Господь Майтрейя
Господь Майтрейя занимает пост Космического Христа и Планетарного Будды. Его имя означает «любовная доброта», и он фокусирует излучение Космического Христа для эволюций Земли. Этот пришедший с Венеры защитник планеты Земля сменил Господа Гаутаму на посту Космического Христа, когда Гаутама стал Господом Мира на церемонии в Ройял Тетон 1 января 1956 года. Служа в должности Космического Христа, Господь Майтрейя контролирует потенциальные изменения на Земле, следит за приходом и уходом падших ангелов, а также за развитием воплощенных Христо-существ.
В истории планеты существовало множество Будд, служивших эволюциям человечества, проходя ступени и стадии пути бодхисаттвы. Господь Майтрейя, Космический Христос, прошел посвящения Будды. Он выступил вперед в этом веке, чтобы наставлять всех, кто отклонился от стези Великого Гуру Саната Кумары, от которого ведут свой род и он, и Гаутама.
The historical Maitreya
Майтрейе поклоняются в Тибете, Монголии, Китае, Японии и по всей Азии, где буддисты почитают его, как «Сострадательного» и как грядущего Будду. Признаваемому всеми буддистами, Майтрейе приписывают разные роли в различных культурах и религиозных сектах: роль хранителя и восстановителя Дхармы; роль заступника и защитника; роль гуру, который лично общается со своими учениками, посвящает и обучает их; роль мессии, приходящего, когда в мире смятение и беспорядок; роль посланника, направленного Божественной Матерью, чтобы спасти ее детей; роль Смеющегося Дзен Будды.
Буддийский ученый Эванс Вентц изображает Майтрейю в роли «буддистского Мессии, который возродит мир силой божественной любви и ознаменует наступление Нового Века – века всеобщего мира и братства. Сейчас Он пребывает на небесах Тушиты, откуда спустится, родится среди людей и станет Буддой будущего, дабы снова явить Путь (как это делали до него Гаутама и прошлые представители длинной династии Будд), ведущий к Великому Освобождению».[1]
The “Hemp-bag Bonze”
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В китайском буддизме Господь Майтрейя иногда изображается в виде «бонзы с холщовым мешком». («Бонза» – это буддистский монах.) В этой своей роли Майтрейя предстает пухлым, веселым, пузатым Смеющимся Буддой. Его часто изображают сидящим и держащим мешок, с взбирающимися на него со всех сторон счастливыми ребятишками. Для китайцев он представляет процветание, материальное богатство и духовную удовлетворенность; дети же олицетворяют благословение многодетной семьи.
Буддистский ученый Кеннет Чен пишет следующее о таком образе Майтрейи:
В его внешности была одна характерная черта, которая выделяла его: куда бы он ни шел, он нес холщовый мешок. Он клал в него все, что получал, и потому мешок этот стал предметом крайнего любопытства, особенно среди детей. Они гонялись за бонзой, взбирались на него со всех сторон, принуждая открыть мешок. Тогда, монах клал мешок на землю, вытаскивал из него все содержимое, одно за другим, а затем с такой же методичностью убирал все обратно. От него веяло загадочностью и Дзен качествами… Однажды некий монах спросил его о мешке; в ответ он положил мешок на землю. Когда его спросили, что это значит, он вскинул мешок на плечо и ушел. В другой раз его спросили, сколько лет мешку, и он ответил, что тот стар, как мир.[2]
This bag demonstrates the mystery of space and the miracle of space under the dominion of the Buddha. Its timelessness shows the Buddha’s mastery of segments of eternity, hence eternity itself, through the flame of Mother.
The lineage from Sanat Kumara
Lord Maitreya and Lord Gautama were the first from among mankind to respond to Sanat Kumara’s magnetic pull to face God and to return to that divine estate in which man had first been created and which he was destined to outpicture in the world of form.
The time came when the one who had served the earth as her Planetary Buddha chose to return to his own planetary chain, leaving a vacancy in this office for one from among earth’s guardians to fill. Lord Maitreya applied for the initiations necessary to qualify for this office. Centuries of self-discipline, of training, of devotion and of mastery were required in order for him to attain his present stature. His colleague through all of these classrooms of experience was Lord Gautama, who, by a margin won the buddhic degree first, while Lord Maitreya was accorded the office next in line—that of World Teacher.
