The Transcription
				 
				
				PART ONE
				 
				
				Art Bell:
				Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Benjamin Creme began 
				studying art at an early age, developing into an accomplished 
				painter in the modernistic style. His paintings have been 
				exhibited in a number of prestigious galleries. Throughout the 
				early years Creme also studied various aspects of 
				esoteric philosophy, in particular the teachings released in the 
				late 1800’s... he’ll tell you about those. 
				
				 
				
				Those teachings led 
				him to believe in the existence of "Masters of Wisdom", a 
				group of perfected men who are the custodians of "The Divine 
				Plan" for our planet. It nevertheless came as a 
				complete surprise to him when in ’59 he apparently was contacted 
				by one of these "Masters". He was told, among other 
				things, that Maitreya, "The Master of All 
				Masters", would return to live in the everyday world in 
				about 20 years, and that Creme would, if he chose to, 
				have a role in this coming. Wow. 
				
				 
				
				More than a decade later, in 
				’72, Creme began a period of arduous training under his 
				master’s direction, to prepare him for this coming task. In ’74 
				he gave the first public talk on the emergence, soon giving 
				weekly lectures in London. He has now, actually I believe, 
				spoken all over the world... as many as 70... actually his 
				magazine is produced in five languages by a volunteer staff, and 
				read in 70 countries. He normally resides in London 
				with his wife and children, and now is a representative, uh, of
				Maitreya. A roving ambassador at large, if you 
				will. I wonder if he’s really, uh a, here is Benjamin Creme... 
				Benjamin, are you a dangerous guy? 
				Benjamin Creme:
				Oh! Yes I suppose I am...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Are you?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Very dangerous indeed! (Art laughs) Because what I am 
				talking about is nothing less than the complete transformation 
				of this world, along better lines.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Well, it could use some of that...
				Benjamin Creme:
				Yes indeed. So I guess I’m a very dangerous person to be if 
				you are talking to people who are totally encased in the values 
				of today, and in love with the present day structures, however 
				evil, however insane they might be.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Uh huh... well, evil and insane are a couple of good words I 
				think that describe today in an awful lot of ways... I wrote a 
				book, I understand you read it, or at least excerpts...
				Benjamin Creme:
				Actually I have been enjoying it, yes, I’ve been reading it 
				over the last few days...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				...called "The Quickening"... and 
				unfortunately much of what I wrote a couple of years ago, uh, is 
				now manifesting itself around the world.
				Benjamin Creme:
				Yes, yes, absolutely so...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				...and, um, perhaps in your unique position, you could 
				explain to me what’s going on? 
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, something quite extraordinary is going on... nothing 
				less than the emergence into our midst of that group of 
				perfected men that you spoke of, "The Masters of Wisdom", 
				and the master of all the masters, "The Lord Maitreya".
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Are these what others call "ascended masters"?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, some of them are ascended.. it’s a, it’s a 
				hierarchy... there are masters of different degrees. ("Uh 
				huh...") There are the ordinary masters, as it were, who have 
				taken all five of the major planetary initiations, which 
				eventually has a master... then there are degrees above that of
				cosmic awarenesses which make you an ascended master. But 
				not all the masters are ascended. 
				
				 
				Art Bell:
				Um, take me back to when you were first contacted... uh, it 
				has to be, uh, at least it had to be at that moment, a very 
				strange unsettling experience for you... what happened?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, a man came to me, and told me that I was receiving 
				messages, communications, from the Masters. I knew about 
				the Masters... I’d read about them through the Theosophical teachings, through the 
				
				Alice Bailey 
				teachings, the Agna Yoga {?} teachings... and firmly 
				believed in their reality, but had not the slightest expectation 
				of any kind of contact with them.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Was this a mortal man who came to you?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Yes, absolutely!
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Just, I mean, not... one day, you know, knock on your door, 
				or what?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, I knew him in another function, but he told me one day 
				that I was receiving communications from the Masters, and 
				I said "No, I’m not!" He said, "Oh yes you are, and I’ve been 
				sent to tell you that you are!" I said, "Well, I don’t hear 
				them" It is normally a telepathic rapport which they establish 
				with their disciples. He said, "No, the messages come to you, 
				but they just bounce off you". I said, "Why is that?" He said, "Because 
				you’re not open." Now, I didn’t know what that meant, 
				because as I say I believed in the fact of the masters, but I 
				wasn’t thinking about them, I wasn’t expecting any 
				communications... I just believed in their existence. He said, 
				"Don’t worry, It’ll come, it’ll settle down". And probably 
				because I had been alerted to the fact, they soon, about, hmm, 
				I’ve forgotten now, about five, maybe six weeks, the first 
				contact got through. 
				
