Maitreya (Theosophy) (English Wikipedia)

Thomas c. 1930, "Section I: Differences in Teaching" pp. 1–34. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Blavatsky Study Center. Thomas, Margaret A. (c. 1930) [originally mimeographed c. 1920]. Theosophy or Neo-Theosophy? (PDF). London: Self-published. OCLC 503841852. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-07-20. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).

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Oppenheim 2004; Sinnett 1883, p. 144. Oppenheim, Janet (2004). "Sinnett, Alfred Percy". In Matthew, Henry Colin Gray & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50: Sharp–Smiles (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 794. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38637. ISBN 978-0198614005 – via Internet Archive. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books.
Leadbeater 2007, pp. 296–297. Leadbeater, C. W. (2007) [originally published 1925. Chicago: Theosophical Press]. The masters and the path (paperback) (reprint ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics. ISBN 978-1-60206-333-4. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Google Books.
Sinnett 1883, "Chapter IV: The World Periods" pp. 45–65; Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, §§ "Our world, its growth and development", "Theosophical misconceptions", "Explanations concerning the Globes and Monads" pp. 136–191 [cumulative]. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books. Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.
Leadbeater 2007, pp. 4–5, 10, 34 and "Part IV: The Hierarchy" pp. 211–301. Leadbeater, C. W. (2007) [originally published 1925. Chicago: Theosophical Press]. The masters and the path (paperback) (reprint ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics. ISBN 978-1-60206-333-4. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Google Books.
Leadbeater 2007, pp. 31–32, 36, 74, 251, 277–278, "Diagram 8" p. 256 and "Chapter XIV: The Wisdom in the Triangles" pp. 261–295. Like other aspects of Theosophy, the doctrine of Earth's spiritual hierarchy expands or interprets many Buddhist and Hindu concepts within an occult or esoteric framework. Leadbeater, C. W. (2007) [originally published 1925. Chicago: Theosophical Press]. The masters and the path (paperback) (reprint ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics. ISBN 978-1-60206-333-4. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Google Books.
Besant & Leadbeater 1913, pp. 339, 520; Leadbeater 2007, p. 278. Besant, Annie & Leadbeater, C. W. (1913). Man: how, whence, and whither; a record of clairvoyant investigation (hardcover) (1st ed.). Adyar, Madras & Benares: Theosophical Publishing House. OCLC 871602. Leadbeater, C. W. (2007) [originally published 1925. Chicago: Theosophical Press]. The masters and the path (paperback) (reprint ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics. ISBN 978-1-60206-333-4. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Google Books.
Wessinger 2013, pp. 43–44. Wessinger, Catherine (2013). "The Second Generation Leaders of the Theosophical Society (Adyar)". In Hammer, Olav & Rothstein, Mikael (eds.). Handbook of the Theosophical Current (hardcover) (1st ed.). Leiden & Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 33–50. doi:10.1163/9789004235977_004. ISBN 978-90-04-23596-0. Retrieved 2024-04-05 – via Google Books.

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Oppenheim 2004; Sinnett 1883, p. 144. Oppenheim, Janet (2004). "Sinnett, Alfred Percy". In Matthew, Henry Colin Gray & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50: Sharp–Smiles (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 794. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38637. ISBN 978-0198614005 – via Internet Archive. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books.
Wessinger 2013, pp. 43–44. Wessinger, Catherine (2013). "The Second Generation Leaders of the Theosophical Society (Adyar)". In Hammer, Olav & Rothstein, Mikael (eds.). Handbook of the Theosophical Current (hardcover) (1st ed.). Leiden & Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 33–50. doi:10.1163/9789004235977_004. ISBN 978-90-04-23596-0. Retrieved 2024-04-05 – via Google Books.
Pokorny 2021, pp. 195–196. Pokorny, Lukas (2021). "The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme's Millenarianism". In Pokorny, Lukas & Winter, Franz (eds.). The Occult Nineteenth Century (hardcover). Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities (1st ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 195–220. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55318-0_10. ISBN 978-3-030-55317-3.

