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Lola Davis, author of Toward a World Religion for the New Age, identified the New Age
‘Christ’ as Lord Maitreya, who has been labeled as an avatar and a world teacher. She said “he
will bring new revelations and further guidance for establishing the World Religion.” She also
said that the “World Council of Churches ... has the potential to serve as a source of unity among
the diversity of religions.” On April 25, 1982, the Tara Center (headquartered in London and N.
Hollywood, CA), a New Age group led by Benjamin Crème, ran a full page ad in twenty major
papers around the world proclaiming that the New Age Messiah, Lord Maitreya, was alive and
ready to institute their plan, which included “the installation of a new world government and a
new world religion under Maitreya.” The ad said: “Since July, 1977, the Christ has been
emerging as a spokesman for a group or community in a well-known modern country.” It
promised that the ‘Christ’ would appear “within the next two months” and that “his message will
be heard inwardly, telepathically, by all people in their own language. From that time, with his
help, we will build a new world.”
A similar ad ran five years later, on January 12, 1987, in USA Today, under the headline
“The Christ is in the World,” describing Lord Maitreya as “a great world teacher for people of
every religion and no religion.” He never did appear, and according to Creme, Maitreya, was
living in a Hindu-Pakistani community in southeast London, and attending Oxford University,
where he is studying the sacred writings of the world’s major religions.
When Creme spoke in Detroit on November 4, 1981, he was asked if he had met Maitreya,
and he said: “No, I’ve never met the Christ, but I’ve met the human body he is inhabiting several
times– but never as the Christ.” According to the Huntington House book New Age Messiah
Identified by Troy Lawrence, this man was identified as Rahmat Ahmad, and is the great-great
grandson of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who was born in the 1800’s in India, and claimed that he
was the Messiah, sent to unite the entire world in a New World Religion. It was revealed that he
was born in February, 1962 in Rabwah, Pakistan, then went to England in July, 1977, in
preparation for his role. Lord Maitreya never did appear, and as it turns out, in 1991, Lawrence
(real name, Darrick Evenson) was exposed as a fraud, and now his exposé has been pretty much
ignored.
Just as the birth of Jesus was prophesied by many Old Testament prophets, New Agers
believed that the birth of the new ‘Christ,’ was prophesied by Jeane Dixon. Shortly before
sunrise on February 5, 1962, Dixon had an unusual experience. For several months, astrologers
had predicted that an earth-shaking event on that day, because of a rare conjunction of Jupiter,
Saturn and Venus in the constellation of Pisces. A similar conjunction which occurred nearly
2,000 years ago is believed by some to explain the “bright star in the east” at the time of the birth
of Jesus.
As she looked outside, she didn’t see any trees, or the street, just a blue sky, above a barren
desert. In the sky, the sun was shining brighter than she had ever seen. Coming from the sun in
every direction were brilliant rays which seemed to be drawing the earth toward it like a magnet.
Stepping out of the brightness of the sun’s rays, hand-in-hand was a Pharaoh (later identified as
Pharaoh Amenhotep) and Queen Nefertiti. In her arms was a baby in ragged soiled clothing. The
eyes of the child were “all-knowing” (the all-seeing eye on the Illuminati seal?), full of wisdom
and knowledge. To one side of the Queen, Dixon could see a pyramid (the Illuminati?).
The couple came before her, as if to offer the baby to the world. Within the sun, Joseph was
guiding the tableau like a puppeteer pulling strings (Bible teacher David Ebaugh has linked
Genesis 41:14-36, dealing with Joseph’s interpretations of the Pharaoh’s dreams, with the Book
of Revelation; in addition, Joseph was known as the “dreamer”). Rays of light burst forth from