				 
				
				It was the 3rd of January, 1959, and 
				I had... it was as if a beam of light or energy had been focused 
				at my head and my consciousness was raised by several notches. 
				And there was created a kind of inner tranquil space. All my own 
				thoughts disappeared, and into that space was placed a message 
				as clear as your voice over the telephone now. It said, "Go to", 
				if you know London, "Blackfriar’s Bridge, south 
				side, Blackheath side". And it gave me a date, it was about 
				three weeks ahead... 18th of January, 9, uhh, 9:30pm... and I 
				wrote this down so I wouldn’t forget it, ("Right...") and uh, on 
				the time I went out there with quite a thrilling expectation, I 
				didn’t know what I was going to find, and I crossed the bridge 
				down to the south side. There was no one about... it’s a very, 
				uh, business area, south side of Blackfriar’s bridge, 
				and at night it was pretty deserted. 
				
				 
				
				And there was a car waiting at the 
				far end of the bridge, and I sidled up and sort of looked inside 
				it, and there were some people in it who I didn’t know, but one 
				of them was the man who had come and told me I was receiving 
				these, these communications from the masters. ("Oh, 
				my...") The whole thing started from there. ("Uh huh...") 
				
				
				 
				
				The 
				master’s voice got louder, as I might say. He told me to get a 
				tape recorder. I got a small uh, Grundig{?}, uh, tape recorder, 
				and he began to give me long dictations, which I simply mouthed 
				aloud while I recorded. And he kept doing this for about three 
				months and the, he was really perfecting the telepathic rapport. 
				I got quicker and quicker and quicker at it. I could get it, you 
				know, without hesitation... in the beginning it was a bit slow, 
				but I got very good at it and just recorded whatever he said.. 
				And then it was sometime in March, um, same year, in 1959, he 
				suddenly said, "Now switch off the machine and kneel down."
				
				
				 
				
				Then he said, "Now our master, 
				Maitreya himself, has something important to tell 
				you." Then I had the most extraordinary experience of my life to 
				date. I was overshadowed, as it’s called, by Maitreya. 
				Some probably some minuscule fragment of his consciousness 
				entered into mine, and I was filled with the love of all the 
				world. 
				
				
				 
				
				An extraordinary experience of total identification with 
				everything and everybody in the world. A kind of universal 
				experience such as I had never felt before. I was filled with 
				this tremendous energy, of love.. and at the same time he gave 
				me a vision of how the masters see reality. It was as if I was 
				inside a great sphere, a white sphere of light, and.. what I 
				have to say, on the right side and the left side, because there 
				weren’t really sides, but just as a way of describing it...
				
				
				 
				
				On my right side I could see all the 
				events of the past which had ever taken place, going back and 
				back, so in full{?}, back and back and back into the predawn of 
				time. And I could see events about which I seemed to recognize 
				from, from history in school, and so on... ("Uh huh") Kings and 
				queens, and battles and, and terrible catastrophes and various 
				events in history. And there was a kind of thin film over 
				everything so it wasn’t sharp, but it was quite clear 
				nevertheless, and all in color. 
				
