Theosophical writers beginning with Charles W. Leadbeater have claimed that Maitreya was Krishna. I myself asked Maitreya about this and he confirmed the truth of this statement.
The following is a short list of a few of Maitreya's most important incarnations since the time of Krishna: Zarathustra, Simon of Alexandria, Muhammad, and Guru Nanak. After his lifetime as Nanak he became an Ascended Master.
The name Simon of Alexandria needs an explanation. He was the highest initiate of an esoteric school in Alexandria in 8 BCE. He was the intended husband of Mary but because of interference by evil forces she was born in a village in Galilee in complete obscurity. When Simon discovered her location he journeyed to Nazareth. Mary became pregnant with her first child in a premarital love affair with Simon, who taught her the esoteric truths or mysteries that he knew as an initiate. She wanted to go with Simon to Alexandria to marry him, but he knew that he would be killed on the return journey and advised her to return to Joseph, to whom she was betrothed. Mary taught the mysteries to her son. He journeyed to India after his bar mitzvah and met Maitreya on the “inner plane”. Maitreya became his teacher and inspired him but did not overshadow him as Charles Leadbeater and Benjamin Creme claimed. The words of Jesus in the gospels are authentically his own and he was not a medium or channel. In this regard Elizabeth Clare Prophet was correct.
It is interesting but also tragic that Muslims have persecuted Zoroastrians and Sikhs when the teacher of the three religions involved was the same man in different lifetimes.
Below: In this photograph of his appearance in Nairobi Maitreya resembles the Prophet Muhammad almost exactly.
