Cooper / Tier 1 — The Illumined Directorate: Council of Wise Men, Hidden Masters, Ruling Bloodlines and the Great Plan / spiritual
Maitreya
Where each worldview places it
The coming charismatic world political and religious leader. He is claimed as Christ, Messiah, fifth Buddha, Krishna and Imam Mahdi, and heads the hierarchy of masters and the new world religion[1]. Cooper suspects him to be a planted figurehead and predicts instead that the world religious leader will sit "upon the throne of Rome"[2].
- Aliases
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Dates
- came to London in July 1977
- announced 1982-04-25[3]
- Places
- Himalayas (India–Tibet border)East London (Asian community)[3]
- Key events
- 1977-07: allegedly descends to East London
- 1982-04-25: Benjamin Creme's ads in about 20 newspapers[3]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 3
- 01"My army is ready for battle"[3].
- 02When Cooper "search[ed] London with a fine-tooth comb, we can find no trace"[3].
- 03Jeane Dixon's 1962 vision may have been written "to set up the world to welcome someone named Lord Maitreya"[3].