				 
				
				And then on my other side as it 
				were, my left side, I could see all the events of the future, 
				which were simultaneously taking place. I could see myself in 
				the future, I could see Maitreya, I could see 
				the Masters, I could see crowds of people filled with joy 
				shouting and calling for Maitreya, and weeping and 
				so glad.. it was, it was an extraordinary scene, and on and on 
				into the future. And all of this was taking place 
				simultaneously. ("What a rem...") That is how the Masters 
				see the world.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				What a remarkable story! Now, I, I’m... it’s sort of 
				impertinent, but I have to pose this question. There are many 
				people who see visions and hear voices, and, uh, it is a rather 
				common psychological malady, so it’s a question that, er uh, 
				should be asked right away... How are you sure that you were not 
				suffering some sort of, um, psychological malady when all of 
				this occurred?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, I was prepared by the master, you know, this 
				didn’t happen in a kind of vacuum. This happened in response to 
				the overshadowing by Maitreya, which had never 
				occurred before, and was prepared in advance for me by the 
				master, with whom I had been working daily for the three months 
				before that time... from the beginning of January till sometime 
				in March. So it wasn’t something that just happened and I didn’t 
				know where it was coming from. ("Uh huh") I knew very well where 
				it was coming from!
				
				
				Art Bell:
				But even slowly, uh, even in, in a, preparatory manner, um, 
				how could you be sure that what you were being told, what you 
				were seeing and hearing, was real? Prepared for it or not, how 
				could you be...
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, I uh, if I may say... put it this way: When I was 
				first contacted by the master I made er, him prove his reality 
				to me in dozens and dozens of ways. And he did, he made things 
				disappear, he, he healed animals, and birds, he healed people... 
				He did the most extraordinary things at my request to prove the 
				validity of his being.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				All right, let’s understand who we’re speaking of here... 
				uh, Maitreya, you.. is Maitreya
				Jesus, and Buddha, and uh, Allah, 
				and um, all that is worshipped on earth now? 
				Benjamin Creme:
				No... ("No?") No, Maitreya is the World 
				Teacher in that group of, from our point of view, 
				perfected men, who are the spiritual hierarchy or uh, spiritual 
				uh, esoteric hierarchy of the planet. They are the custodians of 
				the plan of evolution for this planet. Most people think, I 
				imagine, that evolution proceeds in a kind of haphazard way... 
				it does not! It proceeds according to a very definite plan, for 
				the unfolding of the potential of the human race, and of the 
				subhuman races, until a certain stage of perfection of that 
				evolutionary process is reached, and the planet will have 
				fulfilled the, the uh, plan of the heavenly man, the, The 
				Planetary Logos, whose body of expression this planet is. 
				
				 
				Art Bell:
				Well, believe me when I tell you that right now a lot of 
				Christians are listening. And, um, they will of course, uh, talk 
				of Jesus, and they will consider the, the, oh, I want to 
				say "person", is it.. is it proper to ret... the Messiah...you 
				ref, you refer to Maitreya as the Messiah, 
				correct? 
				Benjamin Creme:
				 Maitreya is expected by all religious people, under 
				different names. Christians await the return of the Christ 
				as Jesus...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Right!
				Benjamin Creme:
				Maitreya overshadowed Jesus from the Baptism to 
				the Crucifixion, 2000 years ago in Palestine, and 
				manifested himself as "The Christ". Maitreya
				is the Christ in that he embodies in himself... he is so 
				advanced and so pure, he can actually embody, not simply channel 
				through himself, but embody in his own being what we call this "Christ 
				Principle". So this planet has created a "Christ". 
				However un-advanced this planet is... and this is an 
				extraordinary achievement... we, the earth, have created a being 
				high enough to embody "The Christ Principal". And that is 
				what Maitreya is... he overshadowed Krishna, 
				and worked through Krishna. 
				
				 
				
				He overshadowed 
				Shankilacharia{?} and others and worked through them. He 
				overshadowed Jesus, from the Baptism to the 
				Crucifixion, and he showed the love aspect... the Christ 
				aspect is the love aspect... and he is the embodiment of all, of 
				love. He showed that love in a man, in its perfection, for the 
				first time, through Jesus.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Well, Benjamin...
				Benjamin Creme:
				And Jesus is now one of his closest 
				associates, ("Associates?") one of the advanced, as we 
				mentioned earlier, ascended masters.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Well, what would you say to Christians who await the return 
				of Christ?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, they are right! They, he, they are awaiting the return 
				of Christ. The Buddhists call him 
				Maitreya Buddha, foretold to come now by Gautana 
				Buddha, who said at this time would come into the world, 
				another great teacher, a Buddha like himself, by 
				name Maitreya, who from his great spiritual 
				stature would galvanize and inspire humanity to create a 
				brilliant golden civilization ("There’s also...") based 
				equally on righteousness and truth. 
				
