Course XXIV - Teaching 16: Maitreya

About years 1972-1977, the new Divine Incarnation of fourth category is expected on Earth.
Spiritual students, by their desire for knowing something about his life, mission and future, got carried away by enthusiasm and have written about Him, sung to his power, beautify his work and gave brilliance to every outline of his divine existence.
But his future remains hidden in the mystery of the time to come.
It is likely that the reality is very different and beyond imagination, and that He is a humble man unnoticed by his apparent insignificance among the multitude; since surely he has to be the heir of him who said: “My delight is to live among the sons and daughters of men”.
It is important to know beforehand, in a rough view, how he will reach Humanity, the mission he should develop among men and what new sense of life he will give to these men.
Obviously, Humanity has already gone out of obscurantism, men know how to read, have social aims and determine their lives, in certain way. When they are alone, they think otherwise and feel in their own personal way, though Humanity still follows a collective mass instinct.
Here is the agony of the present time: to glimpse and not to see, to want and to be unable to reach, to go out of veils of ignorance and to feel over himself the weight of misunderstanding; and this is a martyrdom which is more inner than outer. Great external ruins are really a result of this inner fight. A man of before could live relatively tranquil because he did know nothing and was managed: on the contrary, for a present man that knows just a little this knowledge becomes his greater enemy and torment.
Maitreya comes to Humanity to provide the solution to this vital problem for the race. How difficult is his mission.
To be happy, should a man live identified with the collective or be closed within, as if nobody existed outside him?
Shall be the mission of the great Being to knead his flesh and spirit and made this way new bread to satisfy man?
Shall he gather so much of flesh, so much of mind, so much of spirit to give by means of this harmony a solution to great present problems?
Shall he teach the need of annihilating completely the will or of revealing himself to everybody and everything by following only his personal impulse in order to be happy?
Men of good will, faithful disciples, Initiates of Fire: in silence, humbly on your knees and with clean hearts and calm minds, expect his teaching, his answer and his admirable word.