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STEP BY STEP DESCRIPTION OF THE EXERCISES PART I. THE 28 EXERCISES General Guidelines Paneurhythmy is performed outdoors, preferably in the morning after sunrise from March 22 until September 22 for the Northern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere the dates are reversed. However, teaching and learning the movements can be done throughout the entire year. Paneurhythmy is performed in a circle with the musicians and a choir (when there is one) in the center. Only the Master Beinsa Duno has performed Paneurhythmy inside the circle—between the musicians and the outside circle of participants. A recording of the music may also be used. Singing by the participants is encouraged, but needs to be very soft or even silent. The participants are arranged in couples around the circle. With a male and female in a couple, the man should be on the right side and the woman—on the left, positions that will be reversed after the exercise “Weaving.” The distance between the partners and the couple in front and behind them should be should be minimum two extended arms in order to allow free and unobstructed movements. When there are many people, two or more circles can be formed. The couples move counterclockwise around the circle (diagram 1)19 In some exercises however, the participants have their faces or their backs to the center as given in the descriptions. When the distance between the couples needs to be corrected, it is done in the pauses between the individual exercises and in the direction of movement (meaning forward around the circle). If someone needs to change position, he or she should not cross the already formed circle, but go around it from outside following the general direction. Comfortable clothing in light colors, especially white, is usually preferred as an expression of our striving toward perfection and purity. When performing the paneurhythmy exercises the body should be kept upright. The exercises should be done with well extended arms and legs, projecting your thoughts through them, yet with flexibility and grace, but not as a ballet. One should step first on toes, and then the weight is transferred onto the entire foot. The fingers need to be close together, but not clenched. The movements are natural and neither too quick nor too slow. One should perform the exercises with concentration, awareness, and in harmony. __________________________ 19 The individuals in all diagrams in the book are schematically depicted by circles to represent the upright human body with feet together and arms beside the body, and the relative position of the participants. The division of the circles and the orientation of their front and back sides help point toward the direction of movement.

Communion with Nature Diagram 1

EXCERPTS FROM TALKS OF THE MASTER ON PANEURHYTHMY The impact of sun rays on the Earth is different in the different seasons. If we take the Northern hemisphere, it is more negatively charged at the beginning of spring; and thus it receives most life energy at that time of the year. Therefore, for the Northern hemisphere the sun rays have the most healing effect during spring in comparison with the other seasons. From March 22, (in the Northern Hemisphere) the Earth becomes gradually more positively charged. During the summer, it is already quite positive, and therefore, it receives less prana. (The summer solar rays are still effective, but to a lesser extent.) “In the beginning of spring, there is more prana and the organisms receive it more. During summer, only the heat is more abundant, but not the prana or live-force which is abundant at the beginning of spring. There are certain signs from which one can recognize when there is more prana accumulated in Nature. “So, the solar energy in each of the four seasons manifests four types of influence. Spring and summer represent the influx of solar energy toward the Earth, while autumn and winter—its reflux.” (32:9) The Master in the Rila Mountains “After our morning exercises at the ‘Lake of Purity,’ the Master began to speak about Paneurhythmy: “You should come to know the scientific side of Paneurhythmy. Nature likes to reach great achievements with the smallest efforts. In Paneurhythmy, the powers of human mind, heart, and will are set to work in harmony. Through Paneurhythmy people will get to know how to receive the natural forces. We perform these exercises outdoors and in the morning because of the best conditions existing at that time of the day. These exercises should be done from the 22nd of March until the 22nd of September. According to the Law of Evolution we begin first by working with the body. “The paneurhythmy movements are simultaneously mechanical, organic, and mental. Everyone who perceives the essence of these movements will be able to come in contact with the Evolved Beings. As these movements have a great influence on human consciousness, they transform into a psychic process of inner awareness. “If you hold your arms loosely during the exercises, you will not establish contact with the forces of Nature. The arms should be held well-extended. Only then will you come in contact with the forces of Nature during the exercises. Also, when you perform Paneurhythmy, often you think about your everyday things: about houses, bills, and so on. When you do these exercises, your thoughts need to be focused. Movement implies life. Without movement, life cannot manifest itself. Your movements need to be conscious. Yet in order to move ahead one centimeter, you need to have some goal, something to achieve. “Movements are powerful because they can harmonize you with all intelligent Beings who move. Power comes from this harmony. If you do not come into contact with these Enlightened Beings, you will remain disorganized and will continue to live in the world of contradictions. “When you perform Paneurhythmy, your movements should be neither too quick, nor too slow. Project your thought into the forward arm and hand pointing upward and into the backward arm and hand pointing downward. When you bring your arms and hands down, project your thought through them; then the energy will go through them to the center of the Earth. Yet when the arms and hands are directed upward, the energy will go through them to the center of the Sun. “I am telling you only the general principles. During the exercises, you will be left free to learn by yourselves and get accustomed to them. Pass your thought through your arms and legs. You need to know that by doing so the Universe is manifesting through you. “You are hurrying in your movements. You rush to finish the exercises. Sometimes it is better to do only three exercises, but properly and carefully. If the paneurhythmy exercises are performed quickly, they will not be beneficial. They need to be done slowly and consciously—with the participation of the mind. The consciousness attracts the energy. “When you move the right leg or arm forward, you call some forces of Nature into action. When you move the left leg or arm forward, some other forces of Nature are being activated. “When you lift up your arm, it should create an angle of 45o with your body. This angle should not be smaller or bigger, because the 45o position is most harmonious. The arm which is behind should be at an angle of 45o as well. When both arms in front and behind are at the angle of 45o, we will perform the correct movement: and there will be a circular movement of the electromagnetic forces. This electromagnetic circle will surround the whole body: front, back, above, and below. When this circle has been formed correctly, you will feel yourself in harmony. “The rhythm needs to be right. “You should step on the toes, not on the heels. First on the toes, then on the heels. Stepping on the heels first puts the spinal cord in stress. “When you extend your arm upward, the movement should be first horizontal and then upward. The front part of the arm denotes the Divine World; the middle part (the forearm)—the spiritual world; and the base (the upper arm)—the material world. When you move your arms, project your mind into them as well. (2:248-250) “You need to have a clear view of the world in order not to be misled. There are three things to be studied in the world: thoughts, feelings, and movements. Thoughts give form and direction to things, feelings provide content, and movements are the ‘garment’ we cannot be without, moreover, the ‘garment’ plays a very important role in nature. “When I observe the exercises I see the need to correct them. The way you do them is not energy-efficient: you lose much energy instead of gaining it. You are hardly using one tenth of the energy provided, in fact, you are wasting a lot of it. These movements come from different sources: plants, animals, and humans which are very much intertwined and interconnected in life. I say to you, the genuine, true movement needs to be restored. “The fingers need to be together, not separated or spread out... “Study the exercises step by step in order to learn them properly, to perform them with grace and in no way jerky. A lot of energy is lost by sharp movements; they are of a different character. Arms and legs are two opposite poles and play a very important role. Those who do not know how to command their arms and legs will achieve not much. The head is between these two poles—it is the center.”(3:365-383) “It is necessary to balance the physical movements with those of the feelings and thoughts. They need to be harmonized. Then the conflicts existing today will be resolved. For example, two people are in discord. They could come into harmony by beginning to sing together. “Every exercise represents a psycho-physiological act. Each thought and energy should be embodied in order to be expressed. “If you can move your arms in all directions, it indicates that your will power is as it should be. Otherwise, it would be a sign for some mental, emotional, or volitional problem. Therefore, you need to perform the paneurhythmy exercises regularly, day after day so that you would be able to remove such problems. “With these exercises, you are going to correct your thoughts and feelings. “When you balance the energy of your legs, the relationship between you and the Earth will be restored because the energy of the legs is related to the center of the Earth. Before that, a correct relation between your energy and that of the Earth cannot exist. “There is a conscious relationship between the Earth and the Sun. Therefore, you should restore your proper relationship with the Earth. When you move your legs, you need to focus on them, and you will begin to feel well-disposed. “Our nervous system is still in development. We have not yet finished the makeup of our nervous system. In every individual life, new neural dendrites and elements are being formed, and also organs for the new ideas are being formed. Therefore, we need to guard well our brain system. “Some consider exercising as a burden. This is a misunderstanding. Whatever the exercises are, as far as they can attune you to the energy of the Earth and the Sun, they are good. However, exercises which cannot achieve this are needless. When you meet someone who is attuned to the energy of the Earth and the Sun, this person is like a blooming flower or like a ripe fruit. “In the past, religions had the goal to bringing people into alignment with the earthly and heavenly forces. As they have currently lost their original significance, they just want people to become of good moral character. However, if you cannot bring someone into alignment with the universal forces, how could they become so? If you do not tune the violin, how will you play something nice? First you tune the violin and then the second process follows—playing the violin. Paneurhythmy at Izgrev: the “Sun Rays” “Now you are going to study the first process: attunement. It is the simplest one. Everyone can do it. In the morning, you will first do the exercises with your arms and legs, and then during the whole day, everything will be perfect. God and all good people will be with you. “When we step on one or the other foot during the paneurhythmy movements, all chakras are stimulated and changes occur in the positive and negative energy currents, in the creative and constructive currents. “In Paneurhythmy, mental activity is connected to the music and physical movements. “You need to perform the exercises in order to rejuvenate. With Paneurhythmy, one gradually obtains softness and gentleness.” (2:251-252) “There is a science of movement which people need to study. Movements should not be monotonous, mechanical. Sometimes you need to perform some work with the right hand, and sometimes—with the left. Sometimes you should leave your home stepping first onto your right foot followed by the left foot, and sometimes vise versa: first with the left foot and then with the right. “Many people today do not understand these principles; they are not familiar with the science of movement, and as a result, they meet with great contradictions. For example, someone heads to do a good work and begins with the right foot which is a carrier of positive forces. In such a case, that person will not have any success in his work. Why? It is because repulsion always exists between two positive quantities. In order to succeed in your work, you need to begin with the left foot which is a carrier of negative energy; the opposite quantities always attract each other. Therefore, when you are beginning a particular task, you need to know with which foot to step first: the right one or the left.” (4:109-110) “People today do not understand what Bulgarian music is. Do you know how much time is needed to purify it? To be purified in such a way that only the genuine Bulgarian music remains that expresses how the Bulgarian has searched for solutions in life? He has passed through two phases: a long search—this is the prolonged music; and then his decision to dance—this is the playful music. And then he said, ‘No, not like that. More search is needed,’ and he began again the prolonged music. The Bulgarian stays between these two states: he is locked in, and there is no exit. Now it is necessary for a third state—the solution of Life—to come into the Bulgarian music. Bulgarian folk music has not yet resolved the questions of life. It has two motifs, but the Bulgarians need a third motif as well: a third type of music which brings resolution of the questions of life. After forty years of work in this direction, I gave a resolution through the exercise ‘Sun Rays.’ Through the movements, music, and lyrics of this exercise, I gave an example of how to find a resolution, of how to exit the ‘closed’ circle.” (1:30) “The circle of Paneurhythmy was quickly forming. The Master was taking his place in the middle, close to the orchestra and was performing the movements, and we followed by watching him. For the ‘Sun Rays,’ we lined up in 12 rays with a circle of people in couples around them. We finished with the glorious march of the ‘Pentagram,’ and afterward, we gathered around the Master to sing Himn na velikata dusha [Hymn of the sublime soul], Az moga da lyubya [I can love] and other songs. After that, we began to talk. In one such talk, among other things, the Master spoke about Paneurhythmy: “Paneurhythmy is a Science which regulates the physical, spiritual, and mental functions in human beings and is a synthesis of human thoughts, emotions, and actions. The harmonious movements of Paneurhythmy are a method of the Enlightened Beings for self-education. These movements are in connection with the human thoughts and emotions. If not, they would be mechanical and would not possess this stimulating and rejuvenating influence upon mind and soul. All advanced nations and the people of the next, sixth generation will become spokesmen of Paneurhythmy, which requires that one should simultaneously think, feel, and move in a harmonious way. Paneurhythmy needs to be applied in the education of the individual, society, and humankind. “Every tone has a movement. It is an art to be able to combine music and movements. If you speak the Language of Nature, she will respond and ask, ‘What do you desire, please?’ But if you do not speak her Language, she will be silent. All the gifts acquired in the world will one day become available to the whole of humankind. That which each one of us acquires, will become available to all. In Paneurhythmy, all three Worlds are combined in harmonious ways, and no better system exists. When all music, movement, and internal life are present, then the entire human being is participating. Truth needs to be put into movements; then these movements will remove obstacles and a Path will open. “In Nature, all movements are meaningful. Slavic dances should have meaning as a foundation. In the future, when people move and perform their activities, all of their movements will be harmonious because thought, emotion, and will will participate. Each corresponds to a spiritual quality: there are movements of goodness, of compassion, and of justice. There is no virtue which does not have a line of movement. You should study this and make experiments once, twice, ten times, one hundred times until you find them. “In Paneurhythmy, all geometric lines—straight, curved, and mixed—are put into motion. Each line has an influence upon the human consciousness and brings to life new forces: physical and spiritual. Songs need to be transformed into movements in which the arms, the legs, and the entire body participate... “During the paneurhythmy exercises concentrate, think upon the movements and the sublime ideas implanted in them, and then your thoughts will pass into the arms, the legs, and so on. If you are not concentrating upon every movement, then there will be no benefit in this, as each movement determines the next one because they are connected. With these exercises the Bulgarian opens the closed circle and finds an exit. “One’s strength lies in one’s concentration during the exercises. And when we perform them with Love, with the heart, and not mechanically, Living Nature participates in our movements. She sees if the correct rhythm is present. And if it is not, she does not participate; and all our work is then in vain. When you lower your arms toward the Earth with an awakened consciousness, you will receive from her the positive energies, and you will send to her your negative energies. When you sit down upon the earth, you need to be content. Then you will have a correct exchange of energies, and as a result, you will immediately feel rested. Every action you do should be a sacred act. One can walk and run barefoot in the morning dew. Every day pass your thought at least three to four times through your arms, through your legs, and so on. “The one who loves has musical movements of certain amplitude, and they have a beautiful effect. When one expresses these movements in music, then their effect will be different. I have rarely listened to music which begins with the essential tone of Love. If music began in such a way, then the song would bring relaxation. “Paneurhythmy exercises transform the energies from mechanical into organic and from organic into psychic. Paneurhythmy sustains the harmony among the respiratory, central nervous, and digestive systems; and among the mind, soul, and spirit... “When you perform gymnastic and paneurhythmy exercises, the muscles, fingers, and toes should be outstretched, your toes extend. This is an entire science—osteology, the science of the bones. When you make even the smallest extension of the bones and muscles, more blood is then drawn into them, and in this way, you are healing yourselves. Through these exercises, you can become a master of your entire body. Then there will be flexibility in your movements, and you will move with grace. When the arm is extended and pointing upward, there is a contact with the solar forces. And when it is extended and pointing downward, there is a contact with the earthly forces. If it is not extended, it is not in contact with any forces. And it is not enough to stretch it out; the consciousness needs to be allowed to participate as well. “Some make bigger steps, other—smaller; synchronization is required. If a couple consists of a tall and a short person, then the tall one will naturally make big steps and the short one—small. Therefore, it is advisable that couples be compatible in size. Paneurhythmy at Izgrev “Let the whole body participate in each movement and let each cell move in the space where it is situated; if not, you cannot be a true dancer. All the parts of the body need to become conductors. In certain movements, you should begin to move your neck in different directions. If not, the influx of blood to the head will be restricted. When you are alone, do various movements with your neck. “Each one of our movements needs to be Divine. In Paneurhythmy, do not allow disharmonious movements. Those who perform them in such a way cannot serve God. Be diligent. God likes the diligent ones. First learn the exercises and then the theory behind them. All ancient mystical schools had rhythmic exercises as a method for instructing their students in music and flexibility. The exercises which I am giving you now have also been performed in the ancient times in secluded places by holy adepts for the purpose of great achievements. Modern science does not have data on Paneurhythmy and does not know what kind of movements the body needs to make during a certain song. Because we are in the time of the coming of the New Epoch, a new foundation of Paneurhythmy is being laid. Previously, it had been involutionary; but now it is evolutionary. The ancient dances had been involutionary. And now, in the evolutionary period, we collect the energy which we applied during the involutionary. “Those on the Sun are eagerly observing our endeavors to dance the Solar Rhythm. On the Sun, great paneurhythmy exercises are performed on a vast plane. The movements are a silent communication which needs to be studied. Each movement expresses a certain idea, a certain thought. The movement is an expression of the music, a musical form. From all of the ancient nations: Hindu, Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek, and from the today’s nations as well, movements need to be taken. However, only such ones which today are passing into a new form because certain exercises, which have been right in the past, need to be changed for today. In Paneurhythmy, I am giving only the fundamental movements, only the seed. And each movement—when it is seeded—will develop; will be formed into a new movement. Within the esoteric science, certain movements exist; and when you perform them, they have a beneficial, a magical effect. Paneurhythmy is brought down from other Worlds and your eyes need to be opened so that you are able to see how many Sublime Beings are participating and are present here. That which these paneurhythmy exercises give, no other exercise can give to you; but they need to be performed well, in accordance with all the principles. “One sister shared, ‘Master, it is amazing that we feel refreshed, uplifted, and rejuvenated every time after Paneurhythmy. Throughout the entire day, we are with an uplifted spirit. And sometimes, when for some reason I do not do Paneurhythmy, I feel a deep loss within.’ “The Master said: “The paneurhythmy exercises bring the body and the will into attunement with the mind and the emotions; and these four—into attunement with the Spirit. The problem is that people have lost their connection with the Divine World. There are movements, thoughts, emotions, and actions that are not in harmony with God; and as a result, one separates oneself from Him. The most difficult thing is to attune our movements with our thoughts and feelings. When we coordinate them, then all disease will disappear. If you can command your legs as how to stretch, then you can command many other things. “The one who intends to do good can be recognized by the way he walks. Whatever one intends to do is recognizable by his way of moving. In the movements, all three worlds need to be represented: physical, spiritual, and Divine. “It is because they do not move enough, people today are suffering from atrophy of the small muscles, and this disturbs their blood circulation. In Paneurhythmy, the small muscles participate. Music combined with movements is the best massage. Then electricity and magnetism will flow freely through the solar plexus and throughout the entire body. We suffer from unnatural movements. The painful movements are a result of the atrophy of the small muscles, and the paneurhythmy exercises strive to bring them into motion. Today the gymnastic exercises in the world are static; and therefore, the muscles become stiff as energy is not brought to them. People die due to the sole cause of their muscles becoming static. And all parts of the body need to be in motion. Each meaningful movement is always connected with the Intelligent Nature and the beautiful movements which bear Life. “When I perform paneurhythmy movements, I am focused; but some look like people who are only circling around a safe full of precious things without knowing how to use them. Through Paneurhythmy, you will find the key to the safe, and all that is inside will begin to flow into you. These exercises are magnetic. They rid you of all worries. They liberate you, and you feel relieved. “Paneurhythmy is a blessing. And it is good for each one of you to instruct at least one person in Paneurhythmy. It is necessary that a group of brothers and sisters be formed who will learn the exercises well and then show them by traveling throughout Bulgaria. “The laws of physical education need to be followed. All exercises are a method of education. It is necessary to begin from there. Mind, heart, and body will understand these exercises and will assimilate them. “At present exercises are usually excluded from many religious communities as they are considered to be mundane; but sometime in the past, the callisthenic exercises were spiritual. “If the exercises are performed rhythmically, they always have a beneficial effect; and within our exercises, there is rhythm and measure. Within Nature, wherever Life of higher consciousness exists, the most beautiful exercises are present. Our callisthenic exercises have a physical, mental, and spiritual meaning. The hand from the wrist to the tip of the fingers is spiritual; the elbow part is mental; and the shoulder is the physical part. “I observe that some perform the movements of Paneurhythmy not with Love, but in haste. No, you should devote the time for these exercises to God. You lift your arm and say, ‘God, you have given me such beautiful arms!’ The exercises should be performed with Love in order to be meaningful. “In America, there was a young woman who when she placed her hand upon a tree, it began to grow. She extended her hand, and from it, energies emanated through which she could work. This has an application in Paneurhythmy as well. When you dance it, send into the world a positive wave and people will begin to live better. With these exercises, you send new ideas into the world. When the water begins rushing, it does work. And when it becomes stagnant, it can do no work. “The ‘Sun Rays’ and the ‘Pentagram’ were given by the Master recently, and not all of us had managed to learn them well. Therefore, the Master announced that we would gather in the evening to practice. Around 8:00 p.m., we lit bright electric lamps at the clearing, and under their light, we danced the ‘Sun Rays’ and the ‘Pentagram’ many times. First a few small groups of people who knew them well presented them to us, and after that, all participated. Afterward, we gathered around the Master and a conversation began: “With the exercise the ‘Sun Rays,’ we have the circling of one of the participants around the other. This represents our being in a condition that is still nebulous, but after that, one enters the new world. You circle around and around, but you come to the same place and you say, ‘Is there no way out?’ You find the exit. You rejoice, and this is expressed in the exercise ‘Sun Rays.’ While you are confused, you are circling as a horse that thrashes and flails. In the ‘Sun Rays,’ the circling of one around the other is a closed circle, and after that, they hold hands and begin singing: Ti si me Mamo chovek krasiv rodila [You have given birth to me, Mother, as a beautiful human being]. This is the exiting from the closed circle into an open world. This is liberation. “I will tell you about another aspect of the song which is sung during the ‘Sun Rays’: ‘You, Mother, have abandoned me for a long time, but now you are back. I suffered without you. What I have passed through! How much I have suffered!’ But we will leave this aspect of the song for now. ‘What I have passed through! And how much I have suffered!’ This we will leave behind, and we will look at the New instead. “The 12 rays of the ‘Sun Rays’ show that the 12 Gates of Life are open. These are the signs of the zodiac, and the 12 Gates are written about in the Revelation as well. This exercise has two currents: arterial and venous. When you perform it, you will remember that which you have learned earlier, in the past. Through the ‘Sun Rays,’ I set you free and I brought you to the World of Gifts. You should perform it with such grace that something will begin to quiver within you and within that one who watches you. Step in such way as if you were not touching the ground. During the clapping, the right hand should move more and toward the left. And the hands should be elevated a little higher after the clapping than at the beginning. The exercise has the rhythm of the Sun. “The Bulgarian folk dances rachenitsa are restricted, and this shows that the Bulgarian is confined, has no exit. This is an internal process. Bulgarians have lost the original movements which have been religious and have turned instead to rachenitsa, to stamping very fast in one place. But there is no idea present in these fast movements of the rachenitsa. I decided to give an example of these movements in their pure form. I went to the clearing and began humming three melodies while I was performing movements as well. This is how the ‘Sun Rays’ gradually took form. I had given the music to ‘Idyll’ more than thirty years ago, and many have asked me what kind of lyrics should accompany it. I replied that the time would come for that. And now, in these new exercises, the ‘Sun Rays,’ I gave the text for the ‘Idyll’: Ti si me, Mamo, chovek krasiv rodila. In order to be able to create the motifs in the ‘Sun Rays’—which is known as an ‘open’ motif in the Bulgarian music—I have worked a full thirty years for the uplifting of the Bulgarian consciousness and its adjustment with these new motifs. This will reflect upon the Bulgarian psyche as well. “The one who dances these exercises will attain freedom. They will be performed throughout the world. Teachers of them will come from this country. With the ‘Sun Rays,’ I am laying a foundation; and therefore, they need to be danced perfectly. All Beings of Light are attracted by them. Through these exercises of the Sun, we lay a foundation; and those Beings will come down to become present within us. When we perform them, the obstacles are removed because the exercises neutralize evil and the Great Advanced Beings perform them as well. The music of Paneurhythmy and especially the ‘Sun Rays’ will awaken souls. Through the exercises of the Sun, the Earth is permeated with solar energy. The solar energies, which come down to the Earth, are used through these exercises which we first take in and then send into space. In this way, many beings are uplifted. These exercises liberate a person from worries. “The movements, which I am giving you, exist within Nature. And only movements taken from Nature are beneficial. Movements which cannot be found within Nature are not harmonious and are harmful to people. “The circling of one of the participants around the other during the exercise, the ‘Sun Rays,’ is analogous to the movements of the Earth around the Sun, to the movements of the other planets around the Sun, and to the Moon around the Earth. The exercise, the ‘Sun Rays,’ should be performed in special garments with large toga-like sleeves and with cinctures at the waist. The garments can be in blue, rose, and white colors. In the ‘Sun Rays’ when it is spoken about the ‘Mother,’ it means that Mother within the Intelligent Nature. Within the name ‘Mother,’ is hidden the Name of God. The exercises, the ‘Sun Rays,’ are from the Temples of the initiated and are the music, speech, and movement of the Sun. When you perform them, you become conductors of Love and Light, and you spread those rays and ideas transmitting them throughout the world. And when you sing the ‘Idyll’: Ti si me, Mamo, chovek krasiv rodila, umen da stana, dobre da mislya, dobre da lyubya. Tuy zhivota e na raya [You have given birth to me, Mother, as a beautiful human being, that I may become wise, know how to think right and love well, for this is the Life of Paradise]—then in that moment, luminous words and ideas will begin to quiver within the consciousness of many people in the world. These exercises heal all disease and misunderstanding. The leg which is bent and in the air during the exercises receives the solar energy, and the other leg, which is on the ground—gives. “One sister asked, ‘Master, what is the meaning of the exercise the Pentagram?’ “The Master said: “This exercise is performed with five couples, is it not? They signify the five major virtues: Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice, and Virtue (in the narrow meaning of this word). And these couples move and exchange places, do they not? This means that the virtues in a human bring should be put into motion. Until now, the virtues have only been spoken about, but their application today is already needed. Through the exercise, the ‘Pentagram,’ the virtues in a person become alive and begin to work within him. This is the psychic effect of the ‘Pentagram.’ In addition to this, this Idea is being sent into the world and is contributing to the virtues of humankind that they may begin to manifest. Until you learn the ‘Pentagram,’ your success will be limited. (1:51-63) “Our thoughts and feelings should be present in every single movement. Every movement you make influences Nature. The slightest movement of one’s index finger, for example, affects Nature in her wholeness. The waves of radiant energy that emanate from the fingers will circumnavigate the Earth. In the end they will return to the person from whom they have emanated, with an increase in the good or bad sense.” (31:93) “We perform these exercises as they are done in the Divine World. These exercises have not been invented: they have been brought down from Above. You could do other exercises as well, but you would see the difference because in Paneurhythmy the material, spiritual, and Divine worlds are integrated. Within Paneurhythmy, there is a flow of energy from one world into another. With respect to the physical, the world is paramount; but with respect to the spiritual, it is not... “The movements of Paneurhythmy need to be mindful. They are with a preparatory role. They have miraculous power and will influence the entire world, not only the individual. These movements are taken from Nature, from the Universe itself, and so they are in harmony with the Cosmic Rhythm of Life.” (2:250-252) “Special courses on all parts of Paneurhythmy are needed. A special school on Paneurhythmy will be created because it is a bearer of the new that needs to be introduced today into the culture.” (1:64)

