The mission

[Ani]

The mission

 

Some say I have done a lot. I see that I've done too little. What have I done? I would say that I've done a lot, if I could put the entire world in order and make everybody happy. Now people fight and I sit and speak to myself: I've done too little -1 didn 't manage to persuade these people not to fight. There are so many judges, convicting innocent people. And I say: I never taught them these laws. Many lawyers advocate injustice. There are many brothers and sisters who do not love each other. Ifailed to teach them to love. How much work is there for me to do!

 

THE MASTER

 

After studying for seven years in America, the Master returned to Bulgaria and stayed in Varna in the home of his married sister - Maria. The story, Grandpa Peter tells, concerns that time: "The Evangelists in the city announced that the gifted theologian Peter Deunov had arrived from America and was going to be appointed minister at their church. He was invited to preach in their church on Sunday, but he did not appear there, and also rejected the offer for paid appointment. The evangelists waited for some time, then they got angry and started talking against the Master - that he was too lazy and that is why he didn't want the appointment. Enticed by these talks and rumors, I asked his sister Maria - is he still just sitting here without any job, is he still going to let himself rely on others. She looked at me: "Too bad, you were also misled by these slanders. Future will show Peter relies on us or we rely on him! And all of you will understand that."

 

Sister Elena remembers: "I went to light the icon lamp in the upstairs room and pray. The Master was playing on his violin melodies, which took the soul to the vault of heaven. Many brothers and sisters were listening down in the alcove holding their breaths. As soon as I entered the hall to go to the upstairs room, he immediately left his violin, stood up in front of me, looked me in the eyes and asked: "Who do they think I am? I am an ordinary person - I eat, sleep, have the same needs as them ..."He walked about in the hall and asked me the same question three times. I didn't know what to answer and just stood there silent. A little later, while I was praying, he entered, stood above me, a shining illuminated the room and I saw Christ in his face. He asked me: "What do you see?" At that moment, I seemed to have no words to answer. Some time afterwards I told him, that at that moment he wasn't there, and I saw Christ Himself."

 

Sister Elena Ilarionova from Turnovo tells the story about Dimo - a soldier, who once saw the Master in white light clothes, kneeled, having raised his hands for prayer. His image illuminated everything around him. On the morning Dimo asked: "Who and what Mr. Andov is? (this is how he called him). I stood a long time in the yard, looking at his windows. He didn't look like a man, his clothes were shining like gold and the light, coming out of him, illuminated the entire room."

 

Once an old sister had visited the Master and was reading something. He interrupted her reading, addressing her: "Do you see this Chaos in the world?! I have created this chaos! My mind is mighty, my mind is strong, it will transform the world. It will transform it and there will be not a single man in the world, thinking wrongfully, there will be not a single sinner in the world! Now continue reading." The sister said that everything had been said with extraordinary humbleness. This happened in one of the last days of 1943.

 

Brother Vasil Dolapchiev told the story that once, when the Master was in Aytos, the brothers went to him for a talk. Among other things, he told them this: "To make sure that I am not like other people, when you go out, look to the East and you'll see something, which will impress you " After a while they went out looked east and saw a strip in the air - like a rainbow, but there were no rain, no clouds, the sky was perfectly clear.

 

Rayna Kanazireva writes in her memories: "At one time, between the Brotherhood in our city there was a rumor that, when he was young, the Master got engaged to Peter Tihchev's daughter. In 1918­1919. Father Peter Tihchev was visiting the Brotherhood in the country reading his wonderful and affectionate sermons. He also came to our city. He stayed in our home. I told him about the rumor and asked him to tell me the truth.

 

