The Gathering of the Forces of Light: UFOs and their Spiritual Mission

by Benjamin Creme

This is a book about UFOs, but with a difference . It is written by someone who has worked with them and knows about them from the inside. Benjamin Creme sees the presence of UFOs as planned and of immense value for the people of Earth. According to Creme, the UFOs and the people in them are engaged in a spiritual mission to ease humanity's lot and to save this planet from further and faster destruction. Our own planetary Hierarchy, led by Maitreya, the World Teacher, now living among us, works tirelessly with our Space Brothers and Sisters in a fraternal enterprise to restore sanity to this Earth. Creme shows how all the planets in our solar system are inhabited, but on physical levels beyond human sight, the so-called etheric planes. The spacecraft are constructed on the same principle; they too are in etheric matter and have complete control of energies in space. Our Space Brothers are responsible not only for crop circles, but also for preparing the way on Earth for a new technology of light which will give us unlimited power from the sun. When we banish war for ever and are endeavoring to live in right relationship, that technology will be ours. For the Spiritual Hierarchy of both our own and the sister planets of our system, right human relationship involves the end of competition and the beginning of an era of co-operation with -- sharing, justice and freedom as its hallmarks. The book also addresses the emergence of new and more inclusive forms of education, which will be needed as we experience a huge shift in consciousness and a growing awareness of the richness of life ahead, unfettered by the stranglehold of commercialism and the dominance of market forces. According to the author, the truth will soon be apparent for all to see, awakening humanity to their own divinity and the establishment of the rule of spiritual law on Earth.

240 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published July 1, 2010

Reviews

[Nate D]

Wherein Scottish esotericist Benjamin Creme details the benign actions of the Space Brothers, primarily from Mars and Venus and in spaceships existing on higher levels of energy than we can observe directly, as they clean up carelessly spilled anthropogenic nuclear radiation, and attempt to nudge Earthly civilization along to higher development so we won't hold back the rest of Solar System. Perhaps it's just a side-effect of some recurrence of the number 7 in esoteric thought, but the stages of planetary development, with Earth currently in the pivotal, troubled 4th stage, mirror bits I've come across in your more gnostic forms of science fiction, like R.A. Lafferty's Fourth Mansions. I believe he got it from Teresa of Avíla's stages of the soul, and extrapolated it into a model of the progression of civilization towards some unknowable transcendence beyond the 7th phase, but it can be tough to tell with Lafferty what's a literary game and what's genuinely felt. For Creme, it would all seem to be sincere and real, as he devoted 40 years of his life to this, believing we're on the cusp of the epochal unveiling of interplanetary beings among us that failed to come about before his death in 2016. He covers all of that here, along with color photos of crop circles and general thoughts on the state of society (environmental protection is good, non-traditional family structures are bad...um okay). Because a lot of this is pieced together from bits of his "magazine", Share International, and various reader questions, it gets redundant pretty quick. Because Share readers had a lot of very specific questions ("was x historic event the work of the Space Brothers?"), Creme often has amusingly assured and specific answers ("yes").

This is the sort of book you come across in an abandoned bookshelf on the street at 3am, which is exactly where I found it. I would have been unlikely to seek it out otherwise, but what an odd encounter.

[Joren Jacobs · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Dutch edition is titled "De bundeling van de krachten van licht". I assume the contents are identical so I will take the liberty of writing a review in English even though I read the Dutch one. First of all, in a technical sense, this is an awful book. It is divided into two parts, where the second part is supposed to be about education. In actuality, there is no clear boundary line. From the first part, the book just continues introducing and repeating information on our cosmic brothers, their spaceships and their mission on earth. Adding to the confusion, the text is structured around questions, dated according to month and year, suggesting a community of subscribers who have in some way and at some point sent in questions. The questions have been randomly selected, so it appears. Despite these criticisms, I do feel there is something profound in these writings. Many teachings, supposedly written down by the author on behalf of his teacher Matreya, are of profound seriousness and intent. However, there are also (scientific) dead ends. All in all, I do not know what to make of this book. To be sure, it preaches to its own congregation but, in my opinion, fails to be interesting to outsiders.