Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00007)

In a message dated 05/31/00 4:08:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tlorentz@telusplanet.net writes:

<< If Benjamin Creme is
 wrong or completely out of it, then we will all get a laugh at his expense,
 and at ourselves, sometime down the road.  >>

Not necessarily so Todd. I have been watching Creme be wrong since the mid 
1980s. In a public address in Boston followed by a series of private 
meetings, he stated his "predictions" and specifically named the time and 
effects that the world would observe. One was the public appearance of 
Maitreya and the ensuing acknowledgment of his arrival by the world press. No 
such acknowledgment ever appeared. Nobody laughed him into oblivion.  Creme's 
appearance on the television talk shows circuit with like announcements of 
market crashes, grand alignment catastrophe's and further sightings of 
Maitreya all proved to be insubstantial and inconclusive on the world scale 
that he was talking about. Again, he did not disappear nor become laughed at 
as another new age kook. Instead, he withdrew from the public arena for a 
while, founded SHARE, and waited for a new generation of innocent, unread, 
untrained students of esoteric philosophy top appear. They did not bring 
independent in depth study of Blavatsky or Bailey to the format. They learned 
all that they know about Bailey first (because that is Creme's forte') and 
then, a few went on to study Share's version of classical theosophy.

My point is that movements like Cremes, or the Millerites, or Heaven's gate 
groupies, etc., do NOT have to be right, and they will not be laughed out of 
existence for being wrong. They simply transform into the next delusion. 
There are always enough sheep in the world willing to be led to a new pasture 
if the shepherd even acts like he knows where he is going or, if he will tell 
them how to get there. It is just so much easier to follow than to discover. 

I do not mean to rain on your parade Todd. You have obviously done 
considerable study in your chosen field and your opinion is interesting. 
However it is NOT an opinion I have not heard before. Indeed, fifteen years 
ago in Boston I heard it straight out of the horses mouth. I have yet to see 
any of Benjamin Creme's predictions come to pass, in a conclusive fashion.

Louis

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