Father Peter started telling this: "I will tell you exactly how this rumor came about. I was an evangelical minister in Svishtov. Peter Deunov, who was then a student in the secondary school, came to lodge in my house. We had two girls, who were also students. Peter did well at school, he was studious, honest, but very humble and meek. From school he went back home, read for hours and played the violin. Sometimes he was spending some time with my daughters, as their conversations always concerned science, education, music etc. He lodged in our house for three years. During the winter of the last year, one day my wife told me: "Listen Peter, little Peter is graduating from school, the time comes for him to leave our house, and I think God has sent us an angel in our home, and we must not let him go. Why don't you go to him and propose him to get engaged to our daughter." "What are you saying, woman? - ° said I. - The boy has never indicated anything in this respect. How can I say to him something like that, I'll feel ashamed! I can't say such a thing, although I also want that to happen from all my heart." From that moment on my wife didn't give me a moment of rest. As soon as we were alone, she started persuading me: "Old man, you're no good father, you ain't thinking about your children! Here, you're gonna let that wonderful boy go, and you can never find anybody like him?" And that happened every day and every night. I lost patience, became nervous. One day I said: "Understand this - I can't do that, I am ashamed, but I can't stand your reproaches either, so I promise from this day to start looking for a proper time to venture and tell him." I started visiting his room often, tried to start a conversation on the much desired subject, and he - I don't know if he understood or did that on purpose - always drifted to other topics. A heavy and tense atmosphere fell on our home. Just then our daughter, which we were planning to betroth, suddenly got sick and died in a few days. Peter never found out about our quarrels. After the funeral, with a heavy, aching heart, I called out: "So did you marry her, woman? Haven't you understood that this boy is not on this Earth to marry!"

 

Brother D. claims that the Master told him that he had been to Tibet, where he studied occult medicine, adding that the first semester was dedicated to mastering self-discipline and training the physical body.

 

Brother Petko Hristov from Shumen tells the following story: "When the Master was interned to Varna and was living in the "London" Hotel, I want from Shumen to visit him and bring him some technical devices, he had asked me for. Among other things, the Master told me the following: "I was interned here, so that the Russian officers can also learn about me and the New Teaching ".And he added: "Petko, I have traveled all over this world ".

 

After many conversations with the Master, brother S.A. recalls these words of his: "You can make a lot of mistakes and foolish things in your live. I allow you everything, but I don't allow you ever have doubt in me!" Another time the Master told him: "You think that I am Mr. Peter Deunov. No Peter Deunov left this body a long time ago - 20 years ago, and now, I, who am speaking you, am the Spirit of Truth."

 

Brother Georgi Radev Ovcharov from Yambol describes something that happened at the meeting in Tarnovo in 1922: "I was with a group of other youngsters and we were discussing different aspects of the ideas of the Brother-hood. The Master was talking to a bunch of elder brothers more than 150­200 meters away from us. I noticed that suddenly he suddenly left the group and headed towards us. As soon as he came to us, without having heard a word of our conversation, he started talking on the topic, we were discussing. "I can heal all the diseases and even resurrect the death, but I don't do it, for there is no use of that. Imagine that I go to the center of Sofia and start healing all the sick people. Then my name will become famous worldwide and people from all around the world will start coming to me. Then I won't be able to do my work. And after I've healed everybody, what would have I done? Image I take a piglet, I wash it, I bath it, and then I let it go. What would it do? It will once again go and dip itself in the puddle and get muddy all over again This is also the case with all people, suffering from various diseases. The diseases are the result of their sins and crimes in the past and if I heal them, without the striving for spiritual life ever awakening in them, they will continue living in their sins and they'll be overtaken by even worse diseases. So, is there any sense in healing such people? For the people to be healed their consciousness must be awoken first and they must change their ways of life. So, new ideas are to be put in people's minds, which can transform their lives. You know what Archimedes said back in his time: "Give me a lever and a fulcrum and I will move the Earth from its orbit!" Here's what I say: my teaching is that lever, and if you give me a fulcrum, I'll shift the orbit of life and set it along a different path."

 

The Master was visiting Dr. Dukov. The host offered a carriage ride from the city to the Rila Monastery. The Master agreed. They had a long, but comfortable ride. When they approached the monastery, at a very dangerous spot, the horses suddenly stopped, and raised on their hind legs. They did that several times and wouldn't move forward. Doctor Dukov and his wife got scared, got off the carriage and ran some distance away from it. The Master, however, remained there. Everybody called to him to run away, but he didn't get off. After some time the horses calmed down, the passengers got back on the carriage, continued their trip and started asking the Master what had happened. He explained: "Saint John of Rila /St. Ivan Rilski/ came to meet me and when the horses saw him, they started jumping with joy".

 

A brother told the Master what was being said - that he ruled Bulgaria. The Master replied: "We, the Brother-hood, rule not only Bulgaria, but the entire world". He didn't mean that he actually influenced the Bulgarian rulers through personal contacts, but that spiritually, according to the Divine Plan, he managed and directed the events in Bulgaria and around the world.