Evolution of Humanity Unveiled: A Primer

Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Preface

Statement

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Ageless Wisdom Teachings

Chapter 2: The Origin of Humanity

Chapter 3: The Path of Initiation

Chapter 4: The Seven Rays of Life

Chapter 5: The Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy

Chapter 6: Share International.org

Chapter 7: The Day of Declaration and Beyond

Closing Statement

Suggested Readings

Notes

About the Author

Evolution of Humanity Unveiled: A Primer

Ira L. Palmer

Copyright © 2024 Ira L. Palmer

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Fulton Books

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Published by Fulton Books 2024

ISBN 979-8-89221-289-2 (paperback)

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Printed in the United States of America

Dedication to Benjamin Creme

This book is dedicated to Benjamin Creme, whose writings, lectures, paintings, and new meditation have inspired me and thousands of other people around the world. He is that rare individual who appears on the world stage at key turning points in humanity's evolution, where it is groping for signs to the right pathway forward. This time, the stakes couldn't be higher as the cleavage between a nuclear doomsday scenario and the building of a golden new civilization based on sharing, justice, and right relationship offers humanity a stark choice. At this moment of world crisis, a singular event emerges like a redemptive science-fiction movie—the head of this planet's spiritual hierarchy and a group of his masters are returning to the everyday world as part of a symphony of coordinated evolutionary advances involving humanity, the masters, planet Earth, and the dawning of a new age. Creme was approached by the World Teacher and offered the high honor of playing a role, if he chose, to make the initial approach to the public by creating a climate of hope and expectancy so essential for success.

Fortunately, Creme accepted the charge, placing in service to humanity his formidable gifts. A longtime student of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, Creme brilliantly brings the complex arcane language of scientific, spiritual, and philosophical wisdom within the grasp of average people with his characteristic wit and humor. His inspiring message and unexpected truths have awakened large audiences around the world to new hope for humanity. Already an accomplished painter, he adapted that medium to express visually the esoteric concepts that cannot easily be put into words. His scientific acumen led to replication and demonstration of Wilhelm Reich's work on orgone energy (etheric matter). He trained himself in Tummo—secret breathing techniques to raise the body temperature in subfreezing temperatures—and he experienced some success in the creation of a thought-form, as well as in other experiments that point the way to a new horizon for science.

As a child, Benjamin said he could see the actual wind but was later informed in school that air is invisible. Later, he was able to see people's auras and what even fewer have seen—the inside of a UFO—leading to authoritative reports of these ships and the incredible service our space brothers render daily to this planet. For more than forty years, he epitomized tireless devotion to service, yet he modestly called himself lazy compared to the masters who work 24-7, never resting. Creme is, of course, aided by his anonymous master, with whom he was in close telepathic contact; and his books, magazines, and lectures provide sensational documented proof of what an omniscient master knows.

Although he transitioned in 2016, and with it was a public access to his master, Creme's star continues to rise thanks to the vast body of books, paintings, and lectures he left to the world. I hope this narrow, abbreviated, and unworthy window on his works, along with other advanced initiates, excites, and prepares you for the extraordinary events just ahead. I also hope to prepare humanity for the most critical step in its long evolutionary journey.

Preface

The story of the evolution of humanity has long been shrouded in speculations, myths, and theories; but since the late nineteenth century, a new light of truth called the Ageless Wisdom Teachings has penetrated veiling fogs to reveal answers that have eluded humanity for ages. This body of inspired writings, spearheaded by Helena P. Blavatsky and followed by an intermediate outpouring of information from Helena Roerich and Alice A. Bailey, awakened humanity to little-known information underlying its evolutionary journey on planet Earth. It presents a provocative and compelling view of a divine plan or blueprint for the evolution of humanity, leading to perfection or mini-god status that is our birthright and destiny. It postulates that all life expressions are interconnected and interdependent and reveals man's responsibilities in the linking kingdom between the divine and subhuman kingdoms.