PRINCIPLES OF PANEURHYTHMY10 At the present time, there is much talk about renewal, about new directions, and so on. However, it is not enough for renewal to occur only in the mechanical, in the external aspects of life. If people remain in their old consciousness with their old view of life, nothing will be gained. A new awareness, a new understanding of life and its purpose is necessary. With regard to the issue of renewal, it would be useful to study the Laws of the rise and fall of nations. Consider the generations and nations that have risen to an exceptional height only to vanish at a later point in time. All their achievements have crystallized into forms incapable of further development because of their deviation from the Universal Laws of Life. Esoteric science gives methods for resolving all of the problems of modern life. These methods touch every aspect of life: material and spiritual. Everything new which now enters life—all of these new ideas, which enter into the world today, have the power to uplift the human culture to a higher phase, to develop those precious endowments hidden within the human soul and left unrevealed for centuries. Modern culture is a transient one. The transition between two cultures is marked by times of trouble and turmoil, confusion and contradiction. This is a sign that we live on the border between the old culture, which is descending, and the New Culture, which is ascending. These are the times when new, great ideas are born. There are many indications that a new, higher level of awareness is at hand. In fact, further advancement, in and of itself, brings the expansion of the consciousness. For example, if we trace the development of all natural kingdoms, we will see that as movement is made toward the higher kingdoms, the consciousness gradually expands. Every culture is recognized by the “new” it is bringing to humankind—a new revelation of the human spirit. What is the “new” which the coming Culture brings? There are indications from which you can perceive the new, just as one can envision the coming spring from the first spring flowers. The new that is coming is the awakening of the Cosmic Consciousness. It is then when the individual limited consciousness will be outgrown and humankind will enter into the endless Life of the Whole, of the Universal. The existing signs confirm that the new, which is coming, is the spirit of brotherhood, of unity. New ideas are entering now as a powerful wave in order to transform our culture and they are manifesting themselves in every area of life. Everywhere one can see the effects of their life-giving action. However, these new ideas need to find a corresponding form for expression; that is; they need to find an external expression through which to influence the deeper forces of human nature. Such a form—such a manifestation—is Paneurhythmy. Literally translated, Paneurhythmy means Supreme Cosmic Rhythm. Paneurhythmy is the great universal harmony of movements. Everything in life is Paneurhythmy. What actually is Paneurhythmy? Each year at Izgrev, near Sofia, on the 22nd of March11, a new page of life opened. This is when the Paneurhythmy exercises begin—on a beautiful spring morning when the rays of the Sun cover in gold the top of the Vitosha Mount; when the flowers begin to open to the solar warmth; and when everything around emits freshness, joy, harmony, and music. Each morning, after the 22nd of March, a few hundred people will perform Paneurhythmy in a wide-open field surrounded by pine trees. The participants are arranged in two or more circles; the musicians in the middle would play the paneurhythmy music. The music consists of 28 pieces12, all of which have been provided with words, some of them by the Master himself. The participants will usually sing these words. Why do the Paneurhythmy exercises begin on March 22? And why are the exercises done early in the morning? There is an explanation in this excerpt from the book “In the Kingdom of the Living Nature”: “In the morning at sunrise, the Earth is negative and is therefore the most receptive. This is a very important fact that we need to keep in mind in order to fully appreciate the meaning and importance of sunrise. This is the reason why in the morning at sunrise the human body is the most receptive to the solar energy. There is more prana. In other words, there is more life energy in the morning relative to the afternoon and the living organism can more effectively absorb this positive energy. “The Earth, at the beginning of spring, is more negatively charged (relative to the Sun) and is therefore more receptive. For this reason, in the spring—more than in any other seasons—the sun rays are curative. Therefore, the beneficial influence of the Sun begins from March 22. From then on, the Earth is productive. The best time for renewal is between March 22 and June 22. In the spring, when we see plants putting forth buds and blossom, an inner joy is to be born in the human soul that the day of its liberation is approaching. When you open to the feeling of Love of this life-giving force which envelops you, you can then receive its beneficial influence for rejuvenation of feelings, thoughts, and energy.” The effect of Paneurhythmy on people is enormous and many-sided. First of all, it influences physical development. These exercises develop the body in a harmonizing way because they are characterized by a great diversity. The paneurhythmy movements are beautiful and graceful. All parts of the body: head, neck, chest, low back, arms, feet, and so on participate. The muscular system is developed. Breathing and blood circulation are improved. The nervous system is strengthened, too, because the solar energy before dawn and for one hour after the sunrise has a special revitalizing effect. These effects of Paneurhythmy also have a deeper and more profound side. These movements are not random; they are a result of the knowledge of the vital forces in Nature and of the active or dormant forces in human body. Therefore, in these exercises, there is something fascinating, something that awakens the higher self. The influence of the paneurhythmy exercises is threefold: 1. They are like batteries through which one connects with the creative and constructive forces in Nature. One receives them, and they influence one’s development. These forces are vital. 2. It is because the paneurhythmy exercises are in harmony with the Cosmic Rhythm that brings to action the whole of Life, these movements activate the dormant forces of the human soul. 3. The paneurhythmy exercises are such that through them one sends forth certain energies, thoughts, and ideas into the world; and they continue to work there and transform it. Let’s focus on the first principle of Paneurhythmy. The paneurhythmy movements connect the Living Nature and human beings, in more ways than just an exercise for the muscles, lungs, and so on. They should not be confused with ordinary exercises—aerobics or ballet, for instance. They are based upon deeper Laws that connect humans with the energy of Nature and show them how to use this energy for their development. Everything moves; this is a Law of Nature. However, when these movements are done consciously, we acquire something. Through the exercises of Paneurhythmy, we come in contact with the vital forces of Nature. In earlier times, we were not only in contact with the physical forms and shapes of Nature, but also with her spiritual forces. Today humankind has alienated itself from Nature to a certain extent. Our inner connection and communion with Nature have become weakened. From the investigations of Gurvich, Lakhovsky13, and other scientists, it is known that the human body like all other organisms emits a specific frequency of energy, specific radiations. Paneurhythmy is based upon a deep knowledge of these radiations and energy fields. For example: when one extends the arms, great bundles of light or rays emanate from the fingers, but they are of a different character for different fingers. In addition to this, such radiations emanate from the brain, the ears, the nose, and the body as a whole. These radiations are polarized. The human body has three polarities. According to the investigations of Reichenbach, Durville14, and others, the right side of the body is positive, and the left is negative. The front side is positive, the back is negative. The upper part (toward the head) is positive, the lower is negative. Energy and all things in Nature are polarized. This is the fourth of the seven major principles of esoteric science. Here are a few examples. There are two types of magnetism—north and south; two types of electricity—positive and negative; the roots and the stem of the plants and so on. In general, the two types of energy, which are seen in Nature in a variety of forms, can be called positive and negative. They can also be referred to as the “creative” or “masculine” principle in Nature and the “constructive” or “feminine” principle in Nature. The phrase in the Bible, “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth” indicates the action of the creative forces in Nature. Then follows, “The Earth was without form, and void.”15 The gradual organization of the Earth is a Manifestation of the constructive forces. In reality, both kinds of energy are at work every moment. We can see the effect of these two principles in every culture. For instance, the creation of new ideas in a culture is the result of the creative principle, while the application of these ideas with the purpose of changing life in accordance with them is the effect of the constructive principle. The same applies to the life of every individual. When one reaches new insights, the creative principle is at work within. When one changes one’s life in accordance with these creative forces—this is the result of the constructive forces. As we pointed out, the energy emitted by our bodies is polarized. Generally speaking, the right side of the human body—the right leg and the right arm, and so on—are an expression of the creative forces of Nature, while the left leg and arm, and so on are an expression of the constructive forces. That is why, in the paneurhythmy exercises, it is important which side participates in the movements. The movements of the right limbs or the turning toward the right express the connection with the creative forces in Nature, while the movements of the left limbs or the turning toward the left—with the constructive. That is why Paneurhythmy always begins with the right foot because the creative forces are the first to act. They lay the foundation and the elements upon which the constructive forces act. Stepping sometimes with the right foot, sometimes with the left, when done with the participation of our consciousness, changes the currents of energy from positive to negative, from creative to constructive. THE FIRST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE of Paneurhythmy is: The rhythm of these exercises alone, independent of all other aspects, causes a renewal of the body. Everything in Nature is based upon the Law of Rhythm. Rhythm is the fifth Principle of esoteric science. There is an interrelationship between the heartbeat and the rhythm of the Sun’s rays. The energy of the Sun emanates in a rhythm, in other words, periodically with a stronger or lesser intensity. There is a rhythm everywhere around us. There is a miraculous power in rhythm. Every work, even the hardest becomes easier when rhythm is introduced to it. In this way, it does not become tiring. Rhythmic movement is not fatiguing. This has been proven many times. THE SECOND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE of Paneurhythmy is: The movements in it correspond to certain cosmic Laws. One should know that the movements of the human body are not just mechanical. Each movement is connected with particular forces in Nature. If the movements are performed with the knowledge of the Laws of Nature, they can connect us with the powerful creative forces in Nature and we can receive them. One should remember that with each movement something flows into the human organism. Each harmonious movement—each movement made in accordance with the Laws of Nature and of the human body—brings life to us. The movements one commonly makes are not without meaning. However, movements exist which are lacking in universal character. They do not connect one with the Cosmos, with the whole of Life. They are of a personal character and have significance for that person alone. There are, however, other movements which express cosmic movements and Rhythm. There are certain cosmic movements and a cosmic Rhythm which are basic to the foundation of life. We find them everywhere in life: in the movement of the celestial objects; in the wave-like movement of light; in the currents of the electromagnetic field; in the movement of atoms and electrons; in the transformative movement in the tips of a plant’s shoots and roots, and so on. These movements and this Rhythm have a creative element in and of themselves. They have created and organized everything. They transform and build everything in Nature. Thousands of the forms around us are made through their influence. They are the eternally working Laws of the Cosmos. If the movements one makes are in harmony with these cosmic movements and Rhythm, one comes into contact with the forces of living Nature and receives them. This is exactly the character of the movements of Paneurhythmy. They are in harmony with the cosmic movements and Rhythm which create, build, and organize the whole of Nature. That is why the paneurhythmy movements have an enormous influence upon humans. Thus the movements of Paneurhythmy are not coincidental, but are taken from the Rhythm which underlies the cosmic Life. When one performs these exercises, one harmonizes oneself with the whole of Creation and receives something valuable. Therefore, when we perform Paneurhythmy, we feel ourselves as living centers which send forth thousands of fibrils, thousands of antennae, into the ocean of life force in which we are immersed; and as a result, we receive something vital and pure. For this reason, we should periodically connect with the energy of the Earth and the Sun. Through some of the exercises, we receive a supply of earthly magnetism. When we direct our arms upward with awakened consciousness, we come into contact with the energy of the Sun; and when we direct our arms downward—with that of the Earth. In this way, we receive the beneficial energy from the Earth and, at the same time, return energy that is worthless and disharmonious. In many of those movements which we do unconsciously, there is a hidden meaning which we do not comprehend. Also, this meaning is not always the same. For instance, when someone unconsciously touches some part of the head, one can disperse the energy which has accumulated in that place or draw energy to where it is insufficient. If you have the knowledge, you would be able to rid yourself of a headache by regulating certain currents. Sometimes you unconsciously touch a certain center of your head and activate it with the energy that emanates from your fingers. You should guard against movements which consume or deprive you of necessary energy. Movements should be mindful. Our movements, even when unconscious, are not random. Different movements, touching the head, moving the leg or the arms, and so on—are related not only to physiological processes, but to some psychic processes as well. Forces emanate from each finger that are an expression of something psychic. Every movement of a person, even if unconscious, has an inner meaning. For example, holding your hand behind your back—this is a covert, underhanded behavior. The one who wants to stab someone with a knife, hides it behind his back, and at the same time, says to the other person, “Welcome.” A speaker who holds his arms behind his back also has hidden thoughts. These movements are remnants of the distant past. When one raises an arm, certain spiritual forces are activated and sent into the world. And at the same time, one receives certain forces from Nature through one’s fingers; in other words, an exchange takes place. We should know which forces emanate from the arm and which come from particular fingers in the movements of Paneurhythmy. With these energies that you transmit from your arm, or some other organ, you have an impact upon Na-ture—and she responds to you, accordingly. We are not separate from the Cosmos. A connection exists between each person and the Cosmos. THE THIRD PRINCIPLE of Paneurhythmy is: There is an interrelationship, a correspondence among tone, form, movement, color, number, and an idea. The importance of Paneurhythmy becomes more clear when one takes into consideration that which we call “correspondence” in Nature. There is a correspondence among all things, which underlies the whole of Creation. For instance, in the periodic system of chemical elements, after each seventh element, we get an element with analogous features. We see a similar pattern in the color spectrum and in the octave of music. In an octave, every tone is similar to the eighth tone that follows it. We can also witness similar octaves in electromagnetic vibrations. Here, as well, every higher octave of vibrations is analogous to the lower ones. Countless correlations exist within Nature. For us, the most important of them are the above six as listed in the third Principle. When our movements correspond exactly to certain ideas, tones, and so on, the effect is a lot more powerful. Then the body is more receptive to the forces of Nature; it receives them, and it is revitalized and rejuvenated. The so-called “esoteric architecture” is also based upon the Law of correspondence among these manifestations in Nature. Paneurhythmy, too, is based upon this correspondence. What then is Paneurhythmy? It is the harmony of tone, form, movement, color, number, and an idea. The Russian clairvoyant and scientist Unkovska proves that there are correlations among tone, color, and number. A certain color corresponds to a tone and number. For example, she can play certain paintings; in other words, she can turn the colors into music. The following is a few words about the relationship among movement, tone, and form. Saint-Yves d’Alvaydre16 in his work, “Archeometre,” opened new horizons for music. I do not want to go into details here about his ideas; I only want to point out that he has shown the relationship existing among tone, form, and an idea. According to his ideas we can have forms which can be considered as “crystallized, frozen music.” He points out that the measurements of the tabernacle given in the Book of the Bible, “Exodus,” Chapter 25, are not arbitrary. All these measurements of the length, width, height, and so on of the tabernacle and its parts form, as a whole, a musical symphony. Using this method, Saint-Yves performs an analysis and determines which tones and musical chords are implemented in the tabernacle of Moses. He performs the same analysis of the description of the temple of Solomon from the “Book of Ezekiel,” Chapters 40-43. Saint-Yves shows a method of how to embody certain music in the form of a building, a cup, or any other object. Thus, one can see how broad the sphere of influence of music is in life. Through the artistic forms which surround us, we may find new perspectives of the beneficial effect of music in a culture. One can find crystallized music in organic forms as well. For example, the intervals between the fronds of the fern leaf or in the shell of the snail, where the width of the turns gradually narrows toward the top, are analogous to the number of vibrations of the different harmonious overtones of a given tone. It is also proven that musical laws are embodied in the distances of the planets from the Sun. As it was mentioned above, Lakhovsky discovered the so-called “radiation” of organisms; in other words, the radio waves they emit into the surrounding space. Through these radio waves, he tries to explain the capability of some animals for orientation: pigeons, dogs, bees, and so on. This radiation implies the existence of that which is called the “etheric body” of organisms. According to esoteric science, each crystal, flower, animal, and human being emits radio waves, and these radio waves are musical. There are scientists who try to detect the musical tones which emanate from flowers. Our body is musical because, as already mentioned, it emits musical radio waves, musical radiations. That is why music has such a profound impact on our organism. The incredible power of music is obvious in the experiment of three scientists: Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Jordan17. They played music of a specific monotone for a long time over a stone staircase; and as a result, it collapsed. The powerful influence of music on the spirit and the physiological processes of the body is well known. Music has an enormous influence upon every life form because it penetrates the whole life and all organisms. One basic Law needs to be remembered: The musical radiations of the body are the true architect of the human body. They are the builders. They sculpt the forms; for in reality, music is part of the etheric building forces of the organism. Through the rhythm of these waves, the human body is built. The same is true for a flower, grass, tree, and so on. Therefore, when a person receives harmonious tones—musical waves—this music merges with the music that permeates the body and, in this way, contributes to the building and the correct development of each organ. Therefore, through the rhythm of the harmonious movement of Paneurhythmy, the body-form will change: it will become stronger, more slender, and better built. It is proven by experiments that a healthy organ emanates specific musical vibrations and radiations which change and become feeble in the case of illness. This has been used to ascertain the health condition of the body. We have said that when a person plays an instrument, sings, or listens to music, this music enters his body and brings harmony to its organs. This harmony within the organism is what we call health. Therefore, it would be true to say that music brings life! Music is curative even when it is not accompanied by movements, but it is much more effective when accompanied by movements. With movements, the music permeates the body more easily, as well as each separate cell and each organ. Therefore, Paneurhythmy has a very strong curative power. Those who perform these exercises systematically can cure themselves of all illnesses. Thus, Paneurhythmy is a powerful tool for sustaining the health of the body! Not only is there a relationship between music and the body, but also between music and human thought. Music is a materialized movement of the spirit. It is the proper way of organizing matter in humans as well as his thoughts, feelings, and actions. It has been proven through experiments in telepathy by eminent scientists in America, England, Germany, Austria, and other countries that when one thinks, one sends out into space a certain kind of thought-wave which varies according to the character of the thought, the feeling, and so on. These thought-waves are also musical. The finer and more precise the thought, the more musical it is. Therefore, through music we build not only our physical organs, but our mental organism as well. Through music something penetrates our mental as well as our spiritual life. That is why music is a bearer of true Life. It is the beginning of every culture. Through music all things can be accomplished. It is important to know that the music of Paneurhythmy is not in the spirit of the ordinary music of today. It bears a new element in accordance with certain deeper and more profound Laws; and for this reason, it speaks directly to the higher self and awakens it. It brings us into those sublime realms that we have always been longing for in our sacred moments. This music connects us with the World of the Absolute Reality. The music of Paneurhythmy is not arbitrary: it corresponds to physical movements on one hand; and on the other—to the ideas which are implanted within them. When this correspondence exists, these movements have a powerful, miraculous effect; then they become the bearer of these ideas. Thanks to the correspondence between movements and ideas, the movements become the embodiment of these ideas and penetrate the performer as well. While performing the paneurhythmy exercises, we should keep in mind some ideas: not arbitrarily, but only those which strictly correspond to each movement. While doing the exercises, the mind needs to be focused on the movements and to their corresponding ideas. And so, because the movements of Paneurhythmy are an external expression of an idea, we may say that they are a certain kind of speech, a special language: thought expressed through movement! That is why the movements can produce a strong influence and bring a person into contact with the powerful forces of Nature. If the movements did not have ideas implanted in them, they would remain mechanical and would not possess the power to renew. When they express thought, these thoughts and ideas become visible in the beautiful movements. Through this special language, we give expression to our inner life, to the life of the soul. When there is correspondence between the idea and the movement, then each movement brings joy, exhilaration, liveliness, good spirits, and life. It manifests within us as well as in the world, which is outside of us! Each of these exercises is connected with a certain process in the consciousness. Therefore, each one of these exercises has an influence upon certain forces of the human spirit. For this reason, the exercises are related to the awakening, the liberation, and the creativity of the human soul. Even though these are inner processes, it is good to perform movements that correspond to these internal psychic processes and facilitate them. Each idea, each mental characteristic corresponds to a certain movement. There are movements of Good. There are movements of Compassion. There are movements of Justice. Love also has its forms of movement; Beauty, too. All virtues have their typical forms of movement. One should study that. We need to experiment—once, twice, ten times, hundred times, and more—until we discover which forms of movement correspond to a given virtue. Paneurhythmy is based on such experiments. Elderly people who have not lived properly will lose their radiance; furthermore, their movements will become less graceful. Their lives will leave marks on their countenances and in their movements. Children are lovely—and so are their movements because they have recently come from a harmonious World. The paneurhythmy exercise “The Sun Is Rising” in the Rila Mountains Experiments and observations can be performed in order to see the significance of various movements for the receiving and emitting of certain physical and psychic forces. Let’s analyze one of the songs of the Universal Brotherhood: Dobar den [Wonderful day]. This song is usually accompanied by special movements. One can feel the difference if it is not accompanied by movements. When combined with movements, it has an enormous impact on both: the performer and others. This is because during the movements, energy is activated which one receives and sends forth through one’s hands and entire body. In the Eastern esoteric schools, it is known that certain sacred words become more powerful when pronounced in combination with movement and music. The formula are sung and transformed simultaneously into a movement. These are the so-called “mantras” in the Eastern schools. The movements which are combined with a mantra are not arbitrary, but in harmony with the music and idea instilled in the song. Each organ of the body has its own spiritual aspect and is connected with spiritual processes; and each of their movements is connected with the mental and spiritual development of human beings. Subconscious movements are abundant in people. They are even more numerous in the lower kingdoms of Nature. There is something important to keep in mind: people with the new awakened consciousness will gradually introduce higher consciousness to the area of the subconscious life: they will aim to expand the horizon of higher consciousness. In order to facilitate the process of receiving and giving that which is being activated during the paneurhythmy exercises, one needs to remain consciously aware. Only then can an appropriate energy exchange occur between human beings and Nature. That is because the character of the energy which one sends and receives depends upon the alertness of one’s consciousness and the ideas which occupy one’s mind during the paneurhythmy exercises. For this reason, the paneurhythmy movements are not a mechanical gymnastics, but an activity in which all the forces of human nature participate: physical, spiritual, mental, and Divine. All of these forces are awakened and become active and creative during Paneurhythmy; they come into the receptive state. Therefore, in order to do the exercises correctly, one should think. A movement without thought has no meaning. Inner concentration is necessary. While performing the movements, one’s power lies in the ability to concentrate. While exercising, one’s concentration needs to be as deep as if one were alone! When we perform the exercises, Living Nature participates in the movements. She observes if rhythm and awareness are present. If these are lacking, she does not participate. If Living Nature does not take part, all the work is wasted: for then it is done mechanically! One example will show the importance of deep inner concentration for the accumulation of the creative forces of Nature in the human body. In the Scriptures, there is a story about a woman who has bled for 12 years. She is healed by touching Christ’s garment from behind. Christ said, ‘“Who touched My clothes?’ His disciples said to Him, ‘You see the multitude thronging You and You say, ‘Who touched me?”18 But Christ looked behind Himself to see who did it because he felt that energy had gone out of Him. That is because the other people had touched him mechanically, but the woman had touched him with the participation of her consciousness and with a deep faith that Christ would help her. When Moses raised his arms, the Jews were victorious in battle because power was emanating from his hands. Christ, too, extended His arm when He touched the leper to cure him. The arms are energy lines through which the vital forces flow. When you possess an awakened consciousness, a contact is made between your hand and the living forces of Nature, and the vital forces, prana, flow through each finger. If you are not mindful—if you do not believe—nothing will happen. As soon as you apply your will, these currents will immediately start to flow. When you connect with Universal Intelligence—the Divine Origin, this energy will come to you as a result. Now let us consider another, more profound aspect of the Paneurhythmy. It is intended to awaken the dormant forces and gifts innate to the human nature. We know that there are motor control centers in the brain: one controlling the movements of the legs, another one—controlling the movements of the arms, and so on. For every kind of movement, there is a motor control center in the brain. As the paneurhythmy movements are performed with conscious awareness, the motor control centers responsible for them are in the cerebrum. For example, the control motor centers for the movements of the arms and legs are in the upper part of the cerebrum; and when we move with conscious awareness, we activate the corresponding motor centers in the brain. We will consider three aspects of this subject: 1. Each center of the brain is connected with a particular Higher World and the Beings who live there. Every movement activates a certain center of the brain, and through that center we come into contact with a particular Higher World and with the Beings who inhabit it. Thus, through the movements of the arms, legs, and so on, we make contact with the Higher Worlds and with the Beings who live there, and this helps us to receive energy and assistance from these Realms. 2. When we move our limbs—arms, legs, and so on—we activate their related brain centers and more blood and energy to them, so in this way these centers are better nourished and developed. Each center also corresponds to a particular spiritual quality such as compassion, love, faith, hope, intellectual abilities, appreciation for music, the inclination for mathematics, and so on. And so, through these movements—if we do them correctly—we can work on the activating the efficiency of our brain centers: we can awaken them from their sleep and thus cultivate the corresponding endowments. Because of the paneurhythmy movements—if they are performed in accordance with the above-mentioned principle of correspondence—the nervous system becomes more refined, more sensitive and capable of vibrating in harmony with the higher Divine Idea of which each movement is an expression. 3. Each of these brain centers is related to a specific organ of the body. If the center is activated to its full capacity, it works beneficially for its related organs and they develop properly: strengthening, rejuvenating, and becoming more efficient in the regulation of its functions. It is very important how one moves, and to do so with awareness. Some say that it is of little significance how we move, that the movements in general are without purpose, often automatic, and mindless. On the contrary, each and every movement has a strong influence upon the nervous system and upon the entire spiritual life, as long as they are done with full conscious awareness of their meaning. If someone does a movement that is incorrect, abnormal, or negative, the associated center will be subjected to abnormal development and this will be reflected in the health of the organ involved and in the individual’s spiritual capabilities and endowments. As a result, Paneurhythmy brings not only spiritual growth, development of enlightened thoughts and feelings; ennoblement of our character; but also life, health, and energy to each organ of the body. It rejuvenates us! From the above, it is clear why we feel renewed and refreshed after performing the paneurhythmy exercises. It is obvious why an abundant life force begins to flow into all organs from these exercises and why they have such a deep psychological impact on us. First of all, these exercises awaken joy and harmony. One feels something has been gained and feels inspired throughout the day with new ideas, new impulses. One’s creative forces begin to flourish. Because in Paneurhythmy a close interconnection exists among movement, music, and idea, the sources of everything sublime and noble begins to flow through the exercises. Through them, one develops talents and endowments, noble moral values and becomes ready to open one’s soul to Good, Justice, Beauty, Truth, and to the Light that is coming into the world. One may use Paneurhythmy as a method for transforming one’s condition. When you feel discouraged, troubled, or in despair, Paneurhythmy can easily transform these feelings. Aesthetic feeling is also developed through Paneurhythmy. The feeling for rhythm and music are especially nourished. Beautiful is the scene at which the paneurhythmy exercises are performed: the rising Sun, the mountains illuminated by its rays, the songs of the birds above, the surrounding flowers and grass. All this makes one lively, inspired with noble feelings, and ready for work. While doing the exercises, we feel as if the whole surrounding has been transformed. You feel as if you were in a temple and everything around you is a part of its beautiful architecture. A curtain opens before your eyes, and you can see the inner aspect of the Paneurhythmy. They become a prayer for one’s soul which longs for Light, for eternal Good, for Love, for a new Reality. At such a moment, you understand that the movements are a prayer through which one comes to understand that the human essence is music, purity, and love. In such instances, one feels the innumerable bonds which connect us with the whole of Creation. Radiance emanates from the living circle, and its rays carry forth the calling of these souls. A circle of Light forms above them that rises upward to the Eternal, and the sincere appeal of these souls reaches out to every heart and speaks to them about the beauty of the new Life which is descending to us and is so close! This calling is not in vain. It will participate in the building of the beautiful edifice in the future of the humankind. The sacred appeal of every soul reflects in each awakened soul. When you put your thoughts and the ideals of your higher self into beautiful movements, you release life forces into the Universe that create and build. The living circle of paneurhythmy participants brings their souls into union. They become one. The obstacles and differences disappear, and they feel the eternal bonds which connect and unite them. Is it not the paneurhythmy circle a symbol of the beauty of the Unity which is coming? These wonderful moments experienced in Paneurhythmy bring poetry and wholeness into our lives. Through them, we learn to see in everything a new beauty that has not been known before. Why is it necessary to have a feeling of reverence, of sacred awe and sacred excitement while performing Paneurhythmy in order to gain something? Because in this way, through our higher consciousness, our noble thoughts and feelings, we come into accord with the higher powers of Nature and become receptive to them. At the end of the paneurhythmy movements, musical breathing exercises are done as well. The accompanying music is created especially for that purpose. During the breathing exercises, all sing together. People of the esoteric science can perceive their benefit. These breathing exercises are of immeasurable significance, when they are performed each morning before going to work. Their special significance becomes clear when they are considered from the esoteric point of view in relation to the prana and psychic energies which permeate the air. The influence of the breathing exercises is made stronger and deeper when accompanied by the music. Let’s consider the influence of the paneurhythmy exercises upon the outer world. When there is harmony and correspondence between movements and ideas, then we transmit through the movements these ideas to the outside world, to the whole of humankind. Through these movements, new creative forces and ideas, which will assist in the renewal and transformation of the world, are sent forth. All new ideas that are to be implemented in the existing culture, all these life-giving principles which have the power to renew and elevate humankind to the New Culture are included in Paneurhythmy. It is necessary to have centers through which the Divine may enter in order to move the world toward its renewal. One such center is Paneurhythmy. It has an enormous impact on people. Through Paneurhythmy the new ideas are sent in a miraculous way into the world and people receive their beneficial influence. Paneurhythmy is such a form which is capable of expressing the new ideas and transmitting them through music, movements, and words to human nature and all Creation! This is because the ideas which create and build the New Culture are expressed in the movements of Paneurhythmy. In its movements, are hidden the “word codes” which have a miraculous power that will awaken the new creative forces of the human soul, forces which are awaiting their unfoldment. The Universal Brotherhood of Light brings the new into the world in every way—through thoughts, feelings, and deeds, and through movements as well, in other words, through everything. In a comparable way, the wind blows and stirs the leaves, enabling the sap to move. Through these exercises the new ideas will permeate life, the world, and all awakened souls; and will start to give results. Therefore, Paneurhythmy is a method by which the new may come, a method of building a new world, a new Earth! All mentioned above shows that Paneurhythmy may become a powerful method for the education of the new generation, the community, and the whole nation. There will be a great impact if Paneurhythmy is introduced on a large scale. Its permeation into society will produce an enormous influence for its physical and spiritual renewal. Modern people are more open to accepting new ideas with something that is real and concrete and at the same time powerful and beautiful! The Paneurhythmy exercises are such a thing. These exercises should be introduced into schools and adult communities in order to prepare a completely new generation with physical health and endurance, noble thoughts, spiritual progress, strong will, initiative, and a strong nervous system. Paneurhythmy should be introduced and practiced in every town and city, every village. Awakened souls everywhere need to work for its introduction into people’s lives. In this way, we will become a society of people full of optimism, vitality, and creativity; people with noble hearts and enlightened minds, with free spirits and strong wills; people ready to become the builders of the new life on Earth. Paneurhythmy should be introduced in the schools and especially in the high schools. It will be wonderful to observe the students performing these exercises and then going to class refreshed, vitalized, and renewed! What a beautiful picture it would be if early in the morning at sunrise people from every town and village would go out and perform these exercises and then go to work with new ideas and thoughts. Now especially, society needs the impetus and awakening which Paneurhythmy can provide. Through it societies, nations, generations can be rejuvenated, and people can be physically and spiritually revitalized to new creativity. Here is a new method, among others, to help people in any society or generation to renew physically and spiritually, to develop their endowments. Paneurhythmy prepares for the blooming of a higher, more ennobled, more harmonious culture: the Culture of Light and Joy! The inner meaning of the exercises is presented with the description of each movement. Only their general significance is given in the above text because the comprehension of their sacred meaning presumes one’s deeper preparation and selfrealization. (12:61-75) __________________________ 10 Compiled and presented by Boyan Boev. 11 In the Southern Hemisphere Paneurhythmy will begin on September 22 because the seasons are reversed. 12 When this text was published (1938) only the first part of the Paneurhythmy was performed. Later the two other parts were added and finished in 1942. 13 Alexander Gavrilovich Gurvich (1874-1954) was a Russian biologist and medical scientist who originated the morphogenetic field theory and discovered the biophotons or weak biological electromagnetic waves. Georges Lakhovsky (1869-1942) was a Russian engineer and scientist. He published books and articles demonstrating that living cells emit and receive electromagnetic radiations. 14 Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953), was a leading philosopher of science, publishing works on the nature of scientific laws. Gaston Durville (1887-1971) and his brother Andre Durville (1896-1979) were French physicians who were two of the initiators regarding leading a life close to nature. They published many books, amongst them were those pertaining to the character and the health issues of the individual, as shown in the face; and on appropriate exercises for children. 15 See Genesis 1:1. (NKJV) 16 Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842-1909) belonged to the most influential spiritual teachers and philosophers of France in the 19th century. He introduces the concept of “Agartha” or “Shambala” to the Western world. 17 Erwin Shrodinger (1887-1961), Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), and Ernst Pascual Jordan (1902-1980) were theoretical physicists and key creators of quantum mechanics. 18 See Mark 5:30-31.

Paneurhythmy at the Fifth Lake in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria

BACKGROUND TO PANEURHYTHMY6 Even in the midst of a busy daily life we should recognize certain indications for the future development of humankind. One needs to possess keen awareness in order to distinguish the characteristics of the driving forces of the epoch among all the diversity around. These indications are only signs, but from them the clear-sighted person can determine the essential processes underlying modern society and foresee the coming future. Such an indication is Paneurhythmy7. Before discussing the background to Paneurhythmy, an explanation of its linguistic origin would be useful. Etymologically, “Paneurhythmy” is derived from three roots: Pan—meaning cosmic, universal, whole, all-inclusive. Eu—meaning true, supreme, the Source of everything, the essence, the real and substantial in the world. Rhythmy—meaning periodicity, proper regularity of movement and of every other external aspect of life. The prefix “pan” implies an expression of rhythm which is innate to Nature and is present in all of Nature underlying the total Creation. According to this etymological analysis, Paneurhythmy can be translated as Supreme Cosmic Rhythm. Explanations on the principles and laws of Paneurhythmy are given below. Paneurhythmy is a harmonious creative manifestation of the Divine Origin of the entire Creation. The living circle of Paneurhythmy is usually formed in the beautiful sacred hour of sunrise, when all of Nature is filled with joy and anticipation. Early in the morning, amid blossoming flowers and trees, the paneurhythmy movements begin. Who are the people forming the living circle of Paneurhythmy? They are those who strive to enter a world of beauty, poetry and music, freedom, and creativity. The following seven principles underlie Paneurhythmy: 1. The Principle of Universal Intelligence [Razumnost]8 It states that our Universe is consciousness-based and everything in it is infused with Reason and Wisdom. 2. The Principle of Correspondence This principle determines the existence of correspondence or analogy among all things. In the hermetic philosophy there is a saying, “As above, so below. As within, so without.” For instance, there are certain relationships between ideas, tones, forms, movements, colors, and numbers. A correspondence exists among the chemical elements and colors. We find phenomena corresponding to birth and death in various spheres of life. Other examples are: the ebb and flow of ocean tides, ebb and flow of energy with the change of seasons, ebb and flow of the inner human life, and more. 3. The Principle of Vibration or Movement Everything moves; everything vibrates. Nothing is absolutely still. Scientific facts confirm this. The vibrations of matter, energy, mind, even the vibrations of spirit differ in frequency. They increase in frequency from matter to spirit. There is a multitude of types and levels of vibrations according to their frequencies. Natural phenomena can be investigated from a vibration perspective as well as by other methods. For instance, one can study the vibration of light, sound, electricity, magnetism, the vibration of matter in its different states, in various organisms, and so on. 4. The Principle of Polarity or Duality Everything in Nature is dual and polarized. Duality is a basic Universal Law. For instance, masculine and feminine principles exist within Nature as well as positive and negative electricity. The Earth, the human body, plants, eggs, crystals, magnets, and others, all have two poles—they are polarized. 5. The Principle of Rhythm and Cycles Another Universal Law in Nature is rhythm or periodicity. Everything in Nature is rhythmic. For instance, there is a rhythm in the vibration of light, in the change of seasons, in the cycles of day and night, life and death, in the ebbs and flows of tides. There is also a rhythm in the movements of the planet Earth: the terrestrial axis makes fine little vibrations which form a whole circle around the poles for approximately twenty five thousand years. In addition, there are rhythm and periodicity in the movements of comets, in human life, in the historical process, and others. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect Everything in the world happens for a reason and has its rational cause. Sometimes we think that the cause is meaningless, but there is always a Higher Reason behind it. 7. The Principle of Unity or Connectedness All things in Nature are similar and related to each other on the basis of unity. For instance, although the chemical elements seem to be very different, they are all based upon electrons and condensed ether. In fact, all elements are only various combinations of the same electrons. The relationship is more obvious with things in close connection to one another, but with those which are further apart, the connection lies much deeper. From the second principle, the “principle of correspondence,” it follows that there is an interrelation between tone and movement. From this perspective, is the tone not a specific motion? The deep insight to this relationship is innate in every human being. If one follows the natural flow, one will find intuitively the proper combination of words and tones in music with physical movements. Whoever has a developed sense of rhythm and tone will unconsciously move their arms or legs while listening to music. Some children with a developed sense of rhythm, tone, and grace will even begin to make movements in harmony with the words and music when listening to songs. They may be very little—three to four year olds—but intuitively they feel the connection between music and movement. In such cases the Universal Principles and Laws of Creation manifest themselves through the children. If we try to associate any song with movements, we will experience the enormous impact of this transformation in which the words and tones become more vivid and obtain a new life. They begin to express a deeper unrevealed meaning, a new and unexpected content. Thus we begin to recognize the hidden potential of lyrics and music and we will begin to change and transform under their power. When combined, words, tones, and movements have a miraculous effect on the human body, on the human thoughts, feelings, and will. Paneurhythmy in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria They can touch deeply one’s core essence and activate one’s inner resources—both physical and spiritual. In such a moment, one begins to better understand oneself, as well as other people and the world around. Every form in Nature—a star or a stone, grass, flower, insect, human being—everything begins to speak to that person revealing its hidden profound meaning. The movements of Paneurhythmy are taken from Nature. Only natural movements are really powerful, full of energy and rejuvenation. The Laws for the paneurhythmy exercises are inscribed in the Cosmos. These exercises are based on the deep knowledge of forces behind the human organism and all Creation. In addition, the combination of the paneurhythmy movements with music, lyrics, and ideas is not coincidental, but based upon the second principle of being— the principle of correspondence. In these movements there is a strict, law-governed relationship between the ideas and music. Paneurhythmy is based upon the Law of Correspondence between ideas, lyrics, musical tones, and movements. In fact, only when movements correspond exactly to the words of the lyrics and musical tones, we can experience their rejuvenating effect. There is Paneurhythmy everywhere in Nature. The Earth is orbiting the Sun at speed of 29 km/sec. The entire Solar System moves toward certain constellations. The Earth and other planets, the Sun and other celestial bodies move according to the paneurhythmy Laws. The Earth has more than ten different movements. If we imagine them to be combined together, the result will be a beautiful form of motion. This is reflected by the life on Earth and it is manifested in all forms and processes around us. For instance, in the upward spiraling of plant shoots, one can see a reflection of the spiral cosmic path of Earth. There is harmony and rhythm in the entire of Creation. The whole Cosmos is permeated by music and motion creating a unified oneness. This is what Paneurhythmy presents. During the motions of the celestial bodies, the harmony of spheres takes place—that music which is permeating the entire Universe. The light also represents Paneurhythmy because it contains motion, rhythm, and music. It is proven in physics that the light from the Sun pulsates, in other words, it possesses a rhythm similar to that of the human heart. As the heart sends at regular intervals blood through the whole body, so the light from the Sun is sent periodically in smaller or greater quantity. The motion of the etheric light-waves is Paneurhythmy. The red, orange, yellow, and other rays of the solar light have their specific motions and own music which, when combined, create that great harmony permeating the whole Universe. The mechanical study of this phenomenon has not yet included data on Paneurhythmy. It possesses only facts which cannot be used in such a way as to substantiate Paneurhythmy. For instance, the mechanical method does not understand why the body should move with a certain song, and which movement corresponds to which tone, word, and idea. A more profound Science with a different approach studies the Laws of this correspondence. In the exercises of Paneurhythmy, the arms, legs, and other parts as well, the body as a whole, take part in the movements and postures which correspond to the words and tones. In Paneurhythmy, all geometric lines—straight, curved, wave-like, and mixed—are put into motion. The movements are of different character: strong, soft, and bright. In the soft movements, the curved lines are predominant; in the strong movements—the straight lines; and in the bright movements, the lines are a combination of both. There are also movements of electricity and magnetism, of cold and warm currents. There exist three general types of movements: mechanical, organic, and psychic. Mechanical or automatic movements are not conscious, organic movements are semi-conscious, and psychic movements are fully conscious and mindful. From another point of view, mechanical movements are those in which the mindfulness acts outwardly, not inwardly. Organic movements are those in which the inner self participates, but it is not yet a clear conscious thought. Conscious, mindful movements are those that are connected to a specific thought. There are no superfluous movements in Paneurhythmy; in other words, movements that are not conscious, mindful, or have a positive effect. Its exercises are most economical in motion, but also most efficient because they give the best results. In Paneurhythmy, every line of movement strictly corresponds to certain forces in the human organism and consciousness, awakening them for creativity and action. In this way, Paneurhythmy brings to life both physical and spiritual forces in the human being. Paneurhythmy is a science that regulates the physical, spiritual, and mental processes in us—a science of harmonious movements and their accord with human thoughts and emotions. Performing Paneurhythmy, one needs to think, feel, and move at the same time. If one’s thoughts and emotions are not present and do not participate accordingly in the appropriate movements, then the movements become mechanical only and do not exercise that powerful, revitalizing, and rejuvenating effect on the human body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit. The following basic cosmic Law is true here: the Law of Rhythm. It says that there exists one rhythm of the Whole, one pulse of Life in the cosmic organism. The human being is a part of that Whole. It is like a cog—like a small wheel—in the great edifice of the Whole. The rhythm, the pulse of the Whole, is transmitting and flowing through all parts. For instance, the heartbeat is not arbitrary, but is connected with the solar rhythm—there is a correlation between the heart and the solar rhythm. When we are in harmony with the Whole, then everything in our body functions smoothly because the cosmic rhythm and the cosmic pulse of life flows through our heart, our blood circulation and breathing—it takes part in the functions of all organs—and so they work properly. As a result, a person is healthy and fit to act and create on the great stage of life. Thus the rhythm and pulse of Nature are transmitted to everyone in a way similar to the transmission of the movements of a very complicated mechanism to every small cog or wheel which is a part of it. You may ask, “When is one in harmony with the Whole and in alignment with the cosmic organism, so as to follow its rhythm and pulse?” It is when someone is good-hearted, just, and mindful—when someone is a channel of Love—because Wisdom and Love are the Universal Principles reigning in Nature. They are wellsprings from which all other creative forces flow. Everything in Nature is Love and Wisdom! When we are in harmony with the Whole, the Universal Rhythm—the lines of the cosmic Paneurhythmy—flow within and manifest through us. From this explanation the following Law of Paneurhythmy becomes evident: the paneurhythmy movements can be performed with grace and beauty only when the individual is thinking and acting properly. Paneurhythmy energizes us; it organizes and harmonizes our inner forces, coordinating and directing them toward a life of conscious awareness. Therefore, it can be said that Paneurhythmy is a method for self-improvement and education of all intelligent beings. Paneurhythmy is the Sublime Law to be applied for the selfimprovement and education of both: individuals and society. In the ancient esoteric schools, the songs were accompanied by movements. It was known there that the combined use of words, musical tones, and physical movements could activate powerful inner forces. The chanting of certain sacred devotional affirmations has been accompanied by songs and special movements, which had an enormous effect on the performer as well. In the ancient esoteric schools, Paneurhythmy was used as a method for the spiritual growth of all disciples. They learned by doing rhythmic movements corresponding to specific ideas and combined with chanting. The esoteric schools exist not only on Earth, but also on other planets. All inhabitants on the planets and the Sun perform Paneurhythmy. Nature is not a dead mechanism. There is life everywhere in it. Intelligent and highly evolved Beings inhabit the entire Cosmos. Regardless of whether we are cognizant of it or not, a vast world of Beings with Infinite Intelligence exists around us. We are surrounded by their thoughts, activities, and life. And we need to become aware of this. Some of them have finished their evolution long ago; some are finishing it now. Humankind traces the bright path of enlightenment that was mapped out and traveled by them. In other words, human beings follow them on the beautiful path of advancement and enlightenment. Now is humankind’s turn to go on the great ladder of evolution. These Enlightened Beings are workers and assistants in the great laboratory of Nature. They present the intelligent forces acting in the universal realms with great harmony that is beyond words and with sublime beauty, extraordinary order, precision, and wisdom. We need to connect with their World so that they could transmit their ideas and impulses, their power and light to us. Whenever we attain inspiration, enlightenment, illumination, and flashes of great ideas, in fact we receive gifts from their World. In such moments we accept some of their elevated thoughts and ideas. It is especially through Paneurhythmy that we begin to open ourselves for all these gifts. We know that only when the antenna of the receiver is attuned to the transmitter, the radio station receives the expressed ideas or music sent through the ether. Through the harmonious performance of Paneurhythmy, we become capable of receiving the thoughts of these Advanced Beings and we come into contact with the Infinite Intelligence. Radio is a device and also an opportunity for international exchange. In the same way, Paneurhythmy is an opportunity for receiving the thoughts of these souls of genius. Paneurhythmy affects us in the following ways: 1. It connects human beings with the Beings of Infinite Intelligence. 2. It awakens our innate creative forces, abilities, and gifts. We need to know that human nature is endowed with great potentials and capabilities, which are still budding toward their awakening and blossoming. Human beings have not yet manifested their core essence. It is believed that humans are the highest manifestation of life on Earth. Stones are the lowest manifestation. Plant and animal kingdoms represent the intermediate stages. Nature evolves gradually toward its higher manifestation. The Great Universal Intelligence, the Divine, acts on Earth in all kingdoms of Nature, but from the outside. The Cosmic Oneness operates here inwardly only in the human being. The good in humankind is a manifestation of the Divine. When we think rightly and perform good deeds, we manifest the Divine Source through oneself. We should not separate from this Divine Source. It manifests itself through us, human beings, whether we believe it or not. Paneurhythmy awakens the Divine Essence in the human beings. 3. The ideas, music, and movements of Paneurhythmy permeate the entire human organism; and in this way, we become receptive for the rejuvenating cosmic forces. The Paneurhythmy exercises resonate in Nature and she replies to them. Her reply is represented by the uplifting and the light in the human mind, heart, and will; by the joy and elevation that flow through the human being. Through Paneurhythmy, one begins to communicate with the creative forces of Nature and speak her language. These movements are an introduction into the world in which all forces, capabilities, and opportunities of Nature are at our disposal. Paneurhythmy serves as a genuine, concrete, and—at the same time—beautiful method for the physical renewal and improving of the human thoughts, feelings, and power to act. The paneurhythmy movements call forth insights about the Universal Rhythm and the eternal music permeating every creative process in Nature. As with everything else, personal experience is the final criterion. With practice, we come to understand that every paneurhythmy movement awakens new inner resources and that we begin to feel rejuvenated. These movements infuse us with their harmony, rhythm, music, and sublime ideas. This makes us healthy, with strong, slender, and beautiful body. Paneurhythmy brings beauty not only to the human body, but also to one’s external movements and internal life: one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Paneurhythmy is an external, physical expression of that which is Sublime, Eternal—the great Reality. It connects us with this Divine Reality. It was mentioned before that in the ancient esoteric schools Paneurhythmy was used as a method for self-improvement. Yet, we need to consider that humankind at that time was in a period of involution; in other words: a period of decline from the world of spirit toward the world of matter. Today, humankind is in its evolutionary period of development which leads to ascension of consciousness. During the involutionary—descending period, humankind moved from the center to the periphery; and in the evolutionary period—it is moving in the opposite direction. During involution, people ploughed and sowed; during evolution, they harvest the fruits. Paneurhythmy at the I.D.E.A.L. Society, in Jaffray, British Columbia, Canada History is nothing else, but a manifestation of the human spirit. Human cultures change with the periods of humankind’s development. For instance, the architecture of every epoch is a manifestation of the creative forces which are at work at that time. For example, there is a big difference between the architecture of the past and now. The same is true for poetry and all other aspects of the human culture. The same refers to the Paneurhythmy too. In the past, it has been involutionary. Therefore, the rhythmic exercises in the ancient esotzeric schools are not suitable for the uplifting of humankind of today. The Paneurhythmy of today is evolutionary; it has a totally different character and effect. It corresponds to the modern epoch of humankind’s development. It is connected to the new creative forces which awaken in the human being. This new epoch that is coming represents the “cosmic spring.” The Earth along with the entire Solar System is going now into a new cosmic era that will bring favorable conditions for awakening the beautiful innate to the human nature. We need to know that all Cosmos is alive, and permeated by universal forces. And the cosmic space through which our Solar System is moving is important and significant. A New Culture of Light is emerging. Symbolically we may say that ice and snow are melting, flowers are blooming and the migratory birds are returning to bring new elements into our lives. Because we are at the dawn of the new, sixth generation—one of Love9, a new foundation for Paneurhythmy has been laid. Paneurhythmy is a current expression of the New Culture that is coming. The ideas of the new humankind are expressed in the music and movements of Paneurhythmy. And when one performs these exercises, the ideas and creative forces for the New Culture are sent out into the world. The participants in the living circle of Paneurhythmy awaken these new creative forces within themselves. Furthermore, they become a transmission center, sending these forces and ideas out into the world where they reach and find a response in every soul. Through these movements, the living circle of Paneurhythmy sends to the world a beautiful and heartfelt appeal for renewal, uplifting, and progress. Through Paneurhythmy one can create and develop new spiritual values to apply in life. The new humankind that is coming will be a manifestation of Paneurhythmy. The humankind of today has a material and objective knowledge, as it was studying Nature from outside, in other words, in an intellectual external way. The new, sixth generation is one of Love. Number six is related to Love. The forces and ideas of Paneurhythmy will become reality with the new humankind. Paneurhythmy prepares the path for its emergence. Paneurhythmy has a higher form too, which will be given in the future development of humankind. Paneurhythmy brings the new which should be introduced into the human culture. It should play an important educational and instructive role in schools. Through it, students will become physically strengthened. At the same time they will be inspired to have a meaningful life, full of creativity and noble ideas. All ideas of Paneurhythmy will come alive through the new generation. The noble pure seeds in their souls will sprout from their dormant state and grow. The introduction of Paneurhythmy at schools and communities of adults will give an enormous impulse for infusing our modern society with new cultural principles. It will give a new impulse; it will bring new possibilities and horizons for the young generation of students as well as for the older generations. This will be an important step toward recognition of the new which is now awakening in life like a beautiful dawn of the souls. The gymnastic exercises and choreography of today are a push forward, preparing the path for Paneurhythmy. Of course, Paneurhythmy cannot be learned only by reading books on the subject. For its study, special schools with a series of lectures and seminars are needed. In these seminars, which are to be offered in every city, town, and village, Paneurhythmy should be explained scientifically. Its basic principles and laws need to be studied; and at the same time, practiced. The offering of such seminars for children and adults at schools and in adult communities is now a necessity so as to infuse the present-day culture with new vital impulses. Such seminars are required because Paneurhythmy should be performed with an awakened consciousness in order to produce its powerful impact on people. Paneurhythmy should be a sacred activity in which the participants are vividly aware of, and deeply feel contained in every movement as well as the effects of it and the forces it awakes. The performance of Paneurhythmy should awaken a sacred feeling in the participants. The consciousness of the participants needs to be completely focused so that the living circle of Paneurhythmy may act as a receiver and transmitter of the great cosmic forces. Through the movements and rhythm of the music, the participants come into contact with the sacred, crystal-pure, powerful sources of Nature that are creating and constructing the coming bright future. The lyrics of the paneurhythmy songs are simple and easily understood. The paneurhythmy movements have a much deeper verbal expression which will be given in the future. In this epoch, there are ascending and descending forces that are in action. The ascending forces are like a newly born that is still weak and powerless, but the future belongs to it. In the epoch in which we live, we need to discern the ascending forces at present and perceive what is helpful for their manifestation in life. Paneurhythmy is in harmony with the ascending forces in human beings and in all living beings. These forces are implanted in the core of life. Paneurhythmy awakens these forces and puts them in action toward manifestation. What are the ascending forces? They are detailed as follows: 1. Goodness This is the solid foundation upon which every intelligent life is laid. Whatever is created upon the foundation of goodness is indestructible. Whatever is destroyable is not good. Goodness links human beings to the ever-lasting source of creative forces. The strength of goodness makes one as firm as a rock in the face of any difficulty or obstacle. It makes one strong enough to withstand and overcome everything in life in a triumphant way. 2. Justice This is the proper distribution of light, warmth, energy—all goods generously provided by Nature. They are gifts for everyone. Every being that comes to Earth has the right to life, Sun, and all other goods. Divine Justice is a precondition for true growth and blossoming—it provides the conditions for growth itself. Fluent growth, natural development, and spiritual advancement are possible only where justice exists. 3. Universal Intelligence It implies the expedient and proper use of light, warmth, energy, and the other blessings Nature provides. Only in the realm of Universal Intelligence is there fruit; and only there does fruit ripen. In other words, only in the realm of Wisdom can lasting and beneficial results be found. Universal Intelligence includes the great spiritual Wisdom, and Knowledge which presents the forces, laws, and methods of creative work. This includes a deep understanding of Nature and the essence of human beings and their path in life. Universal Intelligence is a manifestation of the harmonious combination of Love and Wisdom. 4. Harmony When all strings of an instrument are tuned harmoniously, beautiful melodies can be played. Only with such an instrument can the virtuoso player show his power of performance and vastness of his inspiration. In the same way, when the instruments of an orchestra are harmoniously attuned, the conductor can raise his baton and express through it the great idea which illuminates and inspires him. All beings represent the great cosmic orchestra. When harmony exists among them, the great Conductor will perform the music of conscious Life through this Orchestra and will manifest His own greatness as well as the beauty of His thought and His great Love. 5. Brotherhood and Unity among All The culture of Brotherhood among all nations is coming. They will all consider themselves as members of one great family. The powerful nations will help the weaker ones. All nations are organs of one cosmic organism. And as every organ has its assigned place, function, and special mission, so does each nation. This idea is currently arising in the consciousness of humankind. 6. Freedom Freedom is the removal of all barriers, limitations, and obstacles that obstruct the manifestation of the Divine essence in the human being to its full beauty, splendor, and power. Freedom is a discovery of the great treasures hidden in the human soul. In freedom, the soul takes charge. Freedom is the breaking of all chains, narrow-mindedness, delusions, and the entering into the unlimited horizons and opportunities contained in the human spirit. Freedom is the opening of beautiful prospects for uplifting and achievements. 7. Cosmic Love In its development, the human consciousness is transformed into Love. Cosmic Love embraces the above mentioned forces and contains them all. These forces are its manifestation. Today, Cosmic Love is emerging from within human consciousness as a new insight into the essence of Life. It implies overcoming death and entering Life, leaving the life of shadows and joining the Life of the One Great Reality, merging into the Source of Life itself. Love is what reconciles all contradictions and overcomes all obstacles. It is the ascension. Only that one who is pure in body, mind, and heart will experience the essence of human happiness and Cosmic Love. When people enter the realm of purity, the crystal life-giving flow of Cosmic Love will pour down through their hearts. Paneurhythmy is a musical graceful expression of the ascending forces in life. It supports their unfolding in the soul and in life. As a result, Paneurhythmy prepares the path for the new beautiful Life to come that is the Life of Freedom, Justice, Wisdom, Harmony, Brotherhood, and Cosmic Love. (22:9-30) ___________________ 6 As given by the Master. 7 Not to be confused with Rudolf Steiner’s Eurhythmy. 8 Razumnost, razum, razumen is used by the Master to denote various meanings: Supreme Intelligence, Mind, Consciousness, Pure Reason, Awareness, Wisdom, Love, Divine, angelic, rational, sentient, elevated, advanced, noetic, mindful, profound, and more. Therefore, this word has been translated in different ways according to the context. 9 The Master explained that so far there have been five stages in human civilization. According to him, at the next stage, the new—sixth generation, which he called also the people of Love, will emerge from all nations.