				 
				Art Bell:
				Benjamin, there’s also one coming who might be called "Betraya". 
				It’s gonna be the Antichrist, and there are many I 
				bet who believe that what you’re talking about may be the 
				emergence, or the appearance of the Antichrist. So 
				we’ll ask you about that when we get back, ("Very good") and 
				also it, it is true, that you believe that Maitreya, 
				as you call him, is here on Earth right now, correct?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Right now! Living in London, England.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Living in London? All right. OK. Uh, we’re gonna break here, 
				at the bottom of the hour. Zillions of you have requested
				Benjamin Creme and tonight he’s here. I’m Art Bell, 
				and this is Coast to Coast AM.
				
				 
				
				The Transcription
				
				
				 PART TWO
				
				
				Art Bell:
				All right, uh, the same person who said Benjamin Creme 
				is dangerous now writes and asks, "You ask what’s dangerous 
				Art? Why don’t you ask one of your favorite guests, 
				
				Malachi Martin, what he 
				thinks about Benjamin Crème?" Well I will. Because 
				Malachi Martin will be here Monday night. (promotion 
				etc.....for other shows)
				Let’s go back now to Benjamin Creme, I think he’s... 
				Benjamin, you’re in New York, aren’t you?
				Benjamin Creme:
				I’m in New York, yes.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				And uh actually you that is the very same place Father 
				Malachi Martin is, been advisor to a couple of popes, 
				remarkable man, and my fax here says why I should ask Malachi 
				Martin about you. Why do you think a Catholic priest would 
				have to say about what your saying?
				Benjamin Creme:
				He would think I was talking about the devil, Art, as 
				you said "The Antichrist"... yes. ("Yes...") 
				Betraya!
				
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Yes, Betreya I’m calling him. ("Yes...") How 
				do you know that you’re not?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, there is a total misunderstanding of what the 
				antichrist is. Most Catholics...most Orthodox Christians 
				see the Antichrist as a man who will come before
				The Christ and could even be mistaken for The Christ...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Right!
				Benjamin Creme:
				...or promise, you know, the moon to humanity but in fact he 
				is really the devil incarnate. Nothing could be further from the 
				truth. It is not a man. The Antichrist is an 
				energy. A force. A destructive force which is deliberately 
				released to break down the Old Order and prepare the way for the 
				Christ. It’s in the Revelation of Saint John as you know. The 
				beast, 666, is unchained for a time and then chained down 
				for a time, and half a time. This refers to what we call the Antichrist Energy. 
				
				 
				
				It is the destructive aspect of 
				the first aspect of God ,God the Father aspect of God, the will 
				aspect in esoteric terminology... two phases, in its 
				constructive positive phase it is the will to good. In its 
				destructive phase it is what we call the Antichrist. 
				It is deliberately released to break down that which precedes 
				the advent of the Christ. It was released in John’s own day 
				through the Emperor Nero to bring an end to the, uh, the 
				Roman dispensation to prepare the way for Christendom. It was 
				released again in our time through Hitler, a group around 
				him in Nazi Germany together with a group of militarists in 
				Japan and a further group around Mussolini in Italy. And 
				these three powers, the Axis Powers in the war with the Allies, 
				from 1939 to 45, embodied the energy we call The 
				Antichrist. 
				
				 
				
				Not just their evil, but the evil of 
				all humanity from the very beginning. By the defeat of the Axis 
				powers, by the Allies, behind whom stood Maitreya 
				and the forces of light; the virtual hierarchy of our planet and 
				the Masters of Wisdom and Maitreya at the 
				head, the forces of evil on this planet are defeated. Not 
				destroyed but defeated for the time being. So the beast has been 
				released, now it must be chained down for a time and half a 
				time. That refers to the time the age which was now opening, the
				Age of Aquarius as we call it, ("Yes...") which 
				will be the next 2350 to 500 years plus half the succeeding age:
				The Age of Capricorn, when the beast will be 
				released once again. 
				