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Wheen 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'"; The Evening Post 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"; Rosenbaum 2005. Wheen, Francis (27 January 1991). "Flight of fancy". Diary. The Independent. London. p. 21. ISSN 0951-9467. "Kiwis prove to Aussies they're not that gullible". The Evening Post. Wellington, New Zealand. 4 December 1995. ISSN 0113-9428. OCLC 220471141. Rosenbaum, Ron (15 August 2005). "Voices in Our Head: Where Is Good Old American Weirdness?". New York Observer. p. 1. ISSN 1052-2948. Gale A136265199.

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Tillett 1986, Volume I, "Chapter 15: Conflict over Krishnamurti" pp. 506–553. Information on contemporary controversies regarding Krishnamurti, inside and outside the Theosophical Society. Tillett, Gregory J. (1986). Charles Webster Leadbeater 1854–1934: a biographical study (PhD thesis). Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Sydney. hdl:2123/1623. OCLC 271774444.

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Lutyens 1975, pp. 20–21, 30, 40; Wood 1964. Eyewitness account of Krishnamurti's "discovery", and comments on related events and controversies, by one of Leadbeater's close associates. Lutyens, Mary (1975). Krishnamurti: the years of awakening (hardcover) (1st US ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-18222-9. Wood, Ernest (December 1964). "No Religion Higher than Truth". The American Theosophist. Vol. 52, no. 12. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Society in America. pp. 287–290. ISSN 0003-1402. Archived from the original on 2004-02-16. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).

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Sinnett 1883, "Chapter IV: The World Periods" pp. 45–65; Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, §§ "Our world, its growth and development", "Theosophical misconceptions", "Explanations concerning the Globes and Monads" pp. 136–191 [cumulative]. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books. Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.
Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, p. 470. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. "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." [Emphasis in original.] Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.

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Sinnett 1883, "Chapter IV: The World Periods" pp. 45–65; Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, §§ "Our world, its growth and development", "Theosophical misconceptions", "Explanations concerning the Globes and Monads" pp. 136–191 [cumulative]. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books. Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.
Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, p. 470. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. "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." [Emphasis in original.] Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.

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Blavatsky 2002, § "The Future of the Theosophical Society" pp. 304–307. Retrieved 2022-09-07 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. "But I must tell you that during the last quarter of every hundred years an attempt is made by those 'Masters,' of whom I have spoken, to help on the spiritual progress of Humanity in a marked and definite way. Towards the close of each century you will invariably find that an outpouring or upheaval of spirituality – or call it mysticism if you prefer – has taken place. Some one or more persons have appeared in the world as their agents, and a greater or less amount of occult knowledge and teaching has been given out." (pp. 306–307). —— (2002) [originally published 1889. London: The Theosophical Publishing Company]. The key to theosophy (reprint of 1987 ed.). Los Angeles: The Theosophy Company. OCLC 315695318.

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Thomas c. 1930, "Section I: Differences in Teaching" pp. 1–34. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Blavatsky Study Center. Thomas, Margaret A. (c. 1930) [originally mimeographed c. 1920]. Theosophy or Neo-Theosophy? (PDF). London: Self-published. OCLC 503841852. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-07-20. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).
Lutyens 1975, pp. 20–21, 30, 40; Wood 1964. Eyewitness account of Krishnamurti's "discovery", and comments on related events and controversies, by one of Leadbeater's close associates. Lutyens, Mary (1975). Krishnamurti: the years of awakening (hardcover) (1st US ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-18222-9. Wood, Ernest (December 1964). "No Religion Higher than Truth". The American Theosophist. Vol. 52, no. 12. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Society in America. pp. 287–290. ISSN 0003-1402. Archived from the original on 2004-02-16. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).