FORWARD The Master Beinsa Duno began to introduce the first ideas of Paneurhythmy in 1922 in the form of songs and movements, which later became the foundation of these exercises. The process became more systematic in 1927 and after some interruption, continued in the early thirties. A description of these exercises was published in 1933 by an unknown author under the title Nay-novite gimnasticheski muzikalni uprazhnenia [The newest callisthenic musical exercises]. (23) In this publication some of the movements were given with variations, which were eventually discarded as new elements were added. The Master performs Paneurhythmy at Izgrev. This brief historic review indicates that the Paneurhythmy as we know it today is not a ready made, fixed system, but a living collective work in progress guided directly by the Master Beinsa Duno. He was observing how every single detail was received, and how ready people were for the specific elements of the exercises. In this way, the exercises were tested in practice and modified for achieving the best possible effect. Beinsa Duno was transforming the exercises and creating the Paneurhythmy with the assistance of some of his disciples. Milka Periklieva (1908-1976), a kindergarten teacher, after receiving permission from the Master, prepared a description of the first 28 exercises of the Paneurhythmy. She finished this work around 1936, unfortunately alone, without consulting anyone. Later, Boyan Boev (1883-1963) added a text on the Principles of the Paneurhythmy and the finalized book was published in 1938. (12) This addition often led to the incorrect assumption that the entire book was prepared by him. To correctly present the movements of the exercises was not an easy task, however. The lack of choreographic knowledge can explain why the descriptions were incomplete, often imprecise, and sometimes inaccurate. Nevertheless, the work of Milka Periklieva as a foundation for further publications is really valuable and highly appreciated. Elena Andreeva (1899-1990), one of the three stenographers of the Master Beinsa Duno, shared in Izgrevat na Byaloto Bratstvo pee i sviri, uchi i zhivee [The “Sunrise” of the Brotherhood of Light sings and plays, studies and lives], v. 1: “The Master gave the exercises gradually, one by one. The process was the following: Firstly we, namely 5-6 sisters, were learning the movements directly from the Master in the Izgrev hall. Afterward, our group taught these exercises to the others. At the end, we went to the clearing outside and put all the exercises together. Usually the Master was sitting on a chair or bench observing us. At times he would arise to demonstrate some movements and then observe us again. When the exercises were arranged as a whole, the Paneurhythmy was organized by Boyan Boev under the guidance of the Master. “Katya Griva (1902-1974) knew the exercises the best. She had learned them directly from the Master and then taught them to the rest of us. The Master was also showing the exercises to that group of 5-6 sisters and Katya was also one of them. There was great enthusiasm and zeal in learning and performing them. I was assigned to write the explanation of the exercises. (24:552/646) The Master performs Paneurhythmy at the summer camp in the Rila Mountains. “Obviously, the development of the Paneurhythmy passed through many stages. The most exciting time was when the Master himself was showing the individual exercises in the hall. There, in the hall, were Katya Griva and few other sisters learning the movements from him. The Master also used a different approach: when listening to the melody being played, the sisters had to make their own choice for the best corresponding movements. In this way the Master was encouraging them to be creative. After a few of their attempts, the Master would then show the exercise as it should be performed. The Master also used another similar approach: he showed the exercise, but not its completion and the sisters were to find the final pieces. After they had offered their versions of the last part of the exercise, the Master gave them the final correct movements and then the whole finished exercise was studied and written down.” (24:555/649) There were many reasons why the Paneurhythmy was not performed in total harmony, especially after the departure of the Master Beinsa Duno in 1944; and many of the participants were making mistakes. Maria Todorova (1898-1976), one of the sisters involved in the process of Paneurhythmy, reminiscences: “Years passed. For us the Paneurhythmy was a celebration of the soul. The circles at Izgrev and in the Rila Mountains—we thought that this would last forever. One day the Master asked a sister to come and see him. Her name is Yarmila, Czech by birth. She had grown up in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was a ballet dancer and choreographer at that time. Yarmila went to the Master and he told her in the presence of a few other sisters, ‘Sister, you need to correct the paneurhythmy exercises.’ With this, the Master intended to say that she should describe them properly because they were not being performed entirely correctly. ‘But Master, I am not sure I can do that.’ ‘You can. We will send you helpers for that.’ These words of the Master remained deep in our minds and all those who were present remembered them. The Master departed from the Earth. Some time passed. Once while performing the paneurhythmy exercises an argument occurred. We stopped and looked at each other. We saw that some were making mistakes, but so were the others. We found that everyone was performing the Paneurhythmy according to what they felt was correct. In fact, the brothers and sisters did not know them very well—they had not learned them properly. Many years had passed since the time when each exercise had been learned separately and in the presence of the Master. Later on, newcomers were joining the circle and were repeating the movements of those in front of them. And that was how the differences came to be. Then we remembered the task assigned by the Master to Yarmila. Also in 1938, a book ‘Paneurhythmy’ was published. But the exercises given in it were not correctly and clearly described for beginners. It was confusing even to us. At that time we did not want to hurt the compiler, Boyan Boev. But now, after the Master’s departure, it was necessary to do something in order to perform the Paneurhythmy in a uniform way. The goal of Paneurhythmy is harmony in thoughts, feelings, and actions, is not it? Then I (Maria Todorova) invited Elena Andreeva and Yarmila Mentzlova, and we decided to start fulfilling the assignment of the Master. Yarmila as a ballet dancer knew how to describe movements precisely and in detail. However, we discovered that she did not know the exercises very well. Then we, Maria Todorova and Elena Andreeva, began to show them to Yarmila. We included also a young sister, Magdalena Ivanova Petrova, to serve as a model demonstrating the exercises. She performed them and we watched, making comments on each exercise—how it should be performed and how to properly describe it. In such manner we worked for a few months and finished this very important work for Paneurhythmy. Then we prepared a Protocol signed by Maria Todorova, Elena Andreeva, and Yarmila Mentzlova. Each one of us received a copy of the text with a description of the exercises. The photographer, Vasko Iskrenov took photos of the performance of each exercise, which I did with Yarmila. With each exercise we posed in a position characteristic for that movement and in such way the photographer took photos of about 80 poses. Afterward he prepared the numbered pictures. A new detailed text with descriptions and explanations of each exercise was prepared to help with the process of learning Paneurhythmy. Thanks to the pictures and the detailed description, we were sure that the problems related to Paneurhythmy would be solved. We were relieved that we three had finished the assignment left by the Master as it should be.” (24:213-214/246-247) Katya Griva also participated as a consultant in the description of the 28 paneurhythmy exercises given by the three sisters, as did some other sisters. Katya Griva’s participation in the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters” was very valuable. Another clarification on this subject is that the basic text of the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters” was created in the period 1946-1947. Afterward, the authors made some small additions and clarifications to the descriptions of the exercises in the years 1954-1955 which led to the existence of two texts of the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters.” (9) Maria Todorova also shared: “In 1934 the Master called and asked the poetess, Olga Slavcheva (1894-1967), ‘Sister, would you write the lyrics for our exercises?’ Olga was not sure whether she could get the lyrics in synchrony with the melodies without losing the rhythm. The Master smiled and said, We will help you. We will send you a Being [Asavita] to inspire you in writing the lyrics and to give you the words for each exercise.’” (24:210/243) In 1935 Olga Slavcheva, under the pen name of Asineta, published a small book “Paneurhythmy” presenting the lyrics of the exercises introduced so far, including the Pentagram and three others of the Master’s songs. (25) Regarding the 2nd part of the Paneurhythmy, Elena Andreeva shared in her reminiscences (24:554/648): “The ‘Sun Rays’ were given in 1942. When all gathered after work at Izgrev in the clearing outside, a huge electric lamp was lit and the exercises were given one after the other. At the end they were assembled, their description was written down, and together with the music given by the Master Beinsa Duno, and the lyrics written by Vesela Nestorova5, Paneurhythmy at Izgrev: the “Sun Rays” a separate book Slanchevi lachi—muzika, dvizheniya i govor ot Uchitelya [The Sun Rays. Music, movements, and words by the Master] was published in 1942. (11) Elena Andreeva continued: Paneurhythmy at Izgrev: the “Sun Rays” “There are pictures preserved of how we were learning the Paneurhythmy. While dancing, we were moving in a circle and the Master was sitting in a chair. Other pictures show how the Master was demonstrating the movements and we were moving behind him, repeating the movements. Sometimes the Master demonstrated the exercise to someone, who then passed it on to us; so, we performed and the Master observed. He did not correct us personally, but let us correct ourselves. His approach was very delicate and gentle. The whole Paneurhythmy was finished and put together in 1942.” (24:554/648) Maria Todorova also shared some profound words of the Master: “The Celestial Paneurhythmy has not been given to us yet. It is performed Above, in the Invisible World. It serves as an ideal for the human soul and spirit. Through it, the human soul and spirit can come in communion and harmony with the World beyond. It will be brought to Earth when the new humankind comes. The new human being will have a different body—a spiritual one. With the present physical bodies you cannot withstand the vibrations of the Celestial Paneurhythmy. The Paneurhythmy as we perform it is a Paneurhythmy of the human soul and spirit that have descended to Earth. And the other, the Celestial Paneurhythmy, is for the human spirit and soul Above abiding in the Invisible World, and searching for communion with God. We are searching for communion with God with our Paneurhythmy and the inhabitants of the Invisible World are searching for communion with God with their Paneurhythmy. When humankind unites, when the human being becomes an awakened soul and a living creative spirit, then the Celestial Paneurhythmy will be introduced onto the Earth. However, many years and centuries, in fact thousands of summers will pass until then. (24:210/242) In spite of the difficulties faced by the followers of Beinsa Duno in the years following his departure, the Teaching was kept alive. The Paneurhythmy and the Word he spoke were passed on not only in Bulgaria, but also in other countries thanks to the disciples Mihail Ivanov (Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov) (1900-1986) and Yarmila Mentzlova (1907-1983) in France; Anina Bertoli (1912-1989) in France and Italy; Jorge Kurteff (1916-2003) in Argentina; Veselin Dimitrov (1928-2008) in Macedonia; Viola Bowman (1911-2002) and Ernestina (Erna) Staleva (1914-2005) in the United States. The latter became my teacher when I came to the same area in Massachusetts where she lived. Erna had received a text copy of the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters” from Elena Andreeva with whom she had a close relationship and long years of correspondence. Based on this text, Erna prepared in 1993 a handout book in English describing the first 28 exercises (copyrighted later in the Library of Congress, USA). (26) I had the opportunity to dance also with Viola Bowman and Vesela Nestorova when Vesela visited the USA in 1992 and stayed at Erna’s home. These three performed the exercises as they remembered them from the time with the Master at Izgrev and similarly to the generally established practice in Bulgaria today. In 1983 Viola Bowman and Erna Staleva recorded a film where they demonstrated the 28 paneurhythmy exercises. In this film and also with her groups, Viola Bowman performed some of the movements differently to how she had presented them in her book on Paneurhythmy. (27) When I asked her about these discrepancies, she replied that as she had a great respect toward Boyan Boev and accepted him as the sole author of the 1938 publication on Paneurhythmy, she had just translated the descriptions from that book into English. Later, in a letter published in volume 8 of “Izgrevat” na Byaloto Bratstvo pee i sviri, uchi i zhivee she pointed out, “The First Day of Spring is one whole cycle and as such it is important to start it with the right foot. However, by following the music some movements start with the left foot, which is also correct.” (28:528) While working with Erna on the translation of the Master’s words, I was also involved in the preparation of a book about Paneurhythmy which included all three parts. The first 28 exercises in the book were based on the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters” and Erna’s reminiscences. In the process of comparing various sources I asked Erna, who was a close friend of Yarmila Mentzlova, why there were some differences between the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters” and the book she (Yarmila) published in 1984 in France. (29) Erna told me that before the publication of this book Yarmila persistently invited her to come to France and help with the description of the exercises; she felt she needed support in that task. As Yarmila wrote in her letter from Veynes, France, on March 29, 1979, “We renew our invitation and are waiting for you with joy. When will you come? Come as soon as possible. Please, answer me soon.” And in her letter from June 28, 1979 she continued to insist, “You know that a person alone cannot do a lot for the Master. But if we are a team, we can ‘move a mountain’... And do not apologize to me if you are not coming, but to the Master... Do not postpone the Divine; do not miss this important occasion for coming together this summer.. .I wish that your coming this summer will be arranged, it is very important.” Unfortunately, Erna was not able to go and felt much remorse about that. Later Yarmila was influenced by other people visiting France to change some of the paneurhythmy descriptions in this assignment given to her by the Master. This is not an unusual happening as Erna and I faced something similar in 1999, when we prepared to publish our book on Paneurhythmy in Bulgaria. (30) For this to happen, we were requested to change the position of the arms and feet in the text of the exercise “The Sun Is Rising” at “Zun Mezun.” Erna was not happy about this as she remembered it differently. Yet, in order to preserve the harmony and allow the book to be published, she yielded in the end for sake of the book itself. Unfortunately, this resulted in a discrepancy between the changed descriptions of the movements and the corresponding drawings of the figures, which were from the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters.” However, Erna continued to perform and teach “Zun Mezun” as before. Fortunately, years later, thanks to some additional sources that became available and consulting disciples from the time of the Master, this particular change was corrected and the movement was restored to its original description, reflected in the 2004 edition of our book on Paneurhythmy. All this shows that many factors have contributed to the existence of certain differences in the description and performance of some of the paneurhythmy movements. This in turn, led to discussions and publications on the various possible ways of performing the paneurhythmy movements. The existing differences appeared contradictory in nature and caused at times discord within and among the groups performing one or another variation. However, we need to remember that Paneurhythmy is a Language of Love and harmony. If we can speak this Language, the details are not so important. I realized that profound truth when at some point circumstances forced me to leave Massachusetts and move to other places. I joined groups where I observed some small differences in the physical performance of the exercises, but I learned to be a part of the whole and to synchronize my movements with the other participants. Therefore, when I am invited to teach Paneurhythmy, my instructions follow the Living circle in the Rila Mountains in Bulgaria, especially on the Festive Days (August 19-21). I also point out that although there may be some variations in the movements in other groups, the most important thing is the harmony and unity of the group. In the United States the first 28 exercises of Paneurhythmy are performed the most, and mainly on the weekends. We even encourage people to do the exercises alone, by themselves (they might invite an invisible partner to dance with them), in order to experience their positive effect on a daily basis. People can also do only the first 10 or 12 exercises finishing with “The Blessing.” This is especially advisable when a person is learning Paneurhythmy alone: to add new exercises after the previous ones have become familiar, until the whole set is learnt. It does not matter how many exercises are performed from the Part I, the 28 exercises, but one should always finish with “The Blessing.” However, if the “Square” is danced, it is advisable not to stop there, but to continue with the next three exercises: “Beauty,” “Agility,” and “Overcoming,” as they process the forces created by the “Square” and utilize the energies released after its performance. Often at Paneurhythmy workshops, for the exercises from the Part I that do not require interaction between the partners, the instructor shows these movements in a single circle. Sometimes small groups perform also in a similar manner in order to form a circle. As the Master Beinsa Duno said, “I will tell you where your mistake lies: you have placed the exercise upon your back in order to carry it. No. You need to ascend to the exercise instead, and it will teach you. Let it carry you! It knows how to turn your arms, how to lift them. Board the train, and do not tell it how to move its wheels. Which means: let the music move you, let the music guide your dance. These movements of Paneurhythmy, which are given to you now, are connected to the present epoch of humankind. They are taken from Nature herself and exist within Nature as a united whole. Paneurhythmy circle Paneurhythmy exercises are flowing and gentle—not complicated, but meaningful movements producing excellent results. Through these movements of inner concentration and awareness, one makes contact with Nature. Paneurhythmy is not just movements, but a conscious, mindful connection with the intelligent forces of Nature. Every force acting in Nature: light, thought, and others do not flow regularly—some of them flow in stronger waves, then there is a short break, and after that, again strong waves appear; so, there is a periodicity. Cosmic Rhythm exists throughout Nature, and through such beneficial rhythmic exercises we come into contact with the Cosmic Life. The more Cosmic Rhythm the music and movements possess, the more they connect us with Cosmic Life and the more powerful an impact they have upon us.” (1:54-55) I came across a story giving us the right approach to the differences existing in the paneurhythmy movements. In this story, a Teacher from the School of Light was walking with one of his students and they met a teacher from the school of darkness. The latter raised his hand and greeted them with the words, “There is no God.” The Teacher from the School of the Light also raised his hand and replied, “There is no God.” Then they continued peacefully on their ways. The student was puzzled and asked his Teacher, “Master, all these years you have been teaching us about God, and now you said that there was no God?” The Teacher replied, “God is Harmony!” We will conclude with the words of the Master Beinsa Duno: “The Advanced Beings from Above also perform Paneurhythmy; they make similar movements, so, if our movements are in accordance with theirs, we will connect with them and receive their blessing. In order to make this connection, it is not only necessary that our paneurhythmy movements be correct and rhythmic, but that harmony exists between the mind, heart, and will of the performer. The performer should possess Love, Purity, and an enlightened state of the spirit. “The way in which Paneurhythmy exists Above cannot be done here on Earth because humankind is not yet ready for it. We are given as much as is possible for us in its most accessible form.” (31:94) May we embrace the true, profound essence of these exercises and unite in the living harmonious Circle of Paneurhythmy! Antoaneta Krushevska ______________________ 5 Vesela Nestorova (1908-2002) recalled in her recorded interviews that the Master gave her the first two stanza of the “Sun Rays”: Zora se e chudna zazorila, tya zhivota nov eproyavila, which inspired her to accomplish his assignment for writing the lyrics to the music. The words of the Master published in Acordirane na choveshkata dusha [Harmonizing the human soul], v. 2 (1:62) pointed out that the “Idyll” Ti si meMamo chovekkrasiv rodila... were given by him.

INTRODUCTION The paneurhythmy movements, introduced by the spiritual Master Beinsa Duno, are simple, gentle, and can be practiced by everyone regardless of age and belief system. These exercises work on all levels of our wellbeing by promoting health and joy, bringing us into contact with the vital forces of Nature—those energies that give balance and harmony. This book contains the spoken Teachings of the Master Beinsa Duno on the inner meaning of the paneurhythmy movements and a detailed description of the entire three movement sequences of Paneurhythmy itself: the 28 Exercises, the Sun Rays, and the Pentagram.The first part focuses on processing the earthly energies and takes approximately 45 minutes with recorded music. Timing is more flexible when there are live musicians. In the 2nd part (approximately 10 minutes) we become part of the Sun Rhythm; and the triumphantly glorious music of the 3rd part (approximately 10 minutes) brings awareness of being part of the Cosmos. This edition has a documentary character and includes the description of the paneurhythmy exercises as presented by recognized authorities on them and reflects the tradition and generally accepted performance of the exercises in Bulgaria—the “living Paneurhythmy.” General guidelines for each part are based on lectures and talks of the Master and books on Paneurhythmy. (1-8)4 The first part of Paneurhythmy is based on the description given by three sisters who were taught by the Master in person: Maria Todorova, Elena Andreeva, and Katya Griva—the last participating mostly as a consultant. Part of the team is also Yarmila Mentzlova who, as a ballet dancer and choreographer, played a significant role in presenting the exercises in the most suitable manner. This description of the 28 exercises prepared by these first teachers, known as the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters,” has existed for a long time only as a sheet copy reproduced and handed to people. (9) Their description was used in later publications. (8, 10) The description of the second part of Paneurhythmy: the “Sun Rays”—is based on the only original known so far, published in 1942. (11) The impression that Vesela Nestorova has compiled this description was clarified by her that she is the author only of the lyrics to the music, but not of the rest of the book. The third part—the “Pentagram” is based on the description of the movements in the book published in 1938. (12) Additional sources providing more detailed description of the movements, explanation on the meaning and symbols of the Pentagram are also used. (8, 13-20) In places where the original descriptions are unclear or incomplete, additional explanations are included. These additions are minimal and are not in contradiction with the authentic description. This English edition includes, for the first time, pictures of Yarmila Mentzlova and Maria Todorova demonstrating the exercises as described in the “Paneurhythmy of the sisters.” (21) The existence of these pictures was known and finally, thanks to the family Gobeau from France, recently became available. On the back of some pictures Yarmila Mentzlova herself made notes which are included with their corresponding pictures. The publication of 1941, which includes both music and lyrics for the exercises, is used for the songs of the Paneurhythmy. (22) Exceptions are the exercises 18, 19, and 24 that are given in the original keys written for two violins. (12) According to professional musicians, who have been playing Paneurhythmy for many years, these three exercises have been always performed in these keys. The original lyrics in Bulgarian are by Olga Slavcheva and Vesela Nestorova.The text of the songs Think, Aum, and The Sun Is Rising in Part I, and the Idyll in Part II are given by the Master: some of the words are in Bulgarian, and others are from an ancient sacred language. The written description of the exercises cannot give a complete and clear idea of the movements. It is necessary to participate in the “living Paneurhythmy,” in other words, to join the groups performing these exercises all over the world. _____________________ 4 See the list of cited works in the Bibliography.

THE MASTER BEINSA DUNO “I am beyond time and space. Only my body is with you. Have you seen me? Do you know me? My life manifests in a Higher Dimension.” Beinsa Duno The Master Beinsa Duno Paneurhythmy at Izgrev Amid the doubts, despair, conflicts, and chaos of our times, the presence of a Great Soul brings Light, dispelling the darkness. The spiritual Teacher Beinsa Duno gave knowledge of the coming of a New Culture based upon three principles: Love that brings Life, Wisdom that brings Light, and Truth that brings Freedom. Beinsa Duno with a secular name of Petar Konstantinov Danov1 was born in the village of Nikolaevka in the Varna district of Bulgaria on July 11, 18642, fourteen years before Bulgaria’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire. Danov’s father was active in the movement for national revival and spiritual freedom. He was an enlightened priest who was the first to read the Gospel in Bulgarian instead of Greek, as was the rule at that time. Petar Danov obtained his secondary education in Bulgaria and his higher education in Theology and Medicine in the United States. He returned to his own country after an absence of seven years and engaged in systematic studies of the phrenology of Bulgarian people. It was to them that he presented the Divine Teaching of Love. In 1900 the Master3 summoned his first three disciples: Penyo Kirov, Todor Stoimenov, and Georgi Mirkovich, M.D., to a meeting in Varna in July. It was the First Gathering of the Brotherhood of Light, which he called: meeting of the Chain. After moving to Sofia in 1906, he began delivering talks, sharing the Teaching. When Beinsa Duno gave these talks, he lived in one of the poor outlying quarters of Sofia. He had a basement for a dining room and a small room above it where he used to speak sitting at a simple table. The room was full when he spoke, and the window was open so that the people filling the front yard could hear him as well. They were there, listening even when it snowed. One woman who was in attendance stood enraptured in his words, and when the lecture was over, she could not lift her feet from the ground, for the heels of her shoes had frozen. At that time, one of Beinsa Duno‘s devoted disciples described his outward appearance as follows: “A man of average stature, about fifty years of age, with slightly graying hair, gentle eyes, composed, quiet, and with a profound expression on his face. His calm was conveyed to me. He seemed to emanate some unearthly purity. He never called the Word he gave us his own. Since then I have seen, understood, and known what humility means!” On March 29, 1914, the Master began to give regular Sunday lectures to the general public in Sofia. “Behold the Man!”—Beinsa Duno used this profound phrase from the Bible as an opening. These lectures were recorded in short-hand by his stenographer disciples and published in the series called Sila i Zhivot [Power and Life]. They present the fundamental principles of the Teaching he brought, marking the coming of a new cosmic cycle known as the Age of Aquarius. In the words of the Master: “The entire Solar System has entered a new sphere of Spirit. Until this time, Earth has been in a decline, but is now on the path of ascension.” Eventually, his followers grew to include many thousands in Bulgaria and abroad. In 1927, a settlement called “Izgrev” [Sunrise] was established near Sofia (today a residential area of the city) as an intentional spiritual center. He settled permanently at Izgrev, where he talked on various subjects in a specially built hall. The Master established a school which, for the first time, offered an esoteric studies class for youth, a general esoteric class for adult disciples as well as Sunday morning lectures at 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., which were open to the public. Music held a special place in the life of the community. The Master was a great musician and composer who created many spiritual songs and melodies that he would play for his followers on his violin. Playing musical instruments and singing was an integral part of the community’s daily activities. He also introduced the Paneurhythmy as a method for spiritual development and continued evolution of humankind. Paneurhythmy is a system of gentle meditative movements set to music and performed outdoors during the spring and summer months. The Master encouraged people to perform Paneurhythmy and to exercise in the mountains, where the cosmic forces may be received in their purest state. The Master never failed to address the ordinary things in life. In his lectures, a special place was devoted to nutrition, the causes of disease, the function of marriage and parenthood, and the education of the coming generation. As he lived during the time of the First and Second World Wars, the Master would explain the causes of those events and offer methods for avoiding further destruction. A total of 184 books containing his lectures and musical works were published between 1896 and 1948. His lectures and talks represent the work of half a century. It is remarkable that these lectures, which were held so long ago, bear all the features of contemporary presentation. They begin in a simple and clear manner with a fundamental concept and then expand into large waves that touch and awaken one’s higher self. In the Master’s words: “From now on, we need to connect our minds and hearts with those of all people on Earth because salvation lies within our common prayers. There is a Supreme Consciousness which interconnects the consciousness of all people and, in this manner, creates an inner intimate connection among them. This Consciousness is a Candle in which all things are illuminated and manifest their true meaning—the meaning they inherently possess.” The Master also said: “There are souls in the world who want to grow and live with awakened, higher consciousness. It is for them that great Masters come down to Earth. They are also helped by all loving and enlightened Beings who are working in the world.” The Master ended his earthly path on December 27, 1944, Sofia. _____________________ 1 The names of the Master are given according to the currently used European ISO 9 system for transliteration of the Cyrillic characters into Latin ones. You can see the same names given differently in other publications and references: Beinsa Douno—Peter Deunov/Dunow/Dunoff. 2 This is according to the Gregorian calendar for the 19th century (June 29 by the Julian calendar— Saint Peter’s day). 3 The Bulgarian word for Master is Uchitel which means Teacher of Divine Wisdom.

