Tag: Sampson A. Mackey

  • The Truth about the Future Maitreya Buddha in Theosophical Writings

    The Truth about the Future Maitreya Buddha in Theosophical Writings

    H.P. Blavatsky was a Theosophist and Buddhist, and held to the traditional and Theravada Position regarding Maitreya, which is in conflict with contemporary beliefs originating from later Neo-Theosophical influences of a Christo-Buddhist Theosophical innovation, and reinterpretation of Christology as held by Annie Besant. H.P.B. did not advocate or emphasize any millenarian element, or messianism in Theosophy,…