Click image for Radio Podcast

 Benjamin Creme’s Story
Today, after our series of book reviews over the past months, we feature author and painter, the late Benjamin Creme and his story told in his words. This is sourced from the Preface in his first book, “The Reappearance of the Christ and The Masters of Wisdom.”

Mr. Creme begins: Many people have asked me to relate something of the steps which have led me into the work I am now doing. It will not be a complete account: there are unwritten laws of reticence on some aspects of the Master-Disciple relationship, and I am pledged to silence on certain work for and with the Space Brothers; but for whatever interest it may have, and in the hope that it may make more real and believable the fact of the Masters and the fact of the Christ’s return at Their head, I set down the following:

As a child of four or five, one of my favourite pastimes was to sit at the window and watch the wind; not the effect of the wind on the trees or leaves, but the wind itself. I would watch the movements of the air and try to guess whether it was a north, south, east or west wind blowing.

When I went to school, I learned that the air was invisible, the wind likewise, and forgot, I do not remember whether gradually or suddenly, my ability to see what of course was some level of the etheric planes of matter.

In the early 1950s, I happened on a book by Rolf Alexander: “The Power of the Mind”. The magazine article which drew my attention to it had, of course, concentrated on the most sensational aspect of the book — “cloud-busting”, the breaking up of clouds by the power of thought alone. Rolf Alexander, a Canadian, was called to Tibet and trained by a Tibetan Master of Yoga, and his book outlines a practice to bring the instinctive, subconscious mind under the control of the directive conscious mind.

The method used is self-hypnosis. The freeing of the conscious, directing principle from its involvement in the activity of the subconscious mind (which should proceed automatically) releases large stores of mental energy and leads directly to the focus and concentration which precede meditation. And so I began to meditate.

I also began to read. I read, among many others, the Theosophical works of H. P. Blavatsky and Leadbeater; Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Nicoll; Paul Brunton; Patanjali; the Alice Bailey and Agni Yoga Teachings; Swamis Vivekananda, Sivananda, Yogananda; Sri Ramana Maharshi, whose Path of Self-knowledge I sought to follow.

Recommended reading for more information:
The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom

2026 Podcasts:
Benjamin Creme’s Story
The Art of Living
The Art of Co-operation
The Great Approach & Transmission Meditation
The Gathering of the Forces of Light
Maitreya’s Mission Three & The Ageless Wisdom
Maitreya’s Mission Volumes One & Two
The Reappearance of the Christ & the Masters of Wisdom
Historical Milestones in Humanity’s Evolution
The UFO Phenomena (Part 2

2025 Podcasts:
The UFO Phenomena (Part 1)
The Reality & Work of the Space Brothers
The Next Voice You Hear
Angels, Miracles and Healings
God put a new song in my mouth
An Interview with Swami Premananda
Homeopathy in US Healthcare
Saint Charbel – Man of Miracles
Swami Nirliptananda Talk
The Emergence and The Media
Climate Change – The Holistic View
Practical Psychology – An Esoteric Perspective

2024 Podcasts:
The Story of the Emergence
Love and Trust
Ecology and Spirituality
Let There Be Light (Part 2)
Let There Be Light (Part 1)
Initiation: An Evolutionary Journey
Transmission Meditation
Insights of the World Teacher
Avatars Down the Ages
A Major Opportunity
Goodwill
Competition versus Co-operation
Unity in Diversity

Recommended books:
The World Teacher for All Humanity
The Awakening of Humanity

More information:  Share International