Man, unaware of his latent divinity and blind to his fate, has arrived at a critical crossroad in his journey, where he must decide whether to create a brilliant new civilization based on sharing, justice, economic, social, and gender equality or continue along the pathway of division, greed, and competition that would surely lead to a nuclear and/or environmental disaster. We are rapidly approaching the destined hour in which humanity must choose.

Fortunately, we have never been without oversight and guidance; and, in what has to be the most spectacular news imaginable, the head of this planet's spiritual hierarchy—the World Teacher—along with fourteen of his masters (eventually forty) have taken their posts and are ready to start working alongside humanity in the everyday world for the first time in ninety-eight thousand years! They have emerged from their ancient retreats to help humanity navigate this difficult stage in the journey, providing incorruptible guidance in identifying the pitfalls along the way, a better view of the evolutionary plan and purpose of life, and how to implement that plan. The names of some of these masters are familiar—Jesus (formerly Joshua, Jeshua), Koot Hoomi (formerly St. John, Pythagoras), Count of St. Germain (formerly Francis Bacon, Roger Bacon), and Morya (formerly St. Peter)—and others less familiar—such as Serapis (Egyptian master) and Jupiter (Indian master)—plus Lord Maitreya, spokesman and head of the group of sixty-three masters.

Benjamin Creme was selected to make the initial approach to the public and prepare a climate of hope and expectancy so essential for their success since the masters will never infringe on our free will, which they see as sacrosanct. As you might expect, the flow of information from this group of perfected masters is disturbing to some people but joyous to most.

I will lead you on an abbreviated tour to some elements of this fascinating story to help prepare you for the coming Day of Declaration—unique in history—which heralds a new way of life for humanity in which we will be inspired to share the abundant resources of the planet to create justice and lasting peace and launch the building of a golden civilization beyond our wildest imaginings. To avoid falling foul of copyright restraints, I can only share a few examples of what is openly available on the Share International (SI) website, as well as archived abridged editions of Share International magazine, also available on the Internet; so I will help you navigate that trove of the most compelling evidence that the masters are now among us and will, at the most auspicious moment, announce before the world—telepathically, inwardly, and in our own language—our current crisis and awaken us to a new era of light and esoteric science. These spiritual mentors with perfect sight say they already know our answer and are glad.

Statement

In respect for historical accuracy, I have chosen to use the terms man, brothers, and brotherhood in most instances to denote both the male as well as the female vehicles we temporarily inhabit during the long evolutionary journey on planet Earth. That journey entails countless lifetimes in male and female bodies, incorporating aspects and attributes of God into our threefold personalities, which leads to relative perfection and mastery. The master has combined this existing duality into an androgynous whole, so although masters currently appear exclusively as males because they wish to anchor their energy in a powerful way, they are androgynous. They embody male and female aspects. This practice will change over time as the synthesized illusory duality, or pairs of opposites, shifts into an androgynous complete, perfect expression of the latent divinity resident within each of us called the soul.

Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without the kind permission of Share International, the Lucis Trust, the Agni Yoga Society, the Theosophical Society, and other noteworthy sources who allowed the use of their books and materials to advance the telling of this story. A complete list of credits is found in the endnotes, and there's a list of suggested readings, both of which are at the end of the book.

Introduction

Like many of you, I am a somewhat typical American with more than a casual interest in and curiosity about our world—both the outer objective world as well as the inner subjective world. At an early age, I was not only fascinated by the world we primarily experience through our senses—the tangible world of forms—but also keenly intrigued by the invisible, latent, and somewhat mysterious world within.

We commonly perceive reality as images shaped by the narrow ruts of our experiences of sight, hearing, taste, and smell, plus the life force organ of touch or feeling, which is different, not a sense organ, but it reacts to electrical impulses registered by the four organs through the nerves to the brain and interpreted. It is related to consciousness and therefore vital for the four independent senses to work. Feeling is thus independent from the senses, yet it is indestructible, eternal, part of the soul. Ancient Chinese sages have said man actually has only four senses plus the receiver/interpreter (feeling) of sensation from the four senses. This extension of the concept know thyself will become clearer as we proceed.

