THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

space) and "overshadows" a chosen spokesman, who then relays his "transmissions", which
are instructions from the Hierarchy to guide the human race into the next cycle of "evolution".
Five times previously at a key "transition time" (one for each subrace), Bailey relates (through
Djwhal Kuhl) that Maitreya chose Buddha, Hermes, Zoraster, Orpheus, and Jesus as his
vehicles. [in spite of the Jews starring in the 4th subrace of Aries, there is no mention of
Maitreya meeting Moses...] In the early 1900s, it was predicted by Theosophical Society
leader Annie Besant that Maitreya would inhabit a physical body this century; a young Hindu
named Jiddu Krishnamurti was chosen in the 1920s as the vehicle. Although the
"overshadowing" was reported to have taken place for a few moments (_The Theosophist_
47/4, Jan. 1926), conveying a message from the "Brotherhood", it failed to become
permanent. But the "descent" of Maitreya has been consistently expected by Theosophists
and other NAers since those days.
More recently, Maitreya has chosen the British disciple of Bailey, Benjamin Creme, NA
teacher and the figurehead of World Goodwill and Share International, to occasionally
channel his instructions - or so Creme has been claiming since 1981. [Creme was the first
since Krishnamurti to claim overshadowing from Maitreya, but he now has competition - the
Lord Maitreya being entertained at the UN is not apparently channeled by Creme.] Maitreya,
according to Creme, has held the "office of Christ" for the last 2600 years. [Aha! that's why he
never mentioned Moses - he missed him by about 1000 years... but then that means he also
missed the earlier subraces which Bailey said he was supposed to guide...] Although the
Christian title is used often, Creme and other NA spokesmen insist that Maitreya is the one all
the world faiths are waiting for, including Jews who await the Messiah. At some point,
Maitreya (by then in a physical body) will allow Lucifer to enter the human vehicle as well,
when all are "freed from the unreasoning fear" of that latter name - an event which will usher
in the "Luciferic initiation" [see in The Plan section]
4. The god who brings inner Light to man: Lucifer.
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light bringer", according to the Theosophical Society (Ina
Belderis, "Some Light on Lucifer", _Sunrise Magazine_, Oct/Nov. 1996). Bailey and her
disciple Creme both identified him with the one the Jews called "helel ben shahar" (Isaiah
14:12), which they translate as "shining one, son of the morning" (_The Beacon_, vol. XLVII,
no 9, 1978, pub by Lucis Trust). This is directly taken from Bailey's own title for Lucifer
(_Esoteric Psychology I_, p.395), where she acknowledges that he led a "war in Heaven"
when "some of the sons of God fell from their high estate." However, she dismisses the
event as "a trifling incident" in cosmic terms, and urges us to "readjust your sense of values".
Belderis concurs that people have overreacted to this being's fall: "And yet it is this lucifer,
the bright one or lightbearer, that came to be understood by so many as the name for Satan,
Lord of Darkness." Due to Christian tradition - originally drawn from Jewish tradition of
course - Lucifer's activity and intentions have come to be deliberately slandered, whereby he
was renamed "Satan", from the Hebrew "hasatan" or "the enemy". [This other name, however,
didn't bother Helena Blavatsky in the least. See below.] Lucifer is also identified by New
Agers as "the anointed cherub who was in the Garden of Eden" (see Ezekiel 28:12-15), and
honored for being the first "god" to offer to share godhood with mankind (appearing to Adam
and Eve as the serpent).
But since many from the "old paradigm" are not able to accept his proper name, Lucifer
allows men to call him "Krishna", "Buddha", or even "Christ/Messiah", and to honor him in a
veiled symbolic form. This being and his mission are indeed already symbolized in many
cultures, say NAers. Astrologically he is represented by the planet Venus, known as the
Morning Star, "the first radiant beam that does away with the darkness of night. It is a symbol