Conflict in Consonance "If the right eye seduces you, take it out." "If your right hand seduces you, cut it off." (Matthew 5:29, 30) The chapter that was read is related to the consonance and contradiction. “If the right eye seduces you, take it out; if your right hand seduces you, cut it off, if you are hit on one side, turn the other. “ For the contemporary people this language is misunderstood. If Christ talks to them in this way today, few will understand Him. Today, there are many churches that serve in the name of Christ and sing songs to Him but if He comes and starts talking among his followers as he did 2000 years ago, they will take Him for an unbalanced man. Whoever wants to listen to Him will come across great contradictions. What are the internal contradictions in a man owned to? All people maintain that they have come out of God but when they are spoken in the language of love they do not understand what they have to do. They ask themselves: How is it possible for a sheep to give birth to a wolf or for the wolf to turn into a sheep? All talk about brotherhood, equality, self denial but when it comes to applying these ideas, they get confused and do not understand anything. — Why do they not understand? — Because some self gain is hidden in the foundation of their life; they serve God but there is a self-interest in their serving: They want to gain food through their serving. Others become traders with the only aim to become rich — again self-interest is guiding them. Indeed, when a man is living, he needs to have food but it is important that he works with love. Otherwise, he will always apologise that his surrounding or external circumstances make him behave in a way that he doesn’t want. The wolf justifies himself too for eating the sheep because this is his skill. When he is in a difficulty, he says: If a man takes the skin of thousands of wolves and foxes, don’t I have the right to take the skin of at least one sheep? When the wolf attacks the sheep they immediately shoot him; when a man kills his neighbour in a time of war, he is not only uncondemned, but he receives a reward, cross for bravery. You will say that this is meant to be — in time of war, people to kill each other. Who has allowed the war? Which Divine law is this written in? It is talked about the war in the Moses’ teaching but in the Christ one, the war is not accepted. There is such a difference between Moses and Christ as there is a difference between the Earth and the Heavens. Therefore, when the Christians fight, they need to confess before themselves too and before the whole world that they act under the Moses’ law and not under the law of Christ, which presupposes an absolute application of love. Give the respective name to each of your deeds. Moses says: ‚eye for eye, tooth for tooth.“ Christ says: If they hit you on one side, turn the other“. Modern people live according to Moses’ teaching — the old culture. Moses says himself: “ God will advance another prophet — higher than me. Whoever does not serve this prophet signs himself his own death sentence“. Moses has talked about Christ and has himself confessed his teaching is imperfect. After all this, people ask themselves why if they have come out of God they don’t live well. Very naturally, people who do not live well have not come out of God. A mother calls on her enemies with the words: Let me give birth, then you will see! ’ She expects to give birth to a son who will revenge for her. Can this son be born of God? By inheritance, he will follow his mother or father’s line. The law of heredity is not understood by all. The Egyptians have believed in the resettlement of souls, Hindus in reincarnation while the contemporary scientists — in the heredity. These are three teachings with opposite meanings. The heredity is a law of the physical world, reincarnation is a law of the soul, while the resettlement of a soul is a law of the spirit. In other words, the Egyptians studied about the descending of the Spirit, the Hindus — the evolution of the soul, while the contemporary scientists — of heredity. They talk about land, houses, vineyards, property, inheritance of gifts and abilities. “ If the right eye seduces you, take it out and throw it“. In Genesis, it is talked about the serpent that seduced Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit in order for her eyes to get opened. Indeed, Eve ate from this fruit, she gave Adam to eat and from this moment their eyes opened. They looked upon the world, i.e. the temptations in life with their right eye. It is said that Adam and Eve were naked in the paradise; in fact, it is not so. Another thing is hidden in the nudity it is talked about, it is not an external nudity that is being understood. And for the development of the humankind, scientists give different explanations but the truth is far from them. In its development, the humankind has passed through the path of evolution but what it is expressed in, only few know. It is not enough to say that the evolution is evolution. Children know this too. And the most stupid Bulgarian girl knows to unwind the canvas but this is not yet an evolution. Some will say that the evolution has created everything. If the evolution was capable of creating, it will be a powerful force that changes, re-creates and transforms everything. In fact, the evolution is a process of the human spirit. Therefore, when it is talked about evolution, we need to understand it in its essence without attributing qualities to it, which it doesn’t possess. If we say that the evolution is a law of development, this is enough and there is no need of further explanations. What does a law mean? When are laws created and where exactly? Laws exist in both life and nature. The law exists there were the beings are not very cultural. Laws are created against thefts, crimes, the iniquities of people. Laws exist in nature too; there all beings from small to big ones live in fight and extermination amongst themselves. Such fight exists between people too. Despite that, everywhere it is talked about culture. A culture exists between people but this is a culture of the money and capital. This culture is related to Moses’ teaching. Therefore, there is something in common between capital and the Old Testament. They are synonymous. That’s why Christ says: “It is easier for a camel to pass through needle ears than a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. ’ Under the ‚Divine Kingdom“ people understand something completely different from what Christ understands. On the whole, the Christ teaching is even today interpreted somehow. If Christ comes today among people, he will be astonished by this interpretation and by this which they call love. What love really is can hardly be defined but it is easy to understand. The child also understands love but it cannot define it. Love is the only force that can do everything a man wishes for. It gives impetus, impulse, aspiration. Without love, the will cannot do anything. Everything that a man loves can be realised. The ancient Hermetic school provides an exact definition of love. Hermes, in his philosophy explained all contradictions in life through seven principles. The contemporary science accepts only two of these principles: the principle of mentalism, according to the theosophists — the principle of manas, according to the occultists — the field of the mental world; that is a principle that defines the forms of things. The second principle is the field of the cardiac world, i.e.. the world of feelings, the vibrations through which the notion of light is explained. The other five principles stand out of the modern science. It does not deal with them but it still gives them the necessary names. For example, it calls the third principle ’a principle of the similarities of things’. The fourth principle is seen as a principle of polarity of the forces in nature. It is the reason for the existence of positive and negative forces. The fifth principle is the one of the tides. It maintains that everything that takes place in nature is exactly defined as the tides are and that a rhythm exists everywhere. There is an precisely defined rhythm, a tact in the music too. Music and tact do not exist without it. The sixth principle is the one of the causality and consequence of things. The seventh principle is the one of gender, i.e. male and female sex. The evil in the world came about with the revelation of this principle. Therefore, evil exists as a consequence of the men and women. When it is spoken about men and women, we do not understand their forms but the principles of a man and a woman as opposite forces in nature. Under a woman’, the creative principle is being understood. In order to build something one needs to collect building material: bricks, lime, sand, beams, tiles etc. When a house is built, some enjoy, others suffer. A man enjoys his new house while the trees, the stones and the plants are grieving. The workers do not enjoy much either. It happens some of the workers to fall out of a house and get maimed. The same happens with the creation of a human life. The parents are happy that a child was born to the world but many creatures around them are mourning. Therefore, the good of some is not good for all. This is the reason for the hatred between people. The disagreements between brothers and sisters, between religious and secular people are due to the same reason. Two shepherds are quarrelling because one of them has taken one of the sheep of the other. Two men are quarrelling because one of them has taken the beloved woman of the other. Therefore, Christ says: ‚If the right eye seduces you, take it out’. Which is the right eye in the man? — It represents the physical world. In order not to get misled by the appearance of things and to understand them, a man needs to know the laws of the physical world. Whoever does not understand these laws always fails. An acquaintance meets him and tells him that he will provide for him and will put his things in order. He believes but in the end he remains cheated. An unknown person enters the home of a good man and falls in love with his wife. In order to conceal his feelings, he plays the role of a noble person who wants to help the whole family. Eventually, the good man sees that the unknown person has had a solitary purpose to use his wife. This man has had bad intentions, which he has concealed with the word virtue’. To conceal bad intentions with something good speaks for bad traits of the character of a man, which are manifested even today by atavism. In America, in the distant past, a famous doctor lived who suffered from the mania to cut people. He helped a lot of ill people but many of them suffered from his knife. When he fell under the influence of his weakness, he took out his knife and cut the patient into pieces. The first victim of his abnormality was his secretary. At one point, he decided to cut in pieces the members of a family in whose home he was a home doctor, but here he was caught and handed over to the authorities. It turned out that he killed 25 people through cutting them into pieces. The judges asked themselves what the anomaly of the doctor was due to. They turned to special scientists who have told them that his weakness is hidden in his ancestors and predecessors. By inheritance, he has received this anomaly from them and today by atavism, he manifests it. This is why Christ says: If the right eye seduces you and you have the desire to kill your brother, you better take it out. If your right hand seduces you to commit a crime, you better cut it off. “ To take your eye out and cut your hand off are words that should not be interpreted literally. A man can take his eye out and still be seduced and commit crimes. What do the right eye and hand represent? — The eye represents the human mind, while the hand — the human will. Therefore, if the mind seduces you and you desire to commit a crime and direct your will in this direction, stop them and exert influence upon yourself in order to protect yourself from the evil. You will say that the wolf always remains a wolf, while the sheep — a sheep. This is not a positive philosophy. The wolf is a wolf, he strangles the sheep, but he can live like a sheep. The qualities of all animals are concentrated on a man. It depends on the man whether he will give priority to some or other qualities. When he works on himself, a man can cultivate his weaknesses and passions and ennobles them. Hardly can one cultivate and ennoble the animal outside the man but it can be easily cultivated in the man. This requires consciousness and sincerity in the work. Animals present stages of development, which a person has passed and still passes through. That is why, modern culture is divided into a "wolf culture" and "sheep culture". Modern people have to study the animals as symbols and benefit from them. When you study the horse, you notice that his hind legs resemble the human hands. In order for this feature to be re-cultivated, the Creator turned the hind legs of the horse into the hands of a man with which he can work and go forward. Indeed, a man is deprived of the art of kicking. Instead of kicking he has put his hands into work: he is lifting and putting the hoe down all day long, pulling the plow and handling the land. While he realise the service of his hands and works with them, one helps his neighbour to elevate. Once he forgets what the service of his hands is, he immediately applies his old craft — kicking, and pulls his neighbour down. This is atavistic, a remnant of the "horse culture". That is why, Christ says, "Cut off your right hand, which applies the old art — kicking. Stop kicking and start working. Raise your neighbour upward, while you alone go forward! "" If the right eye seduces you, pull it out and stay only with the left — the eye of love. "The left eye relates to the Divine Love, which drives people up and forward. Many ask me what religion I preach. I do not preach any religion but talk to people about a good life. My science is about the life, which people have lost. All people- scientists and stupid ones, young and old want to live well. The mother wants to have good children- children to have good parents etc. This wish is natural. However, noone can be good if they do not have life in themselves. Therefore, Christ says: I am the Path, Truth and Life. And Christ has not preached any religion but has talked about the path, truth and life, which a man needs to strive for. When they asked Christ which God to worship, He responded: "A day is coming and now is, when neither in Jerusalem will they worship nor in this forest, but will worship God in spirit and truth." This is not a religion but service to the true God in spirit and truth. You will say that this view destroys old ideas. The old is ruined by itself. Every new culture demolishes the old one. Every man needs to give up the old in order to build something new — more beautiful and strong. And the old religion will be destroyed; a new religion will come — the religion of work. The future is its. The new is distinguished from the old in that it gradually gets rid of the lie and wrong perceptions. Today all preachers pray to God to bless the weapons of their people. They have the right to pray for their weapons but as nationalists and patriots not as Christians. Christ has not supported the war, therefore, noone has the right in His name to pray for a blessing of the weapons and success in the war. Many hides behind Christ, justify their deeds in His name and say that in some verses it is said about the war as an inevitable process. This is not true. Christ has nowhere spoken about the benefit of the war. To the contrary, Christ says: ’Love your enemy. Do not object the evil’. “If the right eye seduces you, take it out.“ This means give up your perverted mind that has put your thoughts, feelings and deeds in a wrong direction. This mind has worn out your heart and the strength of your body. To give up your perverted mind is in the order of things. "If your right hand seduces you, cut it off." You say about someone: He is my right hand, I can not give him up. If this person has your interests and your own good into consideration like his ones, you should not give up on him. However, once he / she commits crimes, when he / she is harming you, you have to give up on him / her. If your right hand does crimes, you necessarily must give it up. And society does not tolerate such people. If it meets a man with a perverted mind and distorted will, it (the society) expels him. To throw the person out of yourselves, that is to say, not to succumb to his influences. If you have to succumb to something, it is love. Only love has the right to influence people. Whoever lives according to love’s laws, he is a good man. "Whoever lends himself to unloving is a bad man. Who is a good man? "Whoever remembers the good and forgets the evil. If you tell 100 good words to such a person and one bad word, he will remember the bad word and will forget the good ones. After all that, he thinks that when he departs to the other world, he will be accepted with honours. No, the higher world does not accept people with perverted minds, and hearts, with a right eye and hand that get seduced. Time reveals a man best and defines him either in the category of the good or the bad. In the future, the scientists will have labs in which they will define whether a man is good or bad according to his sweat. They will make such analyses that the nowadays scientists do not suspect. A science called: ‚bovarysme’, through which they also recognise who is a good and bad person exists. This science studies the beam that comes out of the human eye. This beam never lies. The beam that comes out of the eyes of the people whose thoughts and wishes are elevated is above the plane and in the upward direction. In bad people, this beam is below the plane and in the downward direction, to the ground. Watch this beam and do not be fooled by man's beliefs. Whatever his beliefs may be, when the beam of his eye is above the plane, he is good. If the beam is below the plane and down, he is a bad person. Even if he passes for a saint before the people, he is bad and cannot be relied on. When you study the ‚bovarysme’, you come to the conclusion that three categories of people exist: The first category live for God and for everything He has created; They are a 100% good people. The second category live for their neighbour and for everything around them. They are 50 % good people. The third category live only for themselves; they are 25% good people. If the parents do not treat their children well, they are not in their place. If the children do not respect their parents, they are also not in their place. If the man and the woman do not have a good relationship, they cannot be called ideal people. It is said for such people that their right eye and right hand seduce them. Their mind is distorted and resembles a snake which can surprise them any time. A snakesmith in Europe had been making different attempts, which he became famous with. It sufficed he said a few words to the snakes in order to make them wrap around him and upon his order to unwrap and go to their places. Among the snakes there had been one big and dangerous snake, which had also obeyed his orders. However, one day when she wrapped around him and had to unwrap, she didn’t listen. Instead of unwrapping herself, she pressed him more. When the snake smith’s bones cracked, the snake unwrapped herself and went to her place. Therefore, Christ says: 'Take out the head and tail of the snake from yourself, i.e. from your life and cast them’ The head of the snake is the right eye, while the tail is the right hand. Study your life and you will yourselves come to terms with this comparison. Many cite the verse, which i am talking about today, but they understand it as much as they understand the light. Everyone talks about the light but as a reflection of something. You see a glass and say that it is a glass but you don’t think how many refractions the light has gone through until you receive the image of the glass in your eyes. The photographer as the light too goes from one object to another, makes photos and then sells them to the people as real images so that they can study them. These are not real images but shadows of the objects. Every object needs to be in a natural position as are the leaves, branches, blossoms and fruits of the trees. Only in this way will you have a clear idea about it. One thing is required from the modern people: conscious attitude to things. Someone enjoys the flowers, their colours and scents and says: All this is created because of me.- It is not so. The colours and scents of the flowers are created for the attraction of the insects through which their pollination and fertilising takes place. If in this case, you can also use the colours and scents of the flowers, you are free to use them but you have no right to think that they are created for you only. Some theologians support the idea that the world is created for the man. It is not so. It has to be known which world it is talked about. If you are talking about the world created by man, with his own understanding, indeed, this world is for him. If you are talking about the vast, infinite and great world in which millions of beings are moving, it is not created for the man. Do you think, that the many planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus are interested in the man? Do you think the creatures living on these planets are interested in the work of Bulgaria and what is happening now in Europe? The higher world is interested in the works of Europe insofar as it sees in them the fulfilment of God's will. Thus, each person is interested in a prominent singer or musician as long as the song or music satisfies his soul's longings. If the deaf and ignorant come to the concert, they will not stay there. He will look here and there and will leave the concert. What interest does the madhouse represent for the healthy man? When he goes in it, he will experience fear and horror and will immediately come out. There are people in the madhouse each of whom live with their own idea. Some of them collect straws, put them in stacks, transfer them from one place to another until they get tired and go to sleep. They start the same job on the next day. Many of the modern people do similar kind of work, they transfer the straws from one place to another and when the end of their life comes they say: Thank God, we fulfilled our mission on the Earth in a due way. Now, we calmly leave this world and are going to God. Whoever was meant to go straight to God was not going to be sent to the Earth in order to study. A man comes to the Earth many times until he is ready to become an inhabitant of the Heaven. The Heaven is a place for love, wisdom and truth and not for gathering of straws and money. The inhabitants of the Heaven represent a big family, which members aim at applying the love and self sacrifice. To deny yourself, that is, to give up your excess load. That is why Christ says, "If you have two shirts, give one to your neighbour who has not one." It is terrible when the whole world is starving, while you think of your prosperity. Whoever thinks of himself looks like Nastradin Hodja, who says, "When my wife dies, half the world is lost to me; when I die, the whole world is lost. ’ It is time for people to deal with their contradictions and cease to deceive each other. Both the simple and the intellectual people need to get close to each other, to become brothers to each other. The people represent the men, while the bishops, priests and teachers — the women. Who spoils the people? Its servants. The woman has spoiled the man, while the man — the woman. You will say that the woman is a scary thing. Whatever is the woman such is the man too. May all men and women, priests and teachers, rulers and ruled unite and work together to set their people right. The new time excludes the lie. No lie is allowed. Whoever lies, whoever transgresses God's law, defines his own place, separates himself from the society of good and honourable people. The world needs healthy people, with bright minds and noble hearts. If you see people with their eyes taken out and their hands cut off, whether they are teachers, clergy, fathers and mothers, public figures, you cannot rely on them. Stay away from someone whose right eye is taken out and right-hand cut off. Future culture will include people with a healthy left eye and a healthy left hand. Their right eye and right hand will be replaced by new, healthy ones, but they will work under the impulse of the left eye and left hand. Once they asked the heart why it has gone to the left side of the chest. It responded: I chose the left side in order to show that i have nothing to do with the right hand and right eye of the man. When people are told about their deficiencies they say that they don’t want to listen to the words of this or the other one. If you don’t listen to the words of your friend, you will listen to the words of nature. Its language is strict and merciless. When it judges someone it stretches him on the ground and starts to gradually take off his fast, muscles and when she sends him off to the other world, it asks him: where did your philosophy go? When he cannot answer, his relatives say’God forgive him. — This is not a solution to the question. God forgives a man when the man alone undertakes to rectify his mistakes. This man has taken the house and field of his neighbour and after that he wants to be forgiven. Give back the house and field to your neighbour and you will be forgiven. While you do not rectify your mistakes, noone will forgive or excuse you. For thousands of years, people are all the time sorry for their mistakes without rectifying them. You will say that God is omnipotent and merciful. It is true, everyone has tried the Divine mercy and goodness but he requires from people to rectify their mistakes, i.e. to pay their debts. And today everyone asks themselves why death exists. Very simple, death is a tax collector that makes the debtors pay their debts. It is just and does not make any exception for anyone. When death arrives, everyone gets scared. Death comes to liquidate with people’s sins and crimes, i.e. with their debts. This is why, it is better for a man to be scared from the sin and not to sin and not to be afraid after he has sinned. I consider for good and honest those people who are afraid before they have committed a crime. A true hero is this one who does not run away from his debts but recognises and starts paying them. He turns to his neighbour and says: Brother, I committed a crime against you. I realise my mistake and am ready to accept the punishment, which i deserve. — What will the society say for this man? — To say and think whatever it wants. It is important what God thinks and says. Therefore, it is said in the Scripture: ’ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.’ Many ask themselves why Christ has talked more with parables and symbols.- Christ’s aim has been to tell people the truth, to show them the right path without insulting them. However, despite that, they could not bear Him and crucified Him. He was saying to the priests: “You are holding the keys from the Heaven and neither you enter it yourselves nor do you let the others in. So are the modern Christians preparing for the Heaven, without responding to the name true Christians’. In order to bear this name, you need to penetrate the great teaching of Christ with a deep understanding about everything that happens in the world and preparedness to rectify every mistake of yours. The nobility of the human soul is hidden in this. Many are people’s delusions due to another delusion that the man is the crown of the beings, that he is created in the image and likeness of God. True men, created in the image and likeness of God are in Heaven, and Adam and Eve made of mud are still on the Earth. Some maintain the idea that the soul is made of blood, which after death is being spilled over the ground. Indeed, the flesh rots, the blood is spilled, but the living breath neither rots, nor does it spill and get lost, but remains for ever and ever. It is the Divine beginning in man that is immortal. It is subjected to the law of evolution. Therefore, the animal beginning in the man dies while the Divine lives forever. The Divine is important and not the animal. If your friend visits you with a horse, what is more important for you — his presence or the horse he has arrived with? The essence is your friend and not his horse. What meaning does the red or white horse, which your friend has arrived with have? The horse is important to the extent to be able to hear the arrival of your friend from afar. If the horse is white, you will also see your friend who is fast approaching you. When it is talked about the mortal and immortal beginning in man, the question of how a man will resurrect appears. According to some, a man will resurrect with the same body he has lived with on the Earth. This means that if a wrestler has weighed 100-120 kg, after his resurrection he will appear again as a strong, big and heavy man. This is the childish understanding and not the true resurrection of the soul. Resurrection implies a new, Divine life. In this sense, one can rise several times a day. Suffice it to give up one of his own delusions to raise something in him. Resurrection implies release. It has nothing to do with the grave of a man. Who has come out of the grave alive and resurrected? This has not been and will not be. However, a man is subject to constant changes. Therefore, Paul says, "We will not die, but we will change." It was and will always be. The present human is not what was in the past, nor will he remain such one in the future. Man changes in mind, heart and will; he also changes his understanding, his way of life. Modern people speak of dignity, will, strong thought, and so on. In my view, only he has a strong will who could give up the evil he has planned to do and replace it with good. You will say that this was known by your ancestors and great ancestors. They have known it, but they have not understood how the evil could be transformed in good. One angel was guilty before God in relation to something and as a punishment, he was sent to the Earth amongst the horses in order to study their language. When the horses were happy, they pronounced the sounds i-hu-hu. The angel learnt the language of the horses, he talked to them but when he had to be joyful and say i-hu-hu, he could not pronounce these sounds, which everyone laughed at him for. It wasn’t easy to pronounce these sounds.- Why? — Because he did not understand their meaning. Indeed, a man hardly says words, which meaning he doesn’t understand. What do the sounds i-hu-hu mean? When weddings are made in the villages, the Bulgarians have fun, dance and shout –i-hu-hu. In this way, they show their satisfaction that they have acquired something precious. First of all, the boy’s parents like a girl and send someone to request for her. An old, clever woman who starts the work diplomatically, usually performs this. First of all, she learns about the material situation of the girl, she wants to learn whether her parents have land, orchards and cattle. When she is convinced that the girl is wealthy, she starts to praise the young man, to talk that he is very hardworking, good-natured and that he is not deprived either. The girl’s parents listen but do not give an answer yet. The grandmother goes twice-three times and talks about the young man all the time until the parents of the young girl agree. They bring the young girl so that she can also say whether she agrees or not. As soon as the two sides agree, preparations for the wedding start taking place. The day of the wedding is defined and the enjoyment commences: the bride and the groom go forward, and afterwards the godmother and the godfather. She carries a sieve full of walnuts, dried fruit and money. All relatives, friends and acquaintances follow them. Everyone is joyful, smiling, music is being played. The godmother throws several walnuts or dried fruit and money from time to the kids who are eagerly waiting for that moment. When all rituals are performed, the music starts being played, the traditional dance Bulgarian Horo’ starts swinging lively, and one of the players shouts: "i-hu-hu." — What does the sieve, the fruits and the money mean? — The sieve is the human mind that brings wealth — walnuts, hazelnuts, fruit, money. Give the riches of your mind generously to all who need it. The children who collect the wealth represent the human thoughts and desires. The mind must give them an impulse to grow and develop. If the godmother is asked why she carries a sieve full of fruit that she hands over, she will say that this is a custom, but what lies in it she does not know. Modern people have a lot of customs, they perform a lot of rituals without knowing their inner meaning. Originally, the customs and rituals were in the person himself, but then he lost them and only the outer forms did remain. Originally, the temple was inside the man, but after he lost it, he began to build external temples, and to worship and pray there. With the loss of his purity, man lost all that was written in his heart and soul. What greater temple shall he seek out of Him Who is in him, and He that seeth in all nature? It is enough to go out, in nature, to see the sky, to get exposed to the sun, to breathe in the fresh air, and thank Him Who created the whole universe. Go out in the evening when the sky is dotted with countless stars to feel the influence of the Creator. Everything that goes around us is able to elevate our thoughts and feelings, to connect us with God. Here is where the church is, that is, the temple of the human soul. This is the Divine Church that feeds the souls. It is in and outside the man, among flowers and trees, rivers and seas, birds, and animals. Where life is manifested properly, there is the temple of God, there are the candles and light nights. When people unite and live in love and brotherhood among themselves, they enter the Divine Temple. All people are not at the same level, but all of them can be brothers and enjoy equally the benefits of life. For those who are tempted by other people’s good deeds and wealth, Christ says their right eye should be removed and their right-hand cut off. Time has come when the christian nations should become brothers and prepare for the future religion that is coming. After the 45th year, it will come, it will be imposed on the humankind and it will transform it. This is the religion of labour. After it, the new teaching will come — a teaching about life. While people live in the religion of labour, they will still quarrel, fight but should they enter the teaching of life, all this will disappear. — Why? -Because love gives birth to life. Therefore, everyone should give account to themselves in which religion they live — in the religion of labour or in the religion of love. There are two categories of people in the religion of labour: some of them live in a Divine way, while manifest in a human way; the others live in a human way while act in a Divine way. These are inevitable contradictions. However, live, work and anticipate the new religion, i.e. the new teaching of life, work and love. It is said that the animal in the human being is struggling, a man labours while God works. Give way to God in yourself. He will manifest and start working through you. What is the Earth? — Great School. Because many of the modern people are greedy, they seek exclusively to acquire material goods. Providence teaches them in the most rational way. As it cultivates the serpent’s greed so does it teach the greedy people. It gives the opportunity to the most unsatisfied snake to gulp so much that it feels satisfied for at least five-six days. So does it give a lot of material goods to today’s greedy people so that they don’t think about them for years. Providence gives some people wealth abundantly in order that they get satisfied and glutted. According to the law of surfeit, a man stops thinking about things he has dreamt about once upon a time. In this way, however, the unreasonable man is being taught. It is right to give up the transient things in life before you have reached surfeiting them. Should the drunken give up the drinking after he has got fed up with the wine? It is better to give up before that because after the surfeit, his body may get ill. Should the soldier from the battlefield give up a murder after he has got fed up with murdering. It is good that he gives up the killing on time before he has got fed up with it. Someone wants to live, to experience all pleasures of life but is immediately exposed to people’s criticism. The modern morality is wonderful! When people kill each other in the battlefield, they consider this is in the right order of things. When someone has pleasures, they criticise him. If one thing is allowed the other thing should also be allowed. If one thing is criticised and condemned, the other thing should also be criticised and condemned. Give people something better than this, which they aspire to and do not condemn them. When you hear you are talked in this way, you say: It is easy to talk, it is difficult to rectify the mistakes: it is easy to preach, it is hard to achieve the great things. This is true but a man should deal with his weaknesses and bad habits. It is not a question of restricting the man, but he should know what he needs for drinking and eating. Whoever is thirsty, let him drink but what? — Pure, fresh water. Whoever is hungry, let him eat but pure, healthy food. Whoever wants to think let him think but his mind should be busy with high and light thoughts. Therefore, eat, drink, think but do not destroy your future, do not oppose the aspirations of your soul. You will say that someone has fallen in love with a dancer. If she can save him, there is nothing bad in this. There are dancers who have saved dozens of men from degradation. The ideal side of things is important. In this sense, it is preferable to have dancers in the world who will save the people rather than not having them and people to live in idleness and crimes. You will say that this is not moral. Is the war moral? As soon as you allow the war, you will also allow the dancers. This is in the life of controversy. However, when the war ceases, the dancers will disappear too. Where there is evil, there are its consequences. Remove the evil as a reason in order to deal with its consequences. The lives of today’s people are full of contradictions. Hundreds and thousands of people die in the factories and mines. These sacrifices are justified only if the whole humanity is elevated with them. If this does not happen then they are not in place. — What is the ultimate goal of the modern culture? — To raise all peoples as well as all mankind. If a state has hundreds of steamers available, they only matter if they help the well-being of all subjects. Otherwise, it is preferable to get rid of them. All nations are fighting for more land; after all, apart from not earning anything their life becomes so much more expensive that they barely breathe under its weight. And Bulgaria fought for Macedonia without winning it. The profit from the war is the appreciation of life. Today, everyone is wondering how to pay their debts. This is in the order of the historical events, in the order of the human culture but is not in the order of the Divine teaching, neither in the order of the culture before Adam’s sinning. The culture of Moses differs radically from that of Christ. Prior to Adam, noble, pure and smart people lived. This is known by few. If this fact has to be proved to the present people, special tools and time are needed that we do not have today. You will say that this is only for justification. And even if I have time and tools, I can not prove the truth of my words. Truth does not need proof. Whatever I say is not subject to criticism and doubt. Why do you doubt the pure gold? Today’s people doubt because they believed in human promises and not in the Divine ones. Many men and women give big promises to one another with ought honouring them. In this way, they lose their faith and become disappointed. When you promise something, you will talk in consonance with the Divine grammar and logic where all symbols and each word are in their place. What does the comma mean in the promises which one person makes to another? The comma shows that his speech is not yet completed and that he needs to prepare his pen and finish it. Until the speech is finished, you can put a comma, semicolon, colon, etc. After the colon, a series of qualities of the subject or person that is talked about are being exhibited. Finally, when the speech is over, a full stop is being placed. Now, all that you are listening to me came out of paradise and started with a comma, then with a semicolon, with a colon, until you finally finished with a point. What does the point mean? — It means death — the end of old life and the beginning of the new. A new thought, a new situation come after the point. Someone says to himself: I, — put the comma, the rich once merchant, I went bankrupt today; I lived improperly and unreasonably. I want to live my life, but that's why I have to be credited. I want to live wisely, to rectify my mistakes. The one who credits uses a questioning and exclamation mark. He asks: Are you ready to pay your debts? If you answer positively, he puts an exclamation mark by which he wants to say that by paying your debts you have to stay around him and serve him. You will serve your creditor, but he will treat you with love. It's nice to serve love. A girl and a young man who love each other, send air kisses to each other. When talking about the kiss, people are ashamed of it, they consider it as something unclean, corrupt. Some people ask how the kiss has appeared. It has existed before the creation of man. The plants and the birds have kissed each other. The first light has taught them. Strive for the kiss of the light. So all people have to kiss. A girl whose kiss is pure as the light says to his beloved: I want your kiss to be as pure and bright, to have a light mind, a noble heart and a healthy body. Only air kisses are allowed so far. Every other kiss carries disease. Many modern people are sick. Therefore, their kiss also brings something painful. One thing is required from modern humans: studying and applying of the Christ’s teaching. You will say that there are people who do this and therefore it is not needed that everyone applies it. It is not like that. All people, all nations, form part of the great, Divine tree. Therefore, everyone should perform their service as a sheet, branch, colour or fruit of the tree. Only in this way does a man retain his individuality and go from the private to the general, from the personal to the universal. The life of the individual and of the whole changes in the way in which the embryo in the womb of the mother does. It passes through 500,000 forms until it accepts the image of a person. In the spiritual sense, the different people take different forms: one looks like a point, another is a comma, a third person is a semicolon, a fourth — a question mark, a leaf, a branch, a colour, etc. From the perspective of comparative physiognomy, a man bears a human form from the outside only; internally, however, he has the form of a plant or an animal. So some people compare the nose of the man with the nails of the eagle. As the eagle grasps his victim with his nails, one can also hurt his neighbour with his nose. The nose symbolises the mind. This shows that the present person has not changed internally yet. When talking to people of good life, of self-sacrifice, of love for one another, this will not be attained suddenly, but it must be known that the good and right life comes as a consequence of the application of the Christ's teaching. When mothers and fathers change their thoughts and feelings, a new, healthy generation with a right thought will be born. Everyone carries within themselves material for future development. That is why it is said that it depends on a man to live well or poorly. Whoever lives according to the Divine principle, will be in peace and love with himself and his fellowmen, even with his enemies. Christ's teaching is a teaching of principles and not forms. Principles expand and formulas restrict. Man's life is meaningless outside Christ’s principles. The Bulgarian proverb "Empty Mara beats a Drum" clearly expresses the life of the average man. The drum must be beaten in time and place. So should the drum of the mother and the children, the priests and the teachers, the rulers and the ruled be beaten. That means a sincere person. His words and his speech are pure, sincere. Whoever listens to such a person does not come across any contradictions. He sees the pure consonance, with no falsity and no rudeness. So, to bring out the right eye and cut off the right hand, which bring temptation into life. And then love our enemies. Whoever loves his enemy is a man of the future culture. And if those who are sitting at the conference in Paris now love their enemies, there will be genuine peace among the peoples. If they do not love their enemies, even if peace is achieved, it will be temporary. True peace is the one that brings the future culture of work, life and love. If the peace that the present peoples expect is based on Moses' law, ‚an eye for an eye and a tooth for the tooth’, time will show what that peace will be and what culture it will bring. I wish you the future culture to come, and that you become the bearers of love. Sunday Talks 06.02.1919 Thursday, Sofia Translated by Proletina Dragoeva-Jones