It is not so unusual today to witness vivid demonstrations of clairvoyance, clairaudience, mental telepathy, etheric vision, or extrasensory perception. We are mystified by these faculties but reluctant to dismiss them as fake or fiction; in fact, we are told that these skills are latent within all of humanity. Evolution, in my thinking, has brought me to agree with Master Morya through Helena Roerich that the world as we experience it is largely an illusion—that everything we see is a shadow of what we don't see.

As a child growing up in North Carolina, my fascination with the inner world was nourished by my mother, who had an uncanny psychic gift (or curse at times) to predict, oftentimes with alarming accuracy, events unfolding in our lives, as well as premonitions of death. How, I remember thinking, are mothers worldwide able to sense when their child is in danger—even across thousands of miles—and cannot rest until their fears are allayed? And why is it that when a loved one is near death, hospice workers often find that the patient can see deceased relatives? Both my parents and my grandfather saw deceased loved ones prior to their own transition.

My grandfather—a proud thirty-third-degree Mason—became so elated at seeing his nine deceased brothers in his room the night before he passed that he started to sing. My mother sitting nearby, her eyes straining hard to see each of her uncles pointed out to her, solemnly looked back at his smooth wrinkleless face, astonished at the beauty of his deep voice.

Some twenty-five years later, Mom, bedridden and unable to care for even her most basic needs, was facing her own transition with fear and dread. I tried to address her fears by asking her to recall that moment in Grandfather's gentle and fearless passing and sought to explain that we don't die but merely change from one level of awareness to another. But she was having none of this talk about death, asking me, How do you know all this? She sternly rebuked me for a discussion she deemed inappropriate, adding that she didn't see anything or anybody and would rather I not bring up the subject again.

Ultimately, however, despite her mental clarity and former protestations, she admitted that Curtis (my deceased brother) was back! Then reflecting upon the senselessness of her statement, she derailed her train of thought and remained silent, reflective. After the resolution or burning off some negative karma, she was able to peacefully depart from her worn-out body. When the truth is known about what we call death, the fear and dread will fade as we rightly see it as yet another graduation in the long journey from stage to stage upon the evolutionary path unfolding the divinity within the soul.

Many people throughout the world believe that the answers to all of man's deep, penetrating questions regarding his origin, his purpose and place in the universe, his relationship with God, and his evolutionary journey and destiny are to be found in the world's various religious texts. In our community, religion and the church were inexorably linked. The church was not only the wellspring of religious teachings and services but also the focal point for community outreach, recreational activities, health awareness, a voting precinct, and other services. It was viewed as laying the foundation for a moral and fulfilling life by teaching the values of faith and the love of God and salvation through the blood of Christ. But it also reflected the deep divisions within society, often espousing one pathway or school of theological thought over another, thereby inspiring a good deal of fear of the wrath of God and the doctrine of retribution in some mythical hell.

At any rate, as a young boy, I accepted the scriptures in the Bible quite literally, only to later realize that they were largely symbolic and allegorical. The snake talking to Eve in the garden of Eden represented sex, the forty days and forty nights meant a long time, and even Adam and Even were symbolic representations of man's early beginnings on planet Earth. Certainly, that journey began far earlier than the approximate five thousand to seven thousand years given in the Bible.

My mother was adamant about the need for us to attend church. It was, for the most part, an enjoyable experience. People seemed to behave better in church—lots of smiling faces, warm embraces, everyone well-groomed and neatly dressed, the music inspiring, and the sermons uplifting and instructive (if a little heavy-handed). Mom was less persuasive with my dad, who refused to attend, saying merely that people should attend only if they want to and that the biggest sinners were sitting right there in church. The church effect was not lasting, he said. But even he noted Mom's good mood following church services though she was prone to taking issue anew with his failure to attend. I frankly think he valued the free time to be alone. When we returned home, he was usually sitting in the swing under the hickory tree, admiring his attractive, bountiful garden with the dog or cats nearby. I would sit next to him in the swing sometimes and ask him about going with us to Philadelphia. He responded that he was more content and happy sitting in the swing after a day of work in the garden than he would be anywhere in the world. His pleasures were simple and accessible.

