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Maitreya (Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism II)

Richard Bowring; Richard McBride II; Miyaji Akira; Jonathan Silk

This encyclopedia article surveys Maitreya traditions, including differing accounts of transmission from the present Buddha and the relationship between Ajita and Maitreya.

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Maitreya Symbol in the New Religious Movements of East Asia: A Comparative Study of Long Hoa Di Lac in Vietnam and Daesoon Jinrihoe in Korea

Dinh Hong Hai

Compares Dragon Flower expectations and modern Maitreya identifications across Vietnamese and Korean movements.

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Maitreya's Mission, Volume 1

Benjamin Creme

Explains why the advertised 1982 announcement did not occur: Creme retrospectively characterizes the announcement as a conditional plan dependent on media response. Includes a dispute over reading Bailey as postponing the return until 2025.

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The Day of Declaration planned for May 1982 →

The disputed 2025 reading · commentary →

Creme’s explanation for the delay · commentary →

Maitreya's Mission, Volume 2

Benjamin Creme

Records challenges about changing conditions for the announcement and Creme's response that an invitation and humanity's preparation remain necessary. Documents reception of Bailey and continued expectation.

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Maitreya's Setting Out (Toh198)

Canonical Buddhist sutra;84000 translation team attribution pending

Ratnacchatra predicts that the monk Drdhamati will retain the name Maitreya through rebirths and become Buddha Maitreya; previous-life naming narrative distinct from DN26 future-world description.

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How Maitreya received his name →

Making Clear the Meaning of Establishing the Correct Teaching

Nichiren

Retrospective claim that rebellion and Mongol attack confirmed earlier warnings, used to argue confidence in further religious consequences.

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Malachi

Traditional attribution; historical authorship not established here

Malachi is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible. Its closing verses announce Elijah’s coming before the Day of the Lord and the reconciliation of parents and children.

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Elijah returns →

Malachi 3:1–6 →

Malbim’s Commentary on the Tanakh

Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Wisser (Malbim)

Malbim explains how redemption might have occurred under Hezekiah if deserved, while remaining future after that opportunity passed. His distinction between shoot and sprout supports the alternatives.

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Mankind’s Millennium Under God’s Kingdom—Why Literally So

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned article

Watchtower article of 15 April 1967 arguing for a literal thousand-year reign. It states that six thousand years of human existence end in the latter half of 1975.

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The Watchtower in 1967: six thousand years end in the latter half of 1975 · commentary →

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

Traditional narration attributed to Mārkaṇḍeya; composite Sanskrit work

The goddess promises recurring incarnations to overcome future oppressors, relieve deprivation and protect the world; the larger work also explains cyclic dissolution.

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The goddess promises to return →

Mashmia Yeshuah (Proclaiming Salvation)

Isaac Abravanel

Isaac Abravanel’s collection of biblical prophecies of the redemption, arranged by “heralds” from Balaam to the later prophets. In the herald of Isaiah he reads Isaiah 52:7 as the Saturn–Jupiter conjunctions and dates the salvation of the LORD to the conjunction of [5]282 (1521–22).

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Abravanel: the conjunction of [5]282 brings the salvation of the LORD · commentary →

Master's Talk to Abhyasis from the Americas

Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (Chariji); Shri Ram Chandra Mission

Envisions a future without violence or mass-destruction weapons through collective meditation and discipline. Records an aspirational renewal teaching; no fixed deadline or named future savior.

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Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion

E. G. Browne, compiler and translator; embedded correspondence by Miss A. H.

Preserves a critical student's 1898 account of Kheiralla's predicted 1917 millennium and war involving a Napoleon IV. Publication distinguishes correspondent testimony and Browne's corrections.

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Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry; concise abridgment editor unidentified on inspected page · Joseph Hill · William Tong

Applies the discourse to Jerusalem and final judgment, and interprets the gathering of the elect in relation to Christ’s return.

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Joseph Hill on God’s time · commentary →

Why the promised coming waits · commentary →

William Tong reads New Jerusalem as the perfected church · commentary →

Henry identifies the rebuilt house with Christ’s church · commentary →

Henry reads the shaking of nations as Christ’s coming · commentary →

Peace through conversion, fulfilled in heaven · commentary →

Matthew Poole's Commentary

Matthew Poole and continuators; passage author requires edition collation

Prefers final judgment while allowing the signs to apply also to Jerusalem; argues that a literal sense need not be excluded.

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Megillat ha-Megalleh (Scroll of the Revealer)

Abraham bar Ḥiyya; Adolf Poznański and Julius Guttmann, editors

Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s treatise on the redemption, combining biblical, rabbinic and astrological reckonings. Its second gate counts Daniel’s 1,290 and 1,335 days as years from the destruction and reaches the Hebrew years 5118 and 5163.

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Abraham bar Ḥiyya: Daniel’s days end in 5118 and 5163 · commentary →

Abraham bar Ḥiyya: Daniel’s days end in 5118 and 5163 · commentary →

Meher Baba’s Call

Meher Baba

Declares the time of divine manifestation has arrived and describes eventual recognition spreading from a few people to millions.

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Meister Heinrich Gresbeck’s Bericht von der Wiedertaufe in Münster

Heinrich Gresbeck; ed. C. A. Cornelius

Heinrich Gresbeck’s Low German eyewitness account of the Anabaptist kingdom and siege of Münster, 1534–1535, edited by C. A. Cornelius in 1853.

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Gresbeck: deliverance at Easter →

Menasseh ben Israel

Lawrence Rabone

Connects Menasseh's resurrection interpretation, dispersion and ingathering, Daniel 2 exegesis and English readmission activism using particular works and page locators.

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Menog-i Khrad (Spirit of Wisdom)

Anonymous Middle Persian sage/wisdom dialogue; E.W.West translator

Wisdom enables defeat of Ahriman and Soshyant's resurrection work; salvation is embedded in ethical cosmology.

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Wisdom and the renewal of the world →

West on wisdom and creation · commentary →

Does renewal occupy all nine thousand years? · commentary →

Related background: the guardians and the plant of resurrection · commentary →

West’s notes to the chapter on cosmic guardians · commentary →

Message to the Bahais of the World, 18 January 2019

Universal House of Justice

Revisits the League, United Nations and post-Cold-War opportunities as incomplete steps; affirms eventual unity while acknowledging reversals and possible catastrophe.

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Message to the Blackman in America

Elijah Muhammad

Applies Luke 21 cosmic signs to contemporary conditions and the Mother Plane, identifies Fard with messianic titles, and gives a24-month punishment warning while making destruction contingent on hearers receiving the message. Racialized and anti-Christian claims are the author's, not campaign findings.

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Messiah

CenSAMM

Separates anointed titles, future redeemers, and later cross-cultural analogies, including the Theosophical reinterpretation of Maitreya.

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Messiah

Joseph Jacobs; Moses Buttenwieser

Offers an early twentieth-century account of earthly and heavenly messianic concepts and a collective interpretation of Daniel 7.

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The ideal king in Isaiah · commentary →