Where is the Brotherhood? “Within us” Sofia, 22.6.1923 “Let us all remember this thing! This should be imprinted in your minds. The Great Universal White Brotherhood is not something visible; It is not a sect; It is not a church; It is something alive, outside of these corrupted conditions in which people live. The way people live now, is not a brotherhood.” Sofia, 22.2.1925 "The words of the Great Universal White Brotherhood must be free from twisted understandings - this is a Divine impulse. A member of the Great Universal White Brotherhood is anyone who is credited." Harmonizing of the Human Soul - Volume 3 - Boyan Boev (1883 - 1963) The Master speaks about the Great Universal White Brotherhood — in talk pages Methodologies and Responds to Inquiries about the Brotherhood, the WB-16:30 (4:30 p.m.) -V. Tarnovo, 22.8.1919 What do we call ourselves? Disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood. All religions are methodologies of the Universal White Brotherhood. By means of the religions, the Brotherhood wants to bring all nations closer. Its messengers create and guide religions. And what about the philosophers and preachers of godlessness? They are members of the forces of Darkness. The two groups are fighting to see which one will conquer the world – humankind. Spiritualism and theosophy are methods of the Universal White Brotherhood and they prepare Its path. What about the religious teachings that have failed? These were introductory studies. The organization of the world is due to the Universal White Brotherhood. If you are put to work and you commit an offense or divert from the path that this Brotherhood has stated, they will send you somewhere that is safe for people. For instance, the Brotherhood sent Napoleon to the Island of St. Helena, to eliminate feudalism and empower the direction of the Church, but he could not resist to the end and that is why he fell. About the Brotherhood, Apostle Paul alludes in his message to the Jews, chapter 12, and what happens to obedient and naughty ones is written in the Book of Job, chapter 12. In the archives of the Brotherhood are kept all the secrets and everything good - nothing is omitted. The leaders of the Brotherhood are above where they are dedicated, and they work down below. All Saints are members of this Brotherhood and they act in the name of God whose Spirit is manifested at various times and with different methods – religions, doctrines, and so on. The Four Council, SB, BR-9:00 a.m. -V. Tarnovo, 21.8.1921 We, the Universal White Brotherhood, will not accept anyone lying to us, no more lies! We and you, along with the churches are all servants of God. And what are you doing that you want to lie to us - it will not work. We know these lies. The man and the woman before they get married, do they not pretend? The man pretends that he is very noble and the woman pretends that she is very noble. But after they get married, they say to one another, “You do not fool me, we know each other – the pretense was before, but now we have gotten to know each other!” Why do we have to be dishonest? Now the pure truth must be made known so we can renew ourselves, then we can become disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood, in this sense we become disciples of Christ. Proper use of the Mind, the Heart and the Will in Life, SB-9:15 a.m. -V. Tarnovo, 22.8.1921 No hesitation, no doubt! Absolutely no exception! You say, “What if I do?” If you do that – this is something else. We are talking about what should not be, not what should be. The mind will come fully at the service of the greater Good; the heart will come fully at the service of Love; the will at the service of Truth; and your soul will be totally in the service of God’s Wisdom. These are Laws that are written as testimonies inside everyone who wants to become a disciple of the Universal White Brotherhood, in the morality of which there are no exceptions. And if you follow these rules, God’s blessing will be on your side and you will grow from knowledge to knowledge; from power to power; and your soul will gradually acquire the joys that you want. Three Categories of Students, OOK-19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 30.3.1922 The aim of the occult school is to prepare your minds and your hearts to understand and apply Truth. This School is also a skilled school. I am talking about the occult School of the Universal White Brotherhood that will show you the way to apply Truth in life – not to find it but to apply it. Negative and Positive Features of the Disciple, OOK-19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 4.4.1922 A weakness of all disciples is this: sometimes the disciples think they know more than the Master. The rule in the occult school is: the disciple cannot know more than the Master, ever. It is the Law of the Occult School. Christ said, “The disciple is not superior to the Master.” If you start to think that you know more than the Master - you are on the left, and if the Master starts to think that he is not like his students, he is on the left too. One of them uses the knowledge only for himself and the other one does the same. And in the School of the Universal White Brotherhood, all is used for the Kingdom of God in order to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. Once the Kingdom of God on Earth is restored, then all students and teachers will have the best conditions to reveal their knowledge and to create something better in this world. Between you and me, I need to clear up all the questions. Nothing more! In the future, if you do not do as I tell you, I will turn my back and I will not look at you anymore! This is a rule of the Universal White Brotherhood. Why? It is an internal law. He who dwells in us - God, has a path and will not wait for us. The Sun rises, Earth rotates and everything goes according to the specified plan. We cannot change the Laws of Being. You say, “I think this way!” Yes, but God thought millions of years ago when He created the world, and therefore, we will think and act as He thinks and as He acts. You occasionally want to teach me how to operate. I do not operate for myself, but I walk on God’s paths and I want you to walk this way too. I will not amend the Laws of God, neither you, nor the Angels, and no being in the world is able to alter in anyway, the Divine paths. They are unalterable. You can react, but to give a reverse path, it is impossible because you will trip yourselves. If you want to be a disciple this is one of the rules of the school. The school formed multiple times in Europe, but it was closed for a more auspicious period due to the arising of disputes. On several occasion it was opened and closed, and now it can be closed again, but if I close it then you will teach yourselves. I am not going to teach you a second time! That is why I want you to be worthy at this moment, for when those above have decided and have the benevolence to teach you. I do not speak in my name, beware - I speak in the name of the Brotherhood. If they have the good grace toward you, then you have to be faithful to them. You will study these great truths from their perspective. Apply your mind, put everything to test. Natural Methods, OOK-19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 13.4.1922 Now what happens in Nature will happen within you. If it does not happen, you are not on the right path. If someone preaches a doctrine without struggle, with no winds, no sleet, no hail, and no rain, it is not the Divine teaching, this is not the teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood. These are principles, these are the conditions that you have to keep in your mind and try them. It is the doctrine that Christ taught. Today what we have is not morality. We leave the current morality and give you New principles, that you should keep and develop. When you develop these principles inside your soul, you will feel strong and courageous – you will have strength and courage to endure everything. Now, I will explain the word patience from an occult perspective. Every disciple in the school of the Universal White Brotherhood has to be patient. Faith and Doubt, OOK-19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 17.6.1923 I have to introduce you to the Brotherhood. You do not know It yet. I want all of you to call yourselves disciples of the Great Universal White Brotherhood, of which Christ is the head. Inside yourself, you will say, “We are disciples of the great Universal White Brotherhood, of which Christ is the head.” And to the rest, you will say the same thing, “We are disciples of the Great Universal White Brotherhood, of which Christ is the head.” Be brave within yourself and you will see whether or not you are going to suffer. But to the outside world, you may say that you are occultists. Theosophists say, they are disciples of the White Lodge. What is more important – Lodge or Brotherhood? Brotherhood – this is the first name, but it has a more sacred name, however at this moment I dare not pronounce it. Keep this name inside yourself. There are names that are not allowed to be pronounced. Where is this Brotherhood? We will tell you where It is. The church says, “You are heretics!” No, we are members of the Great Universal White Brotherhood, of which Christ is the head. If Christ is the head of the church and we are disciples of Christ, then we have a common head, therefore there is nothing to slander us for, there is no reason to persecute us. The One who is your leader, He is our leader. Hence, we have a common leader. You call Christ the head of the church and we call Christ the head of the Universal White Brotherhood. Which is the more efficient word? Brotherhood is the more efficient word because the word brother means living being, and church suggests the people inside, the content. Both are important. Then you will consider the following: in the Universal White Brotherhood three methods for work are used. One method is that of Love, by which Christ now works. The second method is that of Wisdom, and the third method is that of Truth. These are the three methodologies, the three teachings that the Brotherhood uses simultaneously. Therefore, we operate with Love, with Wisdom, and with Truth all at the same time. Christians only use Love; Theosophists - Wisdom; and the Yogis use Truth to aid the will in its physical manifestation. So, in the Brotherhood the studying of Love, Wisdom, and Truth are methodologies for establishing the spiritual links for serving God. Christ said, “Seek the Kingdom of God in His righteousness and everything else will be given to you.” This is the idea. Christ said, “Who denies Me in front of men, I will disown him to the angels.” The members of the Universal White Brotherhood are the servants of God, they are the Angels. This is what is implied in the line, I will disown him, not to God but to these brothers. You must say, “We are preparing for discipleship, to enter the Universal White Brotherhood, of which Christ is the head, and in our striving we will not retreat a single step, we will not forsake the principles of Love, Wisdom, and Truth.” This is the only way to become a member. When you are a member, you will begin real life. I will stop at any time to talk to you about the Brotherhood, there is much to talk about, so familiarize yourself with the Laws of this Divine science. I will gradually introduce you, not suddenly. If you are ready, I will have to take you among these Brothers for you to see them, but they do not allow anyone else. Do you understand? Implication, IB, BS-16:00 (4:00 p.m.) Sofia, 21.6.1923 Now you are watching what some others did. Do we have to look at what God has done in the world or what people have done? The first sacred thing that I want from you, is for you to arrange your relationship with God. But what about the church and everything else? The first relationship in the Universal White Brotherhood, is the relationship between God and you. I will prove to you why all the other relationships that you have in the world are unnatural relationships. Therefore, as disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood you will distinguish yourselves at first with honesty. Do you know what kind of a thing honesty is? It refers to your personal dignity. It is not an auxiliary character, it is something moral when you think Rationally. You should not be dishonest. When you make a promise, you have to be true to your word. When you say a word, when you make a promise, you have to keep your word. Moreover, the disciple of the Universal White Brotherhood has to be good, and that is already a moral quality. As a disciple of the Brotherhood, you have to be so alert that you can give anyone an answer for what you believe in. We should also be courageous, noble, and have a sublime, steady and inexorable will, as constant as the Will of God. This is my desire. This is how you will be distinguished from the others, and when you pass by they will say, “The disciples of the Great Universal White Brotherhood are honest people, they are people who no matter what they start they complete it.” The Primary Link, EB -10:00 a.m. Sofia, June 22, 1923 Do not think that if you get drunk and fall into the mud, that is how it should be. The fact that you got covered with mud is a result that was entirely up to you. You have fallen and you will stand up on your own. The morality of the Universal White Brotherhood is absolute. It reads: when the Master accepts a person as a disciple, he stops interfering with the mistakes of the disciple. In other words, the Master is blind to the mistakes of the disciple. Before you became a disciple, the Master warned you about everything. As soon as you become a disciple, the Master no longer sees your mistakes. In turn, the disciple does not understand the mistakes of the Master. Why? It is because you are not in a position to correct the mistakes of the Master. Even if you see them, you cannot correct them. Can the Master correct the mistakes of the disciple? Sometimes the Master cannot. Why not? There are known weaknesses in people that derive from a natural law. Imagine that the Master had not eaten for ten days. What would be his condition? Would he be as lively and cheerful as when he ate? If the disciple does not understand that the agitated state of the Master is due to something unsatisfied in his organism, the disciple can attribute that state to the will or character of the Master. For example, if the disciple was without food for five days and the Master found some agitation in him, the Master would understand it. If he begins to moralize, it will not help. Bread is needed for the disciple! So the bread is able to correct the flaws of both, the Master and the disciple. Hence, we derive the following great, Absolute Law that puts things right instantly. This law states: “Every ailment can be corrected when the connection between the human soul and God is restored.” This law is of the Universal White Brotherhood. That connection has not yet been restored. What should you do to restore your relationship with God? We will say that you must love your neighbor. How will you love your neighbor? As the child loves the mother? The child constantly takes from the mother - the neighbor, and in return the child does not give anything. The mother gives, and comforts herself with the thought that one day her child will love properly. If the expectations of mothers were to be realized, our society would be unlike the present one. The exchange between the mother and the child today is not correct. The mother has love but the child does not. You cannot have a right relationship with anyone else until you have a relationship with God. Contemporary religious people talk about God, yet they want to improve society without God. They say, “Let us love God!” They speak generally, with words only. In order to love God, we must connect our soul and spirit with the Soul and the Spirit of God. Then there will be a pouring out, a proper exchange between God and us. As many blessings as God has given to us, so will we give to Him. When the right relationship has been established, then God will call upon us to be His co-workers. He said today, “Come and work with me.” As soon as we become co-workers of God, all our affairs will be blessed. This means having proper guidance. In this connection, you will feel inner fullness within yourself. This is how you will study the Divine knowledge that will bring you peace, inner impulse, and elevate your spirit. It will create within you such an inner good disposition, that you will overcome all the difficulties in your life. In the relationship between you and God, there will be no difficulty that you cannot overcome. The first thing that is required to create this relationship is humility. That is one of the Laws of the Brotherhood. Humility is the first quality that is required of the disciple. You will go to God not as a righteous person or a scientist but humble. Now, I will use the following analogy: when you enter the clear water, do you say that you will wash first and then go into the water? No, in the Divine Life we will enter as we are. Let God tell you not to enter. He will say, “Welcome!” But when? When everyone bears the inscription - humility. I am talking about conscious humility. If we have this inscription inside ourselves, we have laid the cornerstone of the relationship. What did Christ say, “Come to me, all the working and burdened, for I am humble in heart. Come to me, all who have lost the meaning of life. Come to me because I am humble.” He did not say of Himself, “I am a scientist, I am love,” but he said, “I am humble.” If you have humility, God’s Love can come to you. In the Spiritual world, humility gives plasticity to the human soul to perceive the good things that the Divine Spirit carries within itself. That is what the human soul is aspiring for. Only in this state can we perceive. Now you want to be disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood. Your desire has its place because there you will learn many things. Some ask the question, “Where is the Brotherhood?” Within us. It is not a fantasy or a name, it is a reality. It is not enough just to want to be disciples of the Brotherhood - work is required of you. There are occultists who have traveled the courtyard of the Brotherhood, but they have not gained insight into its essence. What can a student who has not attended class with a professor know? Some theosophists say that in order to attain dedication you have to go to India. You may have been to India and gone through the examinations without dedicating yourself. If you want to devote yourself, you can get an initiation anywhere - in India or here. You can go to India, but your Master can find you here too. Going to India can be done in five minutes. The Masters of the Great Universal White Brotherhood know the Laws of Nature. They can compress and dilute the matter of their bodies, and transport it wherever they want. A Master of the Universal White Brotherhood can meet you anywhere, if you wish. He will guide you through initiation and depart. After Three Days, Sunday talks-10:00 a.m. Sofia, 24.6.1923 If the Bulgarian people do not accept this doctrine, something terrible will come for them. I will not say what it is, but you have to know it. You will see what will come. If you accept this doctrine, you will be one of the first nations, and it will be recorded that you believed in the resurrection of Christ. From you, the Bulgarians, courage is required. One needs to be humble. I will tell you what it means to be humble: never lie, be connected to God, have a great soul, be noble and sublime in all your manifestations. That should be the Bulgarian! We need to be as the ancestors of the Universal White Brotherhood were, like the One who is made in the image and likeness of God, the One who has inherited the whole Earth, this is Christ. He said, “I am the first one made in the image and likeness of God. If you listen you will have God’s blessing; you will pass from death to life, and when I am lifted up I will draw all to myself.” And all the people that come into the world bear the name of the first born brother of humankind. You will ask, “Is there no other way out?” Today or never! Do not hope that favorable conditions will come another time. By the word, today it is understood that the Divine Spirit now goes everywhere, through all the European nations and says, “Regain consciousness, regain consciousness!” This Spirit speaks everywhere. There is no person who He does not speak to. He says to everyone, “With Love, not with violence, not with murder!” Therefore, lift your heart to God and pray. Let this question be solved by the Orthodox Church, “Has Christ risen in the Orthodox Church and has the Orthodox Church accepted the Love?” There is one church in the world, but outside the church there is the Universal White Brotherhood - it is higher than the church. But even higher than the Great Universal White Brotherhood is the Kingdom of God. Therefore, the church is the first step, the Universal White Brotherhood is the second step, and the Kingdom of God is the third step - the greatest that needs to be manifested. For God’s Love to live in all hearts and minds, and when people meet each other to know that they are brothers and sisters, they are the children of one Father, one Love, one Wisdom, and one Truth. Divine and Human, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 28.6.1923 You must have a compelling faith without any doubt. And when someone comes to talk to you about any religion, as disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood, you will say, “We exclude this question, we do not talk about religion.” You can talk about some social issues. “No, we are not talking about it. These are old things, and old things do not concern us.” You should know this! I say this to all of you, “Do not be interested in old things!” Manifestation of Rational Forces in Nature, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia 1.7.1923 One thing you should know: you cannot apply a formula of the Universal White Brotherhood inside living Nature if you have wrongdoing and malaise. If you do not connect with the Laws of God, with these great forces of Nature, these formulas are worth nothing and they will have an opposite effect on you. You should know this! We Will Come to Him, Sunday talks - 10:00 a.m. Sofia, 1.7.1923 There is one morality in the world - the morality of the Great Universal White Brotherhood, which can be applied if not completely, but at least in a small amount. There are ways to apply it. This morality is Divine. It has a magical influence on people. The New, the Divine Doctrine, as I call it, does not deal with relative honesty, relative goodness, relative rationality. It deals with absolute values. The Universal White Brotherhood tells Its disciples, “Be absolutely honest, with no exception; be absolutely good, with no exception; be absolutely rational, without exception.” There are two schools in the world: one is the School of the Universal White Brotherhood and the other, the School of Darkness. The center of the first school, the Universal White Brotherhood is on the Sun and the second, the School of Darkness is in the center of Earth. Every day the Universal White Brotherhood sends Its energy from the Sun, and the Dark Force plunders everything it encounters on its path. As soon as they steal the fruits, the Dark Force withdraws to the center of Earth. The wars, the decay of morality, and the lies are due exclusively to the School of Darkness. They spoil the world; they have diverted people’s thoughts from the right path. And death is a process created by the School of Darkness. The first school devoted Adam and Eve to true knowledge and told them, “On the day that you eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, you will die.” I translate this: “The day that you connect with the Dark Force, you will die.” Then people believed that it was God who decreed for them to die. And before that, they have to be put on trial. This is nothing other than a distorted occult truth. People were not created to die. Therefore, death is the result of a misunderstanding of the Great Laws of God. In this sense, death is an accidental phenomenon. When you die, you are transformed; you pass from one state to another. Those who understand the Laws and apply them, they go to the center of the Sun; they go to the realm of life. School and the Development of the Disciple, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 26.12.1923 Therefore, we need to use the conditions that we are placed in. Do not grumble but use the conditions! Do not modify them but elevate them! And then, do not criticize anyone, do not take sides, do not antagonize anyone in the school. In the school, if someone takes the side of another, they are immediately split into parties. There is nothing to divide into parties. Every disciple needs to learn. If the disciples begin to divide, this work is not on a good path. If you notice that there appears to be some disagreements, some who are discontented at the school, they are the exception. In a school such as the Universal White Brotherhood, all mistakes are absolutely excluded. And He was Writing on the Earth, Sunday talks - 10:00 a.m. Sofia, 22.2.1925 Well, you will one day come in contact with other cultured beings. You will not be as you are now. Some say the Universal White Brotherhood is in Bulgaria. It has brought a great honor to Bulgaria, if you think It is here. The Brotherhood cannot choose such a small nation for Its headquarters. It has not chosen England, France, Germany, or Russia. Its headquarters are elsewhere. The only thing that exists in the world now, is the Universal White Brotherhood. All other people: writers, priests, preachers, philosophers, and so on are all workers of this Brotherhood. And human development, truthfulness in the world, is urged on by their mighty force, their powerful spirit. When Christ came to Earth, these great Brothers sent from heaven, a regiment of Angels, their personnel to sing. Following them were the three wise men, adepts from the East who came to worship Christ, and they were workers from the Brotherhood as well. Some people say, “The Brotherhood does not prosper in Bulgaria.” Bulgarians should know that their freedom is given by the Brotherhood. And if they sin, the Universal White Brotherhood will rip them apart. There is no nation that they cannot deal with. Let us all remember this thing! This should be imprinted in your minds. The Universal White Brotherhood is not something visible; It is not a sect; It is not a church; It is something alive, outside of these corrupted conditions in which people live. What we have, the way people live now, this is not a brotherhood. Living Laws of Virtues, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 10.3.1926 I say, “The Universal White Brotherhood requires the disciples of the occult school in Bulgaria to continuously for three years, acquire three great virtues: Patience, Compassion and Love for God.” If you take on this task, you will have their cooperation, their help everywhere. You will also have the support of your Master. By the word, Master we understand the great Wisdom of God that brings New forms, New ideas, and New feelings to life. he Way of Desires, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 26.5.1926 I ask, “Do you know why the occult school is now in Bulgaria? Do you know who is the chairman, who is the secretary of the school, the street and number where they live?” You do not know the chairman or the secretary of the school, but you want to know who are the members. You often talk about the Universal White Brotherhood, but this idea is unclear to you. Some people say, “Is there really a Brotherhood or is it something fictitious?” Our acquaintance who has been in America for a few years, now wants to find a member of the Brotherhood but he cannot find any. Why can he not find them? It is because they cannot be detected. If you meet a member of this Brotherhood, the person will never speak of belonging to the Brotherhood. They do not talk about themselves, and they even pass as simple, ordinary people. In this way, they tests your insight, your knowledge. A member wears the sign of the Brotherhood, but you are blind and you cannot see it. If you have an inner preparation to recognize and understand, you will recover your sight and you will see the sign that a member of the Universal White Brotherhood carries. By this sign you will discern them. The Special Law, OOC - (unknown time) Sofia, 7.7.1926 Presently, all of you pass for disciples. In your opinion, who is a disciple? What are the characteristics of the disciple? Above all, the disciples need to have a connection with the living nature, understand its laws, adhere to them correctly, and apply them in their lives. There are two kinds of disciples: those that are disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood and the others are disciples of the Dark Force. Between these two groups, there is a third that reconciles them. As for the third group, I will not say anything because they fall outside the present life. Disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood and those of the Dark Force differ radically in their methods of action. In order for the disciples to be successful, regardless of which group they belong to, the disciples needs to have self-control. If the slightest incident, the least opposition or surprise disturbs their equanimity, they cannot hope for success in their work. Think Rightly!, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 14.7.1926 Now, when I speak many of you will say, “What is the purpose of the Master speaking to us this way?” I say, “The only purpose I have is to help you become worthy members of the Universal White Brotherhood.” Someone will say, “They talk about members of a new society.” The Brotherhood that I am speaking to you about is not a new society, it has existed since time immemorial and continue to exist today. To be worthy of this good, you must pray, work hard on yourself until your heart is completely calm - all the storms and winds, all the roughness of the sea within ceases. When your heart is quiet, the dawn of your sun will come, it will become a bright day for your sky, with no clouds and no shadows. When the Sun of your life rises, your heart will tremble because you will hear the voice of God’s Spirit, all the Angels, and all the Advanced beings. And then, you will enter the Great City between the Sublime and Rational beings. When you achieve this, your joy will be indescribable. The Light Way of Knowledge, SB - 16:00 (4 p.m.) Sofia, 22.8.1926 And thus, this internal relationship with God has to be created. In the Bulgarian, this connection is very weak. One of the task of the disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood, is to raise the religious sentiment in the Bulgarians, not only in form but radically. We are not interested in the outer form, but we should produce an inner coup, first and foremost in us, and then outside us. Afterwards, this spiritual stream will flow across the entire Bulgarian nation and a general elevation of the people will happen. The first thing is to make an interconnection, an internal bond between the Divine world and the human soul. This relationship is still not reinforced in all of you. For example, look how easy your faith falters! Sometimes you say, “Is there a God or is there not a God?” You doubt. And this shows how weak your relationship is. However, the most beautiful thing is to live in God. He will give us an inner impulse for everything. When people live in God they can do anything, everything is sublime. I say, the Psalmist who wrote, “Praise the name of God” understood these things Resistance, Pressure and Aspiration, OOC - 19:00 (7 p.m.) Sofia, 30.3.1927 True achievement is found in the connection that you make with all those noble, lofty beings who work in scientific societies. You will certainly draw something from them. Therefore, when you say that you are a member of the Great Universal White Brotherhood, you need to ask yourself what this Brotherhood is and what you will use from it. The Brotherhood has existed since time immemorial. It has existed since the Universe existed. The Brotherhood has participated in the creation of the world, the whole cosmos. Every member of this Brotherhood is a manifestation of God. Therefore, as disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood, you need to walk on their path, follow the lives of these brothers. Did you study their lives to know they came to this knowledge, to this Love? They have achieved all this through hard work, not as an inheritance. If you study the lives of these Brothers, you will see what sacrifice they have given to the world. If you could find someone to describe their lives as in a novel, you would immediately follow their path. The Path of the Student, SB - 7:00 a.m. Sofia, 19.8.1927 What is Love without Light? Did not all Old Testament people have Love without Light? What did they gain? What is Light without Peace? Did not all New Testament people have Light without Peace? What did they gain? Therefore, you should correctly understand the internal processes of life. Once you obtain knowledge, that knowledge needs to give you Light. Is that really so? You have a lot of knowledge, but you are dissatisfied with your life - you have no Peace within yourself. People are religious, but they do not have Peace within themselves - they have no Joy. So, when religious and scientific people tell about some of their experiences, their views and conclusions are ordinary. When a disciple of the Universal White Brotherhood reveals some experiences - the disciple can talk about an experience of Love where there is Light; about an experience of Light where there is Peace; the disciple can also talk about an experience of Peace that brings Joy to the soul. All disciples of the Universal White Brotherhood have lived between the Old Testament and the New Testament people. Today they live among the righteous. Constant and Non-constant Quantities, OOC - 5:00 a.m. Sofia, 21.11.1928 Now, I wish for you to make an internal connection with the First Cause of things by thinking and applying the constant quantities in your life. Work on yourself so that the Angels carry you, both in this world and in the hereafter world. Many are afraid that the Angels will not come for them. No, the Angels carry only those who are connected to God. Only those who have been associated with the Higher world, with the Universal White Brotherhood can ascend, and develop their gifts and abilities. Whoever wants to develop quickly needs to be connected with the Great world. That relationship can turn the simple person into a scientist and the ordinary person into a genius. The reconciliation of that relationship is not through violence but voluntarily through Love. When can that happen? Whenever a person sincerely wishes for it. To make this bond consciously, it means the awakening of your consciousness. To awaken the human consciousness, this means resurrection. When all people make a connection with the Higher world, that is when their consciousness awakens, the world will be illuminated from all sides, from all four corners. Then all false theories and doctrines will fall, all doubts and delusions will disappear, and people will get rid of evil smoke and soot - the influence of the Dark Force. People will begin to eat the pure food of the Word; breathe fresh, clean air; drink pure, crystal clear water; be receptive of the Divine Light; enjoy the New Life, the New Science, the New Love, the New Wisdom and Truth. Aspire to restore the inner relationship with God, with the Rational world. The New Year 1929 that is coming, favors relationships with Advanced beings, the beings of the Divine World. Law of Opportunities - Law of Opulence, OOC - 5:00 a.m. Sofia, 9.1.1929 One must understand the Laws in order to wisely make use of the conditions of life. Those who do not understand the Laws think they can achieve everything magically like Moses. Indeed, Moses waved his staff and accomplished something, but he had knowledge. Moses studied in the Great Occult School in Egypt; he was initiated. He had to be born a Jew, and be put into the water where the Pharaoh’s daughter could see him and love him. Moses was not an ordinary child. Even as a baby floating in the basket he was open-eyed, aware. The royal daughter loved him and wished to take care of him as her own child. The combination of conditions was provided by the Invisible world, so that Moses could go to Egypt and study at the School of the Universal White Brotherhood, which was located there during that time. Made by God, SB - 10:00 a.m. Sofia, 25.8.1929 Today, all of you have God’s support, the support of Christ, all the saints, all the great Masters of the Universal White Brotherhood, as well as the Sublime beings who have completed their development. We will all work to build the New culture, and only then we can say, as the blind man said in the time of Christ, “I was blind once, but now I see clearly.” Everything that God sows - grows. Everything good and lofty that your soul desires will be achieved, but your consciousness needs to be watchful, not to interrupt the connection. Day of God's Statement, SB, RB - 5:00 a.m. - Seven Lakes, 7.8.1931 Now you all need to be devotees of truth, truth-lovers; be burning candles because you are earnest advocates of the Divine Doctrine. This teaching was not born now, it has existed since the beginning of Genesis. If any of you want to know why the world was created, you must know that the world was created to manifest God’s Love, Wisdom, and Truth. However, when you go among people in the world, you will not tell them why the world was created, but you will be the bearer of God’s Love, Wisdom, and Truth. From that which is preached, people themselves need to find the reasons for the creation of the world. Only then will the sermon give fruit. Should the Englishman boast that he is an Englishman? As he behaved, everyone will know he is an Englishman. Should you praise yourself that you are a disciple of the Great Universal White Brotherhood? From your deeds, others will know who you are. Two Principles, Common Occult class – 5:00 a.m. - Sofia, 11.1.1993 Thus, if the present life, science, suffering, good, and evil are not reasons for a person to get onto the right path, that is toward Heaven, time is lost. Everything in life has to be turned into conditions, possibilities, and achievements for you. This means to be a disciple. This is the disciple’s path in the inner school, in the School of the Universal White Brotherhood. As soon as you enter the school, then will come the resurrection. Now you have come to the possibilities of life but not to the achievements. None of you know what achievements you will have in the future. Achievements imply clear-sightedness. You have not reached the phase to see things clearly. I have spoken about many things, but everything needs to be sifted in order to leave only what you need. And you have many desires, but they are ice that will melt and disappear like the water that sinks into the ground. Do not feel sorry for what will drain. Do not feel sorry for the bran. For you what is important is the flour. It is important for you to use the time for your mind, your heart, your soul, and your spirit. Do not think about why misery, sorrow, or unhappiness comes. Do not waste your time thinking about them. Say, “Let God’s Will be done!” As soon as you came to Earth, you gained something. Physical life is a condition for attaining the Spiritual life, and the Spiritual life is a condition for attaining the Divine. Only in the Divine Life can one find all the opportunities for achieving what the human soul desires. The Unsaid, Common Occult Class - 5:00 a.m. - Sofia, 8.12.1937 The real Brotherhood is above. Where is the station of the Brotherhood? The station of the Universal White Brotherhood is between the thumb and the index finger. From this station you will perceive what the Brotherhood talks about. I like watching a preacher when he is talking about God: if the gap between his thumb and the index finger is open, he receives and imparts. When the Sun is shinning on you this is one thing, but when those lamps shine on you it is another thing. That which you have, I do not want to infringe upon, not in the least. Your feelings, what you believe in, and what you have acquired so far, is in place. But for that which you will acquire today, you have to listen. From what you already have, you will grasp something New. The New that is coming today, all day, if you are in good spirits you will receive it between the thumb and the forefinger. What you have to learn you will not learn from me, but throughout the whole day while the Sun is shining until the next day, you will perceive it. Thus, the day will be formed according to your perception. * * * Conversation at El Shaddai - Harmonizing of The Human Soul, Volume 1 - Boyan Boev (1883 – 1963) Conscious Emanation The methods of the Universal White Brotherhood gives the disciple the opportunity to acquire clairvoyance in a higher area of the Invisible world, in the Superior worlds. Clairvoyance is not an easy job. If you have clairvoyance there will be difficulties, there will be temptations. It is because when you meet someone you will see the past, and if the person was a criminal previously you will know it; you need to have great spiritual strength to still treat the person well, with a sacred feeling - not only outwardly but inwardly as well. This should not change your attitude toward anyone. Selfless Serving One brother asked, "What is the fundamental feature of the School of the Universal White Brotherhood?" The Path of Love, the Path of Wisdom, and the Path of Truth enter simultaneously in the Doctrine of the Universal White Brotherhood and the Brotherhood gathers these three paths in one. The disciple periodically goes through the waves of Love, Wisdom and Truth, repeats them again and so on. * * * Harmonizing of The Human Soul - Volume 3 - Boyan Boev (1883 - 1963) The Universal White Brotherhood During a private conversation between the Master and a disciple question was raised about the Universal White Brotherhood. The churches of people are many, but God's church is one. Those who belong to Gods’ church, have one heart. It is said, "I will give them one heart and one shepherd." Apply what Christ taught, not what people teach in the name of Christ. There is one God of the people in the world, and He is the great reality; all prophets, saints, and mystics have originated from Him. The Advanced beings are organized and they form the Universal White Brotherhood. And today they are working on a plan to put humankind in order. The Universal White Brotherhood should not be impeded because the consequences will be bad. The true Brotherhood exists - the Advanced beings who form It live sensibly, and we need to develop, to proclaim the Great Universal Brotherhood through ourselves. The Brothers have completed their evolution on Earth and they know the principles of human thought. What is the modern weapon compared to the power of the Brotherhood? The Universal White Brotherhood has mainly inner strength, while the Dark Force has only an external manifestation. This is why the Dark Force can only have external achievements, while the Universal White Brotherhood who conquers first from within, has the opportunity for all outer and inner attainments and is stronger. The words Great Universal White Brotherhood needs to be free from misconceptions - this is a Divine impulse. A member of the Universal White Brotherhood is anyone who is credited. Currently, this Brotherhood prevails in the world, but another epoch is coming and the Sixth humankind will come. Today the power is already in the knowledge. A member of the Universal White Brotherhood can pierce the darkness, but a member of the Dark Force cannot pierce the light. Those righteous souls who will come to Earth with fiery swords have resurrected thousands and thousands of years ago. Now they are in the Invisible world. The society of the Universal White Brotherhood is in three places: in the physical world - Earth, in Agartha; in the Spiritual world; and in the Divine world. The members of this Brotherhood work in the three places and the three places are interconnected. Agartha has many doors. There is a door to Agartha in Rila. Besides the Advanced Brothers who live in the places where Agartha is located, there are other members of Agartha who travel from place to place. The Advanced beings who live in Bulgaria are in a physical body. How many times you have met them? And since people are afraid of the inhabitants of the other world, the Advanced beings do not appear frequently, so as not to cause a disturbance. A member of Agartha will reveal themselves to you like they have resided here for centuries, otherwise you will be startled. Among the modern humankind there are people who are distinguished by their ideal graceful bodies because they lead an absolutely pure and decent life, and they take part in helping with the advancement of humankind. Such people are all over the world. They live 200, 300, 400, 500 years. They will live in one location for 50-60 years, then they will go somewhere else to help, maybe changing their name or not. The Brotherhood has worked in India, Egypt, Persia, Palestine, Babylon, the Rome Empire, Greece, Italy, and France. After the Brotherhood left Italy and France, It went to work in England and Germany. From England and Germany, the Brotherhood moved on to the Slavic people where it is working now. In every nation where the Universal White Brotherhood works, It always leaves something precious. The Brotherhood started in India and will finish in Russia because they are touching - that is how a circle, a cycle completes. The British were astonished that the Hindus in India knew the news before them. And the state of the matter is in this - the devoted ones served as a live radio, a receiver. What is written in the occult books today is only 25 percent true - and the meaningful is known to the devoted in India and they hide it. A brother was interested in the commonality of the different mystical Brotherhoods around the world. One is the path that leads to the Kingdom of God. The ideal is the Kingdom of God, Brotherhood, and Love. The difference between the perceptions depend on the stage of development. All the understandings are in their place, and as humankind makes progress in its development, thus the perceptions are different. We are pleased with all those who bear the Divine no matter where they come from. Every stream is in service, each has their place and form part of the whole; God has the philosophy of the Whole. The Greeks actually conquered Rome. All the Romans knew the Greeks and at that time the Brotherhood was in Greece. When Alexander the Great entered Jerusalem, he liberated the people because the Brotherhood was there. But when the Brotherhood departed, Jerusalem fell. The Brotherhood also departed from Greece which has now weakened. If you only knew how great the Divine plan is! The ideas of the Universal White Brotherhood will be accepted but not by everyone - only those who are ready and the others will accept them in another epoch. All those who will accept the New ideas are appointed and will come. Now, we do not have to win them - they are upside down, we only need to wake them up. They are sleeping and when they wake up, they will rise up and say, “We are ready!” And those who are still not ready will be marveled and will say that they are not ready. Leave them, when they come they will do nothing. The prepared ones are specified. Christ said, “You are not of this world, as I am not” those are the prepared ones. Apostle Paul explained the thought as follows, “The ones that God had foreknown, them He foreordained.” The souls that are ready have worked in the past. Apostle Paul said, “In the womb of my mother, God chose me” it means from the deep past, that is, all the souls that have worked diligently in the past, God seeing that - choose them. From time to time they might have deviated slightly, but they have never deviated completely. And when Elijah became despaired and complained to God that he was alone, God told him, “There are seven thousand people who have not bowed before Baal.” Exiting of the Thirteenth Sphere The minds of people are not mature. Now is the siege of Jerusalem. And the Christian world is Jerusalem. Today the whole world is under siege, and the Advanced beings from the Invisible world have come down to Earth and they occupy it. Their plan will be fulfilled. You need to believe in the plan that exists; it is already created above. The Heavenly host is here now and occupies the land. The Universal White Brotherhood has Its members all over Earth and holds everything in Its hands. Things will not become what this or that one wants, but will become what has been determined by the this Brotherhood. There will not be a triumph of this or that nation, but the victory will be the plan of the Brotherhood. There is no force that can oppose the Great Universal White Brotherhood. The Sages from the East Who are the beings that support Christ and constantly work together for His Cause? The following text announced the existence of the Great Universal White Brotherhood: “But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Christ the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” (Hebrews 12:22-24). This is written by a devoted one, as was the Apostle Paul. By the words, “Mount Zion, in the city of the living God, in the heavenly Jerusalem” it is understood namely, the Rational center that works through spiritual resources in Nature. By mentioning the innumerable triumphant Angels and the council of the firstborn, it is foreseeing the members of the Universal White Brotherhood. They stand above humankind, and long ago -. in other past universes, they completed their human development and now they guide the building processes in Nature through their spiritual essence. The spirits of the righteous made perfect are beings of the current humankind who have completed their human evolution, and are already helping in the great creative work of the Universal White Brotherhood. The phrase, “Christ the mediator of a new covenant” outlines His mission related to the advancement of humankind, while the lower phrase, “the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” implies the sacrifice that Christ made through Love, in the name of abundant life for humankind. At Dawn The dawn itself is a sign that the Divine manifests and brings abundance. The dawn illustrates the appearance of Christ as a great event in human history, as a border between the involutional and the evolutional period of humankind. There are Rational souls and great geniuses from which comes all the bright impulses of people. When humankind descends into a deep night, from the center of the Great Universal White Brotherhood whose head is Christ, will come the Light and bring the dawn. The New culture that is manifesting will be the realization of the Christ impulse. All the past cultures have prepared the human consciousness and its ripening to perceive that impulse. And when people follow the Christ impulse, it will not be possible to pull in the net because of the many fishes, then the results will come. Paneurhythmy Paneurhythmy is sacred, and through it spiritual values are created which flow into the universal culture. There is a need for spiritual centers through which the Divine will mount to awaken the souls of the world, to renew them, and to introduce the New culture of the Spirit. Paneurhythmy is adapted to express the New ideas, and to pass them on through music, movements, and words - awakening the Divine in human nature. Paneurhythmy is not an ordinary dance - in its movements are embodied the ideas that today are building and constructing the New Culture. In the movements, there are hidden springs with magical power that will put into motion the creative forces of the human soul - forces that are awaiting their development. The Universal White Brotherhood brings the New into the world, not only through the thoughts, feelings, and actions but through movement as well. After all, as the wind blows its spirit stirs the leaves and thus, makes possible the sap, right? The movements of Paneurhythmy have an inner power and spiritual influence over human beings. Each place where Paneurhythmy is danced becomes a center for sending bright ideas into the world. Letters This chapter in the Bible is clearly talking about the Universal White Brotherhood, namely in the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews 12:22-24, “But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Christ the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.” The mystical brotherhoods will have the support of the above organization if they are bearers of the Divine principles, and then through the Universal White Brotherhood they will be united. The external reconciliation between the mystical brotherhoods can and should be a mutual connection, to visit each other, have delicate friendly relations, to see what each has been given from above. Does not every prophet say what is revealed to him? In this there will be no monotony. In such inner exchange the sap of each of them circulate to the others without any obstacles, just like the vital juices in the organism. On the other hand, there may be convened an international gathering of all mystical brotherhoods and mystical souls in the world, and then in the mountains - the Alps or Rila. But these councils are only for mutual acquaintance. Victory is On Our Side All of the first Christians have been waking up very early to pray; at 4 a.m. they were on their feet. The Bogomils (Beloved of God) have welcomed the Sun too, and that is a tradition of the Universal White Brotherhood. It has visited all nations; it has been in Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and Palestine. Presently, the Universal White Brotherhood is among the European nations. Among the European people there are people from the indigenous and African cultures, and each takes such a function that suits them. The headquarters of the Universal White Brotherhood was first in Atlantis, from there it moved to Egypt, and after Egypt it moved to the Himalayas which is a newer formation. Africa and Asia were once connected, but they divided into two continents. From the Himalayas, sections are sent to the different nations. A spiritual hunger is coming and you are already prepared for the days when you will need to help the world with New ideas. And how will you look then, how will you look! A Model There is a movement of the Universal White Brotherhood everywhere around the world and It is in touch with us. * * * The Good Will - Boyan Boev (1883 - 1963) Some words about the first steps of the Disciple I, the Master once said during a conversation, “One cannot enter the Divine School of the Universal White Brotherhood by one’s own wish.” Someone may say, “I am free. If I want, I will get in.” No, when the Universal White Brotherhood sees that you are ready, they will accept you above. And then on the ground, a desire to enter the Divine School will emerge from inside you. If you are not accepted above, no desire to get into the school will emerge. The Master about Christ The coming of Christ to Earth is such a great event. Christ cannot be compared with the other teachers. In Atlantis there were Occult Schools and the masters would say, “There will come a Divine being who will give an impulse for the uplifting of humankind and that being will bring something precious to Earth.” That is what they said in the Occult Schools of India. In Egypt also they have waited for the coming of this great event on Earth. If this is so, then what significance did religion have before Christ? Christ is the central figure; all the religions originate from Him. Now we are going to read the Epistle to the Hebrews 12:22-24. There it speaks about the Universal White Brotherhood in relation to Christ. The “Joyful angels” spoken of in that chapter are the most Sublime beings, “The spirits of the righteous made perfect” are Advanced people. We speak of Angelic beings who work for human evolution. All the beings spoken about in those verses form the Universal White Brotherhood and work under the guidance of Christ. Everything that happens in Nature is guided from above by the Rational world. At first glance human history seems chaotic, but it has a Rational guide. Dawn of the New Culture The dark age of Kali Yuga, the final and the darkest age that has lasted thousands of years is expiring. Earth is moving upwards, it is escaping from the thirteenth sphere; the thick matter that has lasted for millions of years. When it emerges into the New sphere, it will give a banquet and say, “Children, we have already escaped!” The ones who cannot move upward will remain below. All Rational beings from the Universal White Brotherhood are mobilized and are preparing the New culture. The Universal White Brotherhood will turn everything into good! * * * The Source of Good - Boyan Boev (1883 - 1963) The Universal White Brotherhood We celebrated the Summer Solstice on the mountain. We were there for several days and we used the small hut in the foothill of Ostritza peak. Every morning we went to the peak, greeted the Sun, said the morning prayers, and did the gymnastic exercises. Afterwards, we would choose a sunny place on the lawn between the rocks and sit around our beloved Master. One morning the topic of the Universal White Brotherhood who guide humankind was discussed. There is one Divine society, there is one Divine nation. I advise you to connect strongly with It, and accept the New Light in your minds, hearts, and souls. I say to everyone, “We will win! God is with us. There is no force in the world to oppose these great principles that we serve. All good, honest, fair, and smart people; men, women, and children are with us. All those who support the three great principles from any church or party, they are with us.” We are asked, “Who are you and how many are you?” We are one Great Brotherhood such as the world has never seen. A Brotherhood that has branches on Earth, in Heaven, and in the whole Universe. Whoever serves God is a citizen of this Great Brotherhood, which we call the brotherhood of God’s Love, God’s Wisdom, and God’s Truth. You say, “We want to become members of this Brotherhood.” I want you to be disciples of this Brotherhood. To study God, it means to go through the School of the Universal White Brotherhood. The best professors, the best teachers are in that school. Each of you should find it. It is not like our universities. There are no hypothesis and theories. As you complete the school, you will be given difficult tasks that you have to solve correctly. For example, you will be given the task to walk between the wild tribes and among the underdeveloped people. Then they will send you among good and bad people, animals and plants, and they will monitor how you will deal with them and how you are accepted. Finally, they will give you a gem stone and a plain stone, and they will see what you will do with them. If you use well the plain stone and the jewel, the Universal White Brotherhood will accept you as a member. They are very demanding of everyone because they will have their effect. If they accept you once, they will always help you. A great future, great prospects, and great achievements are standing before you. John the Baptist who came just before Christ was familiar with the Divine Science, the Divine Teaching. He was not from the simple people, the ignorant. He had been dedicated, he studied at the school of the ancient times. The New in the world was always given by this Great Brotherhood. The Universal White Brotherhood through Christ brought the good into the world. If Christ had not come two thousand years ago, what would be the situation of humankind? Everything good in the world was brought by the sacred brothers who worked for the elevation of the nations. The people in whose soul and spirit God lives, are the great beings, the geniuses, the teachers of humankind, and they have the highest manifestation in music, poetry, art, and in all talents of life everywhere. These are the souls that push humankind forward. For the historical process, this or that nation, this or that person are not factors, however, the Invisible World, the forces that orchestrate events, and namely the members of the Universal White Brotherhood are factors. Those who complete their development will enter into this Great Brotherhood. The good people are connected to the Brotherhood in an internal way. Whatever good you acquire, you bring it to the Brotherhood. People are looking for us because of the capital we have. A brother is one who came from God, and until he returns to God, through all existences he has been your brother. In all the conditions of life, he was willing to sacrifice himself for you. And he does all that - not by force, but by the great consciousness of that Divine Spirit that lives in his soul. If all of you had such an ideal, you would be disciples and workers of the Great Universal Brotherhood. If you could find someone to describe their life in a novel, you would have gone their way. So far, a poet or a writer who is able to write such a novel cannot be found. Why? It is because none can find such beautiful images, neither in their mind nor in their heart. Only that person knows the New philosophy of Life, the one who has contacted the Great Brothers and walk on their path. One brother asked, "Why is the phrase “White Brotherhood” preferred to the phrase "Advanced, Bright Beings?” When we say brothers, it is understood that they are related to us, they are our brothers, they are connected to us. In some of the most ordinary events are hidden things that you do not suspect. You meet someone who you think is ordinary, but that person is a sacred brother. "In future times, will these Brothers appear into the world, amongst the people?" Some of them have already emerged. The Angelic hierarchy guide humankind. The Angels have representatives on Earth. The School of the Universal White Brotherhood is on the Sun. Every year the Universal White Brotherhood makes an assembly there. And the representatives of the Universal White Brotherhood on Earth have a gathering too. Where? On a high peak in the Himalayas. Where is the peak? I know it, but I cannot tell it to you, it is not allowed. Then, the Great Brothers on the Sun express their Love to the brothers on Earth - in all their fullness, with all their energy they send it into the whole world. That energy is the reason for the advancement of the religions, the sciences, the arts, for the rebuilding of societies, improving construction, and management. The bright and beautiful days of our lives are due to the assembly of the Universal White Brotherhood on the Sun. When a member of the Brotherhood on Earth passes through dedication, the person must be careful to do so on the day of the solemn assembly on the Sun, exactly when the Sun’s rays send something New to Earth. A sister asked, "Can we visit the members of the Universal White Brotherhood where they live?” It is not that they do not want your visit, but people are not yet ready to understand the knowledge that is being studied there. And on the other hand, they do not have physical bodies such as yours. They live in ethereal bodies. In time, the Universal White Brotherhood will provide even greater assistance to humankind and that will be a bright era. There is a plan in Nature that no one can alter. That plan will be implemented and people will become free. One brother asked, "Does the movement of the Bogomils have a connection with our movement?" We have not had any phase of their development. We are a spring that has come from God. Other currents flow out of us, but we have not emerged from another source. The Bogomils have similar characteristics to our movement because we come from the same great center of the Universal White Brotherhood. In the past, we have manifested ourselves in one way. In future, we will evolve even more perfect. * * * Letters from Boyan Boev - Volume 2 - Boyan Boev (1883 - 1963) The Rational Reality Always eat your breakfast after sunrise and eat your dinner before sunset. Never go to bed until you wash your feet with warm water. Every night before sleeping, release unnecessary thoughts, feelings, and desires. Every night before you sleep, say, “I am going up to learn, to pray, and to work. I wish to visit the Heavenly School of the Universal White Brotherhood.” * * * And My Eyes Saw the Sunrise - Nikolay Doynov (1904 - 1997) Logos of the Planet Earth About Universal White Brotherhood the Master said: The members of the Universal White Brotherhood are from seven hierarchies, seven categories. Some of them belong to Love, they are called Brothers of Love. There are some that belong to Wisdom, they are called Brothers of Wisdom; they belong to the sciences and the arts, and they bring knowledge to humankind. A third of them are called Brothers of Truth, and they bring freedom to the minds and hearts of humankind. They introduce freedom into people’s thoughts and feelings; they bring the freedom that makes the human spirit, the human soul, the human mind, and the human heart completely free. - free in the full sense of the word. Some are Brothers of Justice, they bring righteousness to the humankind and they have the invisible wealth that modern-day people need. Others are called Brothers of Virtue, Brothers of Beauty, and the last ones are called Jehovist or Yahwist. These are not the real names of the Brothers. I cannot pronounce the names because they are sacred. All these Brothers are not so ordinary. Each of them can lift Earth in their hand and throw it into space just like a ball. Such knowledge they have. They can pick up Earth with a hand because behind them is the more powerful who they work for. When Christ descended to Earth, He left all His power and glory with these Brothers, and He came alone, as a servant to show the people how they should live. In the distant past, on Earth lived the First people. Today, these beings are known as the Universal White Brotherhood. These Brothers have already completed their evolution. They are not imaginary, but real beings. They have representatives on Earth, and are distinguished by the fact that they fulfill the Will of God and live according to His laws, that is they live under the Laws of Rational Nature. They live on the high and low areas between the people. All the Laws that governed the Sacred Schools in Egypt, the initiates borrowed from other Sacred Schools, and initially all these Laws came from above. The lifting of the giant rocks for building the Egyptian pyramids happened by decreasing the weight of the rocks via the Laws of Electricity and Magnetism. The Egyptian initiates mastered those Laws that are unknown now. It is worthy to be disciples of the Great Universal Brotherhood because the Masters of the Brotherhood keep all the archives of the Cosmos. They keep the Book of Life, and all of you should study that book. There is no greater benefit than it. When you go to God, in the Great School of the Universal White Brotherhood it is absolutely forbidden for anyone to complain. The Law of Love needs to be applied. It is the first law of the Universal White Brotherhood. The second law is the Law of Wisdom. Love brings Life, and Wisdom brings Light and Knowledge. These two laws have to work together in the world. The Universal White Brotherhood tells Its disciples: be absolutely honest, without exception; be absolutely good, without exception; be absolutely intelligent; without exception. If by your life it cannot be known that you are a disciple of the Universal White Brotherhood, will you be recognized by a sign? Every disciple should walk straight like a candle, no hump. The eyes should not be dimmed, love and energy should emanate from them. They should shine, day and night light has to flow out of them. The chest has to be open with shoulders back, not a poor physique. The face should be bright and cheerful to show there are virtues in you. The lips should be barely touching each other to show that there is life in them; not so tight and closed. When others look at you, you want them to say that in the face of these people there is something prominent. Let everyone tell you that you are special people. Look strong, have no fear, so when you grasp your opponents’ leg, they will know that you have caught them. You need to strive to be strong. To be strong means to control all of your cells, to control all of your muscles in every moment. You need to have exquisiteness in everything. Your mouth should always be clean and not smell bad. If your breath smells bad then say, “In the name of God’s Love, in the name of God’s Wisdom, that which smells bad in me needs to disappear!” By suggestion, you will order your mouth not to stink and one day this smell will disappear. Keep your teeth in good condition and eat pure food. No impurity should remain on your teeth. This is required of the disciple of the Universal White Brotherhood, to have absolute purity. Meditate daily on the Advanced beings because it makes communion and connection with them possible. In addition to night time, favorable hours are: 11 a.m. and 12 noon, between 17:00 (5 p.m.) and 18:00 (6 p.m.), between 21:00 (9 p.m.) and 22:00 (10 p.m.), and 24:00 (midnight) the exception. When you are in contact with the Great Brotherhood, you are in communion with them. You have to study the Laws. It is not very pleasant for them to appear on the physical ground because the environment is a very thick material, unfavorable, and they have to make great preparations to appear. It is much better when you go to the mountain where there are better conditions for them to be visible. And you have to choose not only a clean place where no one else will follow you, but no one else should know and no one should see them appear to you. A society of harmony needs to be created so beings from the Invisible world, the Divine world can come and work. When such a society is created, it becomes the focal point for their arrival. Then they come and create intimate relationships within you. In the Universal White Brotherhood, everyone needs to have unity - not to live individual lives but to help each other. If 10, 20, 30, or 100 people unite in one mind, in one heart, they can successfully complete any work. The members of the Universal White Brotherhood will come to you themselves, you will not find them. A Bulgarian brother now in America, asked me how to find the Brotherhood. I told him that there is no need to look for them, they will find him. Yes, they will find you. Christ came and found his disciples. The law is such, and when they arrive I want for you to be ready. The teachings of the Universal White Brotherhood are to be found scattered throughout Occultism, Theosophy, and Christianity. In this teaching there is unity everywhere, there are no disagreements. In the teachings of this Brotherhood, there is a special understanding of the creation of the world, a special theory. The Universal White Brotherhood never question the modern theories, they keep silence about them. They tell no one, “You are not right!” You will say, “Why do we need to enter and study at that school, at the School of the Universal White Brotherhood?” To learn the Laws of Happiness, the Laws of Life, and to know how to live. There is no other way. The New life is a path to the Universal White Brotherhood. It will give you true methods and laws. Our future life will be determined by the school. That is why you have to enter, there is no other way because if you do not go to learn the New Methods and ways to live, you will be bankrupt, just as you are bankrupt now. We are a Great Brotherhood that has branches on Earth, in Heaven, and in the whole Universe. Sometimes the Rational Advanced beings implant themselves in the bodies of people for 10, 15, or 20 years and work. It is more efficient and they save time. The genius is a collective being. One or more Advanced beings have a liking for the genius and manifest through the person. The people who the Angels dwell in, we call them geniuses.

