Recent events in the Middle East have brought humanity face to face with a number of problems. The Western powers have become embroiled, largely against their will, in a Libyan civil war which they did not recognize as such. Their main concern was to safeguard an uninterrupted flow of oil, close at hand, in Libya. They also wanted to help the people of Benghazi facing slaughter by the forces of an ageing, quixotic tyrant, who had watched aghast at the apparently successful overthrow by its people of a powerful neighbouring tyranny.
Little did the Western powers know that the peaceful protests of the Egyptian people had escalated in Libya into armed revolution without the planning, leadership or arms to ensure success.

The United Nations agreed a mandate for a no-fly-zone but should have followed it up with a UN peacekeeping force, hopefully drawn from the Arab countries. Failure to do so has precipitated the present difficult situation for all concerned.

Energies
Under the impact of the powerful energies now focused by Maitreya and His group, the people of the Middle East are undergoing a great awakening, and are demanding new freedoms and participation in the management of their lives. Nor are these demands confined to the Middle East. More and more, these same demands for participation and justice are being heard throughout the world. The young in particular are sensing the need for a new kind of world, one which allows them to develop and express themselves, free from the old dogmas of their elders. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a renaissance of the young people of the Earth, freeing themselves from the tyranny of hatred and war, bigotry and separation. Nothing can for long halt their progress. This is the New Time and the young are testing themselves in the struggle for new life.

The old order is deeply entrenched and hard to overcome. The old tyrants in every field of life are loath to forgo their power and wealth, and fight hard against the tide of change, but they fight against the energies and will of Divinity Itself, and must give way in due course. A greater power than that of all the powerful on this Earth demands expression and nothing can prevent its manifestation. It is the way of the future, planned from the beginning of the world.

Nothing can halt its progress and the young are its harbingers. Listen keenly to the young, they have the future safely in their hearts. Not for nothing was it the young of Tahrir Square who sat at Maitreya’s feet as He taught them the ways of the future, the ways of the New Time, the Time of Peace, Justice and Sharing, of Freedom and Love.

[This article from Share International magazine, May 2011 , is by a senior member of the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom. His name, well-known in esoteric circles, is not yet being revealed. Benjamin Creme, a principal spokesman about the emergence of Maitreya, is in constant telepathic contact with