Creme attributes major world events to Maitreya's behind-the-scenes influence, including the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the fall of apartheid in South Africa. He addresses the Antichrist question directly, arguing it refers to a destructive energy force rather than an individual, and that it already manifested through Hitler and the Axis powers. He predicts Maitreya will appear on a major American television network following a global stock market crash originating in Japan.
Callers react with opinions ranging from enthusiastic support to deep suspicion. Art questions why a being of such power would need electronic media or newspaper advertisements, noting that a 1982 prediction of Maitreya's public declaration never materialized. A caller claiming to be the Antichrist himself predicts world awareness before 1999.
Key Moments
First contact and the overshadowing by Maitreya: Creme recounts the 1959 Blackfriars Bridge meeting, three months of telepathic dictation into a Grundig tape recorder, and a March 1959 overshadowing in which Maitreya filled him with universal love and showed him a sphere holding all past and all future events simultaneously - kings, battles, cheering crowds calling for Maitreya - describing how the Masters perceive reality.
The Antichrist as energy, not a man: Creme rejects the Catholic conception of the Antichrist as the devil incarnate, defining it instead as a destructive will-aspect energy released to break down the old order - embodied in Nero in John's day and in Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese militarists in WWII - which has now done its destructive work and will be chained for the age of Aquarius until the true Armageddon roughly 3,500 years from now.
Technology of light and the end of oil: When Bell presses Creme on dwindling oil and how the world can possibly share resources, Creme answers that oil is irrelevant because Maitreya brings a 'technology of light' drawing unlimited energy directly from the sun - but it can only be released safely once humanity accepts sharing, justice and peace, otherwise it would be the most dangerous technology imaginable.
Maitreya in a self-created body in London: Creme states plainly that Maitreya is not an infant or a reincarnation but appeared in adult form in London in July 1977 in a self-created Mayavi Rupa 'body of illusion' that he can change at will - old or young, fair or dark, man, woman or child - and that Creme has personally encountered him in London disguised as a refugee woman with a child begging on a train.