I. Jesus Christ is the Only-Begotten Son of God and Our Lord and God

First, we are going to show, on the authority of God -- the true Author of  the Sacred Scripture -- and on the authority of His divine institution -- His Mystical Body, the infallible Holy Roman Catholic Church, which approved the Sacred Scripture -- that Jesus Christ is the Only-Begotten Son of God, and that He is Our Lord and God.

Matthew 16:15-17. "Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven."

Matthew 26:63-64. "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming in the clouds of heaven."

Luke 22:66-70. "And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and the chief priests and scribes came together. And they brought him into their council saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us. And he saith to them: If I shall tell you, you will not believe me. And if I shall also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me go. But hereafter the Son of man shall be sitting on the right hand of the power of God. Then said they all: Art thou then the Son of God? And he said: You say that I am."

Matthew 20:24-29. "Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said: Peace be to you. Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my hands. And bring hither the hand and put it into my side. And be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen and have believed."

Based on his teaching materials at his web site "www.maitreya.org" , he previously quoted Matthew 24: 4-5 with the name Jesus being changed to Esa.

This is Maitreya's quotation: "And in answer Esa said to them, 'Take care that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray."

The true quotation of Matthew 24: 4-5 is: "And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many."

His so-called disciple, in the latest revision of his web site, quotes Mark (13: 37) as "Thus Esa warned all future humanity through His followers: And what I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch!" Everything inside the double quotations is meant to be the quotation of verse 37 chapter 13 in the Gospel of St. Mark.

But the true quotation of Mark (13: 37) is "And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch." The sentence "Thus Esa warned all future humanity through His followers:" is added to the Gospel of St. Mark. Esa here, just as in the false quotation of the Gospel of St. Matthew, is used instead of Jesus.

One may ask, "what is the name Esa by which Maitreya calls Jesus?" In other words, who is Esa?

In order to answer this riddle, we need to review some basic philosophy and its Latin language. Let's quote Jacques Maritain, a well-known Catholic philosopher, a professor at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, appointed to chairs at Universities of Chicago, Columbia, and Princeton from 1948 to 1961. In his book An Introduction to Philosophy (first published 1930, reprinted by Christian Classics, Westminster MD 21157, 1991), we find:

 "We are compelled ... to admit a cause which moves without being moved, causes without being caused, cannot lack existence, contains in its purity the perfection of which things partake in greater or less degree, possesses an intellect which is the final ground of all natures and the first principle of all things. Such a cause we term God; it is pure act, deriving its existence from itself (a se). In other words, being itself is its nature or essence, it is subsistent Being itself: he who is." (Maritain, ibid., page 180)

"A thing is said to exist in itself (in se) when it does not exist as part of a whole previously existing, but itself constitutes the whole which exists. In this sense Peter exists in himself." (Maritain, ibid., page 163.)

"A thing is said to exist by itself or in virtue of itself (per se) when it is brought into existence in virtue of itself, or of its own nature (by the causes on which it depends, if it is a created nature). In this sense Peter exists per se." (Maritain, ibid., page 163.)

"That which exists a se or from itself, possessing in itself the entire explanation of its existence, is uncaused; God alone is from himself, a se. Created substances on the contrary (created subjects of action) are caused; they exist per se, in virtue of their essence; they do not exist a se. In their own nature they possess everything necessary to receive existence, but not to possess an existence not received from without. They are sufficient by themselves to exist, in the strictly qualified sense that they do not exist as something which belongs to something else, but, absolutely speaking, they are by no means a sufficient ground of their own existence." (Maritain, ibid., page 163)

"That which is a se cannot cease to exist; that which is per se without being a se can lose its existence." (Maritain, ibid., p. 164.)

Recall that many years ago in some recording cassette tapes sold by satan-worshipping musicians/singers there are some lyrics that if you play them back in reverse you will hear the words like "kill yourself", "commit suicide", "worship satan". The same principle applies here. The reverse of  a se is es a, or esa. The reverse of the Uncreated (God, a se) is the created, the esa.  Thus, it is quite clear that Maitreya craftily hides his blasphemy and denial of Jesus to be God under the name Esa.