				 
				
				There will be another great war at that 
				time which will be fought out on the mental planes and one day 
				will end with the complete destruction of the forces of evil on 
				this planet. It has been released on the Astral Planes 
				for 1000’s of years. Over the last 100,000 years that war has 
				been going on on the Astral Planes. Precipitated by 
				Hitler and company onto the physical plane, really from 1914 
				through 1918 and then again from 1939 to 1945, because from the 
				Master’s point of view that is really one war which went 
				underground in ’18 and came up again above ground in 1939. 
				
				 
				Art Bell:
				You said that you...
				Benjamin Creme:
				So, the Antichrist is gone! It’s been, it’s 
				gone, it’s done its destructive work. That is the little 
				Armageddon. The True, GREAT Armageddon will 
				not take place until the middle of the Age of Capricorn 
				in about 3,500 years from now.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Al right, you said that you were shown the past, ("Yes...") 
				and you were also shown the future. Well, I’m particularly 
				interested in the future. What, uh, what can you tell us about 
				what you saw. What lies ahead for us.
				Benjamin Creme:
				What lies ahead for humanity if it makes the right 
				decisions, and Maitreya is convinced that we shall 
				make the right decisions due to his work. That is why he’s 
				here.... to inspire humanity to make the right decisions, to 
				create what will be a completely new type of world. He brings 
				heavenly energies and we change the world so we have a new 
				heaven and a new earth as it says in the Bible. And 
				Maitreya puts it this way: "When you see and hear me 
				you will realize that you have known for long the truths which I 
				utter: sharing and justice. Brotherhood and freedom are not new 
				concepts. 
				
				 
				
				From the dawn of time mankind has linked his 
				aspiration to these beckoning Stars. Now my friends shall we 
				anchor them in the world!" These are the words of Maitreya 
				through me. ("Okay") And that’s what we shall do. We shall 
				create through sharing of the world’s resources for the first 
				time on the world scale: Justice in the world! A new 
				brotherhood! A realization of the brotherhood and sisterhood 
				of all people! ("Well, right now...") One Family!
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Right now resources, uh, in the world are severely limited 
				and appear to be finite and are being used up rather quickly... 
				so how are we going to do this sharing?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well they are in fact used up by the developed 1/3 of the 
				world...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				That’s correct...
				Benjamin Creme:
				...the third of the world which we are a part usurps 3/4 of 
				the world’s food and 83% of all other resources.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Uh, well for example...
				Benjamin Creme:
				(tries to speak)
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Let’s take oil for example, Benjamin, if we continue to use 
				oil that we pull from the ground at current rates in 40 to 45 
				years or less all of the oil is going to be gone. ("Yes...") Now 
				if 1/3 of the world or less is using all of this oil and the 
				other 2/3’s of this world is quickly trying to become what we 
				are, again I ask, how are we going to share these resources?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well we don’t bother about the oil for we shall have a new 
				technology...("We shall?") Maitreya calls it the
				Technology Of Light, which will give us unlimited power 
				for all our activities for all industry for heating and lighting 
				and transport and every other aspect! We shall have unlimited 
				energy directly from the sun itself. 
				
				 
				
				This is the new
				Technology of Light, which when we share the results with 
				the world, and guarantee justice for all people everywhere, and 
				therefore the possibility of peace for the first time - because 
				without justice there will never be peace and without sharing 
				there will never be justice - so if we accept Maitreya’s 
				premise that we are One and that the resources of 
				the world are given by divine providence for all of us, and 
				share more equitably the resources of the world, create justice 
				and create for the first time peace in the world, then that 
				technology will become ours ("Even the most...") it will be most 
				powerful technology that we can imagine, cosmic in source, but 
				without peace in the world it would be the most dangerous 
				technology that we could use.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Well, even, even Christians, uh, Benjamin, uh, tend to take 
				the attitude that, because what they, uh, read in the Bible, 
				that resources are given to us to use... no problem, go ahead 
				and use them, that’s what they are there for. That kind of 
				attitude and that sounds a little like...
				Benjamin Creme:
				It’s foolish! (Creme laughs). I mean we are 
				destroying the planet by, by misusing the resources.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				All right, well you said that, uh, Maitreya 
				said that we will make the right decisions. I don’t see any 
				evidence of that just yet.
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well according to the Masters we are beginning to do 
				so. According to the Masters, and I think its clear if 
				you look at the world today even compared with even 10 years ago 
				or 15 years ago, Maitreya came into the world, I 
				mean literally into the modern world, into London, in July, 1977 
				and since that time, from behind the scenes, through certain 
				individuals in the, uh, heads of government and so on, he has 
				been creating the conditions which we now see. The end of the 
				cold war, the opening up and the freeing of the states of, of 
				Russia, ("Well, yes...") the coming together of the 
				two Germanys, Capitalist West Germany and 
				Communist East Germany. 
				