As I grew older and read many other books—spiritual, metaphysical, scientific, and historical, among others—I harbored questions about the Bible's authenticity and facticity. As I ventured off to college and grad school, I encountered many people from different cultures, ethnic groups, and religious convictions, befriending them, trying to understand how and why their beliefs differed from my own since we were told there is only one God, one source. Initially suspicious of their foreign spiritual beliefs, I ultimately realized we had much more in common than I could have imagined, as I easily found some of the tenets of their beliefs more persuasive than my own.

The Buddhist and Hindu belief in the law of rebirth or reincarnation was among the first to catch my attention. I found mixed evidence for reincarnation in the Bible (discussed later in this book), but I had already read many previous books from Edgar Cayce, Jeane Dixon, Sylvia Browne, and others, which convinced me of the truth of this belief. As college students, we had many lively discussions of our religious beliefs, setting ground rules to avoid being defensive or judgmental in exchanging our views. Acutely aware of humanity's long history of wars and violence fueled by religious intolerance, ignorance, and fanaticism, we knew we were treading upon dangerous subjects that could trigger violent responses.

It seemed that almost all my college friends held some variations on belief in the law of karma, also known as the law of cause and effect. I could easily point to corroborating passages in the Old Testament as well as the teachings of Jesus, who said, As ye sow, so shall ye reap. But Christians clearly did not believe that we returned to the earthly realm to experience the effects of the causes we had set in motion from a former life despite the telling example of the beheading of John the Baptist for his actions as Elijah (Elias), but that's getting ahead of this introduction. After all, wasn't retribution taken up in hell? As we delved deeper into each religion, we found instances of what might be called distortions and man-made doctrine and dogma, and we didn't have to look far to see the long arm of man twisting the meaning of religious interpretations to further political ambitions, increase material gain, suppress women's rights, command power, encourage separation, incite rebellion, and more or less promulgate what select men thought was in the mind of God through the lenses and filters of their own conditioned minds.

Another pivotal experience from college that left an indelible memory was a presentation given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He was very popular at the time and drew a large audience of students and people from the community. Many were curious about Eastern thought and culture, and from the moment he walked barefoot onto the stage, the audience was captivated. He looked sort of old to me at the time, with a long salt-and-pepper beard, his face smiling broadly with black eyes that seemed to almost twinkle when he laughed—and he laughed a lot. He seemed to exude joy and was impressive in his down-to-earth sort of way. My dim memory recalls him doing several difficult yoga poses he made look easy and talking about Indian philosophy, Transcendental Meditation, and life. I made a mental note to someday find out more about this meditation. It would be about eight years later when I acted on that mental note and took instruction in Transcendental Meditation. I continued to use TM on and off for the next twenty-five plus years and found it to be a valuable discipline and spiritual practice. This study evolved later in life to an even more potent form of meditation and service to the world called Transmission Meditation, discussed later in this book.

I think it was in the early 1980s when I was preparing to build a home that I decided to enroll in a woodworking class at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Since childhood, I had a keen interest in carpentry, and I wanted to build a fancy mantel and vanity using solid walnut from the North Carolina mountains to add visual interest to the simple two-story Cape Cod I planned to build. The registrar sadly informed me that the highly popular class was full, but seeing my crushed expression, she added that I might be able to convince the instructor to let me in. I quickly went home and got pictures of a plank-on-plank, museum-quality model of the USS Constitution I had built some years earlier. I was fully prepared to beg if necessary to get into the class.

