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Introduction to the first series of Talks by the Master Beinsa Duno "Power and Life"


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INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST SERIES OF
TALKS ON “POWER AND LIFE”

 

The author of these talks is a Bulgarian — the Master Petur Konstantinov Dunov, whose spiritual name is Beinsa Duno. He was born July 12, 1864, one thousand years after the Christianization of the Bulgarians and fourteen years before the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish captivity. Through five centuries of suffering the Bulgarian people was purified and became capable of giving its physical body to the Master. His father, a priest of high rank in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Konstantin Dunov, composed church songs and was a fighter for religious freedom. He was a teacher of the young and the old, as were all Bulgarian priests during the captivity. Instead of using Greek, which was then the language of the Orthodox Church, he preached in Bulgarian and consecrated young Bulgarian priests. And so Bulgaria, which had given classical literature to the Slavs, which had been the cradle of the work of Cyril and Methodius, which had been first in culture and science, and in literature in the vernacular language during the early and later Middle Ages, and which had disseminated the Sacred Word in the Old Bulgarian language to all the Slavic countries, gave birth to the Master Beinsa Duno.

 

The Master gave seven thousand talks in the course of half a century. He had finished his high school in Bulgaria and had taken his university education in America. After seven years he returned to Bulgaria and began his scientific investigations. He studied the Bulgarian people as a type, gave talks and formed small groups. In his letters, epistles to these first disciples, there are mystical discoveries. He introduced new concepts and gradually formed a new consciousness. That was before the beginning of this century. He wrote to one of his earliest disciples in 1908: “Have the courage of a heavenly dweller and of a citizen of God’s Kingdom”

 

The Master Beinsa Duno published his first original work. his doctoral dissertation, “Science and Education” in 1894.   His last Talk was entitled “The Legacy of Love”, given just months before his departure from the earth, actually in the days immediately preceding his death (December 27, 1944). At that time there were 144 circles of his disciples throughout Bulgaria, whereas he had begun with only three disciples. Then he said: “thousands will come ...” And they continue to come. From everywhere, from the whole world, from all continents.

 

Up till now 184 volumes have been published, and there remain ten times as many as yet unpublished. He gave talks three and then four times a week. Twice during the week, Wednesday and Friday, and on Sunday morning at 10. The first two were given to disciples of his general and special occult class, and on Sundays he spoke to a more restricted circle in the morning and again at ten, to a broad udience, open to everybody. He spoke everywhere — in the mountains, on trips and in conversations. His message was always the same: it had a supreme Source. During the summer his school was on the Rila Mountain, which has the highest peak in the Balkan Peninsula, the centre of which is Bulgaria. That peak is called Mussala, which means “close to God.”

 

A composer of songs and musical creations, which he called occult exercises, the Master himself was a great musician. Music is inseparable from the life of the society of The Universal White Brotherhood. It is a great method for working with the human soul. Besides music he created Paneurythmic, harmonious movements with music which was also composed by him. From now on Paneurythmic will be studied as a great method for the education of man and for his connection with the creative forces of nature and for the development of the higher cosmic consciousness in man. Paneurythmia are beginning to be practised in other countries. This elevating joyful state and evolutionary movement is an unforgettable experience.

 

The whole brotherly life, the school in the mountains near the seven Rila lakes, the trips to Mount Ida, first given that name by the Thracian settlers in those parts, and the trips to other Bulgarian mountains (Bulgaria is a country of mountains, streams and forests, like Switzerland), created in the disciples of the Master a new life. They are radiant, peaceful, full of peace, joy and love. This was how He was, with his great spirit, mission, and consciousness.

 

He began his Sunday talks in 1914.       That too was not coincidental. That was the beginning of a new cosmic cycle called the Age of Aquarius. The Master says about it: “The whole solar system is entering into a new province of the spirit. Up to now the earth was descending. Now it is beginning to rise.”

 

During that time one of the devoted disciples of the Master described his external appearance:

 

“A man of average height, about fifty with faintly grey hair, a gentle and peaceful look, the expression on his face is deeply inspiring. That peacefulness seemed to be transmitted to me.”

 

He seemed to radiate some kind of other-worldly purity.

 

Thirty years later, the court physician, Doctor Furtunov, when called to examine him just before he passed away from double pneumonia, said: “This is the most virginal organism that I have ever seen until now”.

 

During his first Sunday Talks, called “Power and Life”, the Master lived in a poor quarter on the outskirts ot Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. He spoke from his small room, and because it was too small to hold everyone, he spoke from his window. There in the courtyard, even as far as the beehives at the end of his garden, there were listeners. He spoke in snow and rain. He spoke, and they stood and listened. One of his female disciples tried to move her leg after the talk and found that she could not move it from the ground. Her heel had frozen to the ground.

 

It is remarkable that these talks still have meaning today. They contain unfalling light, because they are condensed prana. They begin clearly, simply, and with a fundamental question, which beconies multiplied in waves which reach all the worlds of human consciousness. But what consciousness? We answer with his words:

 

“Higher cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of the spirit and the soul.”

 

“Christ’s task was to develop cosmic consciousness. Cosmic consciousness is a state of great activity. In that since there came down that soul which embraces all beings from the smallest to the greatest and sends his love to elevate them.“

 

With the great insight of a pedagogue of the human soul the Master says:

 

“Search, yourselves, for the light which Christ, the man bears. It will help you to find the way along which you need to go.”

 

In her first visit to the small house the same sister who describes him in her memoirs says: “He asked barely audibly: ‘Have you read something?’ She did not understand. He was referring to the first small books, like brochures, which contained the individual talks of his series “Power and Life”. The same sister, Pasha, who became his secretary and a worker for the Word of the Master, says:

 

“THE WORD WHICH HE GAVE US HE NEVER CALLED HIS OWN. FROM THAT TIME TO TODAY I SAW, I UNDERSTOOD, WHAT HUMILITY MEANS...”

 

What a difference there is between his deep humility and the magnificent picture of the human spirit in THE NEW COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, about which he was the first to speak! That is the progression from the grain of wheat in the ground to the full ear. The grain of wheat — the emblem of man’s soul! With that image of the human soul, of man and his ascent, of the evolution of man and the earth, his teaching of Love will introduce the culture of the sun. The time of the shining sixth race of Love. He called this time the time of the Sons of the Resurrection.

 

The road is open.

 

The direction has been given.

 

The Word of Love awaits its dedicated friends.

 

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