				 
				
				An unthinkable thing has happened! The, 
				the uh, extraordinary transformation in South Africa, 
				where Nelson Mandela was for 27 years was incarcerated in 
				prison as the head of a proscribed organization and he, he is 
				now President of a, a new South Africa. ("Yes...") Apartheid is 
				a thing of the past. All of that is really the result of the 
				inspiration of Maitreya. He inspired Mr. 
				Gorbachev to come to America and to talk peace and to open 
				up, eh, er, through glasnost the Soviet Union. He, 
				He uh, came to Nelson Mandela in his prison cell and told 
				him to write to the president for a meeting and Nelson 
				Mandela smiled and said, "Look, I cannot even get a meeting 
				with the, with the governor of the prison" And Maitreya 
				said, "Never mind, I know that...but you write the letter and 
				you’ll see. I will do the rest.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Okay, uh, is Maitreya, uh, Maitreya 
				is now a physical mortal-form being who lives in London. 
				Was Maitreya born as an infant?
				Benjamin Creme:
				No, ("No.") He is in a self-created body. Many 
				of the Masters appear in a self-created body which is 
				called the Myavirupa{?} which literally means the 
				body of illusions...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				So in other words, Maitreya, Maitreya then 
				appeared as, in an adult form, is that ...
				Benjamin Creme:
				In adult form, yes...("Okay, in 1977...") and he has the 
				ability to change that form at will! ("Oh...") He can be old or 
				young, fair, dark, a man, a woman, a child, whatever he wishes 
				to be.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Have you, in the physical, met with Maitreya 
				in London?
				Benjamin Creme:
				I have, but not in his real form. I met him, uh, as a woman, 
				a refugee woman in a train in London with a child 
				and she, heheh, so-called "she", asked me for some money, I gave 
				her some money. The child looked miserable and she went up and 
				down the, the uh, train, you know, begging, but ("Yes...") in 
				the carriage where I met her there was no one else in the 
				carriage so she wasn’t making much money. And uh, the child 
				actually was the Master Jesus. And this sort of happening 
				occurs all the time. The Masters work together.
				Maitreya and the Master Jesus seem to be 
				incredibly close and they work together all the time. Sometimes 
				one is a man. The other time the other one is a man, and so 
				on... they change positions and change appearance and so on.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Do you realize what you just...
				Benjamin Creme:
				The last time I met him was in California.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				California?
				Benjamin Creme:
				In Berkley, where...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Berkley
				Benjamin Creme:
				Yeah, Berkley, California where he appeared as uh, I suppose 
				you would say as a modern day, slightly hippie, quite casually 
				dressed, but nicely dressed, uh, with a little bomber jacket on 
				and uh, and a hat and he asked me for a couple of dollars to, 
				for gas for his uh, truck. I couldn’t see any truck so I gave 
				him a couple of dollars. And that was Maitreya!
				
				
				Art Bell:
				How do you know?
				Benjamin Creme:
				It looked like Maitreya... {?} as he looked
				