From the book, “To fall in love with God”, Sunday’s lectures (1916-1920), First issue, IK “Janua”98, Sofia, 2009 The book to be downloaded – PDF Content of the book Five discreet and five foolish virgins Then the Kingdom of the heavens will become like ten virgins that took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were discreet, and five were foolish. (Gospel of Matthew 25:1-2) This is a piece (quotation) that Jesus Christ had taken from a great Divine book and the ten virgins are characters from this Divine book. Of course, you haven't read this book, and few have read it. I will do my best to explain the deep inner sense of this section, but are you going to find out what is useful for you? Why does Jesus Christ take the ten virgins and not five? Then, He makes the difference between them-the five were sensible, and the five- foolish. Why were not two of them sensible and eight foolish? There is an association between things. Many are asking the question, who are these virgins? These virgins-this is the whole mankind. So half of the people are sensible, and half are foolish. In this respect, we can split the people into blacks and whites. There have been so far four races in the world: red, black, yellow and white. White is the youngest race. It was a time when the black race was on the pick of their development. Black people were not as unintelligent as they are today, in contrary, they used to be the most intelligent people. From this race the sin starts, and those five foolish virgins represent the black race, and the five smart represent the white race, which is now working to restore the Kingdom on Earth. Perception is incorrect when you say that some people are good and others bad. A person cannot be both good and bad. A person can be either good or bad. Gold cannot be at the same time valuable, and worthless. The valuable stone cannot be at the same time priceless and worthless. The thing that is precious is valuable, and the thing that is of no value is worthless. One of the qualities of these five virgins was sensibility, they were sensible. The word "sensible" is used by Jesus Christ with deep meaning. The word "einsof" had been used rather than the word "intellect", which means everlasting Divine beginnings, which occurs often in a man. These five Virgins had Divine beginning within themselves. Now, you need to keep one thing in mind: the difference between the sensible and the foolish, the good and the bad is that the bad guys have their blowholes, pores in themselves, very quickly they lose their temper, and good people have no pores in themselves, they do not lose their temper. I don't use the word "pore" to associate with channels in people’s body, but I use the word in the chemical sense. Just as there are unstable compounds, such as compounds of nitrogen, and when a person dies, his flesh starts smelling-then all nitrogen compounds decompose, every element is released and goes to its place. So at this time, when the master passes away, each element goes to the place from where it had come. This is called decay, smell. Make a note of the fact that heaven is a place of purity, of sense. Now when I speak about it, many people can understand it incorrectly. That twisted understanding lies in the fact that often people do not think. And when you speak to them, when the truth is given to them, this truth causes bad smell to them, because people, who have bad eyes, they often smell badly. Abdominal pain is accompanied with such bad smell. In blood circulation there are also such reactions. So, a good person, a sensible person is able to manage these elements and turns the wickedness into good. You say: "This is a very interesting thing when a person can handle the wickedness and turn it into good.” And in today's chemistry and Alchemy there was striving to convert no precious metals into precious ones, into jewels. We might say that religion is a science, with which we can make the basic elements into more valuable, to convert simple thoughts into valuable ones. This is the deep science; it is the pursuit of religion. All religions that exist in the world have different methods that teach how to turn bad into good, how people can get on during their lifetime. Therefore, from this perspective you can have any religion, as long as it gives you a method to grow closer to life. This issue practically is very easy to solve. For example, you go to a town, stay there for a while and visit a restaurant. If the food is not good in that restaurant, you leave it and go to another restaurant, which is better and more expensive. If the second restaurant is good, you will continue going there. If someone asks you why you go to that restaurant, you will say: “It is really more expensive there, but the restaurant- keeper serves good food”. Therefore, the point is not in the cheap. Anyone who sells cheap, he bears no truth in themselves. When I want to sell, either I will take a lot, or I will not give anything. We have to value the Devine material. Someone might say: “God gives without money, as a gift”. It is true, but how do you understand – “gives gifts”? When a Bulgarian bride is getting married she gives away presents to her guests: to one she will give a shirt, to another a belt and etc. But, don’t you think, that when she gives them these presents she does not expect from them something else in return? It might be e baking tray or a pot or something else. Nowadays, people expect God to give them presents and they do not want to give anything in return. There is no such a law in the world. When God gives, He manifests His responsibility, but we also must give- not because God expects our gift, but because this way we become more graceful. When we give something to a beggar, we dignify our feelings. When we see a beggar, he reminds us about the law of giving. These beggars are like restaurant- keepers, who feed us. If someone asks why beggars exist - the answer is- they will exist until people reach the time of their development. Jesus Christ says that five virgins are sensible and five are foolish. This law is valid for every person as well. In every person there are two individuals –sensible and foolish, who are in constant fight inside him. When the foolish person comes and tells you: “Give me from your butter”, you should tell him the same way: “I cannot give you from my butter, because it will not be enough neither for you, nor for me. This is why you should buy it for yourself.” Now you understand why a person should buy butter for himself. According to the parable, the five virgins returned, and the door was shut. And the Lord told them he did not know them. Why doesn’t The Lord know them? Each Lamp, which they were carrying, represented the human body, the oil inside was the heart, and the need of it to burn-this is the human mind. So we need to love, to think and to have a body. The Lord says: “I do not need people, who don’t have a body, a heart and a mind. Their minds do not glow. Go to the appropriate places for you.” But you will object it: “Why would not He accept them?” To give you an example I will use the following analogy. You have ten servants; you want to send them to work in a mine. And if five of your servants’ lamps do not work, they are damaged, will you send them in that mine? No, you will not. This means, that the light is necessary for them. The person, who enters the Kingdom of God, he will still be on the same land. I do not mean that it is the land that you know. I'm going to ask you: do you know what was the earth ten thousand, twenty thousand, one million years ago, etc. Some of you will say it was steam, but it is not the Earth. The steam was a process in the past development of the Earth. This steam was necessary for the development of the Earth. There was fire which also was necessary for the development of the Earth. But the steam and the fire are not the Earth, this is an inner process necessary for its development, the same way we have similar processes for our development. We have blood, warmth, moisture, but all this is not the human soul. Human soul and Earth are synonyms in relation to the Devine life. So these five Virgins are inside you. You have five feelings, but from a purely phrenology perspective every person has two halves, and in each half- there are five centres, so all together there are ten feelings. Five of the feelings stand in a passive state, in stock. When all these ten feelings begin to work inside the man, then the person is good. You do not know how many wedding guests were there. Jesus Christ didn't say anything. You think there were just the bride and the groom. They had been ten, so we have the number 20. But then ten and twenty, that is a sum of all creatures taken together. Under the number 7 we understand God, and number 2 represents the material, which means a combination of all the small particles that are alive, all of them work. There might be that half of them are sensible and half of them are foolish, this is a different matter. The example which Jesus Christ gives is that every person wants to reap the fruit of their work. Your mind will serve only to you and therefore we must never rely on others. For example, someone leaves - leaves this world. You do not rely on him to solve your problems from there; you have to rely on yourself. A teacher can convey good lessons, but if you are dull, he can't do anything for you. A doctor can be very good, very knowledgeable but if you have more negative elements inside yourself, he would not be able to restore your health. And that is why Jesus Christ said: "you will be receiving according to your faith." in this sense, faith is a quality of the sensible person. Faith and hope are the two wings in birds, and love is as head of the bird. These three things suggest one more thing, the fourth one. "Why do I need faith and hope?"To fly, and if you go down to the ground, these two wings are turning into legs. Hope and faith are similar for this, and for that world. Under the senseless" Jesus Christ understood that they did not have faith, they think that it is possible to live without oil. They think: When he comes, because He is Generous, He is merciful, He will give. He will give, but there are some terms and conditions. Why is it like this, why did God not give? He gives, the Earth has a lot of natural recourses, but you need to have a grain to plant it. This grain will collect vital juices out of the ground and will give you what you need. This grain must be your mind, you need to have understanding. You need to take out the extract in order to use it. When somebody says, '”Isn’t it possible to be not like this? “This shows that he knows more than the Lord. I've never asked: "why did God do that?", and I study the root causes. If you ask the question: "Why is it like this?" you will never be answered. Somebody asked Hermes a very important question - “Who was greatest teacher in Egypt”, Instead of answer, he just shrinked his mouth, without saying a word. And if you ask me, I will answer that you do not have to question such things. You ask: "Why one saint is further away, and the other is closer to God?" Have you ever been in heaven, to know that one is closer, another-further away? I see all the Saints are in the world and work hard, one is in the lab, another is in another place, etc. they are on Earth. And people are right thinking this way, and I am right as well. I speak what I know. There is nothing to argue, the experience will prove it. When Jesus Christ says above parable, He determines the reason why these five Virgins were stupid. They have not done four things: they did not feed the hungry people; they did not give water to thirsty people; they did not take care of ill people and they did not comfort the ones who were in prison. Good virgins have done it, but foolish virgins have not. Jesus Christ determines what is frenzy, using as an example the three servants and the master in the same parable. Two of them acted as wise servants and one of them was stupid. Two of them have doubled their benefits from what the master has given them, and one of them buried the money and told his master: “I knew that you are cruel and want to harvest what you have not planted. This is why I was afraid of you and hid the money. This is in my opinion what you should receive”. When we are cruel, stupid, when we lie, we think that all people are like that. Everything in the world is a reflection of our inner world. These five sensible virgins are a big power in a man, which we can use accordingly. This is not only for an individual person, not only for us. When Jesus Christ comes again, He will not separate one nation from another. Why is in the Gospel written, that He will separate sheep from goats, the same way like the Sheppard does it? I know that goat milk is healthier than the sheep milk; it is better and safer for children than the milk from the sheep. But in the book, from where Jesus Christ takes this parable – goats and sheep are symbols. “Sheep” refers to a sensible and noble person, while a “goat” refers to Crotchety and unreasonable man. A goat goes to places where nobody goes – on mountains, picks. It is as an acrobat. Sheep like plane land. This is the essential difference between these two animals. Therefore, the stupid people love adventure. And in history there is one such example. One Greek King, who wanted glory, issued an order to burn the Temple of the goddess Diana. This is how he became well-known. So, these are the consequences in life. -everything we think and wish hard, will happen. With a little story I would explain that. This is a story that was created perhaps ten or twenty centuries before the Christian era. One Persian King had the habit to look at the way the people in his town live. One night, having passed a very poor House, listening, three sisters to talk to each other and he along with his assistant listens to their conversation. One of the sisters said: "I would like to marry the Baker of the King, so I can eat white bread all the time." The second sister said: “I would like to marry the butcher of the King”. The third sister said: “I would like to marry the king’s son. I will bear him the smartest and well-behaved child”. This was what they were talking about. The King’s son wanted to fulfil their wishes and the next morning he invited them and fulfilled their wishes. A man receives what he wishes. The King’s son married the third sister, but the other two sisters became very envious. They were not happy and they were very jealous because of the difference in their social status. This was what they wanted, but when they received it, the two sisters were not satisfied. I will stop this story here – this is one part of it. There are some people in the world who think only for bread, the Lord gives it to them. Others think only about meat, it's a rich food; the Lord gives it to them. What is meat? It is the meat of the animals; it is the meat of the gold and silver items. And the one who wanted to marry the King refers to people who exist in the divine life, they want to bear something. And those who want to eat only, they are a watermill, the flour is digested, washed the stone again lay the wheat etc these people are dissatisfied with life; they say that life has no meaning. How to make no sense? If they wanted this thing, there is meaning in life. If you want your life to make sense, ask to marry the King's son, to have a smart and a good kid. Our soul must have that target-to get in contact with God, to deliver something. When we give birth (deliver), we will forget about our personality. Personality is an external mask. An Individual matter- it is a higher status in man, where we have to focus. It is not important what are my relationship with people but what can be my relationship with the angels, the most high-ranking people. If I participate in an orchestra, people are not going to look at my pretty face or soft hands. They will see my good playing, whether I am in tune with others. To feel, to think properly that means you know how to play nice. If you feel well, your face would be nice. Everyone can make his face beautiful, as long as he feels the thinnest vibration of love, and then your face would be nice. Why should we think well? To be healthy, and then in our body we will have this jitter that will bring us joy and fun. Our misfortunes come from the fact that we, like these girls, want to get married to a Baker, butcher, and fulfilling our ideals, we will say: “it was not worth it to marry this man". Yes, I agree, it is not worth it. And I for Baker and butcher wouldn't be married. On one side we will put the Baker and on the other side the Butcher. The one who created this story, he was a great thinker. He said that in the physical life there is always a division, but in the spiritual world there is no separation. When the divine element, the divine sense is born in us, IT's going to teach us how to collect the oil, how to use it, how to lit it. And when Jesus Christ comes, He will recognize us for sensibleness because oil, the candle –they represent the wisdom within us. You can't have butter, oil, unless you are sensible. Exploring the deep meaning of life, you will see that the first manifestation of God was the logos, sensibleness, the word, and after that it appears to be the light. The light is one of the results of this divine element, like a virgin, who says: "I want to give birth." and then you're not going to be a servant, but a master. Jesus Christ said to the five foolish Virgins: "I don't know you." Do you know why Jesus Christ says: "I don't know you." When friends come over and you say: “I know this person, I know that one." What is the relationship? Both are human beings. Someone you know in some point in your life made you some service, some good, and the one you don't know- you don't know him because he has never done any good to you. The person who saved your life, you owe him something, and the one who has done nothing for you, he has not lost even a single hair from his beard for you, the one who has not given you anything, you do not owe him anything. And Jesus Christ says: "Since you've fed me, you have taken care of me, I be obliged to you and you will be with me in the Kingdom of God. And those who have not done anything for Me, you'll stay out, I will send you to work in another era and, in future time, maybe something can be done for you. “Some say, ' I want to be in heaven with Jesus Christ." You can be, but I would like to ask you, have you ever sacrificed your live for Jesus Christ? If you have sacrificed it, you will be with Christ, if you have not, you're going to stay out. You can believe in one or the other, one may be true or not, but there is no a middle way. The right thing can be verified, to be demonstrated. There is a hidden power in your brain and in your body which has to be developed. Some people say: “Mr. Danov does not want to reveal this power.” I am not a magician. Everyone can reveal it. Spend one hour a day to think about great things and you will see that on the day when you get married to the King you will see the thing differently. Now, I will continue with the second part of the story. The third sister, who married the king, gave birth to a child. However, her two sisters stole the child and gave it to people to take it away from the parents, and they gave a crippled child to the queen. And the father became furious because his wife did not keep her promise, but gave birth to a child idiot; this is why he ordered to put her in a jail. The king’s son ended in a family of a gardener, who worked in King’s yard. The king’s son grew up as a very handsome young man. In the same area where he grew up there was a very beautiful girl, called Halyal – Kazya, and lots of kings sons who wanted to marry her, went there and to all of them after she was pronouncing the words - “Became a stone!” they turned into stones. As a result of this, all that area was covered with stones. The King’s son also decided to try his happiness. He went up to this place and shouted twice: “Halyal- Kazya!” and his legs turned into a stone till his knees. He told his horse, that when he called her name for the third time the horse must start neighing very loudly. After he shouted her name for the third time, the horse neighed very loudly which surprised the beauty and she did not said the words to turn him into a stone. The king’s son then asked her to wash him and to turn him into a human being again. After that he rode his horse and shouted – “Raise all you heroes from the past centuries, follow me!” He took Halyal – Kazya with him and told the story of two sisters. This Halyal- Kazya is a human soul and all you are the stones. Some people say that all the people are alive. There are two types of people – some of them who have died when still alive, and the other type- who lives even they have died. I would like everyone to be alive. When the human mind manifest the divine light, each maid would say: "He is the one, I am looking for." Everyone on the earth is looking for God. I don't want people to look for me but to seek the Lord. Christ said: "this word, which you hold, this is God, not Me." Which one of you has devoted a year to find out these Virgins? Read this parable. But after you read it, stop, pray to God for one - two or several days and little by little you will be given some kind of revelation. You will understand these Virgins now after you heard this thing. You have four Virgins, and you are one, this is how you become five of them. The four Virgins-will all become one in you. These five Virgins, I work out that are: the body, the heart, the mind, the human intelligence and the human soul. They all have to come together with Christ. Until you reach to the heights of your mind and enter the field of your soul, you will not be able to find Christ. It is not because the fault is in you, it is not because you do not have the desire, but you need to climb high, because if the horizon on which you stand, is a Valley, hence you won't see anything. And if you get high, you'll see that the Earth was a bright woman and from her belly button a great light goes out. They say the Earth was sinful. It is not sinful-it is a woman from whom the light comes out; It only sometimes becomes angry, shakes around and say: "Children, please behave." I would like you all to be patient as the earth-it was burrowing, threshing, reaping, etc. All you get from it, but only ever the earth steams and dissolves all the entrances. Let's all be patient – not as The God, but as the Earth. Some say: "when will I be free of Earth?" the Earth is a paradise, a place where Saints live. And there, where you live, there's a terrible place. Although in Scripture they say that the Earth is deplorable place. You are deceiving yourselves; the Earth is an excellent mother. You say: "It's got us." But you never know who's got her-you got it, or it got you So, we are blind to this mother, who has fed us for so many years, prepares us to meet Christ. Some say: "I would like to live on another planet." wherever you go, there is a land. No one planet will accept people who don't respect their mother. If you go, for example, of Venus, you'll need a passport. Some say: "I will go to heaven." Where is the heaven? On the Sun, on the planets, or elsewhere? You will be on the Earth, because you have not paid the tax on the land of his mother. So says the Lord: "by not listening to, send him to his mother." and as she accept it, they bury him. The Earth says: "don't worry; I'll make you another nice outfit." As it sends you back to the Earth, it will send you those ten Virgins again, but did you know that in some cases the Royal sons spoil the servants? These ten Virgins are you. Modern philosophers imagine the life in the following way. For example, a Wolf met a lamb and asks him: "Why did you swear at me last year?" The Lamb responded: “But I wasn’t born last year, how is it possible to swear at you? "Why are you muddying the water?" asked the Wolf. "I do not muddy it"-Lamb said. The Wolf leans and ate it. We in life behave in the same way. The Wolf can eat a lamb, but it does not matter how many he will eat, he will still remain a Wolf. Someone has done a bad thing to you and you say: "I will take revenge on him." Today you will take revenge on somebody, tomorrow, and finally you will have wrinkles on the face. And when Cain killed his brother, the Lord put wrinkles on his face, so people can recognize him and do not kill him. Let him live, because otherwise he would be more damaging. Your bad desires, your thoughts- the devil, engage them in work. Induce people say- “ Kill all your desires”. However I say: “Force every desire in hard work, do not kill it”. Jesus Christ said: “Reject yourself”, I say “Love yourself” How you can understand me? You can say that it is a contradiction – why do you have to reject yourself? Now it's time for you to get in love with yourself. The one, who cannot love himself, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. In a different place Christ says: "who does not love himself, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.", when you fall in love with yourself, you're going to be one of the smartest and most noble people in the world. When you fall in love with the Lord or yourself, or have an ideal, you will become a better, noble person. I don't want to leave in your mind now the consideration, among which of these two types of people you will be, because this will scare you and you will start thinking where are you? Are you among smart ones or fools? I suggest you to think that you are among the smart ones, because of the fact that you have come to listen to me. Therefore you do not need to think whether you will be the ones, who have been chosen. If you think that you have to be chosen now, it is wrong, you should have been chosen long time ago. It is better not to know whether you have been chosen or not. The urge to become richer, without knowing that you're already rich, is better. Firstly, these five Virgins have relation to the human mind. It has three sections: first, objective or deliberate mind, second, higher intelligence, and third, the mind of remembrance or the memory. Then, there are special, high feelings in a man-his moral feelings and love he has towards his closed ones. These all are the five Virgins. One Virgin is in the rear of the head, the other is on top, and the remaining three are in the front of the forehead. All form a triangle. Those Virgins are inside us, they are, that make us think they are that make us sublime and noble. They say that a man has two angels. And I say that he has five such angels, who are smart, and five that are not smart, so all-ten. When you are visited from the five foolish, you go out of the way, and when you are visited by the five smart ones, you work; your job is successful, going forward. When the foolish ones come to you, they strip you and when the others come, they bring to you all the blessings. So, when you have these blessings, which follows all periods of your life, you're not lost, you are in balance. Every person in their life needs to have the right balance-it does not matter how many times he is dangling, he should go toward the direction which they know. I will make a comparison: this life can be compared with a modern ship - very well built, equipped with good machines and with its sailors, passengers. This ship goes on a long journey in the great ocean. You can have the confidence in the Capitan and question him whether your life is secure and safe. Or you can have a look at the equipment - how the machines are built, whether coal is enough, etc. In any storm you will be scared, but it's not going to help you, because if the ship is not strong enough, you are powerless. If it is strong, there's no reason to be afraid of. The Earth is a ship that carries us, it is the most beautiful, the most firmly made and all the forces inside of it are in place, and after some time it will bring us in the divine world. Earth will never be destroyed. It can grow old and will rejuvenate again. Again the mature age will come, again it will become old, but there is no demolition. In the world there are only four periods during which a person passes: youth, adolescence, adulthood and old age. This is the Earth. When the Lord comes, says the Scripture, sinners will not rise. When the ship is passing a harbour, all passengers get off it, and their passports are checked, and if you don't have one, you will be returned back to the ship. And those who have a passport, they will go down to the city. Those who reach the port and return to the ship will say: "We reached the sky." and those who come into town, they say: "We have seen the sky." This is what happens with all the people in the world. They will return again to the mother Earth. It will only take care of your better behaviour in order for you to improve and you will all become good people. There is no other way, just some will come earlier in the Divine world, and others later. The five Virgins came earlier, and the other five were left out. You might say: "Why do we have to live such a stupid life, to create the conditions, to live so many years and still suffer?" But we have to realise, that we are the ones that create sufferings. Now I will preach you to listen to your mother, the Earth. And when you eat a fruit, say: "Mom, thank you for this PEAR, and from now on I will try to be better person." when you get a loaf of bread, say: "Thanks for this bread." But what you say now: "How bad this bread is.” But the Lord is very strict. He will ask you: "Why don’t you respect your mother?" This is why when you return home, you must learn to respect your mother, the Earth. This land is not lamentable icon, It is very good. God has created this Earth. Earth and Heaven is a whole large thing. The one, who lives well on Earth, will also live well in heaven; and the one who lives well in heaven will live well on the Earth too. If you learn to live here, you will go through the entire situations on the Earth; you'll learn all the rules and orders in life. There is something good in any animal in the world. For example, an Ant has hardworking skills; a spider- has a good skill to interlace. And a caterpillar is a good Weaver, too. All the things that have been created in the world are good and pleasant. Sometimes you condemn the louse, but it has its sense, it makes you good. It is the same with fleas. They are doing you a favour. People, who do not want to have lice and fleas, they need to have a comb. If you don't wash, the lice will come to give you an experience, in order not to follow a bigger evil. And now they all say: "Everything is worthless in this world." We are the only one important. A gentleman in America meets with an editor of a newspaper in New York City and asked him: "Where have you been?" "I went to see a gentleman and find out how he trained fleas." "Do not mess with me!"-said the first gentleman. "It is true” - the editor replied. “ I saw fleas lined up on two squads, battalions, regiments, and I saw how they have been commanded.” The gentleman became interested in this matter and decided to check the truth of the words of the editor. He went to check everything himself and saw that it was true, indeed. He saw that the fleas were well trained in military art. If the fleas are able to learn the military art, are you not able to learn the Divine art? They asked the gentlemen how he had managed to achieve this success. "The biggest difficulty I met in this was to get out of their habit to jump-he replied. I achieved this, by putting them between two pieces of glass. And so they stood there until they got out of the habit to jump, and after that I started training them. "Sometimes Lord put us between two pieces of glass in order to quit jumping. This is an exercise for your heart, your brain. And in this way of thinking you can realize who the five sensible are and who the five foolish virgins’ ones are. Prudential people say that everything in the world makes sense, and foolish people say that everything is meaningless. Now, I want you not to marry bakers and butchers, but the king’s son. And I advise you to give birth. Then go and find the King's daughter Halâl-Kazâ, let’s make your horse winning before you start talking. Think about this matter, and a new light will come into your mind. I am giving you the framework, and you need to fill in the rest. When you fill in the rest, it will be a blessing to you. 16 November, 1916, Sunday, 10:00. Sofia translated: Maria Ivanova

