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Maitreya comes to advise humanity how to establish peace and trust among nations through the just and equitable redistribution of the world’s resources and technology. Sharing is the key. Under Maitreya’s inspiration, humanity itself will make the required changes and create a saner and more just world for all.
Special Statement
Crisis in the Middle East
November 2023
The global community realizes that the latest horrific development in world events is a major test — a challenge to our humanity, to our ability to rise above sectarianism, to embrace all and, in doing so, to ‘keep our eyes on the prize that is humanity’.
The world is deeply troubled by the excesses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which has rapidly escalated into ethnic cleansing and genocide. At the same time, humanity is required to choose: certainly not to choose sides but to choose for Justice, for Life and Brotherhood, forgiveness and the relinquishing of any longing for revenge...
Crisis in the Middle East –
a Master’s point of view
The world is deeply troubled by the excesses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To present the situation in as balanced a way as possible we have drawn on Maitreya’s teachings and the writings of Benjamin Creme and his Master.
Any lasting peaceful solution can only be based on justice for all. The current conflagration must be seen in the context of sustained injustice and oppression of the Palestinian people – decade after decade since 1948. We realize that our contribution to this complex issue is limited.
Benjamin Creme remarked in a number of his books and in this magazine that, while a solution and reconciliation must be aimed at, "it will take Maitreya Himself to bring this reconciliation about”. The article from the Master refers to the events and tensions of earlier periods, but also provides an insight into how the international community’s failure, thus far, to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem has played into today’s horrific war. Sharing and justice are key in this and other conflicts.”
The Middle East
by the Master —, through Benjamin Creme
Recent events in the Middle East have focused world attention on that troubled area in a new way. Gone are the assumptions that, if left alone, the many problems there will sort themselves out or go away; that conflict and division are endemic and, if contained, of no great account, and that nothing can be done for this historically and strategically important part of the world.
The nature and technical advances of modern warfare have changed such thinking and are leading to a reappraisal of the role that the United Nations might play in that theatre. For the first time, the possibility of a nuclear-free zone for the Middle East is receiving serious attention. Also, for the first time, a final and fair solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is seen in many quarters to be of paramount importance, while a new urgency can be heard in the voices of those demanding democratic reforms.
Herein lies the challenge and the opportunity for the community of nations to address these many problems with energy and wisdom. Gone are the days when laissez-faire will suffice to keep under control the many warring factions and interests which struggle for supremacy. The international community must accept responsibility for maintaining peace and prosperity in the region, must use its new-found authority to bring to the negotiating table the representatives of the various peoples, and must guarantee the implementation of the compromise agreements which would follow serious negotiations.
Only thus will fair and lasting solutions be found and true peace restored. The time is ripe for such action. The time has come to lift for ever the dark clouds which, for many years, have menaced world peace and which, today, literally darken the sun.
…To reach such agreements and implement such action will not be easy; no simple solutions stand ready to hand. Much will depend on the readiness of the various contenders to look with realism at the future prospects of the region without far-reaching changes of approach. A stark and bitter future, indeed, would follow their refusal to address the problems with wisdom and goodwill….
The time is not far off when wiser minds than those now grappling with the situation may offer Their advice. The long-withheld hand of Hierarchy may soon be extended openly in aid. With this in mind, we may look more hopefully to the future of this long-suffering portion of the world and see a new light scatter the dark clouds of hatred and war.
In recent weeks, the Master Jesus has appeared in vision to the soldiers of both warring sides, each claiming His appearance as a blessing on their cause. Soon, Maitreya Himself will appear to many and proffer His assistance. His guidance, if followed, will lead the world back to sanity and safety, and open the way for the demonstration, in the Middle East, of the rightful brotherhood of those now divided and estranged.
Question: You have said that one of Maitreya’s priorities would be to find solutions to the conflict in the Middle East, and that it will not be solved until he has actually come forward. Is that because the different people involved in the Middle East (Muslims, Jews, Christians), will respond to him as their World Teacher, and will recognize that he has come for all of them, and that their separatism will start to change from that response?
Answer: The fundamentalists of all religions will probably be the last people to recognize and respond to Maitreya, but eventually they will.
The Palestinian/Israeli problem, which is central to the problems of the Middle East, I believe will only be solved through the action of Maitreya. But even Maitreya cannot impose a solution, he can only advise. But his acceptance by countless millions in the world as a spiritual teacher and guide will make it easier for the most fanatical Israeli Jew or Palestinian Muslim to accept the necessity of living together side by side. This can only take place when justice is given to the Palestinians. When justice is done and seen to be done, fully and completely, then the solution will become acceptable by the Muslims, and, even if grudgingly, by the Israelis. They have eventually to learn to live side by side and they can only do so in a state of justice. Otherwise there would inevitably be perpetual war between the two.
Unless the Middle East problems are solved there will never be peace in the world and we know, if there is no peace, then the future for humanity would be very bleak indeed. Muslims await the Imam Mahdi, and the Jews await the Messiah, and many will be ready to recognize Maitreya as such. This will, I am sure, soften their stance in relation to each other.
But the important thing is that justice must be given to the Palestinians. The West Bank was gifted by the late King Hussein of Jordan as a homeland for the Palestinians and that means the whole of the West Bank, not the fraction which has been offered to the Palestinians so far. It requires the return of the 4.7 million refugees, mainly in Lebanon, to their homeland, and the status of Jerusalem — which is of major importance to the Muslims, the Jews and the Christians — to be changed into an open, central city for all three groups. I believe it will take Maitreya to bring this reconciliation about, but so it will be.
