The Messiah

Part I- Who Was the Messiah?

The Messiah, the anointed one, is someone whom the ancient Jews, amongst others, had been awaiting for a very long time.

There was an expectation that his coming would herald victory over their worldly and national troubles, yet despite this materialistic dream, such a victory could only come through a great and spiritual event- then, as now, as it ever shall be in the endless worlds of The Creation.

When Jesus did come, he offered not the usual murky spell of religion, but a crystal clear and unending steam of religious truth, which is synonymous with pure love.

His aim was not simply to establish a new religion on the foundation of the old, but to reassert the truths that Judaism had long ago been based upon. He was making the ancient mysteries public for the first time. To do so required an utterly original teaching that could unify the deeply personal experience of God with social realities.

Jesus traveled widely, far more widely than The New Testament, as it has come down to us, might seem to suggest. He dwelt long in the lands of the East, in places such as Egypt and Tibet, where he learnt from the children of creation the mysteries of that creation, just as do we. The famous three wise men were not the only Masters to have a role in the upbringing of this uniquely gifted child…

Even now we can see that those truest to Christ's ideal can be Easterner as much as Western, from Gandhi to Mother Theresa, from Martin Luther King to the Dalai Lama. This, the greatest religious event of human history, belongs to no one religion, much less any particular group of people.


Part II- What Did the Messiah Teach?

Jesus, as a divine incarnation of The Eternal ALL, was utterly in tune with what this Eternal All Is, and was uniquely qualified to reveal this knowledge. Mortal words are insufficient to portray this, yet just as mortals love the spoken word, so also did Jesus teach. Despite this, he knew, more than any, the supreme power of action.

Jesus’ activities were not limited to the miracles, though these have ever proved impressive to mortal minds, that hunger for evidence of eternal things. His indelible fingerprint was that of love, forgiveness, compassion, which he showed even in the smallest of ways. Those who had sinned were forgiven and sent forth to sin no more. People who met him were touched by this.

For the sin of selfishness brings death, a denial of life, whilst Love is life itself and the one road to that great Self within us all. Such is his teaching.

By unveiling the mysteries of rebirth, in which we must lose our lives to gain them; in even giving of his own self in such a way of ultimate sacrifice; Jesus showed us the supreme path- of living for others without a thought for our own self.

In so doing the original being must perish, to be born anew in unimaginable glory, just as the butterfly emerges from the chrysalis. We caterpillars are all butterflies, if we but enter this chrysalis of love and contemplation. As delicate, sensitive and sentient beings, our food for this is not just green leaves, but also that of the spirit, which can be seen with the opened eyes of the spirit.

So also shall it be with the Messiah in our time, the World-Teaching Lord Maitreya of the Buddhists. From the great silence, in the anticipation of our darkest and most challenging epoch, will come the Teacher of Love to guide us through it, to survive the transition to the other side. Change can be painful or euphoric, but growth ever requires change.

He shall show us the way from turmoil to peace, from a merely worldly to a spiritual understanding, descending for us from heaven in the greatest, most inner, glory. He shall bring with Him the peace of the Heavens.

He will come when we are ready to understand what he has for us, when our highly evolved powers reach such proportions as to be a danger to ourselves without proper guidance and supervision. Science needs to be balanced with religious love and an awe for what we encounter.

In his coming reign shall be the reign of the spirit, which is an extension of the reign of love, the reign of reason and of all those human abilities which have lain dormant over the millennia, yet are slowly emerging and transforming ourselves and even our planet with. As ever, our greatest danger is our own selfishness- and our finest hope, a world in which we live for one another, as do good children who love their parents, in harmony with a very cosmic civilisation!

Thus will humankind and the planet we know as The Earth, be re-admitted to the celestial order, the family of planets under God.


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