Theos-Talk Archives (August 2008 Message tt00086)

A M ,
 I agree, thats why he rides the "White Horse (The Purusha)" upon the "Consumation of the Ages" and the systemic dissolution of the creation and back into the Unity of the ONE Absolute. Revelations makes the same statement because the Avatara Cycle Begins and Ends with the Major Mode ,the 1st and 10th Avatara's, the other eight are Minor presentments that appear during to Cycle of the Ages. Just my personal opinion, all that Maitreya that was, and is discussed is in opposition with the Historic Hindu , Buddhist Doctrine of thousands of years. It would be food for avidya.

Regards,
John

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From: "A M" <anandaam@googlemail.com> 

> The following article (see link below) is thought provoking and offers 
> an explanation as to why Leadbeater's views on God, the priesthood and 
> ceremony vary with the views of the Mahatmas, as found in "The Mahatma 
> Letters to A.P.Sinnett", "The Secret Doctrine" and other sources 
> recently qouted. See: 
> 
> http://www.theosophical.ca/NoReligion.htm 
> 
> As for Leadeater's proclamation that Maitreya would appear as the 
> "World Teacher" in the last century (20th) - this conflicts with all 
> those references to the Maitreya's "coming" as found in "The Collected 
> Writings of Blavatsky" and "The Secret Doctrine". In Blavatsky's and 
> the Mahatma's statements Maitreya is regularly linked with the Kalki 
> Avatar (eg., see Collected Writings: vol six, p116 and vol fourteen, p 
> 354 and p436) - hence references to Maitreya Buddha's "coming" are 
> always at the end of a great cycle of a round or race - not just past 
> mid cycle as we are now. 
> 
> 
> "MAITREYA is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar 
> of the Brahmins?the last MESSIAH who will come at the culmination of 
> the Great Cycle." (Secret Doctrine, vol one, p 384) 
> 
> -------------------- 
> 
> "The simple secret is this: There are cycles within greater cycles, 
> which are all contained in the one Kalpa of 4,320,000 years. It is at 
> the end of this cycle that the Kalki-Avatâra is expected." (Collected 
> Writing, vol 14, p 354) 
> 
> -------------------- 
> 
> And now for the Lamaic hierarchy. Of the living or incarnate Buddhas 
> there are five also, the chief of whom is Taley-Lama?from Tale, 
> "Ocean" or Sea; he being called the "Ocean of Wisdom." Above him, as 
> above H'amza, there is but the "SUPREME WISDOM"?the abstract principle 
> from which emanated the five Buddhas?Maïtreya Buddha (the last 
> Bodhisattva, or Vishnu in the Kalki avatara), the tenth "messenger" 
> expected on earth?included. But this will be the One Wisdom and will 
> incarnate itself into the whole humanity collectively, not in a single 
> individual. But of this mystery?no more at present. 
> (Collected Writings, vol 3, p185) 
> 
> 
> [note: "not in a single individual", Murthy] 
> 
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> 
> "LIKE Avalokiteshwara, Kwan-shi-yin has passed through several 
> transformations, but it is an error to say of him that he is a modern 
> invention of the Northern Buddhists, for under another appellation he 
> has been known from the earliest times. The Secret Doctrine teaches 
> that "He who is the first to appear at Renovation will be the last to 
> come before Re-absorption (pralaya)." Thus the logoi of all nations, 
> from the Vedic Visvakarma of the Mysteries down to the Saviour of the 
> present civilised nations, are the "Word" who was "in the beginning" 
> (or the reawakening of the energising powers of Nature) with the One 
> ABSOLUTE. Born of Fire and Water, before these became distinct 
> elements . . . the two are one [Avalokateshwara and Maitreya]. 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." 
> (Secret Doctrine, vol one, page 471) 
> 
> [note: "not in the Kali yug", the last sentence above, as we are 
> currently in the Kali Yuga cycle of 432,000 years of duration, and 
> have been for the last few thousand years. Murthy] 
> 
> ---------------------------- 
> 
> "Esoteric philosophy teaches that the next Buddha will appear during 
> the seventh (sub) race of this Round." (Theosophical Glossary, under 
> "Maitreya" ) 
> 
> ---------------------------- 
> 
> Kalki Avatar (Sk.). The "White Horse Avatar", which will be the last 
> manvantaric incarnation of Vishnu, according to the Brahmins; of 
> Maitreya Buddha, agreeably to Northern Buddhists; of Sosiosh, the last 
> Hero and Saviour of the Zoroastrians, as claimed by Parsis; and of the 
> "Faithful and True" on the white Horse (Rev. xix., 2). In his future 
> epiphany or tenth avatar, the heavens will open and Vishnu will appear 
> "seated on a milk-white steed, with a drawn sword blazing like a 
> comet, for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of 
> 'creation' anal the 'restoration of purity'". (Compare Revelation.) 
> This will take place at the end of the Kaliyuga 427,000 years hence. 
> The latter end of every Yuga is called "the destruction of the world", 
> as then the earth changes each time its outward form, submerging one 
> set of continents and upheaving another set. 
> 
> (Theoshophical Glossary) 
> 
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> 
> 
> Murthy, 
> 
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