What are the ideas of the Vatican with regard to Maitreya living in London?
A. I know that at least one of my books – the first book: The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom – was physically put into the hands of the Pope years ago. The Pope thumbed through it, and I understand that he read it later and does not believe a word of it. The Pope himself recently published a book in which he says that those who talk about the presence now in the world of a new Buddha should know that he is not ‘our Christ’. However, the Master Jesus has been living in Rome for the last seven years, and there are two members of the Curia (the group around the Pope) who are direct disciples of the Master Jesus. For years they have been trying subtly to reorient the Pope to the idea of the presence of the Master Jesus in Rome and of Maitreya in London, without, I think, any success. The Pope is probably too old and too rigid in his understanding of scripture to change. However, it will not have escaped your notice that over the years the Pope, in the economic field,
