Why didn Jesus mention Maitreya with name during His mission in Palestine?
A. He did, to those immediately around Him. That was part of the secret teachings to the inner group and would have been quite incomprehensible to the people in general. Q. Since we know that idea of reincarnation has been around for a long time, how did it get lost? Christian churches seldom teach it. A. Of course this concept has never been lost in the Orient. In the West, however, it would appear to have been commonly accepted until the 6th century AD. Many of the early Christian teachers and theologians, Origen (185-253 AD) in particular, laid great emphasis on this basic law of rebirth. As readers of Share International will know (see the special issue on Reincarnation, Vol 4 Nos 1/2 January/February 1985, p26) it was the Emperor Justinius who forced the Church Fathers at the 5th Ecumenical Council in 553 AD to proclaim this teaching anathema. This ban has, unfortunately, become part of the established church teachings.
