those present that Maitreya was then living within the Asian community in the Brick Lane area of London.

Benjamin Creme underscored the importance of humanity's involvement in these happenings.

Benjamin 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.

Benjamin Creme was interviewed under His ordinary, everyday name, and did not call Himself the Christ.

Benjamin Creme did say that, among other names, Benjamin Creme was known as Maitreya.

In 1997 Benjamin Creme again announced that there would be additional, global TV broadcasts from the Christ, although the media remained largely uninterested.

Benjamin Creme will establish a telepathic rapport with all humanity simultaneously.

On 14 January 2010 Benjamin Creme said that Maitreya had given the first interview which aired on American television.

Benjamin 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.

From 1957 to 1959 Benjamin Creme was the vice-president of the Aetherius Society, an organization that maintained that UFOs existed and that the other planets in our solar system were inhabited and supported life, although Humanity had yet to develop etheric sight to ascertain this.

In 1958, Benjamin Creme met George Adamski and said he could personally vouch for the authenticity of Adamski's UFO contacts.

Benjamin 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.

Benjamin 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.

Benjamin 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.

Over time, Benjamin Creme explained how interdependent Humanity's existence has been with other, far more advanced, planetary civilizations.

Benjamin Creme asserted that Maitreya was the World Teacher for the Age of Aquarius, and that during the transition of one astrological cycle to another humans undergo a quickening of their evolution, while experiencing crisis after crisis.

Sceptics ridiculed the story presented by Benjamin Creme, noting that several of the predictions were incorrect.

Some fundamentalist Evangelical Christian sources and other detractors accused Benjamin Creme of being part of a satanic conspiracy and placed him among a number of "antichrist potentials".

Yet Benjamin 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.