By downgrading Jesus to be a mere man, Maitreya denies that Jesus is God and therefore the Only-Begotten Son of God, the Christ, the Messiah. Instead, on his web site, he claims himself to be the Only-Begotten Son of God, the Christ, the Messiah. In other words, he implicitly accuses Our Lord Jesus Christ to be a fraud, an impostor, the same name that King Herod Agrippa and other founders of the Masonry used to call Jesus.

III. Denial of Jesus Christ as the Only-Begotten Son of God and the Christ incurs anathema from the Catholic Church.

Council of Nicea I in 325 declared against the Arians who did not believe in the divine nature of Jesus Christ:
                                                        The Nicene Creed

We believe in one God the Father almighty, creator of all things visible and invisible. And in our one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, the only-begotten born of the Father, that is of the substance of the Father, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, born, not made, of one substance with the Father (which they call in Greek "homousion"), by whom all  things were made, which are in heaven and on earth, who for our salvation came down, and became incarnate and was made man, and suffered, and arose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven, and will come to judge the living and the dead. And in the Holy Spirit.

But those who say: "There was [a time] when he was not," and, "Before he was born, he was not," and "Because he was made from non-existing matter, he is either of another substance or essence," and those who call "God the Son of God changeable and mutable," these the Catholic Church anathematizes. (Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, 30th Edition, # 54, p. 26)
 

For I firmly believe that the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, is one omnipotent God, and in the Trinity the whole Godhead is co-essential and consubstantial, co-eternal aud co-omnipotent, all things, through whom all things, in whom all things [Rom. 11:36] which are in heaven or on earth, visible or invisible. Likewise I believe that each person in the Holy Trinity is the one true God, complete and perfect.

I believe also that the Son of God the Father, the Word of God, was born eternallly before all time from the Father, consubstantial, co-omnipotent, and co-equal to the Father through all things in divinity; born of the Holy Spirit from the ever virgin Mary in time, with a rational soul, having two nativities, the one from the Father, eternal, the other from the Mother, in time; having two wills and opcrations, true God and true man, individual in each nature and perfect, not having suffered a fusion and division, not adopted or phantastical, the one and onlv God, the Son of God in two natures, but in the singleness of one person, incapable of suffering and immortal in divinity; but in humanity for us and for our salvation suffered in the true passion of the body and was buried, and arose from the dead on the third day in the true resurrection of the body; because of which we must declare with the disciples that He ate from no need of food but only from will and power; on the fortieth day after His resurrection with the flesh in which He arose, and with His soul He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father, whence on the tenth day He sent the Holy Spirit, and thence, as He ascended, He will come to judge the living and the dead, and will render to each one according to his works.

I believe also that the Holy Spirit, complete and perfect and true God, proceeding from the Father and the Son, co-equal, co-essential, co-omnipotent and coeternal with the Father and the Son in all respects, has spoken through the prophets.

That this holy and individual Trinity is not three Gods, but in three persons and in one nature and or essence [is] one God omnipotent, external, invisible and incommutable, so I believe and confess, so that I may truly proclaim that the Father is not begotten, the Son is the only begotten one, and the Holy Spirit is neither begotten nor unbegotten, but proceeds from the Father and the Son.
I believe that the one true Church is holy, Catholic and apostolic, in which is given one baptism and the true remission of all sins. I also believe in a true resurrection of this body, which now I bear, and in eternal life.

I believe also that there is one author of the New and Old Testament of the law both of the Prophets and of the Apostles, namely the omnipotent God and Lord. (I believe) that God predestined only the good things, but that He foreknew the good and the evil. I believe and profess that the grace of God precedes and follows man, yet in such a manner that I do not deny free will to the rational creature. I also believe and declare that the soul is not a part of God but was created from nothing and was without baptism subject to original sin.