As World Teacher, his mission was to design for each two-thousand-year cycle the specific type of spiritual instruction most required for the human race for that period. Whenever there was a readied and willing instrument, he was to act as mediator, polarizing the atoms of the four lower bodies of that lifestream, so that the divine plan of that one’s individualized I AM Source might flow through its instrument, outpicturing in the world of form the works of a Christ.
Lord Maitreya is the teacher of Jesus, who, with Kuthumi, now holds the office of World Teacher. Maitreya demonstrates on behalf of an evolving humanity the cosmic consciousness of the Christ in all areas of human endeavor and its universality throughout cosmos. He is known as the Great Initiator and was, in fact, the initiator of Jesus in his individualization of the Christ flame in his final embodiment as world saviour and exemplar of the way, the truth and the life to all aspirants on the path of personal Christhood.
Maitreya’s Mystery School
Maitreya was himself a chela of Lord Himalaya (manu of the fourth root race) and has his own Focus of Illumination in the Himalayan Mountains. He was the guru of twin flames in the Garden of Eden, which was a mystery school of the Brotherhood. The Mystery School of Eden, located on Lemuria near where San Diego is today, was the first mystery school on planet Earth. And Maitreya, referred to as the Lord God in Genesis, was its first hierarch.
Since the expulsion of man and woman from the Garden of Eden because of the misuse of the sacred fire in the incorrect application of free will, the Great White Brotherhood has maintained mystery schools and retreats that have served as repositories for the knowledge of the sacred fire that is vouchsafed to twin flames when they have demonstrated the discipline necessary to keep the way of the Tree of Life. The Essene Community was a repository for certain of the ancient mysteries as was the school at Crotona conducted by Pythagoras.
Following the sinking of Lemuria and Atlantis, the mystery schools that had been established there were relocated in China, India and Tibet as well as in Europe, the Americas and the Pacific fire ring, where they were maintained for thousands of years until, one by one, they were overrun by the hordes of darkness.
Wherever these schools have been destroyed, the ascended masters who sponsored them withdrew their flames and sacred shrines to their retreats on the etheric plane. Here their disciples are trained between embodiments and in their finer bodies (during sleep or samadhi) in order that they might attain that divine Self-knowledge that, until Saint Germain once again advanced it in the twentieth century, had not been available to mankind en masse in the physical plane for centuries. Maitreya has explained that in this time the outer world itself has become the retreat in which each man will take his initiations and, passing these, will gain his eternal freedom, his ascension in the light.
The Mystery School come again
► Main article: Maitreya’s Mystery School
The long-awaited “Coming Buddha,” Maitreya has indeed come to reopen his Mystery School to assist Saint Germain and Portia, twin flames of the seventh ray and hierarchs of Aquarius, to usher in the New Age. On May 31, 1984, he dedicated the Heart of the Inner Retreat and the entire Royal Teton Ranch to the path and teaching of the Cosmic Christ in order that those who departed from his tutelage, going the way of Serpents (the fallen angels who led Eve astray), might be restored and the children of the light follow the Son of God in the regeneration.
Retreats
► Main article: The Focus of Illumination
► Main article: Maitreya's retreat over Tientsin, China
As well as the Focus of Illumination, his retreat in the Himalayas, Maitreya maintains an etheric retreat over Tientsin, China, southeast of Peking (Beijing). With Lord Gautama he also teaches students seeking to graduate from earth’s schoolroom at the Eastern and Western Shamballa and at the Royal Teton Retreat.
As the sponsor of twin flames, he is the friend of all initiates of the sacred fire. When called upon, he will give the illumination of the Christ and the strength of the Word to pass the initiations that come under his sponsorship.
His banner is the thoughtform of a mighty clipper ship as it comes in with the tides at eventide to fetch souls of mankind to take them to another shore. His musical keynote is “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.”
For more information
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Maitreya on Initiation
Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Lord Maitreya.”