The instructor, Larry Melton, was a medium-sized fellow with powerful forearms and a penetrating look framed by a scruffy black beard. I explained to him how important it was for me to get into his class. He asked if I had any skills. I gently laid down a folder with pictures of "Old Ironsides—the USS Constitution." His eyes opened wide as he studied the pictures intently for almost a minute. Then he looked up at me and, with half a smile, asked how long it took to build her. I said a year and many hundreds of hours. We chatted casually for a good while as I realized I was in! Larry was from the mountains of North Carolina and had worked previously at Goodman Lumber, a high-end woodworking company in Salisbury. He had classical music playing in the background that contrasted oddly with the woodworking persona I was observing. He was very articulate and possessed an air of quiet self-assurance; the skills I later witnessed were superb even when he was cutting perfect dovetail joints by hand. I also learned that he had dropped out of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.

One day, he invited me to his home to see photos of some of the impressive work he'd done in multimillion-dollar homes. It was during this visit that I asked him why he had left Duke Divinity School. A mix of emotions, some painful, crossed his face as he described his reading of a book written by Helena P. Blavatsky that gave such a compelling and plausible explanation of the nature of man—his origin, purpose, and place in the universe, including the other kingdoms in nature and the laws governing these manifestations of God—that it caused him to reassess many of his previous assumptions, even the religious path he had chosen. Pondering what to do, he approached the staff at the school for guidance and answers to his questions, but instead he was stonewalled in a high-handed, dismissive fashion. So convinced was he of the truth of what he had read that he could no longer consider finishing what he had started; the foundation of his thoughts and ideas had been shaken to the core—and so he left. He offered me the books, and I said I would rather borrow them. I'll share something of that amazing, epic book called The Secret Doctrine later in this primer.

It was not much later that I had another equally memorable encounter. I was employed at the time as director of a state regional agency serving children at risk for or demonstrating developmental problems. I had hired a rather diverse array of professional staff from all over the country to provide a wide range of services to children and their families, but there were divisions among the staff, and its members were not functioning as a team. The staff I hired from northern cities were afraid that schools in Concord and Charlotte, North Carolina, might not be as rigorous as northern schools and that their kids would develop a Southern drawl—God forbid!—while the Southerners wondered why I was hiring so many Yanks. I innocently replied that I hired the best professionals available to serve our families.

Describing my dilemma to colleagues, I was told that Dr. Leo Croghan, director of the Fayetteville DEC Program, was very adept at giving workshops on team building. Hopeful, I invited him to come over and do an in-service training. I'd heard beforehand that he was a former priest who had worked at the Vatican in Rome—All the better, I thought; he was indeed a rare and superb individual. He was tall, slender, and scholarly-looking with a melodious resonance in his voice and a pious, considerate calm in his manner. He described and acted out all the annoying characters that make up a great team, also depicting their personalities as vital to team function. He mostly had the ladies on staff howling with laughter as they caught glimpses of themselves in the characters of his skit. They loved it, loved Leo, and loved me for bringing him.

Afterward, we went out to lunch and talked casually about staff issues and world issues—even reincarnation. After all, how many opportunities would I get to share my ideas with someone who had worked at the Vatican? He did not believe in reincarnation and said so emphatically, but he was not unpleasant when I offered passages from the Bible that seemed to refute this major church position. We were soon at an impasse in our discussion but had enjoyed the exchange of ideas. Ultimately, I referenced a not so commonly recognized belief that the Bible had been changed at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (AD 553) to remove references of reincarnation. He was surprised by this statement and said, Indeed, Ira, the council used to be held there centuries ago, but now it's held in Rome. He finally said before leaving that he would check on the accuracy of this statement during his yearly sabbatical to Rome.

Months later at a directors' meeting in Raleigh, I caught sight of him talking to two colleagues, so I moved close, awaiting a turn to speak with him. At a pause in the conversation, he looked over at me and said, Ira, there's something to that— just as we were being called back to our meeting. I knew it! And while I was anxious for the details of his research, my curiosity would have to wait because I had to leave the meeting early to make a board meeting in Charlotte. I never did get a chance to talk to him again because some weeks later, he died of a heart attack. In honor of his many contributions to the field of developmental disabilities, we named an annual conference on developmental disabilities, the Leo M. Croghan Conference. Ironically, what he saw in his research is now part of the public record, discussed later in this book.