Furthermore, I declare anathema every heresy raising itself against the holy Catholic Church, and likewise him whosoever has honored or believes that any writings beyond those which the Catholic Church accepts ought to be held in authority or has venerated them. I accept entirely the four Councils and I venerate them as the four Gospels, because through four parts of the world the universal Church, upon these as on square stone, has been founded  . . . . Equally I accept and venerate the three remaining Councils. . . . Whatever the above mentioned seven holy and universal Councils believe and praise I also believe and praise, and whomever they declare anathema, I declare anathema.  (Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, 30th Edition, # 343-349, p. 141-142)

Let's quote the Sacred Scripture to see whether Maitreya can be called an Anti-Christ.

1 John 2:22-23. "Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also."

John 5:23. "That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him."

John 4:1-3. " Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world."

Note 1: Try the spirits... Viz., by examining whether their teaching be agreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the church. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the pastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Note 2: Every spirit which confesseth, etc... Not that the confession of this point of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient; but that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian doctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and maintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper token, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the false.

Note 3: That dissolveth Jesus... Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his divinity.

John 5:10-12. " He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not life."

Note: He that believeth not the Son, etc... By refusing to believe the testimonies given by the three divine persons, that Jesus was the Messias, and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is obtained and promised to all that comply with his doctrine. In him we have also this lively confidence, that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to his will, when we ask what is for our good, with perseverance, and in the manner we ought. And this we know, and have experience of, by having obtained the petitions that we have made.

The coming of the Anti-Christ has already been prophesied in the Gospel by Our Lord Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago:

John 5:43. "I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive."

Philippians 2:5-11. "For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father."
(Note: Emptied himself, exinanivit... made himself as of no account.)

2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4. "Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God."

(Note: A revolt... the general apostasy, falling away from the true faith, that occurs before the coming of the great Anti-Christ. The man of sin... Here must be meant some particular man, as is evident from the frequent repetition of the Greek article ò, the man of sin, the son of perdition, the adversary or opposer. It agrees to the wicked and great Antichrist, who will come before the second Coming of Jesus Christ)

John 11:25-26. "Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for ever."

John 8:12. "Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

John 12:46. "I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness."

John 14:6. "Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me."

John 17:3. "Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

Acts 4:12. "Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved."

Galatians 1:8-9. "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema."

But it is not enough to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved. To be saved, one has belong to the Holy Roman Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. Various Popes in the past has defined ex-cathedra the dogma "Outside the Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation" (extra Ecclesiam nullam esse salutem) and has condemned the error of indifferentism which says that all religions can save.

Pope Boniface VIII in the Bull "Unam Sanctam", November 18, 1302, declared ex-cathedra:

"We firmly believe and simply confess this (Church) outside which there is no salvation nor remission of sin." (Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, 30th Edition, # 468, p. 186)
(Note: the Bull is the most authoritative document of the Church which the Pope signs and seals with his ring [bulla].)

"Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff." (Denzinger, ibid. , 30th Edition, # 469, p. 187)

 "It (the Roman Catholic Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart "into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matthew 25:4I], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., 30th Edition, # 714, p. 230).

"This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., 30th Edition, # 1000, p. 304)

"14.  We now come to another and most fruitful cause of the evils which at present afflict the Church and which We so bitterly deplore; We mean indifferentism, or that fatal opinion everywhere diffused by the craft of the wicked, that men can by the profession of any faith obtain the eternal salvation of their souls, provided their life conforms to justice and probity. But in a question so clear and evident it will undoubtedly be easy for Us to pluck up from amid the people confided to your care so pernicious an error. The apostle warns us of it: "One God, one faith, one baptism." Let them tremble then who imagine that every creed leads by an easy path to the port of felicity; and reflect seriously on the testimony of our Savior Himself, that those are against Christ who are not with Christ, and that they miserably scatter by the fact that they gather not with Him, and that consequently they will perish eternally without any doubt, if they do not hold to the Catholic Faith, and preserve it entire and without alteration...."

"15.  From this poisoned source of indifferentism flow that false and absurd, or rather extravagant, maxim that liberty of conscience should be established and guaranteed to each man -- a most contagious error, to which leads that absolute and unbridled liberty of opinion which for the ruin of Church and State spreads over the world, and which some men, by unbridled impudence, fear not to represent as advantageous to the Church. "And what more certain death for souls," says Saint Augustine, "than the liberty of error!"  (Angelus Press, 2918 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MI 64109; pages 11-12.)

