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The Pentagram

The presence of certain images in the lecture hall was very important to the participants. The images accompanying the daily manifestation of the Word were invested with complex meaning. Three ribbons - blue, red and orange -were drawn on the table around which the participants were sitting in a strict arrangement. An image of Christ was on the wall.

The 1911 convention of the Fellowship was remarkable for the introduction of an emblem of spiritual pursuit. A pentagram with symbols and drawings was placed next to the image of Christ. As a symbol of the soul's evolution, it was to become a sacral image in Peter Dunov's activity. He spoke to the Fellowship of the meaning and the application of the pentagram as early as in 1908: "Virtue, equity, love, wisdom, and truth and the five great creative forces. Where they are, God is. They will secure your admission anywhere, but they are given to you not for philosophic contemplation but for practical application." Three years later the Pentagram was put up in 0.5x1 m size. The last day of the convention, on the 15th of August, Peter Dunov handed a copy to each participant, telling them: "This image is given to you to contemplate and study. Our wish is to build in you a hearth, an altar to God. The Lord manifests in a nation only when there is a hearth for Him.

The Pentagram is the image of a man with outstretched arms and legs. Its five points symbolize five steps in the elevation of the human soul. In a biblical sense, these are related to important events that took place on five famous mounts: Ararat, Moriah, Sinai, Tabor, and Golgotha.

The first disciples who received the Pentagram in Veliko Tarnovo were given the following explanation:

There you will face the door, start praying to Cod and make a confession; you will say that you have not been able to lead a good life and ask to take the new path so that you may live well. The door will then open and you will walk in the path of Truth where you will start contemplating the profound Divine order, the karma, generally, the inner aspects of life.

The outer circle of the Pentagram represents secular people; the inner circle represents the disciples of occultism; the centre is the holy abode of the Initiated. Each circle consists of five steps of elevation, or five phases one has to pass through to complete a circle of development.

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THE BOOK

From the open book, you •will learn the reason for your suffering.

THE LETTER B

It represents our Lord Jesus Christ and means "Lord of the Firmament".

THE EYE

Then you will reach the field of Wisdom, the radiance of the eye where you will reflect on the deepest order of things; there you will understand why Cod arranged the world as it is.

An ancient symbol of free thought. It controls air and the forces acting through it. In ancient Egypt that was the symbol of the god Ra.

THE LETTER „Ж“

This is the symbol of the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and of equality of secular and ecclesiastical power.

THE CUP

Suffering is the cup which resembles a flower because through the endurance of suffering your life will blossom and from the blossom good fruit will be given.

THE FIRST DOOR

There you will face the door, start praying to God and make a confession; you will say that you have not been able to lead a good life and ask to take the new path so that you may live well. The door will then open and you will walk in the path of Truth where you will start contemplating the profound Divine order, the karma, generally, the inner aspects of life.

THE GREAT MASTER CHRIST

Having entered through the door you will meet the Great Master Christ and build a permanent bond with Him.

THE LETTER Y

"Y", stands for "Saviour"

THE CANDLE

Thus you will reach the candle whose light will reveal to you how you can be of service to others, and you will start reasoning.

THE TREE OF LIFE

Finally, you will arrive at the tree of life where with the knowledge you have acquired you will dwell in Heaven and enjoy the blessings of the Lord.

THE HOLY OF HOLIES

It symbolizes the forces that arc at work in man. The axis is the human spine around which spirals the vital energy, the prana. The two snakes are the two channels along which it flows up to the Third Eye whose symbol is the swastika.

THE SCEPTRE

When you begin studying people, you will get to the law of equity - the Sceptre which means that you must not yield. From that point on, when one has lit the light of his mind, the first mundane cycle of his development is completed and he enters the second circle known as spiritual.

THE SECOND DOOR

Then you will walk through the second door, the door of Love, and will look for sufferers whom you may help.

THE SWORD

The sword represents the power which should be either m your muscles, or in your minds, or in your hearts. Without this power, you cannot achieve anything. If you are in possession of this power, while you live and work with people you will make mistakes and will pay for them, with suffering. You need to learn to endure your suffering with patience.

The symbol of the Sun, the source of life.

THE FIGURES

1-2-3-4-5 The five phases of development that man passed in the physical world. Five centres of important processes. They move continually. A man working on his self-perfection passes consciously through them, studying certain rules, laws, and methods.

THE PENTAGRAM AS A YANTRA

In the process of spiritual development. one can use the Pentagram as a yantra, i.e. an object for contemplation. Through meditation, one is idem died with this sacred image and obtains internal knowledge of its true meaning. The only condition to achieve this is to gain perfect control over one's breathing.

"Study this image often and contemplate its symbols. The five steps in it represent a path which is hard to walk because it is not a path of philosophizing but of acts, of never-ending creativeness. This is the path of Christ." "Remember how important is the formula inscribed around the pentagram: In the fulfillment of the will of God lies the power of the human soul."

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Colour pentagram by F. Shliater, 1922; Pentagram, 1911.

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