Her teachings influenced beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, philosopher Alan Watts, and Theosophist Benjamin Creme.

* Maitreya ( Benjamin Creme )

Some scholars believe that he is Sanat Kumara of theosophists such as Benjamin Creme and Madame Blavatsky ; others believe that Sanat Kumara is a separate being.

Leadbeater, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, each of whom went into huge detail in constructing baroque cycles of rounds, races, and sub-races.

Benjamin Creme ( born 5 December 1922 Glasgow, Scotland ) is a Scottish artist, author, esotericist, and editor of Share International magazine, a monthly non-profit magazine and website.

At the age of fourteen, Benjamin Creme says he became interested in the occult when he read With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel.

Sometimes when Benjamin Creme is lecturing, he says he allows Maitreya to briefly overshadow him, and when this happens, some of Creme's followers report seeing Creme surrounded by a golden aura.

It is believed by the followers of Creme that Maitreya has vast superhuman powers and also that he is in regular telepathic contact with the space brothers in their flying saucers ; it has been asserted by Benjamin Crème that Maitreya is physically invulnerable and is capable of teleporting anywhere in the solar system.

On 14 May 1982 Benjamin Creme held a press conference in Los Angeles, USA.

On 14 January 2010 Benjamin Creme announced that Maitreya had given his first television interview on US television.

After newspaper articles around the world wrote about this story, Benjamin Creme responded that Raj Patel was not the coming World Teacher in an article in The Guardian newspaper called " Raj Patel is not Maitreya, but the World Teacher is here — and needed.

A worldwide network of volunteers works with Benjamin Creme to give his views out to the public.

Skeptics have ridiculed the story presented by Benjamin Creme, or have taken issue with the possibility that his predictions might have come true.

Some Christian Evangelical sources and other detractors have accused Benjamin Creme of being part of a satanic conspiracy and place him amongst a larger list of “ antichrist potentials ”.

The New Age group Share International, founded by Benjamin Creme, practices a form of meditation called Transmission Meditation in which they meditate under an open metal-poled tetrahedron ; they believe that by doing so, they are tuning in to cosmic energy radiating from a cosmic entity known as Maitreya.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i. e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers, Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " at the ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

In the later version of the story promulgated by Guy Ballard, notable " Lords of the Flame " include Gautama Buddha, and the World Teacher ( the being referred to alternately as Maitreya or Christ by Benjamin Creme ).

According to Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme there are sixty Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, defined as beings who have reached the Fifth Level of Initiation or above, with Djwhal Khul in a pivotal role as the master who telepathically dictated the many esoteric teachings in Baileys ' books.

This was the real / authentic bodhisattva Maitreya, not the imposter / false Maitreya ( whose real name is Rahmat Ahmad, or Rahmat Ahmad Apostikane, of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ) currently being endorsed / promoted by Benjamin Creme.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy ( specifically, the writings of Charles W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers ), Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " of the Ninth Initiation ( the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth ) who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Her follower Benjamin Creme has stated that through Hitler ( and a group of equally evil men around him in Nazi Germany, together with a group of militarists in Japan and a further group around Mussolini in Italy ) was released the energies of the Antichrist, which, according to theosophical teachings is not an individual person but forces of destruction.

* Share International, a religious movement founded by British painter Benjamin Creme

* New Age Theosophical guru Benjamin Creme subscribes to the Theosophical view that the Nordic aliens ( like those seen by George Adamski — Creme accepts Adamski's UFO sightings as valid ) pilot flying saucers from a civilization on Venus that exists on the etheric plane ( Theosophists believe that since the Venusians ' civilization is on the etheric plane, the heat doesn't affect them ) and are capable of stepping down the level of vibration of themselves and their craft to the slower level of vibration of the atoms of the physical plane.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Theologian Benjamin Wiker argues that Aristotle had ideas similar to those of some modern conservatives.

Three of the board members include a founding father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin and an expert in pain control Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

Instructional theory is heavily influenced by the 1956 work of Benjamin Bloom, a University of Chicago professor, and the results of his Taxonomy of Education Objectives — one of the first modern codifications of the learning process.

Benjamin Franklin in his 1729 essay entitled " A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency " is sometimes credited ( including by Karl Marx ) with originating the concept in its modern form.

He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the work of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society.

* A city of Benjamin (); probably identical with Ephron () and Ephraim (), the modern Palestinian city of Taybeh.

Benjamin Woodbridge was ordained in Amity, and it is after him that the modern town was named.

* Benjamin F. Tracy, father of the modern Navy.

* Benjamin Bolger, who received his first 4 year degree from the University of Michigan, claims to be the second most credentialed student in modern history, with ten master's degrees and a doctorate.

" Benjamin DeCasseres, a columnist for the New York Journal-American, wrote of Roark as " an uncompromising individualist " and " one of the most inspiring characters in modern American literature.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe ( November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996 ), usually referred to as Nnamdi Azikiwe and popularly known as " Zik ", was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism who became the first President of Nigeria after Nigeria secured its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960 ; holding the presidency throughout the Nigerian First Republic.

Eliezer Ben Yehuda is credited by many as being almost single-handedly responsible for the Zionist movement's revitalization of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, although in his book " Language in Time of Revolution " the Israeli linguist and literature researcher Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role and attributes the success of the revival to a wider movement in the Jewish society.

One faction, led by the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, survived to become the modern Conservative Party, whose members are sometimes still referred to as Tories.

When in 1806 the government built a fort at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, to protect expanding settlements just east of modern Macon, Georgia, the government named it Fort Benjamin Hawkins in his honor.

Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, though written for the modern horn, makes notable use of the F harmonic series.

The Grand River Road, precursor to the modern Grand River Avenue was named by Benjamin Williams, cofounder of Owosso ; it was named for La Grande Riviere, the French name for the river.

The edition of the King James Bible found in modern printings is not that of the 1611 edition, but rather an edition extensively modernised in 1769 ( to the standards of the mid-18th Century ) by Benjamin Blayney for the Oxford University Press.

The Grand River Road, precursor to the modern Grand River Avenue was named by Benjamin Williams, cofounder of Owosso ; it was named for La Grande Riviere, the French name for the river.

Elizabeth Grymeston, in a book published for her son ( 1604 ), described how she sang stanzas from Saint Peter's Complaint as part of her daily prayer. The best known modern setting of Southwell's words is Benjamin Britten's use of stanzas from " New Heaven, New War ," and " New Prince, New Pomp " two of the pieces in his Ceremony of Carols ( 1942 ).

" Other artists, such as Nisha Benjamin, followed in his footsteps by adding new modern instrumentation into their music.

The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ) by Benjamin West, The Death of Captain James Cook ( 1779 ) by Johann Zoffany, The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 and The Death of Major Pierson ( 1784 ) by John Singleton Copley are leading examples of the new type, which ignored complaints about the unsuitability of modern dress for heroic subjects.

A modern reincarnation of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii that was then led by Congressman Robert William Wilcox, the Aloha Aina Party of Hawaii was resurrected as a result of native Hawaiians ' discontent with the Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano's decision to support the Hawaii State Legislature replacement of Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees as a result of a 2000 United States Supreme Court decision, Rice v. Cayetano.

During the 1940s, Costello allowed Luciano associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel to expand the family business in Southern California and build the first modern casino resort in Las Vegas.