"And here, beloved Sons and Venerable Brothers, We should mention again and censure a very grave error in which some Catholics are unhappily engaged, who believe that men living in error, and separated from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain eternal life. Indeed, this is certainly quite contrary to Catholic teaching. It is known to Us and to you that they who labor in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion and who, zealously keeping the natural law and its precepts engraved in the hearts of all by God and being ready to obey God, live an honest and upright life, can, by the operating power of divine light and grace, attain eternal life, since God who clearly beholds, searches, and knows the minds, souls, thoughts, and habits of all men, because of His great goodness and mercy, will by no means suffer anyone to be punished with eternal torment who has not the guilt of deliberate sin. But, the Catholic dogma that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church is well-known; and also that those who are obstinate toward the authority and definitions of the same Church, and who persistently separate themselves from the unity of the Church, and from the Roman Pontiff, the successor of PETER, to whom "the guardianship of the vine has been entrusted by the Savior," cannot obtain eternal salvation." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1677, p. 424-425)

 1. "In the worship of any religion whatever, men can find the way to eternal salvation, and can attain eternal salvation." (I, 3, 17) (The numbers following each statement refer to the INDEX "of the Acts of PlUS lX, from which the Syllabus or Collection has been excerpted) (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1716, p. 437).
 2. "We must have at least good hope concerning the eternal salvation of all those who in no wise are in the true Church of Christ." (13) (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1717, p. 437).
3. "Protestantism is nothing else than a different form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church." (5) (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1718, p. 437)

Pope Pius IX defined the infallibility of the Pope as he chaired the First Vatican Council (session 4) on July 18, 1870:

 "And so We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Savior, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed. That the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1839, p. 457)

"But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of Ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 1840, p. 457)

"The mystery of salvation is revealed to us and is continued and accomplished in the Church . . . and from this genuine and single source, like ' humble, useful, precious, and chaste' water, it reaches the whole world . . .

"She must therefore he called upon, respected, and served; for no one can have God for his Father if he does not have the Church for his Mother. One cannot love Christ without loving the Church Christ loves. The Spirit of the Church is the Spirit of Christ, and to the extent to which one loves the Church of Christ does he possess the Holy Spirit . . .

"We have to be conscious of and absorb this fundamental and revealed truth, contained in the phrase hallowed by Tradition: There is no salvation outside the Church. From her alone flows surely and fully the life-giving force destined, in Christ and in His Spirit, to renew the whole of humanity, and therefore directing every human being to become a part of the Mystical Body of Christ." (Quoted from K.E. Gillette, Jesus Christ Catholic, Victory Publication, 1983, page 549)

 "We say that a distinction must be made, that sin is twofold: namely, original and actual: original, which is contracted without consent; and actual which is committed with consent. Original, therefore, which is committed without consent, is remitted without consent through the power of the sacrament; but actual, which is contracted with consent, is not mitigated in the slightest without consent. . . . The punishment of original sin is deprivation of the vision of God, but the punishment of actual sin is the torments of everlasting hell ..." (Denzinger, Op. Cit., # 410, p. 161)
(Note: the vision of God is also called the Vision of Beatitude, or the Beatific Vision.)

By changing the Name of Jesus (God and man, Son of God) in the Gospel of St. Matthew and St. Mark into Esa (only a creature), he changes the Sacred Scripture to point to him as the Messiah or the Christ.

Proverbs 30:5-6. "Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him. Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar."

(Note: Is fire tried... That is, most pure, like gold purified by fire.)

Deuteronomy 4:2. "You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you."

John 8:44. "You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof."

In any case, remember the Anti-Christ Maitreya, in the end, will be defeated by Jesus Christ and His army of Angels and Saints, and be cast alive into Hell.

Apocalypse 19:19-21. "And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image.  These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone. And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon the horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh."

Created July 16, 1996. First version of this article: Feast of the Holy Mother of God, January 1, 1998. First revision: 8:42 AM 2/10/98.