Prophet for Our Times: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov

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Dressed in white, they perform a strange circular dance on the green meadow, under the blue sky. They are the Universal White Brotherhood, Bulgaria's best-known esoteric teaching. Inspired by the same spiritual sources, Peter Deunov and Rudolf Steiner worked in different cultures (Central European and Slavic), from different perspectives, with different missions and with people of different soul qualities. Peter Deunov focussed on the development of Christian virtues and of a new social life. Rudolf Steiner stressed the development of consciousness and of new spiritual faculties, necessary for a new spiritual science. You should pray unceasingly, you should be grateful for everything, you should always rejoice, because that is the Will of God for you in Jesus Christ.

The liberation can no longer be postponed. Humanity must prepare itself for great trials that are inescapable and are coming to bring an end to egoism. Then I received a mission from Heaven, then it was told to me that I am a teacher for the whole humanity. The Slavonic people are destined to have a great mission. They, and particularly Bulgaria, will contribute a good deal to the elevation of humankind. Return to Bulgaria, there is a powerful spiritual movement in Bulgaria, headed by a great spiritual Initiate. You have no idea of the grandiose future that awaits you. A New Earth will soon see day. In a few decades the work will be less exacting, and each one will have the time to consecrate spiritual, intellectual and artistic activities. The question of rapport between man and woman will be finally resolved in harmony; each one having the possibility of following their aspirations. The relations of couples will be founded on reciprocal respect and esteem.Get out any anger! God is not a God of anger, but of gentleness. He does not accept gossip and ingratitude. During the passage of time, the consciousness of man traversed a very long period of obscurity. This phase which the Hindus call "Kali Yuga", is on the verge of ending. We find ourselves today at the frontier between two epochs: that of Kali Yuga and that of the New Era that we are entering. The Fire of which I speak, that accompanies the new conditions offered to our planet, will rejuvenate, purify, reconstruct everything: the matter will be refined, your hearts will be liberated from anguish, troubles, incertitude, and they will become luminous; everything will be improved, elevated; the thoughts, sentiments and negative acts will be consumed and destroyed. Although the inhabitants of this planet do not all find themselves at the same degree of evolution, the new wave will be felt by each one of us. And this transformation will not only touch the Earth, but the ensemble of the entire Cosmos.”

To pray means to direct one's mind, heart, soul and spirit towards the Great Source of Life from which we have emerged. During the period 1888-1895 he studied medicine and theology in the United States (Boston University) During his stay in America (1888-1895) Peter Deunov had become familiar with the Theosophical movement. He may have known that for H.P. Blavatzky and her followers, the new culture would be an American culture. In Theosophy the present culture is called the Teutonic (or Anglo-Saxon) sub-race. The Slavs are regarded as an offshoot of this sub-race. According to Blavatzky the new culture, called the ‘Australo-American sub-race’, will begin to evolve in the United States and Australia in the early 21st century. The sixth cycle of cultures, in this view, will also have its origin in America and not in the Slavic world. [ 23 ]

Filipov, Pavlov and Kelev (see references below) make a case for their identification of Beinsa Douno as the incarnation of the Bodhisattva that will become the next Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. See also the lectures by Rudolf Steiner on Jeshu Ben Pandira in 1911-11-GA130. Give place to Gentleness in your soul and call its children - Selflessness and Meekness together with Politeness and Good nature. And when you do all this, give thanks to God for His help to guard you from evil and to place you in His abode in safety. Sing and praise the Lord in your souls, because your salvation is reality and Heaven is your home. When the deportation became public knowledge, most Bulgarians were so outraged that Boris went into hiding. Anything he faced would be a lose-lose situation—whether it was the wrath of the Nazis or the wrath of his own people. When Hitler demanded the deportation of all Bulgarian Jews, Boris caved. Hide and Go Seek Peter Deunov (1864-1944) proffered an occult mixture of ideas for soul, brain and heart development, and of resuscitation of the body. He considered God to be a pantheist deity, while Christ was an occult teacher and the leader of an universal brotherhood. The universe was the home to angels, archangels and other supernatural creatures and forces, and human souls got reborn. Deunov considered the white race to be superior as it was the most developed in comparison to all others. It was the final evolution step before the attainment of a hypothetical "sixth," "supreme race." To achieve perfection, all human souls had to be reborn as white people. Christ Himself prayed every night. He had a great deal of knowledge, but He spent hours in prayer after midnight. During these hours He was filled with energy like a dynamo. He then used that energy during the day. In other words, we draw energy from God while praying.