The last and biggest turning point in my journey came during a visit to Winston-Salem in the year 2001 and a conversation with my youngest brother, Al. Al is a kindhearted brother and former marine with talents as a singer, composer, and producer. He provided empathetic essential care to our dad and mother during their transitions. As I learned firsthand while helping Mom during the last six months of her life, it was demanding but rewarding service. Ironically, both of us observed that our blood pressure dipped to childhood lows following care episodes, even after very stressful moments with Mom, whose transition was difficult and bumpy following a fall at home. Al had a psychic gift similar to Mom's (sadly, I was informed that only later in life would I develop that faculty) that allowed him to receive flashes of messages from his spiritual guides, the masters, or perhaps from the soul, which more often than not proved accurate. Years of introspection heightened his sensitivity to that inner guidance, and later, the practice of Transmission Meditation lifted the veil even more.

Al attributed his ability to hear this inner voice to his discovery of an amazing new website called Share International (SI). He was careful in his choice of words as he spoke about the emergence onto the world stage of a great teacher, who is here to offer wise and loving counsel to humanity as we approach a critical and perilous crossroads in our evolutionary journey. His name is Maitreya, Al said, head of this planet's spiritual hierarchy—the kingdom above the human kingdom—and he is here to fulfill the expectations of all the religions for the return to the world of a great teacher. This teacher comes to offer a new dispensation, showing humanity the way forward during these turbulent times and inspiring us to create the most brilliant civilization ever seen in the long history of the planet. This teacher is here, Al said, along with several of his masters, including the famous Master Jesus, whom he said he overshadowed two thousand years ago from the baptism in the River Jordan to the Transfiguration and the Crucifixion, a period of three years. I suggested that he might be a charlatan or maybe even the Antichrist.

He said, I don't think so, Sonny, because among other things, he talked about a more just sharing of resources on the planet, leading to trust and eventually peace.

That's the right answer I allowed, but how do you get the selfish, greedy people on this planet to cooperate in such a plan? And you said he overshadowed Jesus? Really, I thought. This was alarming, meriting deep and penetrating investigation!

I was skeptical but intrigued and frankly anxious to get back to my computer, fully expecting to uncover a fraud. Instead, I found myself keenly absorbed in reading for about three to four hours before being overcome by sleep. It was definitely an awesome website, weaving together the threads of my thoughts from earlier readings, including the works of Helena Blavatsky, Alice A. Bailey, Helena Roerich, and Benjamin Creme into a new and wonderful tapestry that was beautiful and elegant. It showed pictures of Maitreya in Nairobi, Kenya (in disguise). His appearance was covered by CNN News. There were hundreds of miracles from around the world, awakening the public to his presence. A question-and-answer section revealed unknowable information that only a master could access (archival examples are given in chapter 6). A section of links to topical discussion of the broader Ageless Wisdom Teachings and their role was provided, along with information on Master Jesus that is at odds with church teachings yet consistent with history and the Dead Sea Scrolls. I also found more detailed information on the role and function of the soul, our solar system and how planet Earth fits into the larger cosmic picture, our space brothers (their UFOs) and their critical role, guidance to avoid a headlong plunge into nuclear disaster, and much more. The next day was a Saturday, and I continued where I left off. One could read for months and not cover the totality of the site with its many links, including the archives.

If you feel a little anxiety building regarding this last part, my advice to you is to wait, relax, and proceed with deliberation and careful scrutiny. Remember that all the scriptures of the world have prophesized that at the end of the age (Piscean), we shall see the revelation of that which had previously been hidden, veiled. Could this be the fulfillment of that prophecy? By all means, don't let someone else decide the merits of the website or the credibility of Maitreya for you, as many fanatics and other interest groups will attempt to do on the Web. You are perfectly able to consider, evaluate, and decide for yourself what all this means.