The Solid Food "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both Good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14, New King James Version (NKJV). One of the most important human abilities is to distinguish Good from evil. The sorrows of mankind are the direct consequence of evil, and mankind’s joys are the direct consequence of Good – so it stands in principle terms. From a Divine point of view, however, the woes of mankind happen for the sake of people’s own benefit. In His Infinite Wisdom, God transforms the miseries of all nations, societies, people and souls into a greater Good. This is in the interest of God's Kingdom, as God does not tolerate any disharmony. Therefore, when it comes to recognizing Good from evil, it implies studying the essence of Divine Life. When a certain person begins to investigate the aspects of Divine Life, they cannot and should not afford to compromise their good actions for the sake of evil ones. If such a person does something wrong, nothing could justify it. The Good is always Good, and the evil remains always evil. Within the Divine Life itself, both Good and evil are strictly differentiated. Whoever asks for a definition of what is Good and what is evil may choose to read a certain number of philosophical essays on this topic. However, we do not deem it necessary to explain what is Good and what is evil. We know that the Good represents the plus (+) sign, which stands for a positive value, while the evil at the same time is represented by the minus (-) sign, which denotes a negative value. In this respect, both Good and evil, by being depicted as values, may be utilized in mathematical terms, as it is also in the case of all other mathematical notions. When Good and evil are used as mathematical notions, at their correct place and at the right time, they become useful indeed. However, if they are not used at the right place and time, they tend to cause great trouble and harm to humanity. For example, in winter it is fine to sit nearby the fire, but it is scary to sit as close to it as to have one’s hair set aflame. Moreover, it is uncomfortable to carry a whole bunch of apples on top of one’s head, but it is quite nice to have some of these apples in one’s stomach. Whilst sitting at a sufficient distance away from the fire, it is all good, but sitting too close to it is dangerous. In this sense, no matter how much coveted the Good is, once it is given to the human beings in a quantity greater than what’s necessary, it then becomes intolerable. So therefore, no matter whether we speak about Good or evil, when those two mathematical dimensions are in disproportionate amounts, and are not offered at their right place and time, they cannot benefit any human being. Knowledge, for example, is food for the human mind, but too much knowledge may become cumbersome, and even more so, if it is not duly integrated within oneself as part of our own nature. From a Divine point of view, the mind is the physical body of the human spirit. The spirit uses the mind as a garment in order to appear before God Himself. The mind does not yet represent the real human being, but it is an excellent servant, which solves all life’s questions. Within the physical world, the human mind is one of the major life factors, and in addition to it there are two other major factors - the heart and the physical body. Therefore, there are different worlds related to the life of the physical body, the heart and the mind, and each one of those three worlds is divided into another three sublevels. No matter how much is spoken about these worlds, such information would offer unnecessary knowledge to certain individuals. If some people fail to benefit from it, a substantial load may accumulate in their minds. Indeed, if the causes of human suffering are to be traced back to their origins, it would be evidenced that one of the reasons is due to the accumulation of excessive energy in the physical, mental and the so-called star (astral) body, which is also called spiritual body. The accumulation of these unnecessary substances within these three different subcategories of the human body would produce an anomaly in one’s life. For example, all negative feelings, such as hatred, envy, anger, etc. are due to redundant substances in one’s astral body. Pride, limited self-consciousness, ambition, and many more negative manifestations are due to excessive substances inside one’s mental body. As a result of these surpluses, one may fall into an unnatural state, either physically, mentally or emotionally. So when it comes to self-education, it is hereby implied to educate one’s body, heart and mind. The body, the heart and the mind are the three major factors that play an important role in the development of the human spirit and the human soul. In the Bible chapter we’ve just read, it says that women are forbidden to speak inside any church, and I am here asking you to state whether this is a principle written in stone or not. Indeed, while someone is ill, such a person should not talk, but once they heal, then they shall speak. The ill patient should not eat any food, but when one heals, he or she could eat whatever food they please. So, in the time of Apostle Paul, it was forbidden for women to speak inside any church because they did not know what to say. Only the ones who know what to talk about, and who have also long studied, can later on speak freely. One should have completed at least one university degree, but not at universities like the ones we see nowadays. One should have studied at the Cosmic University, so that when they come out to speak, they would know when, what, and how to speak. The speaker should not be like the pretzel vendors in the streets who buy their goods from the bakeries and then just resell someone else’s products. It is acceptable to trade, but to trade only both as a producer and as a vendor, not just as a vendor. As the trade goes on, one gets to know people, but sometimes one may not get along with them quite so well. The same thing can be said about agriculture and science. Until people do not know yet, how and what to talk about, they would meet each other and would then tend to quarrel. Therefore, they have to reach to such a position in life, whereby they act in such a way that everyone around them becomes pleased with them. "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age … " - Life represents the solid food in this quote, but if one does not understand where life comes from, should they then give up on it? If somebody is unable to complete a university degree, should he or she give up completely on acquiring knowledge? If nobody loves you, should you give up on Love? If no one has done you any Good, should you therefore give up on doing Good to others? Some of you say: “Because nobody has done me any Good, I refuse to do any Good to people as well.” Or alternatively, because one has not obtained a university degree, they do not wish to learn at all. So how many years do you need to complete a university course? - It takes four years to complete a university course on Earth, but to receive education in the angelic world, 777 reincarnations are indeed needed. What do you think about that? This is a mathematical probability, but whoever has completed the angelic university, knows a great deal, and does become a real scientist indeed. It is enough for such a scientist to breathe out some air towards a stalk of wheat, and its grains will ripen immediately. This type of knowledge would become available, but to whom would it become available? – Only to the ones who are perfect! You may say: “What's life’s real purpose?” - You could understand the meaning of life only after you have been reborn 777 times on Earth, and these rebirths actually represent 777 fundamental transformations in which you would have done something great and outstanding. Could you possibly imagine then how many fundamental and also how many other completely ordinary incarnations in total should a person experience on Earth?!? – When the Turks, for example, are unable to answer some difficult question, they tend to say: "Seven layers on top and seven at the bottom.” – In other words, there is no need to further mull over such a difficult question. It is said in the Scriptures: "Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies” (1 Corinthians 8:1, NKJV). What does this verse mean? – It means that knowledge without Love makes one arrogant, but knowledge combined with Love instills peace. Many think that knowledge does not need Love. You should know that it is Love precisely that brings knowledge with itself. Apostle Paul himself said that knowledge should not be separated from Love. Knowledge without Love makes one arrogant. In this respect, Wisdom represents the most painful route in life, since a more difficult path than the path of the Wisdom does not actually exist. There is no easier science in life than Love, so Love is intended for the “children”, while Wisdom is meant for the “elderly” – i.e. for those who are perfect. There is no contradiction in this way, as both the “children” and the “elderly” would enter the path which is intended for them. As a “child”, one walks in the path of Love; as a “grown-up” one enters the path of Wisdom. I therefore affirm that in the spiritually-aspiring people a strong desire for learning should be manifested. Even if someone has not much knowledge, he or she needs to have mastered it so well that it could be successfully put to the test. All the trials, all the good and bad thoughts that pass through one’s mind are not random; they are numbers and dimensions which are precisely defined. The human spirit and the human soul do indeed always travel and move about without any interruption in the open space, and in this way they learn. The spirit and the soul as well as the mind and the heart are in eternal motion. Everything in the world is moving. As you move, you see different trees, flowers, birds, stars, the sunrise and the sunset, and so on. You may ask if the trees and the rivers have any relation to us. - They have, of course, but you do not know what their attitude towards you is. You know, for example, that one river flows to the east, another - westwards, a third one - northwards and the fourth one - southwards, but you know nothing else about them. What the river’s attitude towards you is, what its purpose in nature is – those things you don’t know. Nothing in the world has been accidentally created. Everything has its own strict purpose and relation to other things. Someone may say: “What do I care about the size of the Great or the Pacific Ocean?” - So, why are you then interested how much money your father has left behind in the National Bank after he passed away?" The way you are interested in the question of your father’s written will, the same way you should be interested in the topic regarding the size of the Pacific Ocean because according to a previous research conducted by some scientists, it is assumed that within this ocean, as well as within some other oceans and seas, about ten million tons of dissolved gold may be present. Ten million tons of gold! – This is a significant wealth. It would have been nice if the Bulgarians could get hold of this gold, don’t you think so? You should be interested in the oceans because they present opportunities, which are conditions for your own development. They represent a virgin soil that is being prepared for the future upcoming culture. The waters of the Great Ocean would, for example, flood some of the present day continents, and many of the people on Earth would have to migrate to new lands. You may ask if it is possible for the Lord to take us outside of Europe and place us on new soil within the Great Ocean under completely new conditions. - There is nothing wrong with that. As you have left the Heavens and have landed down on Earth, so you would also leave Europe in the very same way. This is nothing but a resettlement. At one time you were in the Heavens, you rejoiced with the Sons of God, but then you left the Heavens and went travelling. In the past, the human race used to live in the Promised Land, but then they left it, and for thousands of years they have been constantly roaming. Therefore, the humans have left a vast space in the Heavens and came to Earth to work and to learn, as it is indeed verified by the Bible’s “Proverbs” chapter, which mentions that the people rejoiced in the Promised Land. Modern scientists claim that the Central Cosmic Sun is 75 million times larger and brighter than our sun. Based on this, I can make the following comparison: In space there is also a land that you have once left in order to come to our little Earth. This land is also 75 million times bigger than our Earth. Do you remember that you have lived in this land in the past? Do you remember some of its landscapes? - You would say that you do not remember anything. I am then asking you: “How do you explain your strange dreams then?” - You dream, for example, that you are somewhere, but neither on Earth nor up above it in the spiritual world. Since you cannot explain those dreams with the help of your earthly knowledge, you treat them with disdain and claim that this is all fantasy. No, a series of impressions are stored in your subconsciousness. – Those are series of memories that speak of your life in the distant past. The Cosmic land I'm talking about is still inhabited by real and perfect beings which have completed their personal evolution. Many call this land "Paradise", and some call it "The Kingdom of God." This land has its outer and inner layers. For someone to arrive at these facts, he or she must participate in the work of God. – This means to connect with Him. If you do not feel God's Love, God's power and thought, then where is your real human nature? If you do not have a righteous relationship with the First Reason, you would live under constant fear, and you would flee from God as the animals flee from the human beings. Why do animals flee from the humans? - Because humans have weapons with which they kill, massacre and destroy. The soil is also afraid of humans. Why? - Because people grab the plough and start ripping the soil apart in order to cultivate it. The modern-day so-called “cultured” people are similar to the plough that rips the soil apart. And then they say: "We are plowing." - If you are plowing in the correct way, it makes sense for you to do so, but if you do not do things correctly, you would do more damage than any Good. If you want to know what is required from you, ask the trees, the rocks and the mountains. Ask them also what they would say about you. The modern day humans cut down forests and drill tunnels, but they cause havoc and destruction along with all these actions. Advanced creatures have created the mountains and the forests, but the people destroy them. For example, what should be considered a greater artistry: to prepare a garment without passing a needle through it or to produce a garment by means of putting it together from various cut out pieces that are afterwards stitched by a sewing machine? The first method is superior and more difficult than the second method. The invisible world works in the first way, while people, on the other hand, adopt the second way. They destroy what has been completed already and go over it with machines, re-cultivating it and are indeed saying: “The modern day culture requires this.” When a “dressmaker”[1] produces a piece of clothing, many would admire him or her and say: "This dressmaker has got some great skill! They have acquired their expertise in Paris!”. I have to say that as long as the “iron needles and the sewing machines” pass through the clothes of modern people, nothing new can be expected from mankind. Such “sewing” of clothes cannot have a positive impact on mankind’s progress. Only the shirts of the sick can be “sewn” with iron needles in order to make them healthier and stronger. On the other hand, the shirts of the healthy people should be “knit or sewn” with golden hooks and golden needles. The iron needles bring something disharmonious into the nature of healthy people. Modern people often use iron needles and iron awls. For example, a woman may be living well with her husband, but her neighboring “dressmaker” would come up to her one day and may start saying: “As I see, you live well with your husband. - Yes, we get on well with each other. - That's good, but one thing I'll say to you, and namely, that I see your husband is a little bit playful; he loves to look back and forth! Be careful, watch him closely, see what he does. He is a man after all; he doesn’t have to be fully trusted.” So afterwards, this neighbor sits around for a while, talks a bit and then goes away. The young wife remains alone and begins to think. What is she thinking about? An “iron awl” is already drilling into her heart. When her husband returns from work, she starts scanning for any changes in him. The man wonders why his wife is looking at him so earnestly. "What is it, milady?”, he asks. – “Nothing.”, she replies, but there is something going on nonetheless. - The neighbor has previously come in to visit and then also raised a suspicion within the wife. What does suspicion represent? - Suspicion is a certain impurity that enters the astral, i.e. the human stellar body, and one would experience envy, hate, doubt, and may say: “I do not know what's going on with me, but I've lost my peace. What should I do now?” The answer is not to welcome at home “dressmakers” who work with “iron needles” that are intended for the sick people only. And if you go to the house of your neighboring “dressmaker”, who has acquired their trade in Paris, you should tell them: “I have a sick neighbor, for whom I would ask you to “sew” a shirt.” If your neighboring dressmaker agrees, you will take them to the ill “patient”, so that they can obtain the actual measurements of the patient’s shirt – in this way you would not be letting the “dressmaker” enter your own house to spread rumors and gossip, but would direct them to the people in need instead. And indeed, it is said in the Bible that those who are ill should be comforted. I advise you to ponder over the “iron needles and the iron awls” and to apply this analogy in your life in order to make full use of it. You are now asking: “What is life’s purpose?” - Life has a threefold purpose. First, the meaning of life refers to the necessity of creating a strong and well-organized physical body, in which the spirit and soul shall live, so that both of them could to do their work on Earth. Second, the meaning of life encompasses the need of improving the astral body (star body) by means of elevating one’s feelings and desires to such a level, as to balance the heart’s full potential. Once the heart is organized, Love would penetrate it with both its energy and force and shall bring life into it. Otherwise, the human body would be full of negative feelings and inferior desires, which would soon or late inevitably cause one’s death. And finally, the meaning of life also refers to the purpose of creating a healthy brain, so that the mental body could perceive only those thoughts that are necessary for the development of the human spirit. Once a person understands the meaning of life in this particular way, he or she would be already at the gates of the Divine world, facing the life of the human soul where the laws of complete harmony exist – these are the laws of everlasting beauty and unity. The human beings of our times are confronted by a number of contradictions due to the conditions they are living in, as well as due to their own belief systems. In order to resolve these contradictions correctly, people need to know whether these contradictions stem from their physical, astral or mental bodies. Humans should know where exactly within their own selves the Good and the evil are born. Good and evil are two forces, which work not only in nature, but also in all aspects of the human body. These forces are transmitted from one person to another by means of influencing each other and act in the same way as diseases, which spread around in the environment. When an “infected dressmaker” comes to your home and brings along a contagious disease, this “dressmaker” shall also leave something from their sickness inside the “piece of clothing” they would “sew” for you. Could an “infected dressmaker” have created your garment in a sound way? - The outer garment may have been sewn well, but inside this newly made piece of clothing there would be something hidden that is not good in itself. In the same way the diseases are transmitted, so can Love be also spread in the world, but how should proper “dressmaking” be conducted in future? - In future, clothes would not be “sewn”. - If you understand this thought literally, you may find yourself in a contradiction and may ask how it is possible not to sew when garments are being made, but by saying that there will be no sewing in future, I am hinting that the human thought shall act in such a way that it would flow seamlessly and without interruption. The thought of modern people represents a compilation of individual, separate facts. Facts are limits, which could only confirm certain truths, but they do not represent the whole Truth in its completeness. One fact may show signs of life, but this manifestation may not yet be the real Life itself. Facts only testify that life is being manifested in a certain place. Therefore, Life is truly manifested only when it flows seamlessly and without any interruption. - This is what it means to make your clothes in a new way, “without stitching and without cutting out various pieces”, which represent the different parts of the one and complete reality. Whoever wants to make a garment in this newly-suggested fashion should keep their physical, astral and mental bodies clean and should also maintain a steady interconnection among all three of them. - This is the method on how to correctly understand the essence of life. The heart is the center of the star (astral) body, and the brain is the center of the mental body. Whoever cannot master their physical, astral and mental bodies would always be exposed to suffering, contradictions and misfortunes in life. Personal failures typically occur due to some certain fluctuations and hesitations in one’s mind. Our minds should not hesitate. Personal failures also happen due to people postponing or delaying the execution of their tasks. – If there is a nice thought in your mind, or some noble feeling in your heart, do not postpone their realization! Let’s say that a poor person comes to your home and whispers into your ear that they wish to come in, but because you are stingy, you refuse to invite them and defend yourself by saying that you do not have the possibility of doing so today. You say to yourself that you couldn’t welcome this poor person today, but that on some other day this would certainly happen since the same poor person would again visit your home at a different time. Yes indeed, Nature may choose to postpone the counteraction to your personal deeds, but it doesn’t ever forget any of our particular omissions. A day would come when the situation of this poor person shall change, and then you may have to ask this previously poor person for help. That is why every intelligent person should display the wisdom of a sage by being able to foresee things and to perceive every human as a soul which has descended from God in order to complete their work on Earth. Many ask if the human soul suffers. - No matter how sublime, the soul always suffers, as it has its own difficulties and predicaments. The human mind and heart often fall into disturbances and hesitation. No matter how noble and strong the human spirit may be, when it comes to Earth, it also carries some burden with itself. God has foreseen all circumstances, and consequently places every person under the right conditions which are necessary for their growth and uplifting. God has decided to save mankind, so he sent his Son among the people. But then again, people are ungrateful and say: “Why do we need the mind, if we suffer so much?" - This mind would save you, but you should use it wisely! "Why do we need the heart, if we suffer so much?" - This heart, in particular, shall save you, but you need to use its powers accordingly! The only thing that will save humanity is suffering. God speaks to mankind through suffering, and angels speak to humans through joy. The Lord asks mankind: “Do you know why you suffer? - We don’t know, dear Lord. - You suffer because you have left your father's house, forgotten your mother, father, brothers and sisters and roam around the world like strangers. Come back to your home where everyone is awaiting your return! It is cold outside - 36 degrees Celsius below the zero - and you're walking barefoot in your ragged clothes. Come back to your home, where a warm room and loving creatures are waiting for you!” Once the individual realizes their aberration from the normal evolutionary path, they enter their home in the Heavens and end up by being surrounded by creatures that are full of love. If you encounter any of these sublime beings who live in the Heavens, you may initially become afraid of them, but then you would immediately calm down and understand that you are facing a being which possesses no negative thoughts and feelings. When Christ appeared to His disciples after His Resurrection, they were first afraid of Him, but when He told them: "Peace be with you.", they then calmed down. The conversation that Christ had with His disciples at the time is not mentioned in the Gospels, but it is one of the most beautiful conversations the Christ disciples had ever conducted with their Master. Apostle Paul says that until the new knowledge is fully integrated, the old wisdom should not be completely discarded. Why? - Because humans are now passing from one transient state to another different and more permanent state, but until one enters the new state, the firm soil of the old understanding needs to remain beneath their feet. If someone destroys the old foundations before people have built a new solid framework, they would be helplessly “dangling in the air”. In the past, God descended upon the human mind in order to uplift it, but back then the human consciousness was mainly concentrated in the area of the heart. Today, God is descending upon Earth in order to inspire the human soul, and at the same time, He would uplift the female principle, which is the principle of the Virgin. - Future people will lead a virgin life. Some want to know whether they should marry or not. It is not a question of marriage, but people should live in absolute purity in their thoughts, feelings and deeds. When a man encounters a “virgin” woman, a bright and a beautiful thought would be awakened in his mind, and in his heart a lofty feeling shall also appear, and he would be ready to assist such a “virgin” with total unselfishness. All this means that such a “virgin” has offered something Divine to the man which has transformed him. You are saying that such transformation may happen, but not in the world of crimes where we live. I am asking you: “Could crimes be committed at a temperature of 10,000 or five million degrees Celsius?” - So therefore, crimes are being committed nowadays because the temperature of this world is too low. How would you live in a world where the atmosphere particles move faster than the light itself? Would you be then able to again commit any crimes whatsoever? – No, there would be no criminals in such a world. If a criminal enters such a world, they would forget why they have arrived into this world. The criminal would see different valuable items lying around, but no thought to steal something would occur to their mind. However, when such a person comes back to Earth, they would wake up from the deep sleep they were in and would feel sorry they didn’t steal some of the treasures that were surrounding them. The same thing happens with people on Earth. While they are young, they have high ideals and purity, but when they grow older, they regret that they hadn’t stolen anything from their master's wealth since their morality was different at this younger age, and because of it they couldn’t act as thieves. The actual reason for such purity, however, is not one’s personal decency, but the “conjoint life with a saint”, whereby this saint thrived in a world full of illustrious light and high temperature, in which all unclean thoughts and desires were immediately burnt. Whoever may enter such a world of pure and holy beings only once cannot come out of it as a poor person. Those noble beings would give their visitor a “bag of full of gold”, so that any further possible temptations are eliminated. Modern people, regardless of whether they are religious or secular, are unhappy about life in general and reason that the surrounding world is still imperfect. People should know one thing, and namely, that the world is conceived and designed in its most perfect form, but because people are not yet ready to perceive it in its original form, the world is revealed before their eyes to an extent that corresponds to their level of consciousness. In this particular sense, God has not yet revealed and manifested Himself fully. By studying contemporary scholars, writers, poets, artists and musicians, I perceive them as the torch-bearers of the Divine. God wants to manifest Himself through them, but because they are not well-organized yet, they cannot properly convey the Divine ideas. This is not meant to be a reproach against them. A day would come when they shall be able to correctly communicate the Divine ideas and feelings. Therefore, all scientists, all musicians and artists are the bearers of the Divine, regardless of whether they are aware of it or not. The Divine ideas in humanity are gradually growing and producing positive results. They develop slowly, but steadily. To illustrate it with an example, on your way you may meet two enemy armies, both of which are well-equipped with the most modern weapons, cannons, supplies, telegraphs, telephones, radio sets, and so on. When they pass by, they cause fear and trembling amongst the population, as everyone is asking themselves which of the two opposing armies would win. You then continue with your journey and meet a poor and simple horse-wagon driver who is on his way as well. Afterwards, you ask the driver about his destination, and the driver states that he is bringing a grain of wheat to his master, so that the grain can be planted. You would laugh and conclude that this is an insignificant matter. What do you think, what would be the result of the fighting between the two enemy armies, and what would be the result of the wheat grain growth? - You shall soon find out that there is nothing left from the two enemy armies other than the bad consequences of destruction, despite the armies being so grand and impressive before the fighting had commenced. Death, poverty and weeping is what you witness. Mothers cry for their lost men and sons, fathers - for their sons, sisters - for their fathers and brothers, but in the case of the wheat grain that was planted you see something that is exactly the opposite. The grain’s original form is tiny and goes unnoticed, but its final result is truly grand and impressive. In 15 years, this single grain of wheat will increase to such numbers, that it would give a great yield, which shall drain the tears of all those who suffer on the face of the Earth. What is preferable in this case then? - To meet a grand army or a simple person instead who brings in his horse-wagon a grain of wheat to his master? Now, please transfer these two figurative images to your personal life, to the public life and to the life of the human soul. Through its battles, the army can only temporarily save its homeland, but it cannot offer food to the people. Armies kill, destroy, and impoverish the mankind, while the wheat grains bring life, harmony, and bliss to humanity. Where one finds wheat and bread, in there they would also hear songs and witness joy. Therefore, when the Heavens send to you an ordinary person with a grain of wheat in their horse-wagon, do not turn such a person away, but thank God for the health and joy that is offered to you by accepting this grain. Take the grain, plant it in the ground, and when it bears fruit, chew it and use the hidden power it carries in itself. Once you understand the power that lies in the grain of wheat, you would perceive what’s placed inside the soul of every person, and you would find out why they were born. The grain of wheat is the hard food that one has to chew and eat. There is something great in it, which in time will yield good results. Once upon a time, to one of the prophets of Israel, named Elisha (TN: Prophet Elijah's successor), came one of the Syrian king messengers by the name of Hazael to ask him about the health of his king. Elisha adopted a stern facial expression without the blink of an eye until Hazael became ashamed, and then Elisha, the man of God, wept. Hazael asked Elisha why he was crying, and Elisha answered that he is weeping because he knew how much evil would be inflicted upon the sons of Israel by Hazael. Hazael was surprised to hear this, but Elisha clarified his words by saying that Syria’s crown will be placed onto Hazael’s head. So why did the prophet cry? - He wept because he saw the “solid food” that was being offered by God to his people. The people of Israel, to whom God was very gracious, could not understand God though. Why? – Because there were some unfavorable conditions at that time. Moses also worked among the same people, but finally he also concluded that they have not understood God's laws. And here we stand nowadays when modern people are also ungrateful to God, Who wants to free and help them by refining their bodies, hearts and minds, and later on to also improve their souls and spirits. This can be achieved only through acquiring knowledge. No glory can be achieved without knowledge. There is knowledge of the mind, knowledge of the soul and knowledge of the spirit. One needs to achieve the knowledge of the spirit, as no uncertainty whatsoever is present in this type of knowledge, since this is the Divine Wisdom itself. When we speak about the various types of sciences, we could draw the same conclusions for religion as well. Religions have existed since the most ancient times, and they still exist today. The best religion existed at the time of the very first human being, as did exist back then also a very special type of a science. This very first human being is still talking about the skies and about the stars. In the past, various calculations were made and are still being made in order to reflect on the changes in the skies, which signify the various transitions from one culture to another and from one level of consciousness to another. The first human being possessed the knowledge of this great science that was later on forgotten and ultimately disappeared. Modern-day people are utilizing the present science and religion to acquire the knowledge they have lost in the past. These efforts and strivings are indeed well intended. That is why Christ said: "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing” (Luke 15:4-5, NKJV). Contemporary people live in the culture of this very same “shepherd” who has lost a single sheep, and they say: “This culture is excellent.” Yes, the culture of the single lost sheep may seem excellent, but there is tragedy today in the modern world, tragedy exists in the human souls, tragedy is also present in the human belief systems. Today, there are about 500 million Christ followers who know by heart the commandment "Do not kill.", but still cannot be uplifted at least to a level not to kill their own brothers. Can this type of a culture be possibly called a real culture? Let me tell you that every person for themselves represents this “lost sheep”, as a result of which the manifestations of this contemporary culture are more or less negative. That is the objective truth. When people are told the truth, they tend to become offended, and this is normal. Nevertheless, one has to know what tomorrow brings for them. The future of your life would be determined by the solidity of the foundation you are laying down today. Living a wicked life means building a bridge out of hay, on top of which heavy artillery would be later on transported. What could possibly be the fate of such a bridge?! Great science and great knowledge is needed by today’s mankind. Apostle Paul said: "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age …" Knowing this, the ancient scientists denoted the Aries zodiac sign as a symbol for self-sacrifice. Today everyone knows that there is an equinox in March. The second equinox is in September. The spring equinox or the sign of the Aries represents the Divine principle of self-sacrifice. The passage of the sun through the North Pole, which in symbolizes the “Pole of Truth”, implies the law of self-sacrifice. To obtain the Truth, the Divine needs to descend into the material world through these souls who are already on Earth. When we say that there is a drama and a tragedy for the human souls, we mean the blind entanglement of these souls inside the physical matter, and I assure you that these souls have to be freed because they are oppressed by the weight of a “great building” on their shoulders, as represented by the material world itself. No one, however, suspects this. No one knows where they have come from, why they have come here and where they would go, once they pass away. The modern-day people have lost the history of their past, they have lost their ontology, and by reverting back to the law of self-sacrifice, they will come back to the idea of their genesis. After the first equinox, in April, the sign of the Taurus (the so-called Bull) moves in, which denotes the principle of the mother and the principle of the force which connects all things. Next comes the "Gemini" sign, which represents the principle of the Cosmic consciousness. - This is, so to speak, the principle of the Divine mind that unites all creatures into Oneness. These three signs in the zodiac represent a triad that is repeated four times a year. The four fields through which the human beings have come down to Earth are as follows: 1. Humans went down from the causal world into the mental world. 2. From the mental world they went into the astral world. 3. From the astral world they entered the physical plane where they finally stopped. You are now saying that those are simply the three months of the year - March, April and May, which we all know very well indeed, but do you actually understand the importance of the month of March? If you understood the meaning of this month, you could resolve all your troubles. How? - By restoring your relationship with God! In April, you would be able to amend your relationship with your brethren, while in May you could connect to your own self. So, it is enough for a person to get in the right relationship with the forces that influence these months, so that in a single month one can only further improve their life. How would you achieve that? - By hard work, by perseverance and not in the way a drunkard by the name of Zdravko has done before in the below fable. Zdravko had been continuously intoxicating himself for twenty years. At one point, he found several books on how to resolve one’s drinking problems. He read these books and said to himself: "Zdravko, you should not drink any longer! Let the tavern owner know that you have decided to start abstaining from alcohol.” The next day he passed by the pub, but did not come in and said to himself: "Well done Zdravko, you resisted the temptation successfully! Let’s now go into it and celebrate the occasion!” He then went into the pub and got drunk. - This example highlights the division in the human consciousness. So many modern people behave in the same manner by saying that they won’t be angry and will not by envious. The following day they pass by the “pub”, whilst managing to initially abstain from any inner violence, and they do not immediately become angry or envious, but only a few steps further down the road they congratulate themselves for the self-control and decide to go back to the “pub” to get “drunk” again, and so anger and envy yet again find their way into them. Nobody can get rid of these negative manifestations unless their original source is found. These behaviors are to be found in the astral body, so that is why people should work on it. For example, people may say about somebody that a certain person is conceited. The center of conceit is located somewhere in the brain. If this center is cut off, one may nevertheless still show their pride. This shows that conceit has laid its deep roots within the entire human brain! There are occasions when even mad people have become conceited, since they thought to be beings of such high stature, as to be able to give orders to everyone else. In Sofia there was a Macedonian lady by the name of Sultana, who was a little bit out of her own mind. She often said: “I carry the whole world on my palm - the Earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, as well as all the people. Whatever I say does in fact always happen.” - Yes, what she was saying was indeed happening, but it was happening to her only, not to the others. Her prophecies were similar to those given by a once famous astrologist as described below. One of the French kings summoned this astrologist and said, "I think I want to start a war with Austria, but I want you to make the necessary calculations to confirm if this war would be successful." The astrologist made his calculations and told the king that according to the planets, war could be declared on Austria, since the conditions were favorable. The French king started the war, but France suffered a huge defeat. Because of the wrong prediction, the king decided to kill the astrologist. He summoned the astrologist to himself again and asked him: "Do you know when I’m going to pass away?" The astrologer was a clever person and immediately realized that the king had devised something against him, and then told the King: “You will die 24 hours after my death.” The king immediately thought to himself: "If that is the case, I'd better spare his life in order to preserve my own.” This shows that the king was a clever man as well. He believed in the words of the astrologist and said: "If my death would occur after his own death, let me spare his life, so that I can save my own life.” - The king knew the law which stipulates that what comes around goes around. All in all, you should find a sound foundation for your life and not blame your destiny for your misfortunes and failures. Every person is the creator of their own destiny. People “drink”, and the “pub owner” assumes the role of the destiny, by means of writing down how much is owed by the pub visitors for the “drinks” they order. As soon as the pub visitors try to get help from the “state’s legislature” to avoid paying their “bills”, the state automatically defends the “pub owner” and says to those who drank: "You will pay! The state has allowed the pub owners to require from their visitors to pay for what was consumed on premise.” And the pub owner also says: “This account of mine for what you have drunk so far entitles me to claim the money you owe me.” Similarly, you may go to a merchant, and today you may take a credit, you would also take a credit tomorrow, until one day you would be indebted by thousands of leva (TN: that is the name of the Bulgarian state national currency) and say: “For God's sake! Please don’t be in a rush, wait a minute, I'll pay you back." However, the reply the borrower hears is: “I cannot wait for the sake of God. I need the money, and you will pay me back – that is all!” The law defends the lender, not the borrower. If this merchant is a benign, good-natured person, a resolution to the issue may be found. However, if the merchant is a cruel and a crude person, he or she would abuse you verbally and hurt your feelings, so that you could always remember well what happens when you do not meet your debt obligations. Who is to blame for all this? Those who are clever have no debts. You may say: “What shall we do now, as we have incurred so much debt?” That is what the invisible world now wants to help you with – to free you from your debts. The invisible world is willing to show you how to get rid of your debts in the easiest way possible. It is said in the Bible that “…the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one” (1 John 5:19, NKJV). This means that the world is bogged down in debts that need to be repaid. By coming to the Earth and remaining on it, Christ has shown people a way in which they can repay their debts. Modern people say that Christ sacrificed Himself for the sake of mankind, i.e. He has repaid all human debts. Indeed, Christ did repay the debts of mankind, but only those debts, which were accrued in the Divine world. All people have to pay back to Christ the very significant amounts they owe, and they would have to certainly pay back soon or late. Christ shall summon those who owe Him to repay their debts, but if they ask Him for an option to delay the repayment because they have no opportunity to do so, He would forgive them. If the ones, to whom Christ has forgiven their debts, afterwards go to bother and torture their own debtors for a petty sum of money, Christ will tell His servants: "Bring these people back to me to have them repay their debt!" The servants will bring such debtors back to Christ who shall then ask: "Are you ready to write off your brethren's small debt the same way I have already forgiven you your own large personal debts to me? If you are willing to set aside the debt of your brother, then I will not claim back what you owe me.” So, I am here asking you which one of you is ready to write off the debt of your brothers and sisters? If you forget about the debts of your brothers and sisters who owe you, there would be no more complaints, no court applications shall be filled in, and no litigations would take place. However, you forget the law that “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you” (Matthew 7:2, NKJV), and still you continue to act according to your own personal preferences only. What could be more dignified than a friend asking you for a loan of 100 leva, provided that in ten days, he or she promises to repay the money, and you later on witness that in exactly ten days your friend returns the loan, which would in itself demonstrate the famous English type of punctuality. If your friend cannot repay their debt on time, he or she needs to come back to you to apologize for the delay and ask to run an errand for you, so that they can repay their debt. The Englishmen take money on a loan and return it exactly at the specified time, but the Bulgarians take a loan, then they do not return it easily. They also act in the same way when they borrow a book. Bulgarians take the book and finish reading it, but do not think about returning the book to its rightful owner. In general, Bulgarians are unreliable. In addition, their punctuality is quite poor. For example, you may meet a Bulgarian peasant and ask them how long it takes to reach a certain village. The peasant would describe the exact route and tell you that you would need an hour to reach your intended destination, but you would be continuously going for an hour, then for two hours, then for three hours, and still there would be no sight of the village. This indicates that the respective brain phrenological time center is not well-developed within this peasant or that perhaps the peasant is guided by a different sort of mathematics. For instance, someone promises somebody else that they would turn up in half an hour, but actually arrive after several hours. I have done some calculations and found out that the Bulgarian version of “half an hour” equates to six European hours. Therefore, if a Bulgarian says that they would show up in an hour, you’d have to wait for about twelve European hours before he or she appears. Consequently, we can conclude that the Bulgarians are guided by different time interval estimates, which are in reality much higher than the worldwide standard. Because the Bulgarians are democrats by default, the Divine has engraved one more character trait into them, which demonstrates that before they have taken something from somebody else, they say that everything a person has earned or made on their own belongs to that very same person only. However, as soon as Bulgarians succeed in acquiring what they desire from somebody else, then they affirm that everything belongs to God! – That is in fact true because such is the law of Christ. However, if this law is applied in their own life, they would immediately call this law pure anarchy. - No, everyone needs to be consistent, since if such a law is interpreted as “anarchy” by one person, then this law should be interpreted and applied in the same way by the entire society, and not selectively for solely one’s own benefit when possible. Contrary to the Bulgarians, the Turks say: “I am not looking to redeem what I have already given, but then what I take, I do not return." When the Bulgarians fail to pay off their debts on time, they apologize with a number of reasons such as having had a lot of work or that they had guests who prevented them from coming on time etc. Bulgarians typically say that it is completely natural and human to make an omission like this because there is always some predicament in one’s way, but that everything would be repaid with all the corresponding interest on top of it. If the lender goes to the debtor’s house to remind them that the deadline is approaching, the Bulgarian debtor would warmly welcome their benefactor, shall afterwards offer them a home meal and would apologize again. Bulgarians are normally willing to do what needs to be done with respect to their own business, but if you compare them to the Englishmen, they would fall short of the golden standard. This type of behavior is typical not only for the Bulgarians, but for all the Slavs in general. If, for an instance, you order a book from abroad, it would not take long before the book arrives to you in due course. If, however, you order a book from Russia, you’d wait for a long time before it reaches you because the typical Russian would say: "Hmmm, well, let's see if this book is here or not." All of you should know one thing. - Nature does not like the act of postponing. From the standpoint of the Spirit, postponing the execution of one’s actions represents a poor quality in human nature. Excessively rushing to accomplish things is a bad attribute as well, but postponement is no better. One has to do everything exactly at the right time – not earlier and not later. As I observe the development of modern science, I see that it prepares humanity for a great future. The science is nothing else but a preparation for this grand future. Great beings, who guide the fate of humanity, take part in this preparation. These beings bear different names. - Christians call them angels of the winds, forests, waters, seas, grains, societies, nations, and so on. Hindus call them Gods. In relation to these angels, the various nations have created a series of traditions as part of their lives, and these traditions, however, are not mere superstitions. Such traditions show that there is a design of specific order that governs this world of ours. Therefore, where there is an intelligent design and order, there is legitimacy as well as wisdom. A rational being is beneath the surface of every law. The law is a sign of supreme intelligence, and the laws exclude even the tiniest injustice. And when to you it seems that the world is lawless, in fact, it only superficially seems so. There is an absolute righteousness in the world, which judges everyone according to what they deserve. This does not yet mean that this righteousness immediately punishes people; it only shows them the law, which is necessary for the fulfillment of God’s Will. Whoever fails to follow this particular law would be held accountable as a result of their own personal choice. There is a Divine plan for all things in the world. No matter how much people are deviating from this plan, they shall eventually fulfill it, but they would go through great suffering. Beautiful is the Divine plan indeed! Do you know what is required from people, so that they can understand the Divine plan and execute it well afterwards? One should bring harmony in the relationship between their soul and their astral and mental bodies on one hand, and on the other hand, to harmonize the soul with their spirit. Only in this way would humans be able to manifest the dormant possibilities that are hidden within them. If people follow this plan, they would rejuvenate. This is the way all people, who are today for example at the age of eighty, could rejuvenate themselves. Why do people age today? - Because they live in the Law of Limitations which invariably causes death. Death itself is like a “tax collector” who serves the Karmic spirits. These spirits are also called “debt-collectors” or “watchmen”. They are present when everybody dies and compete for their souls. The Revelation says that Archangel Michael argued with Satan over Moses' body. Once there was a dispute over Moses' body, it shows that Moses owed something. Who is Satan? - He is the ruler of the Earth or the so-called "prince of this world." He enforces law and order in the world, and for those who do not obey his law and order, there are gallows, bullets, knives, swords, etc. The prince of this world says: "I rule in here, so you have to obey me, and it is my responsibility to afterwards answer to God. What you think of me, I do not care one whit.” There are Christians who do not know anything about this so-called “prince”, and consequently fall into a contradiction. The Scripture says not to ever criticize or defame other people, i.e. not to talk bad things about anyone. Therefore, despite the fact that many call the Satan a “fallen spirit”, do not talk badly about him either. I will now share a story showing that the ones who allow themselves to talk badly about the prince of this world, whom some call Lucifer, do suffer quite badly from their own misguided actions. Once upon a time, a poverty-stricken man spoke badly about Lucifer, who one day stopped him on the road and said to him: “Listen, stop talking about me! What I do on Earth is my own business. You are a penniless person and you should keep your mouth shut. I can cause you so much trouble that you would remember me forever and shall understand what real deference and respect mean. – “I don’t want to know”, said the poor man. - “Okay - replied the prince of this world – You’ll see what I can do to you.” So, one day Lucifer converted one of his servants into a donkey and told him: "I will send you to Earth where your human owner will bring you to a market and sell you cheaply, so that the poor man I have in mind could buy you. You know what to do next.” And indeed, the servant descended upon Earth in the image of a donkey and was brought to the local market by his owner. When the poor man, who was fond of criticizing Lucifer, saw this donkey, he immediately wanted to buy it and asked how much it cost. "I’ll sell it cheaply", the donkey’s owner said. "That's what I'm looking for; I'm poor, I do not have a lot of money”, retorted the destitute person. The deal for the donkey went ahead easily. After buying the donkey, the poor man headed home and was fully satisfied that he got such a good deal. He put a lead on the donkey and took it to a water fountain in order for it to drink some water. As it leaned to drink, the donkey went inside the water fountain spout, and it reached such a depth that only its ears were visible. The poor man sat in front of the water fountain and was keen to get the donkey out of the spout, but he could not manage to do so as the donkey itself would not come out. At one time, another man came over to drink some water and asked the poor person if the water is any good. The poor man said that the water is fine, but that there's a donkey inside the water fountain spout. The other man looked inside the spout, but saw nothing and before leaving, he gave the poor person a good beating because he thought that the story was a lie. The poor man remained in front of the water fountain, wondering what to do. Next, a second person came over to drink some water. The poor man told him as well that a donkey was hidden inside the water fountain spout, but the second stranger saw nothing as well, he got aggravated by the seemingly ludicrous story, beat up the poor man and went away. A third person came over, and he also punished the poor man for what seemed like a straightforward lie. So, the poor person just stood there and said: “What should I do? I see the donkey's ears, but I am fearful to tell people that a donkey is hiding in the water fountain spout. I can no longer bear the brunt of the punches; I don’t want to be beaten up. I'm now afraid to tell people about my donkey.” So, therefore I say: “Do not talk badly about anyone!” There is nothing more beautiful for any human being than being able to discern what to talk about and when to talk about it. Everything should be said at the right point in time. As for the mistakes of the people - do not dwell on them! There is One who deals with the people's mistakes. First, everyone should study their own mistakes, and then a whole myriad of beings will study these mistakes by making a series of mathematical calculations. To deal with people's mistakes is a poison. What one thinks about, and what one does – that is what actually happens in one’s life. That is why every human being should relate to everything, which is positive, not only within their own selves, but to also connect with the positive side of those around them as well. When you meet a person, just look for what’s good and beautiful in them, and with regards to what’s evil in them, wish God to help them out and to return them on the right path. Only a perfectly accomplished person has the right to deal with the mistakes of other people because such a perfectly accomplished person is in a position to rectify these weaknesses. Sometimes God sends a prophet to a sinner to tell the sinner to restore his or her relationship to God, their brethren and their own selves. If the sinner does not do so, God would lift His protection from them and let them bear the consequences of their poor life. So, as disciples of the New Doctrine, you should strive to gain access to the Divine Science and to the Perfect Life, for both of which everyone has innate growth conditions within themselves. However, in order to achieve these you should apply the knowledge that you already possess. Some of you, for example, are worried that they have become too sensitive. - There is nothing bad about this, since for a person to be able to study, they would inevitably need to develop their own sensitivity. A friend of ours had previously become somewhat ill, and as a result, his feelings had become more refined. Afterwards, he began to see things from the invisible world that he had not seen before, and being left alone in his room, he talked to beings from the invisible world. When his wife didn’t know the reason for what was happening, she began to worry that something bad may have occurred to her husband. Scared and worried, she came over to me and told me the whole story. I told her not to fret over it, and that there's nothing wrong with her husband’s experience. Her husband had become quite sensitive, as a result of which, he was communicating on his own “radio” with the inhabitants of the invisible world in the same way people on Earth are communicating on radio with all those different cities and countries all over the planet. Every person has an in-built “antenna” that allows them to communicate with all the other people on Earth. One day, for example, a person may catch a message in the air, which is inviting them to board an airplane, but may choose to refuse the invitation, and in fact, they may have unintentionally overheard a conversation involving some other people. As people become ill, many of them start to unconsciously rave. What is the reason for this phenomenon? Unconscious raving is nothing more than a message exchange with the invisible world, but because the person is ill, they cannot properly perceive and transmit such messages. One has to be so sensitive, as to be able to perceive and grasp the things that would happen after decades, and to also sometimes understand matters that would eventually materialize after centuries. The more sensitive a person is, however, the greater their suffering is. Nonetheless, this should not scare anyone. Suffering is good for the human beings because it protects them from certain temptations. Once upon a time, a beautiful lady visited a Russian saint of noble aristocratic origin with the sole intention of seducing him. When he saw her, he put his finger into the flame of a burning candle and began to talk to her. During all that time his finger was burning. He consciously caused this pain to himself to divert his mind from the thoughts of his visitor. He said to himself: "It is better for my finger to burn than for my heart to suffer." And indeed, it is better to burn one's finger because the finger is a small body part rather than to burn one’s heart that makes up almost the entire human being. Having seen all this, the woman was suddenly disturbed by her own behavior and told the saint: "Please excuse me! I entered your retreat with a bad intention, but I'm now sorry and I'm ready to change the way I live. Take your finger out of the flame! This act of yours has awakened in me a desire to lead a pure life, to serve God, my brethren and my own self in exactly the same way you already do. Someone may suffer, groan, fall in despair and say: "There is no life for me any longer", to which I say: “Don’t be so unfaithful! Follow the path that takes you to God and do not be frightened! Your suffering is not great. God has placed your finger inside the candle flame, but if your finger can save one of your sisters or brothers, your suffering is then justified. You can freely and willingly place your finger inside the candle flame and thrive in the pain you would experience.” The small pains of one person may save many other suffering souls. In this sense, suffering is nothing more than a redemption and a salvation for many souls, who are also suffering themselves. You may choose to interpret my words either literally or as a metaphor, but while you are thinking about them, you should know that suffering can be substantial, only when it is imposed by Life itself, and that it may also be quite insignificant, but only when it is caused purely by the people themselves. The same could be said about the joys. - There are necessary joys brought forward by Life itself, and there are insignificant joys born by your own personalities. As a result, and contrary to the common logic, some joys may cause evil to humanity, while, on the other hand, some sufferings tend to act to the benefit of mankind. So first, one has to study and develop their physical body, then their astral or so-called star body, and finally they should study and work with their mental body. So, when you experience a feeling of hatred or envy in your heart, do carefully grab it with “a set of pliers” and examine it scientifically, as the followers of natural science do with the various butterflies, insects and animals in order to able to give their conclusions at the end of the surveys they have conducted. Someone says: “I was very angry.” - This is not you. The state of anger is not intrinsic to the human beings. It is funny to say, for example, when someone from outside sprays onto you some rose water, a perfume or a foul odor, that the pleasant or unpleasant smell comes directly out of you. The reason for the pleasant or the unpleasant smell is not directly related to you, since someone from outside has spread this odor around you. Therefore, temporarily you may exude some fragrance, but this is not you yet. Temporary changes, which occur in the human heart and in the human mind, do not influence the human soul in reality. All temporary changes and temporary states are transient and exist due to the nature of the life which is led by the mankind today. You are not the only one responsible for them. - There are many factors, which need to be taken into consideration. You are not responsible for all the “mud” that people may throw upon you. When you return home, your parents may start a quarrel because of your “dirty clothes”, since they may be stained and ripped into pieces, but that is not purely your fault. When your parents would be scolding you because of your “torn and stained clothes”, do tell them: “Come into my shoes under the same conditions, and you shall find out how you would return back home.” There is a possibility to avoid these attacks by the people, but the conditions have to change. – You would have to take a car or an airplane, and fly over your attackers with a speed of a bird, so that none of their weapons could reach you. Otherwise, under the conditions in which you are now living, and in the way you now cater for your own food, you would always make mistakes! If you do not re-educate yourselves, you cannot get rid of everything that you have inherited from your parents! “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age…” Since the solid food is for those who are full of age, do separate it from the food you are using every day. When you encounter some suffering, look at it from a close perspective to find out if this suffering is significant or not. If you are crying for one reason or another, pause for a second to find out the root cause behind your tears and do not say you are unhappy, but instead be pleased that you can cry. If someone asks you why you are crying, tell them that you are a water fountain that has to give some of its waters to some sad and sorrowful souls. From the water of such fountains, many thirsty souls are able to quench their thirst, and many sorrowful souls may wash their eyes. – This is how human tears should be seen and interpreted. The tears hide within themselves one of the greater gifts for the human soul. Do you know how many tears you have shed from your childhood years up until now? Have you ever counted how many tears have come out of your eyes in an hour’s time? I have previously told you to wipe your tears with a clean, fine handkerchief, but I am now asking you to collect your tears in small vials and to stick labels on them describing on what day you have cried, for how long and to also specify the exact number of collected tear drops. Now, you tend to let your tears fall onto the ground, but the Heavens do not look with approval at such practices. Many consider crying to be a symbol of one’s personal weakness. Let me ask you: “Which one of you has not wept before?” It is said for the Christ - one of the great Teachers in the world - that He Himself has wept as well. Not only Christ, but also all the Gods who have descended onto Earth have wept too. There is not one creature on Earth, which has not cried at least a single time. Crying is not a bad thing. Crying is a good sign – it shows that there is law and order in the world. Crying shows that one has understood the Divine that speaks inside of them. One may then say: “My Lord, I have the desire to fulfill Your Will and to amend all the mistakes I’ve made. When a person weeps a little bit, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, a master or a servant, a scientist or an illiterate, this act would always make their soul feel lighter. If a person is crying all day long, this is no longer crying, but wailing instead, which shows that this person's emotions are much stirred. It is beautiful when you see two or three tears in the eyes of a grieving person, when these tears roll down their face. Such a person possesses a certain degree of nobleness. However, if someone begins to howl and wail as much as they can, then such behavior does not yet express any deep sorrow. This is an expression of something which is torturing the respective person. This type of emotional expression is determined by the individual nature of every human being. “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age…” The question of solid food bears a great significance. If you begin to try solving this question, another question, which is more pertinent to you, shall spring up, and namely, this new relevant question sounds as: “How would you improve your current state of existence?” - To be able to change your life, you should be able to redefine and recreate it, and this would be achieved only when people start using the favorable conditions offered to them. The world needs intelligent people who know how to use such favorable conditions. One should be familiar with the physical, astral and mental aspects of the human life, to understand where the human virtues and weaknesses lie and to be able to choose the appropriate methods to help mankind. You say that people should love each other. - Therefore, Love is one of the best ways for the mankind to redeem itself! Now, to those of you who wish to become perfect themselves, I recommend using “solid food”, understanding the implications of what is happening in their lives, and not to become more and more aggravated as the time goes by. For this specific reason, you should constantly pray. Prayer does not imply only talking about God and reading written prayers or beautifully-versed words to Him. There is neither need to complain to God nor to boast to Him. The prayers to God should be a natural conversation similar to the way the human souls communicate with each other. Once you begin to talk to God in this way, all your personal affairs would thrive, your character will soften, and you shall see all people as souls who have come out of God. Such would be the bearers of the New Doctrine and servants of the New Creed. This creed does not divide people into nationalities and classes or according to their wealth or knowledge. This new creed sees and treats all souls in the very same way. This means to be full of mercy for each other; this means wishing well to the whole of mankind. For thousands of years, people have prayed for the Kingdom of God to come onto Earth, but in order for this Kingdom to arrive, people should be perfect in every aspect of their lives. Unless we open our souls to God and give Him place to work within us, and we then also begin to work in Him, the Kingdom of God will not descend upon Earth. The main thought of this lecture that should remain in your mind is to always examine your varying personal states of being and to know which ones of them relate to your physical, astral or mental bodies. Afterwards, do take care of the main pursuit of your soul - the pursuit of Love. Do not be thwarted by the fact that someone may be saying something bad about you, but make sure that all your feelings are sincere instead. Aim to manifest more and more Love with the arrival of every new day. Your love needs to expand and to encompass more beings within your hearts and souls. Connect with the good people by studying the positive aspects of their lives, but you should also realize that there is something good in every single person as well. Even during the worst moments in your life, you could still manifest a Divine feeling. The Divine exists in all people, but in some it is more developed, while in others it is less easy to observe. Give place to the Divine feelings in yourselves, in which there is no envy and hatred! Give space to the Divine thoughts in yourselves, where there is no pride! Do not think that whoever makes a concession is a weak person. The human nobleness lies in the conscious choice of making a concession. If a lion or a wolf makes way for you to pass, this does not signify any weakness, but shows nobility of character instead. Only with a single leap, both the lion and the wolf can indeed attack you, but due to their own noble character, they may choose to retreat instead. So, you must all be perfect, or at least strive for perfection and for a proper understanding of life. Unless you understand life, you will not get the favorable conditions you are aiming for. Why? – Because even when these favorable conditions are granted to you, you would not be able to make reasonable use of them. It is said in the Scripture: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock (Revelation 3:20, NKJV)." Who is knocking on the door of the human heart? – It is the Spirit, the Sublime in every single person. "And the solid food” metaphor denotes the fact that the sublime knowledge is only for those who are perfect. All of you can be perfect, and this does not mean that what you have done so far has no bearing or importance. All the human strivings for good deeds have yielded some fruits, but you can achieve even far better things. Do not set limits to your own capabilities! Modern people suffer from the predicament that that they set limitations on everything including knowledge, music, virtues, life, etc. And at the end and after all this, they say: "We are done for." They are right to assume so as far as it pertains to the fact that only certain things can be accomplished at any particular point in time. It may not be possible for the same things to be accomplished in a different aspect and situation, but the pursuit for their completion can be indeed started. There are areas in human life that can be explored only when one has reached maturity. Therefore, attempt to do everything at the right moment in time. Work in accord with your soul to release it from all the limitations and obstacles that you have imposed onto yourselves. This does not mean that you have to leave this world or the surrounding environment, but that you should use your conditions wisely. It is also desirable that while you are still on Earth, you settle all your outstanding debts and obligations, so that one day, upon leaving this world, you would not be obliged to come back to it. All souls shall together leave at the same time for the place they originally came from, so that they can arrive in there as a full group. Thus, the souls would be waiting for each other before they could collectively set off towards their spiritual land. These souls who have already left the Earth would wait in a certain place, then gather together with those souls arriving later on, and would eventually go back to their original abodes in glory and joy. You may say that the prophet Elijah was taken up in the sky by a chariot of fire. He was only temporarily in the sky, but then he was brought back to Earth, just as in the case of John the Baptist. The chariot with which Elijah the prophet was taken up in the sky was fiery and red, but there is another “chariot” with which every man should ascend. Whoever leaves the Earth, as a righteous person, shall be collected by a “friend” who will be dressed in white, luminous clothes, and the two of them would then fly off together towards the invisible world. This is the type of perfection you should be striving for. Achieve this perfection, and peace will come upon you, and therefore, all the worldly conflicts, which are now disturbing you, would be ultimately resolved. Now you are solving these questions in human terms: one goes to power, another one comes down; one becomes rich and another one becomes poor; one is born, while another one dies. Whoever thinks that they can change the order and the setup of this world does not really have a clear understanding. In this respect, we are not preparing to adjust ourselves to the world’s circumstances, but to finish our work in it. Once we have finished our work, we shall leave our own accumulated wealth to the world and bid farewell to it. Some may say that in order to be saved, the world must be first shaken up. - There is nothing more to shake up - the world is already stirred. Once we complete our work, we would get a “ticket” and we shall leave. "“But solid food belongs to those who are of full age …" - The knowledge that I speak about is only for those who are perfect. Christ says: "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48, NKJV). " This means that we need to understand things in the way God understands them! Be in agreement with God, with your brethren and with your soul! This is the meaning of human life on Earth! A talk by the Master Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunoff), held on December 18, 1927 in the district of Izgrev, Sofia, Bulgaria. Translated by Pavel Yordanov [1] In this case, the term “dressmaker” allegorically denotes someone who is actually disturbing one’s astral and mental bodies by means of spreading unjustified suggestions and allusions, which are then adopted by their victim.

