Can you tell me whether Maitreya is Christ returned, or was Christ his disciple?
A. In Palestine 2,000 years ago, Maitreya used the normal mode for the appearance of the Teacher at any cycle: overshadowing. The process of Jesus’s overshadowing started when Jesus was 12 (which is why he could discuss profound theological ideas with the Rabbis). When Jesus was 24 the process was more or less complete. From the age of 30 to 33 – that is from the baptism until the crucifixion – Maitreya totally overshadowed Jesus. Sometimes, Maitreya was working through that body alone; at other times Jesus was working in it alone; at still other times both Maitreya’s consciousness and Jesus’s consciousness were working through that body. So Maitreya did the teaching, and Jesus was the observer of all that took place through him.
