>From her very first book, Bailey showed her faith in Leadbeater by >promulgating the teaching that the Second Coming of the Christ-Maitreya was >close at hand. Always written in a distinctly Christian tone, Bailey’s books >developed an increasing emphasis on this theme until by the time of her death >in 1949 she was writing about little else. She informed her readers that >Maitreya had made a definite decision at the Gemini Full Moon of 1945 to >reappear publicly on the world scene in person as soon as the necessary >preparations could be made.
He was apparently intending to fly in an aeroplane from his retreat in Asia and give mankind the new spiritual teaching it needs in order to bring about the civilisation and force of the New Age of Aquarius, although it was implied that he was not actually likely to do this until some time after the year 2025 and that until then it was the “immediate and pressing” task and duty of the Bailey followers to let the whole world know about it and to smooth the way for the auspicious event by daily reciting a type of prayer titled “The Great Invocation.” Although Bailey – who readily admitted of her own accord that she was a committed Christian – naturally preferred the name “Christ” to “Maitreya” and thus referred to him in many of her books solely as “Christ,” she nevertheless made it clear that she agreed entirely with Leadbeater about Christ and Maitreya being one and the same. Over the last few decades numerous individuals have come and gone, all claiming to be Maitreya, just as many pretenders have come and gone throughout history claiming to be Jesus. At the same time, the Alice Bailey followers and other pseudo-Theosophists continue to spread their Leadbeater-esque teachings, whilst Alice Bailey enthusiast Benjamin Creme in London assures his large international following that the Christ-Maitreya has already returned and has been living secretly in London since 1977, waiting patiently (when not flying around in his “special starship”) for the day when he can at last reveal himself to the world. Meanwhile, hundreds if not thousands of channelling enthusiasts flood the internet daily with what they announce as being the “latest messages” – all contradicting each other – fresh from Maitreya, for whom each of them claims to be the chosen mouthpiece. All this nonsense, this sheer fantasy and psychic delusion, goes directly back to C.W. Leadbeater, a man who has done more harm to the cause of modern spirituality than many have yet realised. http://blavatskytheosophy.com/maitreya-in-the-light-of-real-theosophy/