Picture credits All photos reflecting the life of Peter Dunov and the White Brotherhood come from the personal archives of Boris Nikolov, Nikola Nankov and Krali Kralev. The publisher is grateful to the author Milka Kraleva for submitting them, and to all who allowed us to use their archives. The modern photos of the Rila Mountain and of modern performances of the Paneurhythmy is by Danko Ivanov. The pictures of the Peter Dunov Museum in Marchaevo and of the Master's grave is by Alexander Lebedevski. Special thanks to Nadezhda Velinova and her family for the pictures of the Museum in Marchaevo. All illustrations except the portrait by Tsvetana Shtihanova (page 10 and cover), the image of Christ on the Turin shroud and the colour pentagrams (on p. 37 above, right and page 82) are by Hristo Hadjitanev. The last chapter, The Teaching of Peter Dunov around the world, includes portraits by Hristo Hadjitanev and the following photographs: Rudolph Steiner, from Healing of Europe by Harrie Salman (courtesy of the author) Onisaburo Deguchi, from The Great Onisaburo Deguchi by Kiotaro Deguchi (Aiki News, Tokyo) Mara Belcheva - from the Petko and Pencho Slaveikov Museum, Sofia Omraam Mikhael A'ivanhov (three pictures on p. 86 and one on p. 44), from the illustrated volume Omraam Mikhael Alvanhov, courtesy of Prosveta Publishers, Frejus, France. THE MASTER PETER DUNOV His Life and Teaching The book is published in English, French, and Bulgarian Text by Milka Kraleva Introduction by David Lorimer Illustrations by Hristo Hadjitanev Design by Krassimira Despotova Consultant: Konstantin Zlatev Editor: Ivanka Nikolova Assistant editor: Aneta Mecheva Translation from Bulgarian: Janeta Shinkova Editor of the English translation: David Lorimer Coordinator: Teofila Issidorova Proofreader: Milena Hristozova Contemporary photographs by Danko Ivanov and Alexander Lebedevski Computer processing: Lyudmil Tassev Printed in Slovakia KIBEA PUBLISHING COMPANY 1336 Sofia, P.O. Box 70, phone (359 2) 24 10 20, (359 2) 925 01 52, fax (359 2) 925 07 48 Internet site: www.kibea.net E-mail: [email protected] KIBEA BOOKSTORE, KIBEA HEALTH & BOOKS CENTRE 1000 Sofia, 2A G. Valkovich St. Phone (359 2) 988 01 93, (359 2) 988 01 69 E-mail: [email protected] SALES DEPARTMENT AT THE DIMITAR BLAGOEV PRINTING HOUSE Sofia, 2 Rakitin St., phone (359 2) 943 49 33, e-mail [email protected] Peter Deunov represents the third major esoteric spiritual impulse in Bulgaria, following on Orphism (which led to Pythagoreanism and Platonism) and the 10-th century Bogomils (literally meaning "dear to God"). All three impulses are historical manifestations of the Fellowship of Light based on the cardinal principles of Divine Love, Divine Wisdom, and Divine Truth. Of these, Love is the fundamental principle which, as one of Peter Dunov's formulas puts it, "brings fullness of life". In the application of these principles, he claims, lies the salvation of the world: "I believe in love and wisdom that have created life. I believe that they have the power to recreate the world." The last hundred years have seen a resurgence of interest in spirituality and mystical experience, even in the midst of the prevailing secular ethos in the West. There is a widespread search for meaning. As people become more discriminating they will recognize true spirituality when they see it and will come to appreciate the greatness of Peter Dunov's contribution to our spiritual heritage. This greatness is based on his articulation and embodiment of the three cardinal principles of his teaching: Love, Wisdom, and Truth. I consider him to be the greatest and most universal spiritual teacher of the last century and indeed what Hegel called a world-historical figure whose significance will only gradually be realized over the coming centuries: eternal principles are timeless and can be appreciated anew in every generation. This beautiful book will help introduce Peter Dunov's teaching to a wider English speaking audience and I can only hope that readers will find it as inspiring as I do. David Lorimer, From the Introduction

The White Brotherhood outside Bulgaria MIHAIL IVANOV (1900 - 1986) was one of Peter Dunov's disciples. His first acquaintance with Deunov was in 1917 while the Master was interned for a year in Varna. They would often walk along the shore in the mornings and discuss spiritual issues. The young Ivanov was captivated by the Master's universal erudition. He took up the occult sciences with enthusiasm and eagerly sought knowledge about the secrets of human nature. Dunov encouraged and helped him. In 1937, Mihail Ivanov left for France to propagate the teaching. The first lecture he gave there on the 29th of January 1938 was based on a quotation from the Gospel of John: "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" John 3:5). He discussed the question of the source in it. Over the following years, his activity became a source of knowledge for a wide circle of people interested in this teaching. They formed an ashram-like community to practice daily the way of life Ivanov preached. The teaching spread naturally, attracting more followers. Sevres and Bonfin were the two major centres where lectures, meetings and conventions were held, the Paneurhythmy was practiced, Dunov's songs were sung in Bulgarian, and a unity with nature was sought. Ivanov's activity spread outside France; branches were founded in Switzerland and other countries of Western Europe, North and South America, Africa and the Middle East. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov (Mihail Ivanov). In 1959 - 1960, Ivanov made a trip to India. There, he visited the Ramana Maharshi Ashram in Tiruvannamalai, encountered representatives of ancient Indian wisdom and had a revelation. Before that trip, he was known as "brother Mihail. After his return, he called himself Omraam Michael Aivanhov. The title "Omraam emphasized his relation with the spiritual masters of India. In 1982, he visited that country for the second time and met with Madrasi Baba who had an ashram in Calcutta. The latter called him "the sunny Rishi. Michael Aivanhov traveled a lot. He visited Japan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Hong Kong and many countries in America and Africa, paving the way for the New Teaching. Undoubtedly, with his spiritual erudition and excellent knowledge of occult sciences, he made the greatest contribution for the dissemination of the New Teaching around the world. The societies he founded were a model of life in harmony and fraternal relations. Everyone who sincerely sought spiritual development could find his or her place in them, regardless of age, sex, profession or faith. The knowledge he spread was useful and universally applicable, and the results are the ultimate proof of its value. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov among young followers. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov demonstrating exercises in spiritual gymnastics. In May 1939, Professor Alfred Lemony of the University of Toulouse gave a lecture to 20 of his colleagues on the ideas of the Master, describing them as "necessary for the revival of culture and the opening of new horizons to humanity". Several lecture collections were published in Latvia. Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, the ambassador of the Vatican to Bulgaria before World War II, who later became Pope John XXIII, admired the Master as a philosopher. "The greatest philosopher in the world today is Peter Dunov," he said. Pope John XXIII (Cardinal Angela Roncah). The Dutch theosophist Vreede visited the Izgrev centre in 1939 and upon his return to the Netherlands, described the experience in the St. Michael's News magazine. He wrote that the Master was "humble but powerful, concentrated, with a subtle penetrating mind, an inspired expressive face, modest attire, kind, strong, determined, natural and dignified." After 1940, larger groups were formed in Sweden, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They studied the Master's lectures and practiced the Paneurhythmy. In 1943 in France, Jarmila Menclova who had studied the Paneurhythmy with the Master at the Izgrev centre popularized it actively in France. After 1944, Dunov was still discussed and written about abroad but the connection with Bulgaria was severed by the censorship and the ban on "idealistic" publications. However, there were Bulgarians abroad who remained deeply devoted to Dunov's teaching and continued to work for its propagation. The teaching was actively disseminated by Viola Baumann and Ernestina Staleva in the United States, Georgi Kourtev in Argentina, and Dr. M. Hristov in France. However, the most ardent apostle was undoubtedly Mikhael Ai'vanhov in France. He founded over 30 communities in different French towns where Dunov's principles were systematically and thoroughly applied. He continued his apostolic activity in over 30 countries of the world: Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Columbia, Congo, Spain, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, the United States, Russia, Norway... In 1947, Rene Guenon said these memorable words: "The Master is a true messenger of God. He is the greatest magnet ever to descend to earth." The year 1955 saw the death of one of the most brilliant geniuses not only of the 20th century but of human civilization in general, Albert Einstein. The French national radio had a special broadcast in which Einstein's views on many issues were quoted. Here is one of his statements: "The whole world bows down before me; I bow down before the Master Peter Dunov from Bulgaria." Albert Einstein In the 1970s, a group of Englishmen interested in Peter Dunov's personality and teaching visited communist Bulgaria for the first time. They met some of Dunov's disciples and spent some time in the Rila and in the places frequented by the Master. They took home their overwhelming impressions and restored the connection with the outside world. Gradually, the interest to Peter Dunov's ideas abroad was revived. In 1974 in England was published the authoritative Encyclopedia of the Unexplained (Penguin Books), edited by Richard Cavendish, which included the following mention on Master Peter Dunov: "A Bulgarian prophet who claimed to have descended to the earth from Alfeola, the Star of Stars to pave the way for the coming Age of the Slavs; in 1914 he announced the advent of the Aquarian Age." Later on, a great contribution for the dissemination of Peter Dunov's ideas in the English-speaking countries had the three books published by David Lorimer in Britain in the 1990s: Prophet for Our Times, The Circle of Sacred Dance, and Gems of Love. These volumes are dedicated to Peter Dunov and his mission in the world. In June 1996, during his first visit to Bulgaria, the world-famous designer Paco Rabane paid homage to his spiritual master Peter Dunov. "He is one of the greatest philosophers of the Age of the Aquarius. Dunov's teaching will be the foundation of the spiritual culture of the new century," he told the press. Paco Rabane had come across a volume of lectures by the Master in a Paris bookshop. By 1960, he had collected all his books. "Peter Dunov was the first philosopher to write in an understandable language with an exceptional insight," he also said in the interview. From Dunov, Rabane learned that in the matter, nothing is devoid of meaning. The symbolism of his creations is inspired by Dunov's teaching. In 1998, the Dutch philosopher Harrie Salman published his book Healing of Europe in which he wrote: "Anthroposophy is first and foremost a path of knowledge about the expansion of consciousness. In the 20th century, from the sources of esoteric Christianity, other ways for the spiritual development of man were elaborated. One of them is the "White Brotherhood" of the Bulgarian spiritual master Peter Dunov (1864-1944) who is related to the teaching of Bulgarian Bogomils." Today, the free democratic political system in Bulgaria is favourable for those foreigners whose interest in Peter Dunov's ideas naturally attracts them here, to the sources of this original Bulgarian teaching. Of course, they are most attracted by the opportunity to practice the sacred dance - the Paneurhythmy - in the beautiful Rila mountain. Alison Brown in Scotland, Ardela Nathaniel in the US, and Jean-Louis Gobot in France were the first Paneurhythmy instructors who, after their visits to Bulgaria, promoted it abroad. Their activity attracted many people whose spiritual interests were in harmony with the original impulse of Dunov's teaching in Bulgaria. Undoubtedly, these propagators and societies are not the sole driving force for the spread of the New Teaching. The ideas of the Master Peter Dunov are powerful, vital and accessible to every mind that has reached the stage of preparedness for them. Thus, many enlightened minds of the West have arrived at these ideas in the course of their spiritual development. They are an integral part of the global spiritual movement known as the New Age. Did Peter Dunov foresee how his ideas might reach as many people in the world as possible? He was aware of the power of his thoughts; this is why he left this world confident that "a small job" was done well. With these humble but dignified words, a giant of spirit took his leave, having devoted all his life to the spiritual enlightenment of humanity.

The Teaching of Peter Dunov Around the World Peter Dunov's new ideas attracted attention outside Bulgaria after 1925. The teaching spread through foreigners who had visited him here in Bulgaria and had been strongly impressed by him, Bulgarians who traveled abroad and spoke about the Master, and through books, magazines and newspapers published in Bulgaria and distributed abroad. A personality of the Master's rank could not remain unnoticed by the greatest minds of his time. Researchers of the life of Leo Tolstoy say that in 1910 he left for Bulgaria. He never got there because he fell ill and died during the trip, reads the biography by Biryukov. Quite a few researchers believe that Tolstoy's intention had been to meet with Peter Dunov in whom he recognized the Universal Master. Leo Tolstoy. In 1910, one of the Master's future disciples of the name of Boyan Boev studied with Rudolph Steiner. Steiner once told him: "Slavdom has a great mission to fulfill. It, and Bulgaria in particular will make an enormous contribution to the spiritual uplifting of humanity. I have nothing to teach you. Go back to Bulgaria; the Universal Master is already working there." Rudolph Steiner In 1926 in Japan, the religious movement Omoto, known for its progressive spirit of unification, acknowledged the Bulgarian White Brotherhood as ideologically related. "I am just a sage. The Master is in Bulgaria," said the movement's leader Onisaburo Deguchi. Onisaburo Deguchi Peter Dunov's new ideas attracted interest in Czechoslovakia, too. The Die Gloke magazine published his biography, and in his book Das Reich Glottes auf Erden the philosopher Rudolph Burkert described him as "a prophet of the white race".. In 1927 in Italy, Aldo Lavinini published in the Il Messagero della salute magazine an extensive biography of Peter Dunov and admired his work. In 1928, Agnesa Hoffmann of the Catholic Liberal Church in the Netherlands visited Bulgaria, wishing to meet Peter Dunov, credited with being one of the Masters. She said: "I came to meet with the Master Peter Dunov. Humanity has but a few masters." In 1929, the foreign publications on Peter Dunov's teaching and his activity in Bulgaria became more numerous. In Japan, the Omoto magazine wrote: "The movement of the White Brotherhood is something new and original that the Bulgarian nation has contributed to the world. It is an occult movement based on the ideas of real Christianity." In Germany, the Reformblatt newspaper published an article entitled Heralds of the New Culture. It said about the White Brotherhood: "The true value of this movement is not only in its ideas but in its inflexible will to implement them in life." Peter Dunov was described as "a magnificent figure, radiating kindness". Das Wort and Das Neue Licht also wrote of the Master and the White Brotherhood. In Italy, Peter Dunov's ideas quickly gained ground. The Alpha newspaper - publication of the Association of Psycho-Experimental Sciences in Palermo, described him as "a mystical apostle of Christianity in its full power and grandeur". In Locarno, the Yoga Publishing House published nine selected lectures by Peter Dunov in Mara Belcheva's translation, with a foreword by Professor Gino Sordelli. Sordelli wrote that the lectures indicated "the road to the blessing which is the purpose of life and the ideal for every person". An Italian Academy of Science, Literature, and Art was opened in Venice on the 24th of October 1929. In his address at the inauguration ceremony, the Academy's Director, Professor Luigi Bellotti proclaimed Peter Dunov its supreme patron. In Romania, the pacifist writer Reljis launched an international discussion on the subject of global peace. He addressed outstanding public and religious figures of his time such as Romain Rolland, Rabindranath Tagore, and Albert Einstein. He also wrote to Peter Dunov, who wrote back: "Love is a fundamental law in the divine world, and the peoples are the organs of its manifestation on earth. The organs of an organism have no right to fight between themselves. Thus, a nation fighting with another nation excludes itself from the whole organism. War is an anachronism, an abnormal state." In Argentina, the Bulgarian emigrant Rasho Todorov founded a branch of the White Brotherhood. They studied Dunov's lectures and sang his songs in Bulgarian. Magdalena de Pita also spread the teaching through articles in various newspapers and a volume of Dunov's aphorisms. She wrote: "The teaching of Peter Dunov is based on love; it is about a new life." Dunov's lectures were translated into Spanish, and from Argentina, they spread in other countries of South America: Chile, Paraguay, Mexico, and Peru. In 1930, along with the countries mentioned above, the teaching spread in the United States, England, and Hungary. In the United States, 19 lectures were published in an English translation, and they were acclaimed by the press. The Rosicrucian society in Oceanside, California, was impressed by the lecture entitled The Great Law: "The author of these magnificent and lofty thoughts has a deep knowledge of the secrets of life." In the Hungarian newspaper Gyori Hirlap, a journalist who had visited the Master at the Izgrev centre wrote: "Peter Dunov is a very modest person. He leads people in the most natural way, himself being their model. His life illuminates the path of humankind to a spiritual life that would bring it health, strength, and vitality. He wishes to liberate humans before they are convicted. The basics of his teaching are rooted in the teaching of Christ." The Bulgarian Petar Pamporov, a renowned Esperanto expert, made a trip to Europe with the aim of popularizing the international language and the New Teaching of Peter Dunov. During his stay in Britain, he gave lectures on the Master's ideas in Oxford, London, and Manchester. Paneurhythmy in England. The Manchester Guardian carried an extensive article on his activity. Petar Pamporov delivered lectures in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Latvia as well. In 1931, many of Peter Dunov's lectures were translated and published abroad. The number of the groups where these were regularly studied increased. In Canada, The Torch - the publication of the Canadian Astrological Society - wrote about the lecture The Great Law. "This brochure is unequaled in the entire American literature. The author has penetrated the mechanisms of the spiritual alchemy of the universe, and shows how each virtue helps build the individual and the collective good of humankind." In Latvia, three lectures by the Master were published in a volume entitled The Three Basics of Life. In Yugoslavia, Zivoin Kostic published a book in support of vegetarianism, paying particular attention to the Brotherhood movement in Bulgaria as followers of this philosophy. In Japan, the Omoto movement organized an exhibition of the spiritual movements in the world. The Bulgarian White Brotherhood was given a central place. In Italy, Udine was the next town where Dunov's activity became popular. A group called Sons of the Light was formed there. They drew inspiration from the Master Peter Dunov and described him as "the movement's soul, the supreme moral essence" of their every initiative. In Brazil, the Reformation magazine, publication of the Brazilian Spiritualist Society in Rio de Janeiro, carried an article by Gabriel Gobron on the White Brotherhood's activity in Bulgaria. In 1932, at a Theosophical Convention in the Netherlands, Jiddu Krishnamurti rejected the idea to be proclaimed as the World Teacher and confessed to participants at the convention: "The World Teacher is in Bulgaria." Jiddu Krishnamurti In the same year in Germany, the Mcnschhcitspartei movement also declared their closeness with the Bulgarian White Brotherhood and their deep respect for its creator Peter Dunov. In Italy, many of Dunov's lectures were published in Italian in the translation of the prominent Bulgarian poet Mara Belcheva. Mara Belcheva. In Argentina, the lecture The New Eve came out in a translation by Magdalena de Pita. In France, the Mercury universal magazine carried an article entitled Bulgarian Alchemy about the life of Peter Dunov. From 1933 to 1943, Peter Dunov's New Teaching continually spread and expanded. An increasing number of movements acknowledged the White Brotherhood as the supreme embodiment of ideas they had been looking for years. Sweden, Switzerland, and Estonia joined the list of countries where there was interest to Peter Dunov. In Yugoslavia, S. Paunovic who had visited the Izgrev centre personally described Dunov as "professor", and his school at Izgrev as "the free university of the Universal White Brotherhood". A number of editorials from the Zhitno Zurno (Grain of Wheat) magazine published by Deunov's disciples were translated and published around the world. In Poland, Angi Pilszova wrote in the Hejnal magazine: "There are many occult schools in the world, but the one in Bulgaria is special, it tries to influence society beneficially by serving as a positive model." In Switzerland, the press wrote about the volume Speeches of the Master: "Never before have we seen so many truths, so condensed, so vividly and beautifully presented!" Paramahansa Yogananda visited Greece in 1936 in connection with the foundation of ashrams for his followers. When they were close to the Bulgarian border, a disciple asked him: "Wouldn't you establish an ashram in Bulgaria? It has a beautiful nature, high mountains..." "I have nothing to do there," Yogananda replied. "The Spirit of Truth is working there." Paramahansa Yogananda. In France, Peter Dunov's disciple Mihail Ivanov, an ardent follower, and propagator of the teaching, was very active. Gradually, he formed the largest branch of the White Brotherhood outside Bulgaria.

The Life of Peter Dunov. Dates and Events July 11, 1864. Dunov was born in the village of Hadarcha, (today Nikolaevka), near Varna, to the family of the Rev. Konstantin Dunovski. 1878 - 1883. Dunov completed high-school in Varna. He started playing the violin. 1883. Dunov enrolled in the Theology Department of the American school in Svishtov. June 24, 1887. Dunov completed the fifth-year course in Svishtov. 1887 - 1888. Dunov was a teacher in the village of Hotantsa near Rousse. He wrote his first song. August 1888. Dunov left for the United States and enrolled in the five-year preparatory course in theology at Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey. 1890 - 1893. Dunov studied at the Theology School of Boston University. Graduated on June 7, 1893. 1893 - 1895. Dunov returned to Bulgaria. 1896. Dunov published his first book, Science, and Education 1895 - 1900. Years spent in solitude, reflection and contemplation, prayer and spiritual pursuits. 1898. First disciples: P. Kirov, T. Stoimenov, and G. Mirkovich. 1901. Dunov started traveling around the country, giving lectures, engaging in phrenological research and studying the Bulgarian national character. He did that for 11 years. July 1900. First convention in Varna with the first three disciples. Over the years, these conventions were held annually, in August. The participants were invited personally by Dunov. 1904. Dunov settled in Sofia, in 66, Opalchenska St., where gradually a circle of followers was created. 1914. Dunov started giving Sunday lectures, published later in the volume "Sila i Zhivot" (Power and Life). 1917 - 1918. Dunov was interned in Varna for his criticism of Tsar Ferdinand's policies. 1922. The School opened with lectures to a Youth Class and a General Occult Class. Deunov started greeting the sunrise outside Sofia, on "Bourchier's Glade", later known as "Izgrev." 1923 - 1924. Dunov created most of his original songs. He called them "musical exercises" whose energy developed one's spiritual senses. 1928. The disciples built the lecture hall at Izgrev and a small home for the Master. The place became a thriving centre of spiritual life. 1929. First summer camp by the seven lakes in the Rila mountain. The camps became a tradition of the small community called the "White Brotherhood". 1930. Dunov introduced a new type of lectures known as "morning talks". They were delivered on Sunday morning, before dawn. 1932. Dunov taught the first Paneurhythmy exercises. He gradually developed a programme of 28 exercises accompanied by music composed by himself. The exercises were intended to harmonize the energies in the human body and connect it with the eternal rhythm of nature. 1942. Dunov completed the Paneurhythmy programme with the exercises known as "Sun Rays" and "Pentagram". 1944. The worst months of the war Dunov spent in the village of Marchaevo with a group of disciples. December 27, 1944. The Master departed, leaving behind an invaluable spiritual heritage to Bulgarians and the world.

The New Culture THE TEACHING OF THE MASTER lays the foundation of a New Culture, with no violence or limitations on the free creative human mind. Its currency is called Love. Today, it is felt intuitively by the spiritual communities in the world that live by its unwritten laws: honesty, trust, love, and peace. "The Solar System is now on the ascent, passing through new spaces where sublime spiritual powers reign. The entire Solar System is entering a new domain of the Spirit. Slavdom will become the forge of a New Culture. The powers are already working there. The material is being accumulated for the creation of this culture. But it takes time to transform human minds so that they may understand the great divine plan. The road taken by humanity is good but one more step needs to be made. A step towards Love. In the New Culture, Love will come from everywhere. It will come from the animals, from the rocks, from the light, from the air and the water. There will not be a single thing that will not radiate love and speak to people. A New Knowledge is coming, a New Culture is coming into the world. It will teach people how to live. The idea of brotherhood will materialize. People will change imperceptibly. One day they will wake up to find themselves in a new situation, like the caterpillar in its cocoon turns into a butterfly. The new generation that will be born will renew the world. The whole world is now awakening. Everything moves in a new direction. Human consciousness is expanding. God has something great in stock for humanity. But men should not wait for the world to get right; they should enter the new life now. The only way to that new life is Love. He who has Love has entered the New Culture. Advanced beings are coming from the invisible world: people of the new love, the so-called ancestors of humanity. They are the workers coming from above. When they find souls who are ready to work, they will be incarnated in them and work through them. The new ideas are coming into the world. They collide with the old ideas and will transform the world. The old systems will be replaced by new ones. Those who adopt the new ideas will change. Their faces will radiate and acquire a new expression. This is an age of transition. In the New Epoch, people will live in a new way. The old ways are now outdated. The old way of life no longer has material to work with. The time has come for people to take a step in uplifting their consciousness and make way for the Divine Energies." The Testament of the Master It is my task to impart the Divine Teaching to you, my disciples, with my life and work. If I fail to, God will hold me responsible! It is your task as disciples to impart the Divine Teaching with your lives and work to the Bulgarian people. If you fail to, God will hold you responsible! It is the task of the Bulgarian people to impart the Divine Teaching with their life and work to other nations. If they fail to, God will hold them responsible!

The Last Days One day, a visibly anxious stranger arrived at Izgrev. "Where is Mr. Dunov," he asked. In the reception room, they found the Master lying in bed. They asked him what to tell the visitor. "Tell him the concert is over," Dunov answered. Boyan Boev, Boris Nikolov, Maria Todorova, stenographers and a few devoted disciples were always around him. One of the last nights, Boris Nikolov was staying awake at the sick Master's bedside. Suddenly, the master stood up resolutely, awesome, with a special look on his face, full of energy. "The most important thing is: love God, love God, love God!" he said. The Master's last message to his disciples was: "Love everything that I love and find joy in. Serve everything I serve. Love everything I love. Rejoice for me. Do not install other forms than the ones I gave you. Time is short, be aware and never despair. My mission does not end here; it will continue up there. Be faithful to your calling. Peace be with you, accept it." On the 24th of December, he gave his last formula, the final link of the chain between his disciples and the noetic world. That was the key to the Master's relation with the Spirit: "May God be glorified in the White Brotherhood, and may the White Brothers be glorified in the Love of God." At 11:30 p.m. on the 25th of December, the Master whispered his last words: "A small job has been done..." The great can only leave this world quietly and humbly. On Wednesday, the 27th of December, at 5 o'clock in the morning, the disciples gathered in the lecture hall for the usual lecture. They read a text and left. Passing by the reception room, they bid their Master farewell. Minutes later he departed from this world. The life of Peter Dunov is a landmark in our history. His personality transcends any human dimensions. Whatever is said about him will never be enough. Many years will pass before he is fully understood. Today, the only key to him is his Word. The grave of Peter Dunov at Izgrev.

Return to Sofia. Last Lectures With the establishment of the new government, life in Sofia gradually resumed its normal course. In October 1944, the Master returned to Izgrev. He lived in his small room upstairs and seldom went out. Only when he had appointments, he would go down to the cozier reception room. He was always neatly dressed. Even when he just descended to the reception room, he would put on his cloak, a white scarf, and a white hat. In that reception room, he gave countless instructions, suggestions, and recommendations for a good life. To the end of his days, he had long conversations with his disciples. Every one of his works was forever engraved in their minds: "I was the happiest man on earth because in the material world I was always satisfied with the least, I only aspired for the least, and I only kept the least for myself." After the change in the political system, the Master continued his lectures unobstructed. He sometimes discussed the new public order, presenting it in the context of a broader, more universal philosophy. He drew his own image of the new Bulgaria: "What is the new in the world? You would say the Popular Front. There is but a single popular front in the world. We are the popular front. The entire nature is the popular front. It has been there for a long time. I am glad it came to Bulgaria. All Bulgarians around the world should serve the popular front! It can only be served with love." This commentary in the Sunday lecture on the 22nd of October made the natural connection between the idealism of the new government and the New Teaching. The lectures delivered in Marchaevo and those from the last months of 1944 were collected in three volumes entitled The Testament of Love. Love was the main subject of the Master's last talks. It was his testament to the souls. Only Love could help them overcome contradictions. It was the only factor that could unite people. "Today all people want peace. Peace is based on the law of Love. Only such a peace can be just and permanent!" Over the following months, the Master gradually grew weaker. He often had heart problems. He ate less and less. His system was entirely exhausted. His spirit was strong but the action of some laws simply cannot be avoided. It was not easy to live with the distressing atmosphere and the tragic events of those months. The "people's court" was already in operation, and there was much anxiety about the fate of well-known public figures. As before, those who could not answer the questions they faced looked for the Master. The Master, however, was busy with problems the disciples were not yet aware of. "They come here and ask: where's the Master? Where is the Master, indeed? I am looking for the way myself!" The coming into power through violence is a sufficient reason for the Spirit of Truth to withdraw its support. Freedom and violence are incompatible. The violence was there. The Spirit of Freedom, the Spirit of Truth gradually retreated. But not without reminding first: "Things will get better when you find the Truth!" The Master said that in his last lecture on the 20th of December, a week before he departed. The medical treatment failed to improve Dunov's condition. He had pneumonia with complications related to the heart function. Painful days followed. The disciples who were closest to the Master never left his bedside. They were all struck by grief. They realized they would soon have to part with their Master. Consider the first day - the day of your spirit -the day when light manifested. Consider the second day - the day of your soul -the day when Love manifested. Consider the third day - the day of your mind -the day when knowledge manifested. Consider the fourth day - the day of your heart -the day when intelligent life manifested. Consider the sixth day - the day of the Eternal Word that illuminated you and installed a master of your fate. Consider the seventh day - the day of God, the Eternal Source of all things - the day of nature from which everything is to be learned - your day of rest when you will serve all virtues. Remember that you are born a noetic being. Sunday, the 5th of November, 1944, 10 a.m.,

Marchaevo The village of Marchaevo is 24 km from Sofia. A small group of the Master's followers lived there. A few days after the disastrous bombing of the capital city, the Master arrived in the village, accompanied by a few disciples, and stayed in Temelko's house. "The home was alive. Everyone was busy preparing a room for the Master. In the evening, an oil lamp lit a large living room, full of brothers and sisters, sitting at a long table having dinner, their gaze fixed on the Master. They all felt as if after a shipwreck they had reached a shore." As usual, the Master was explaining: "It is not the bombs in the outer world that are the most dangerous, but the bombs inside you. They inflict dangerous damage. You need to find the safe place in life, and that safe place is the Love of God. Now you will understand the power of prayer and faith." Peter Dunov spent nine months in Marchaevo. Their meaning was indicated by some symbolic events. The winter days passed without much commotion. Visitors often came from the capital as well as from the country. Everyone who could be of help or service was eager to do his share. The small group's life was part of an invisible activity that had a special influence on the events in the outside world. The Master was the driving force, and the disciples were the implementers. Temelko's home in Marchaevo, now a museum of the Master. Inside the museum. When the Spring came, a source was discovered in Temelko's yard. The water was piped under the Master's directions. A source is a multitude of pure little drops in one, and their attack overpowers even the hardest rock when they try to come out under the rays of the sun. This is the victory of the Spirit over matter." "The Master was continuing the mission of the Word, 'building invisibly a new world. Vlado and Temelko were the lost eager workers. The Master himself oversaw the activities. They had a symbolic meaning; awakening energies were built into the fountain. The Master named it "The Fountain of Good". On the 22nd of March, the first electric lamp was lit in Marchaevo. This was an important event for its inhabitants. Vith his usual symbolic thinking, the Master remarked: "Today we will rename Marchaevo; from now on it will be called Svetlyaevo. The light has arrived. This is the victory of light over darkness!" However, light must be in human deeds, too. On the 22nd of March, the Master delivered a morning lecture in which he told his disciples: "This world needs people who bear God everywhere they go. It has been said: "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God". Without love, without a knowledge and without freedom, the deeds cannot be made manifest." Life was not easy for the small group in Marchaevo. The Master could feel the tension. He disapproved of the disciples' claims. He taught them not to resent the hardships. "You are now in Marchaevo and you often complain that you lack comfort and that you don't have enough space. There is a large hill in front of me; it shuts out the sun but I am not worried. It is telling me: Don't stay inside, get out. The east wind is cold, get out into the sun". Peter Dunov, August 1944. During the spring and the summer, the disciples often made excursions to the nearby Vitosha. They walked, talked and observed nature. The Master was always with them. They occasionally met other hikers who, like them, longed for some fresh air. "People pass down the road all the time; some are young, others are old. Occasionally, there is someone who shouts: Why do you sit there? Come preach to us. We've turned drunkards. Come speak to us. I answer, There is a lot of work to do in the world. We are here to take some rest, on vacation. Soon the vacation will be over and another school year will start. We will go back to our school to learn. We need to be armed with new energy and motivation." The Spirit's mission was to work, never stay idle. Regardless of the hardships, the only direction could be forward, towards the new. On the 6th of August, in the afternoon, the Master went into the room with his violin in his hand. He was dressed in a light-coloured suit. He started playing inspiredly the songs that had been keeping the morale of the Brotherhood for years. All disciples sang enthusiastically with him. A special atmosphere of harmony was created. In the end, the Master played a new melody, his latest song. The words echoed the way each of them felt at that moment: "I bear my sorrow in life with joy..." That was the lesson of the day, the formula for the disciples' future life. At the end of August, the group made an excursion to a place in the mountain called Ostrets. The last mountain camp was held there from the 25th to the 28th of August. Despite the hard times, disciples came from the country as well. Every day the Master delivered a lecture, usually in the morning. In the first one, he spoke in more detail about Love. He offered definitions, rules, and advice. "Today I present to you the issue of Love in a material form so that you may understand it better. All difficulties that may arise in your lives in the future will be resolved through the law of love. Love is the only thing that resolves all difficulties." The weather was fairly cold, so the next day they stayed at the Ostrets Hut. The lectures there were short. Then the group spent a couple of days by the Edelvais Hut. Only on the fourth day, the weather started to improve. "What does this clear day show? It shows that people's situation has started to improve. The noetic world has designed a new project that will soon bring something good. New light is illuminating people's minds." "There is a concert today. The world is coming right. We are in harmony with heaven. The only thing we can do is show love to our Lord, love to our neighbour, love to all brothers and sisters, and love to our mothers and fathers." The concert was coming to an end. It had been going on for 80 years, and the music flowed from Peter Dunov's life. It was recorded in space. Today its music sounds in every awakened human mind. The Master's desk in his room in Temelko's home.

Farewell to the Mountains During the war, the excursions to the mountains became less frequent. A special permission was required to go out of town. The large groups that accompanied the Master looked suspicious to the authorities. He was unwilling to risk the disciples' safety and put up with the restrictions. In 1943, they made their last excursion to the Seven Lakes. A small group accompanied the Master. They walked the familiar places. That life was a thing of the past. The Master was sad. He gave his last lecture in the Rila on the Prayer Mount. It was the shortest of them all. "When good invites you to work for it, say 'yes'. When evil asks you to do something for it, say 'no'." The painful parting with the mountain continued several days. The excursions to the Vitosha remained their only solace. At the end of 1943, the Master went up to the Aleko hut with a small group of disciples. He spoke about that trip in his next lecture at Izgrev. "A few days ago, we went with some brothers and sisters to the Aleko hut. We walked all the way up. The brothers offered to take a car but I refused. I never consider using vehicles. I rely on the two wheels that nature has given me. We left at half past six in the morning and reached the hut at half past three in the afternoon. When we were about to leave, it started raining. I told them: 'It won't rain; out excursion has been envisaged.' Indeed, the rain soon stopped and we climbed to an altitude of 1800 m. The hike took about nine hours. When we got there, we were given a room without heating. We found an axe, chopped some wood, lit the stove and were warm. We shared the food but we ran out of bread. Then I blessed the grain of wheat and the bread arrived. A brother came down from Cherni Vrah and brought a big loaf. Soon after him, a sister came with another loaf. We had a very good time the first night at the hut. They all sang beautifully, and their voices sounded like one. The brother who had brought the loaf of bread was very happy. With him, there were ten of us. Remove the zero and what remains is the figure one - God who was with us. We sang and talked till midnight. In the morning, we went out to see the sunrise, and the weather was fine, without any clouds or fog." The sister who arrived from Sofia was Vessela Nestorova. She was profoundly impressed the Master's deep voice singing a song by his father the Rev. Konstantin Dunovski, the first night. She later wrote in her memoirs: "It seems the Master was secretly bidding us adieu, for after we returned to Sofia we never had an opportunity for another meeting on the mountain." Original colour photos, 1941. "Let's Get Out!" On the 17th of December 1941, the Bulgarian government declared war to the United States and Britain. This had disastrous consequences for Sofia. The city was repeatedly bombed. Every morning, the Master went up to the Vitosha. In a clearing by Simeonovo, there was a wooden shed. He would spend the day there in seclusion. In a later lecture, he said: "Many people ask why I go to the mountains. I go there to teach those who come to bomb Sofia. I tell them not to disturb people." "Millions of people are killed today. This poisons the atmosphere. Everyone is looking for a way out, away from this poison." "When I look at Sofia from the mountain, I can feel the inferno in which people live. They shudder, they run as run can... Horror everywhere! I talk with God. He asks: Where have you been so far? Why didn't you listen to Me? Why didn't you do My will? For years I have been talking to you but you turned a deaf ear, you didn't care. Now I'm asking you, what will you answer to your Lord?" "Yesterday, while we were climbing up into the mountain, two dogs followed us, the one a shepherd dog and the other a fowler. At first, one of the dogs went fine but then he suddenly started to limp and fall behind. Why? Snow had got in his paws, sticking to the hair, and he could no longer walk. A brother stopped, cleared the snow from his paw, and the dog could walk normally. He thanked for the understanding. Where there is purity, movement is free." At the end of 1943, on the 29th of December, the Master spoke about his relationship with the mountains: "I have been going up to the Vitosha for 35 days. I walk between 18 and 20 kilometres every day. You ask me why I do it. I am strengthening my will. It is not easy to walk between 18 and 20 kilometres, get home exhausted and do it again the next day. Thus, I give people an example, and I tell them: If you don't walkl8 kilometres to God and back every day, you cannot become humans. You will be walking to God and back until all your questions are answered." Soon after that lecture, the Master left the capital city. The heaviest bombing on Sofia was the night of the 10th of January 1944. The whole city was on fire. At that time, the Master lived in Boris Nikolov's home, at the foot of the Vitosha. During the day, he spent a long time watching the city. Then he and Boris went to Izgrev, the Master stood in the middle of the glade and gazed at the grim picture that Sofia presented: a dark cloud of smoke, occasional flames and no sign of life. After a long silence, he uttered quietly: "Here there are no longer conditions to maintain our contact with God. Let's get out!" They went back home. The same day an invitation arrived from the village of Marchaevo: Temelko Stefanov offered to the Master the hospitality of his home.

The Pre-war Years As the war drew closer, Peter Dunov more and more often spoke optimistically and enthusiastically of the New. He would outline the advance of humankind to a new and more perfect culture. "Good times are coming. They are very close. Just a step away. New minds and new hearts are being created. The new culture that is coming requires people with new beliefs. The New Epoch is coming and you have to accept the great wealth of life, knowledge, light, and freedom. The ideal of brotherhood is coming!" These were the Master's spiritual prophecies. They were about the distant future whose foundations were being built in his time. He often said that only suffering could elevate the human spirit. "We must cherish no illusions. All trials in one's personal life are exercises for the future. All of you who wish to pass into the new epoch will be sifted nine times." To the Master, the trials to which everyone without exception would be subjected would be the beginning of spiritual progress, of a transformation of the minds. "This world is destined to be transformed. The new awareness, the new understanding bring fundamental changes in the entire order of life. The future ahead is full of light. The new epoch which is coming we can call the Epoch of Resurrection. In the future, all nations will fraternize and form the luminous race of Love. Today's suffering is the throes of the creation of the New Man. The New advances with quiet steps, like the dawn announcing the arrival of the New Day to the world." Thus the Master concluded his lecture "The new day" on the 17th of January 1940. On the 7th of December 1941, the Master started working with singer Liliana Tabakova on a cycle of seven songs entitled "The New Being". Each of the songs corresponded to a day of the Creation, and they started with consecutive notes of the scale. Their deep symbolic meaning has since been interpreted by generations of musicians. Their text outlined new images, corresponding to the higher awareness that was being created in man. "The New Being" presented the new Adam. "A man is a miniature of humanity." Created in accordance with the perfect laws of Being, the New Man has a mission which is similar to a seed's: to grow, come into leaf, blossom, and bear fruit. This idea is reflected in the music as well. The Master worked on this cycle slowly in the course of two years. He would play and sing, and Liliana would memorize the music and the lyrics. Later, she would put down the notation by memory. "The New Being" was the music of the future. Defending the Jews The 1st of September 1939 saw the beginning of the Second World War. At Izgrev, however, the tranquil atmosphere remained undisturbed. The inhabitants of that place were under a special protection. They felt as if they were beyond space and time. This was not the case with the Master, though. He suffered the anguish and anxiety of his time. Seeing the approach of days of sorrow for humanity, he said: "This war will go on for years, for many years..." Peter Dunov. As the war raged on, the news of the persecution of the Jews threw Europe into alarm. All states who had joined the Tripartite Pact had to obey Hitler. In Bulgaria, the extradition could no longer be delayed. The trains full of Jews who were to perish in the camps were about to cross the border. Minister Gabrovski called one of his subordinates, handed him an order signed by Tsar Boris III, and told him to accompany the Jews to Poland. The subordinate in question was Metodi Konstantinov, a devoted follower of Dunov's teaching. He rushed to the Izgrev centre. They were desperately short of time. The Master sent for Lyubomir Loulchev, an adviser to the Tsar, who had been living in a cabin at Izgrev for years. "You will find the Tsar and tell him that if he lets Bulgarian Jews be sent to Poland, that will be the end of his dynasty," he ordered. The Tsar, however, was not to be found at the palace; he had wisely withdrawn from public view. Loulchev tried the residences in Vranya and Cham Koria, to no avail. He went back to the Master. They were running out of time and the situation was becoming critical. At that point, the Master retired to his room. A few minutes later he opened the door and said a single word: "Krichim." Loulchev left for Krichim immediately. The Tsar was very surprised when he was found there: "Who told you I was here," he asked. Loulchev's mission was successful. Having received the same piece of advice from others as well - from important public figures and ecclesiastics - and, most of all, listening to the voice of his own conscience, the Tsar went back to Sofia with Loulchev, demanded the order back from Gabrovski and canceled it. The only Jews in Europe to escape in such a miraculous way went back to their homes.

Peter Dunov's Answers In his lectures, Peter Dunov spoke of a new social order, of new relations, education forms and directions of thinking. Understandably, the authorities regarded him with distrust. His views of the future development of humankind were perceived as a threat. Challenged by the unconditional tone of his lectures, on the 2nd of October 1937 they demanded formally written answers to the following questions: 1. About the official religion of the state and the Church. 2. About the state, the organization, the authorities and the laws. 3. About jurisdiction and the courts. 4. About the social order in Bulgaria. 5. About the national army. 6. About marriage, the family and morality. Peter Dunov's answers were explicit. He was a good citizen, loyal to the institutions of the state. "In nature, there are three orders: ideal, real and material. The first one includes God, nature, and man. The second one comprises the people, the state, and the personality. The third one refers to the brain, the sympathetic nervous system, the respiratory system and the digestive system. Religion is an institution whose purpose is to educate people, their feelings, and actions, and to keep them in touch with the Divine. A person must love God, his neighbour, and his people, and must respect everything that the Lord has created. To this Bulgarian religion and Church, serving and elevating the people, I feel deep love. The Bulgarian state is the external expression of the Bulgarian people. It includes all its possible manifestations. The state is an excellent institution, helping the nation to improve its relations with all other nations. The Bulgarian state is good for the people. All those who serve it, installing law and order, fighting for the freedom of their people, have a salutary job. We do not support the revolution. We are for evolution, for the Divine process that gradually elevates humanity and improves its life. As to the judiciary and the administration of justice, we respect them, for such an institution exists in both nature and man, in the form of conscience. All examples that we have cited in our lectures were intended to show what a person should be, what our listeners should be. We have cited many admirable examples of conscience in members of the judiciary. We have never in our speeches intended to offend all that is good, wise, honest and just in their college. As regards the social order in our country, we have always desired its improvement, without useless perturbations but achieved in a reasonable way. Regarding the Bulgarian national army, it is an institution of law enforcement and public order. What we have already said about the state applies to the army, too. We have cited many positive examples from the army. Concerning marriage, this is the most ancient institution in nature. We are for monogamy and virtuousness in the family. We also maintain that in every family there should be two children, a boy, and a girl. The family is a model of the state, the religion, and the nation. In it, the father is the ruler, and the mother is the one who nurtures and educates. The father and the mother are the images of those who will govern in the future. This is why we have always paid much attention to the good mothers and fathers who are the foundation and the builders of the future. We have never incited anyone to hatred. We have always preached love and mutual respect." October 4, 1937. Deunov.