A. They first appeared in El Monte, California, a part of Los Angeles, in May 1988. In April of that year, my Master said that very soon Maitreya would create so many crosses of light around the world that people would not be able to ignore them. No one would know where they come from, or how they came about. There are now 20 or 30 such crosses in the El Monte area. They have also appeared in various parts of the world. I received a letter recently from a woman in New Jersey who had a cross appear miraculously in her apartment window. The crosses appear suddenly; they were not there previously. They are ëactivated' by Maitreya, and have a great effect on the people around them. They draw thousands of people to see them and some people have extraordinary healing and spiritual experiences. The whole society in El Monte has been transformed, both individually and as a community, since the first appearance of a cross of light in the bathroom window of a Hispanic family there. The family in whose window the first cross appeared took the glass to their local church, because there were so many people coming to see the cross. But the cross promptly disappeared and nothing they tried could bring the cross back. Reluctantly, they took the glass to be put back in the house. The cross immediately reappeared on the glass.

[Editor's note: In November 1995, 40-foot high crosses appeared in the windows of a Baptist church near Knoxville, Tennessee. Many healings have been attributed to these crosses. See Share International, July/August 1996]

Q: It is interesting that the crosses appeared in a low-income community in southern California. Is there any significance to that?