				
				Art Bell:
				How do you know?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, I’m in touch with one of the Masters, I have a 
				moment to moment contact with one of Maitreya’s 
				closest disciples. And through this moment to moment contact I 
				can verify any experience I have. And if Maitreya 
				wishes to appear as a, as a beggar man as he has often does, and 
				hundreds of people have such experiences, I can ask the master, 
				"Was that Maitreya" and some days "No it wasn’t at 
				all" and some days "Yes it was, and that was the Master Jesus". 
				I have seen the Master Jesus years ago, who came to my 
				house in London, and uh, asked if I could give him something to 
				eat...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Do you have any idea... do you have any idea of how many 
				toes you’re stepping on with this?
				Benjamin Creme:
				Oh I know that! That’s why I’m dangerous.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				I, I, I’m beginning to agree with the faxer! You, you are 
				kinda dangerous...
				Benjamin Creme:
				Well, dangerous in the sense that this upsets the 
				conventional view of life and the future.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Oh! This upsets nearly everybody!
				Benjamin Creme:
				But it must! Times, as you know, are changing.... ("Yes...") 
				and the changing times bring new personalities in different ways 
				into the world and old conceptions of the Bible story and 
				the gospels and so on have to change. The people who will find 
				it probably hardest of all to accept Maitreya are 
				the leaders of the Christian and uh, the Jewish organizations!
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Absolutely! All right, let me try and ask you a really hard 
				question...
				Benjamin Creme:
				But, they had the same problem 2000 years ago ("Yep, yep, I 
				know...") when Jesus was there among them and they didn’t 
				recognize him.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Look, let me ask you a tough question. You said it was 
				proven to you in so many ways that Maitreya was 
				real. You saw miracles. Miracles were performed for you.
				Benjamin Creme:
				By my master... ("Yes, now...") My master is not Maitreya, ("now...") my master is a disciple of 
				Maitreya
				
				
				Art Bell:
				I understand that, but, um, from the point of view of those 
				who are listening to you right now, uh they, they would ask if 
				this is all true, then why not request and receive for the 
				world, undeniable proof in the form of some sort of miracle that 
				would cause people to believe as concretely as you do. 
				Benjamin Creme:
				The world today is filled with miracles. Let me just mention 
				a few of them. Maitreya says, "Those who search 
				for signs, will find them. But my method of manifestation is 
				most important" But the world is filled with signs of his 
				presence. Take for instance, in the Christian world, the 
				appearances of the Madonna all over the world. The moving
				Madonna, the statues which literally move, which open 
				their eyes, clasp the hands and unclasp themselves. These are 
				made of, uh, plaster or stone, wood, and so on. The icons of 
				Jesus which cry, the, the Madonnas which cry real 
				tears, sometimes blood, this is happening by the hundreds of 
				thousands all over the world. 
				
				 
				
				Now, in the, in the eastern world 
				among the Hindus we have the extraordinary milk miracles, in 
				September, 1996 when for four days the statues of, of Gadasha{?}, 
				and Shiva and so on... when offered milk, lapped 
				up the milk. The milk literally disappeared by the millions of 
				gallons. The, the milk ran dry in India. The, the 
				shops "shut all of its stuff"[?]. The streets were filled with 
				long queues going to the temples, many of them to the temples 
				for the first time in their lives to watch this miraculous 
				happening. We saw it in London, in the temples in London, 
				where the cameras were taken in, the television cameras and even 
				the operators, the camera operators of the, of the, uh, the 
				interviewer would hold out the milk in a cup or a spoon to the 
				statue which is made of wood, which is made of copper, bronze, 
				silver, brass, and the milk literally disappeared every single 
				time. 
				
				 
				
				That I think is the most widespread and the greatest type 
				of miracle which has ever happened in the world. It was all 
				over: north, south, east, and west... wherever that ritual was 
				performed. The milk was not, of course, drunk by the, by the 
				statues made of brass and teak and so on... ("Right...") It was 
				made to disappear by Maitreya and a group of 
				Masters who do that kind of thing.
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Was it in any way announced beforehand?
				Benjamin Creme:
				No. ("No...") It suddenly happened. There is a window in 
				Clearwater, in Florida... there is a, a 
				building...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				I’ve seen it. I’ve got the photograph. I know, I know
				Benjamin Creme:
				It’s got a huge icon of Madonna, 35 feet high, in 
				brilliant color, and when it was damaged by vandals , the color 
				reasserted itself...
				
				
				Art Bell:
				Oh, no, That’s absolutely true! Uh, Benjamin, hold 
				on, we’re at the top of the hour. Uh, the building he refers 
				to... yes! It was vandalized and miraculously the image, 
				overnight, was suddenly cleared up. That is an absolutely true 
				story. Benjamin Crème is my guest and we’re going to open 
				phone lines when we come back, and I imagine they will be 
				blistering! From the high desert, this is Coast to Coast AM.