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WHERE IS THIS BLESSED LAND?

 

There exists, there lives, an ancient land, a remnant of paradise on this earth. There everything sings — the sky, the forests, the mountains and the people. They have been singing ever since the time of Orpheus, because it was in the wooded Rhodope mountains that Orpheus’ pipe could be heard and his school was founded. A river has its source in the highest mountain range of all — Rila. There to this day live invisible beings that keep the sacred White Brotherhood alive. In the same mountains there is a 3000m peak named Mount Moussalla — God’s Peak, which is surrounded by seven lakes. They are like a seven tone scale, their sparkling waters singing. They tell us that on their shores, a Universal Teacher spoke of Love, that he spoke unheard-of Words, that all people with alert minds, those in difficulty, the unfortunate, all came to him. He healed them with his words. They were not only gentle words about Love. They were laws which allowed no lies or limitations. He was saying something unheard of: if you tell somebody that you love him and thus limit him, you have lost all love. When you say, “I”, you must comprehend God within yourself.

 

“You must study the music of the soft tones.”

 

Thus, those who listened to him and became his disciples became little, everyday, shining miracles. They changed their old ideas, their old morals, their bodies and their minds as well. A new wave was at work, harbingers of the shining new race that will soon come to the earth. The Teacher referred to its representatives as Sons of the Resurrection.

 

This Word was given in this Land, and we bear it with us everywhere like a lighted candlestick because the privilege is open to everybody. Where is this blessed Land? Look at the map of Europe, look to the south, before one reaches the shores of Asia Minor. There is a long mountain chain stretching as far as the Black Sea, which is referred to as the Balkan range. The name given to it by its ancient inhabitants was “Hernus”. The peninsula across which this mountain chain runs is called the Balkan Peninsula and this Land is the heart of the Balkan peninsula. Its name is Bulgaria!

 

In 1981 the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe was celebrated. Long before that, however, in the 5th and 6th centuries, the Bulgarians had a powerful state which stretched between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Kuban and Dnieper rivers. This state had gained international recognition and was referred to as “Velika Bulgariya” — Great Bulgaria.

 

When they crossed the Danube, which forms the northern border of present-day Bulgaria, the Proto-Bulgars brought with them their ancient culture and civilisation. Here in the Balkans they also encountered the ancient culture of the Thracians. Nowhere in the world have so many gold treasure troves been found as those left behind by the Thracians in the lands of present-day Bulgaria. The Proto-Bulgars, too, had golden treasures that were truly magnificent and beautiful, for example, the gold treasure of Nagy Sent Milos in the Vienna museum.

 

The Proto-Bulgars mingled with the Slavs who already occupied these lands, and a large, unified Slav state was formed which was named Bulgaria. The Proto-Bulgars made a special contribution to the formation of an original early Mediaeval culture which was one of the most interesting phenomena in European history at that period.

 

The most significant cultural role played by Bulgaria, however, a role which found echoes in the whole of human civilisation, was its gift to Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries of a literature written in the living vernacular of that time. The Bulgarians undertook a historic mission with the work of Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Cyrillic alphabet, whose works were written in the old Bulgarian language spoken in the Salonika area at that time. Salonika was the birthplace of the two brothers, whose mother was Bulgarian. Their students, Kliment, Naoum and Anghelarii, also Bulgarians, brought the literature which had been whose mother was Bulgarian. Their students, Kliment, Naoum and Anghelarii, also Bulgarians, brought the literature which had been translated to Bulgaria, and this magnificent achievement found echoes in all the Slavic lands. Its source and beginning was Bulgaria!

 

The Bulgarian combines the kind heart of the Slav with the developed mind of the Anglo-Saxon. There is nowhere in this land where the beautiful silhouette of mountain ranges cannot be seen. Proud, freedom-loving people live in those mountains. They are accustomed to grappling with the difficulties of life. The mountains elevate man, bring him into contact with eternal Truths. Human individuality and thought are born in the mountains. When he was once asked why he was born in Bulgaria the Teacher replied: “Because there are many mountains in “Bulgaria ...”

 

Bulgaria lies between three continents. It is the ancient crossroads between East and West. It has played a major historic role that could be likened to that of the head of the Slavonic body, as it were. The Teacher was born in a Slav country, but his was a mission that embraced the whole of mankind.

 

Bulgaria had to endure many sufferings, to tread a long, hard road in order to be prepared for its spiritual mission and create conditions for a universal teacher to be incarnated among its people. He chose Bulgaria to lay the foundations of the new culture, which will be directed by the cosmic forces — Love, Wisdom and Truth.

 

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