| Episode number | MB06 (Part 6 of 42) |
|---|---|
| Chapter title | Maitreya |
| Original air date | February 19, 1993 |
| Broadcast | Hour of the Time, WWCR shortwave |
| Primary text read on air | The New World Order by A. Ralph Epperson (1990), chapters 1 through 3 |
| Transcript length | About 5,727 words |
| Listen | Full series audio on archive.org |
Episode Summary
Episode 6 aired on February 19, 1993, the day after the Freemasonry broadcast, and continues reading from A. Ralph Epperson’s The New World Order. Where episode 5 catalogued uses of the phrase stretching from 1846 to 1989, this episode turns to a question Epperson’s text raises next: what would a new world religion look like, and who would lead it? Cooper’s answer, drawn almost entirely from Epperson, is organized around the figure of Lord Maitreya, a coming world teacher claimed by the New Age movement to be the fulfillment of every major religion’s messianic expectation.
The broadcast opens by contrasting Christianity and Judaism, which Cooper frames as the religious foundations of American constitutional rights, with the New Age religion, which he characterizes as a project to replace them. He reads Epperson’s catalogue of New Age hostility toward traditional Christianity, including a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche condemning the faith outright, lines from author David Spangler dismissing scripture, and a position statement from the 1911 Socialist Party of Great Britain declaring socialism the natural enemy of religion. Cooper interrupts frequently to insist that the New Age movement has its organizational source in Freemasonry, a connection he argues was established in the previous broadcast.
The bulk of the first half deals with what the series calls the population question. Epperson’s text, with Cooper’s commentary, presents a series of New Age writers and figures who, the series asserts, sanction or predict the physical elimination of those unwilling to accept the coming world religion. The reading draws from Lavedi Lafferty and Bud Hollowell, who wrote that people unsuited to the new age will move on to other worlds; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, quoted as saying there is no place for the unfit in the Age of Enlightenment; a pamphlet from Guardian Actions Publications that predicted new disease outbreaks would decimate third-world populations shortly before a new root race replaced them; Ruth Montgomery, who described a coming pole shift in which millions would pass into spirit; and John Randolph Price, whose spirit guide, Epperson reports, predicted that up to two and a half billion people might perish in the coming chaos. Cooper connects this figure to the stated aims of the Global 2000 report, which he claims set a goal of reducing world population by two billion by the year 2000.
Cooper also presents extended quotations attributed to Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, on the permissibility of murder in service of the order’s goals, and to Albert Pike on the sacrifice of individual life to collective interests. Adolf Hitler appears in Epperson’s narrative as a practitioner of exactly this philosophy, and the broadcast quotes his statement claiming the right to exterminate millions of those he judged inferior. George Orwell’s fictional Brotherhood initiation oath from 1984 is read at length as an illustrative example of the oath Cooper believes real secret society initiates take.
After the midpoint break the subject shifts to Maitreya himself. Epperson describes this figure as a charismatic political and religious leader anticipated by the New Age movement, claimed to have arrived in East London from the Himalayan mountains in July 1977, and said to be the one expected simultaneously by Christians as the Christ, Jews as the Messiah, Buddhists as the Fifth Buddha, Hindus as Krishna, and Muslims as the Imam Mahdi. Cooper notes that no actual person fitting this description has been found in London. He then reads Epperson’s account of Jeane Dixon’s vision of February 5, 1962, in which she saw a pharaoh and Queen Nefertiti emerge from a brilliant sun and present a baby to the world. Cooper interprets the sun as Osiris, the queen as Isis, and the child as Horus, and connects the planetary conjunction occurring at that date, noted by the New York Times across three consecutive articles, to the supposed birth of Maitreya.
The episode closes with Cooper confirming that both night five and night six drew verbatim from chapters one through three of Epperson’s book, encouraging listeners to purchase it, and issuing a personal appeal for unity across racial and religious lines before wishing listeners good night. The material introduced here, particularly the figure of Maitreya and the one-world religion thesis, carries forward directly into episode 7 on ecumenism.
Key Claims Made in This Episode
Documented from the broadcast. The site records these claims; it does not endorse them. Dated claims also appear in the series timeline.
- Cooper claims the New Age movement is not a genuine new religion but a project rooted in Freemasonry and the ancient Mystery Religion of Babylon, designed to replace Christianity.
- Cooper claims New Age writers including Ruth Montgomery and John Randolph Price predicted the physical death of hundreds of millions or billions of people who would not accept the coming new religion, with Price’s spirit guide citing a figure of up to two and a half billion deaths.
- Cooper claims the stated goal of the Global 2000 report was to reduce world population by two billion people by the year 2000.
