42. MAITREYA Maithreya is a Muni according to Bhagavatha Version (See Purva Gatha Lahari (ML 355) But in Secret Doctrine Vol. I page 384 Madam Blavatsky wrote like this "Mithreya is the secret name of Fifth Buddha". In the same book Vol. I page 70 it is mentioned as "He will appear as Maithreya Budhha, the last of the Avatharas and Buddhas, in the Seventh race". MTA might have mentioned this reference in his lecture. In those far off times you vill say, that Lord Gouthama who ruled the world of religion and education, but now he has yielded, that high office to the Lord Maithreya, whom western people call other vise. ML 317