Bear in mind that many forces at work in the developed world will find this information unwelcome and a threat to their control of American (and world) thought and behavior. In its relentless march toward the commercialization of every aspect of human life—what Benjamin Creme's master calls the gigantic game of hunt the dollar at any cost—there is little appetite for corrective teachings. Remember also that you are a product of your environment that has conditioned you to think a certain way. From birth, these influences include our parenting, our education, our culture and religion, our political views, and our sense of nationalism and patriotism. All have inculcated an unconscious bias and way of viewing the world that often prevents us from considering other points of view or even noticing emerging truths. Recognition of these truths hinges on our growing awareness and readiness for previously esoteric (hidden) information about our evolution and how we can become an active participant in shaping and advancing our evolution rather than a passive participant.

This brings me to the purpose in writing this small introductory book. It is targeted at those people in America and elsewhere who are capable of casting aside the conditioning influences of their backgrounds and thinking independently. It is not important that they are as yet unfamiliar with the names of the highly evolved writers referenced in this book—people like Benjamin Creme, Alice A. Bailey / Master Djwhal Khul, Helena P. Blavatsky / Master Morya and Master KH, Helena Roerich, M. MacDonald-Bayne, CW Leadbeater, Vera Stanley Alder, and others listed at the back of this book. To all objective inquirers, I am merely offering for your consideration and scrutiny a body of information that I think is worthy of your time and attention. Intuitively, you might sense deep in your heart that all humanity is one and that we are at a critical crossroads that will determine whether we continue in the divisive, selfish, and greedy practices of the past, leading to certain disaster, or awaken to our sense of sanity, brotherhood, and justice to create the most spectacular civilization in the history of this planet. Where do you stand, and where is your voice? That is the choice soon to be soberly brought before us.

I believe our great spiritual guides, called the spiritual hierarchy or the kingdom of God in the Bible, are not reposing in some distant heaven, gazing down upon a suffering, crumbling Earth, but are now poised and unobtrusively working among us for the first time in ninety-eight thousand years while awaiting the exact right moment to declare themselves. They say our birthright and destiny is to become perfected men, like they are. They have merely completed the journey we're still engaged in, working behind the scenes as custodians of energies that transform our lives while the soul silently works from within. Since the masters work always within the laws of life, avoiding infringement upon our free will, we are free to decide if we are ready for them to share their wise, incorruptible guidance during this darkest hour before the dawning of the light. Will we choose a brilliant new life or the death of humanity? That is the far-reaching question before us, to which Maitreya already knows our answer and says he is glad.

Chapter 1

The Ageless Wisdom Teachings

The scriptures of the world we know have prophesized that at the end of the age we shall see the revelation of that which is secret, the emergence into the light of day of that which has hitherto been concealed, veiled.

—Master DK¹

It is hard to imagine a more tumultuous time than the period we are currently passing through. We see nearly 1.3 billion people starving (living on $1.25/day) in a world of plenty. Half of the world's population is poor (living on $2.50/day) and experiencing widespread desperation, leading many to resort to violence and crime. Economic, social, and gender inequality still prevail in most of the world, as an increasingly obscene share of the world's wealth is owned and controlled by a small number of individuals, families, and groups. World economies are increasingly turning away from global initiatives benefiting developing nations to a more populist nationalism, as fears of economic insecurity escalate, triggering rising ultraright sentiment, anti-immigrant measures, restrictions on social media access, racism, and other shortsighted reactions while Wall Street and banks report record profits.

And all the while, environmental concerns about global warming and severe pollution and degradation of air, soil, water, and forests go largely unaddressed, especially here in the USA; nuclear pollution, in particular, is invisibly poisoning Mother Earth and, by extension and karma, humanity itself. North Korea is rapidly developing a formidable nuclear arsenal, desperate to join the nine other nations known