- Cooper claims Adam Weishaupt, writing in 1778, explicitly authorized murder as a tool of the Illuminati and required willingness to kill as a condition of membership.
- Cooper claims Lord Maitreya, described as the coming world teacher of the New Age, arrived in the Asian community of East London in July 1977, descending from a Himalayan retreat on the India-Tibet border.
- Cooper claims Maitreya is the single individual awaited by Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims under different names, and that his public emergence would produce a single global religion.
- Cooper claims Jeane Dixon’s vision of February 5, 1962, depicting a sun deity presenting a baby born of an Egyptian pharaoh and Nefertiti, was a deliberate preparation by New Age insiders to give Maitreya’s birth the appearance of a fulfilled prophecy.
- Cooper claims the planetary conjunction of February 5, 1962, reported in three consecutive New York Times articles, coincided with the supposed birth of Maitreya.
- Cooper claims Alice Bailey’s channeled entity, Djwhal Khul, declared in 1982 through Benjamin Creme that the plan includes the installation of a new world government and new world religion under Maitreya.
- Cooper claims Hitler viewed himself as an agent of an unseen god and that evidence of his adherence to the New Age religion would be presented later in the series.
Primary Sources Cited in This Episode
| Source | Status | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| A. Ralph Epperson, The New World Order (1990) | Not public domain; read verbatim on air, treated here under quotation only | In print; see the sources and bibliography hub |
| Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma (1871) | Public domain | Scans on archive.org |
| George Orwell, 1984 (1949) | Not public domain; brief passage quoted within Epperson’s text | In print; sources hub |
| Ruth Montgomery, The Gift of Prophecy and other works (various) | Not public domain; quoted only | Quoted within Epperson’s text |
| New York Times articles on the February 1962 planetary conjunction (February 4-6, 1962) | Public domain | Search archive.org newspaper collections |
| Texe Marrs, Alice Bailey, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Benjamin Creme (20th century works) | Not public domain; quoted only | Quoted within Epperson’s text; details on the sources hub |
From the Broadcast
“The New World Order, ladies and gentlemen, will sail in on a sea of blood.”
Cooper, MB06, February 19, 1993, before the midpoint break
“However, when we search London with a fine toothed comb, we can find no trace of any living individual named Maitreya, or fitting this description, or recognized as this religious leader. Isn’t that strange?”
Cooper, MB06, February 19, 1993, on the New Age claim that Maitreya arrived in London in 1977
Historians’ View
The figure of Maitreya as a coming world teacher has roots in Buddhist tradition and was adopted by Theosophical writers including Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey as part of a syncretic framework, but no credentialed historian of religion treats the identification of Maitreya with the messianic expectations of all major world religions as anything other than a fringe claim. Benjamin Creme’s April 1982 newspaper advertisements announcing Maitreya’s presence in London were widely reported at the time but no individual was ever publicly identified. The population-reduction statements Cooper reads are real excerpts from the works of New Age writers and fringe publications, but scholars of new religious movements note that metaphorical, spiritual, and literal language are frequently conflated in such texts; most mainstream researchers do not read them as literal calls for mass murder. Cooper’s figure for the Global 2000 report’s population goals misrepresents the document, which assessed trends rather than prescribing targets. We record all claims as broadcast; we do not endorse them.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Mystery Babylon episode 6 about?
Episode 6 continues reading A. Ralph Epperson’s The New World Order, focusing on the New Age religion’s anticipated world leader, Lord Maitreya, and what the series presents as New Age endorsements of population reduction for those who refuse the coming religion. For related material on Luciferian doctrine in the series, see the Luciferian Doctrine and New Age hub.
When did Mystery Babylon episode 6 air?
It aired Friday, February 19, 1993, on The Hour of the Time over shortwave station WWCR, the day after the New World Order and Freemasonry broadcast.
Who is Lord Maitreya in Cooper’s series?
Cooper presents Maitreya as the New Age movement’s anticipated world teacher and one-world religion leader, drawing on Epperson’s text, which in turn draws on Benjamin Creme’s 1982 newspaper campaign and Alice Bailey’s Theosophical writings. Cooper found no person in London matching the description and suggested the entire presentation was a staged preparation for a coming false messiah.
Where can I listen to Mystery Babylon episode 6?
The complete series is preserved at the archive.org Mystery Babylon collection. The site never hosts or distributes the audio; see our content policy.
Continue the Series
- Previous episode: MB05: The New World Order and Freemasonry
- Next episode: MB07: Ecumenism
- All 42 episodes: Mystery Babylon complete episode guide
- Topic hub: Luciferian Doctrine and New Age in the series
- Related hub: Secret Societies
- Every dated claim in the series: Mystery Babylon timeline
- Books Cooper cited: sources and bibliography