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Oppenheim 2004; Sinnett 1883, p. 144. Oppenheim, Janet (2004). "Sinnett, Alfred Percy". In Matthew, Henry Colin Gray & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50: Sharp–Smiles (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 794. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38637. ISBN 978-0198614005 – via Internet Archive. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books.
Sinnett 1883, "Chapter IV: The World Periods" pp. 45–65; Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, §§ "Our world, its growth and development", "Theosophical misconceptions", "Explanations concerning the Globes and Monads" pp. 136–191 [cumulative]. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1883). Esoteric Buddhism (2nd ed.). London: Trubner and Co. ISBN 9780886971168. OCLC 2014685. Retrieved 2024-05-21 – via Google Books. Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.
Blavatsky 2002, § "The Future of the Theosophical Society" pp. 304–307. Retrieved 2022-09-07 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. "But I must tell you that during the last quarter of every hundred years an attempt is made by those 'Masters,' of whom I have spoken, to help on the spiritual progress of Humanity in a marked and definite way. Towards the close of each century you will invariably find that an outpouring or upheaval of spirituality – or call it mysticism if you prefer – has taken place. Some one or more persons have appeared in the world as their agents, and a greater or less amount of occult knowledge and teaching has been given out." (pp. 306–307). —— (2002) [originally published 1889. London: The Theosophical Publishing Company]. The key to theosophy (reprint of 1987 ed.). Los Angeles: The Theosophy Company. OCLC 315695318.
Lutyens 1975, pp. 10–11; Blavatsky 1931. Lutyens, Mary (1975). Krishnamurti: the years of awakening (hardcover) (1st US ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-18222-9. —— (August 1931). "The Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society: Preliminary Memorandum, 1888". The Theosophist. Vol. 52. Adyar (Chennai): Theosophical Publishing House. pp. 594–595. ISSN 0040-5892.
Besant & Leadbeater 1913, pp. 339, 520; Leadbeater 2007, p. 278. Besant, Annie & Leadbeater, C. W. (1913). Man: how, whence, and whither; a record of clairvoyant investigation (hardcover) (1st ed.). Adyar, Madras & Benares: Theosophical Publishing House. OCLC 871602. Leadbeater, C. W. (2007) [originally published 1925. Chicago: Theosophical Press]. The masters and the path (paperback) (reprint ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics. ISBN 978-1-60206-333-4. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Google Books.
Blavatsky 1888, Volume I: Cosmogenesis, p. 470. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via United Lodge of Theosophists. "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." [Emphasis in original.] Blavatsky, Helena (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy (Unabridged Verbatim reprint ed.). London: The Theosophical Publishing Company. OCLC 8129381. Retrieved 2023-08-04 – via Theosophical Society Pasadena.
Thomas c. 1930, "Section I: Differences in Teaching" pp. 1–34. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Blavatsky Study Center. Thomas, Margaret A. (c. 1930) [originally mimeographed c. 1920]. Theosophy or Neo-Theosophy? (PDF). London: Self-published. OCLC 503841852. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-07-20. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).
Lutyens 1975, pp. 20–21, 30, 40; Wood 1964. Eyewitness account of Krishnamurti's "discovery", and comments on related events and controversies, by one of Leadbeater's close associates. Lutyens, Mary (1975). Krishnamurti: the years of awakening (hardcover) (1st US ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-18222-9. Wood, Ernest (December 1964). "No Religion Higher than Truth". The American Theosophist. Vol. 52, no. 12. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Society in America. pp. 287–290. ISSN 0003-1402. Archived from the original on 2004-02-16. Retrieved 2022-09-05 – via Wayback Machine (original from third-party provider).
Tillett 1986, Volume I, "Chapter 15: Conflict over Krishnamurti" pp. 506–553. Information on contemporary controversies regarding Krishnamurti, inside and outside the Theosophical Society. Tillett, Gregory J. (1986). Charles Webster Leadbeater 1854–1934: a biographical study (PhD thesis). Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Sydney. hdl:2123/1623. OCLC 271774444.
King 1934; Prophet & Prophet 1986. King, Godfré Ray (1934). Unveiled mysteries. Chicago: Saint Germain Press. OCLC 6785156. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare & Prophet, Mark (1986). Maitreya: on the image of god: a study in christhood by the great initiator. Livingston, Montana: Summit University Press. ISBN 978-0916766955.
Wheen 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'"; The Evening Post 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"; Rosenbaum 2005. Wheen, Francis (27 January 1991). "Flight of fancy". Diary. The Independent. London. p. 21. ISSN 0951-9467. "Kiwis prove to Aussies they're not that gullible". The Evening Post. Wellington, New Zealand. 4 December 1995. ISSN 0113-9428. OCLC 220471141. Rosenbaum, Ron (15 August 2005). "Voices in Our Head: Where Is Good Old American Weirdness?". New York Observer. p. 1. ISSN 1052-2948. Gale A136265199.