The Origin of the Teaching of the White Brotherhood in Bulgaria

[chocolate]

Peter Deunov, who is often called the Master, took the spiritual name of Beinsa Douno. He himself often referred to his word as “The New Teaching”. Definitely this is not a coincidence. The new, eternal revival as an universal path, judicious development, freedom, personal growth, harmony – these are the key themes in his word. It is difficult, even impossible, to explain integrally this teaching, which is dynamic in its essence. The difficulty comes from the necessity of using analogies; and the analogies presuppose the presence of experience. But how could you explain the world to the unhatched chick or to the unborn child? Most likely, it is not possible to do that by words, but only through the magic of music, which reaches the innermost places of the human soul and reveals the treasures that have been hidden there since the eternity.

Another difficulty ensues from the circumstance that the attitude towards the New Teaching is not one and the same for people, who acquaint themselves for the first time with it and for others, who have experienced and accepted it as existential spiritual food. For the first ones are important some things, which for the second ones are rather non-essential, and vice versa. This is a natural result of the transformation that is happening.
One of the main characteristics of the word of the New Teaching is its high level of abstraction. Even when the Master is talking about something or someone with a concrete example, he always means to reveal a particular common regularity or a principle. The truth is not comprehended as a static entity, but rather it is realized in dynamics, as a process. That’s why, the truth is not specified as a definite conclusion or a final result, as it happens in the modern science. The lovers of ready-made recipes and hidden knowledge, the impatient seekers of easy ways and treasures will be disappointed for sure. Because the new teaching does not give us anything without making certain efforts, it does not tell anything directly and finally. The disciple, who has taken the path of the new teaching, does not hasten. One has taken the path of transformation, a path where the person gradually awakens one’s soul to life, which unfolds like the cherry blossom in spring. And for the curious, but impatient and indecisive side-view observer, the New Teaching will normally remain incomprehensible. The lectures, through which the New Teaching was delivered, were being given in the course of 30 years (1914-1944); the main cycle was being given for a period of 22 years (1922-1944); the total number of all lectures is above 3 500. Nevertheless, so as not to stay at the elementary level, that this teaching seems to be “something new and good”, we will specify some of its main elements, as we will have in mind the abovementioned specific features of the matter.
The aim of the New Teaching is similar to the aims of each spiritual school: the human being should achieve perfection – both as an individual and as a community. The perfection, however, is not given by means of a definite external pattern. The Master very often blamed his disciples for imitation. The perfection here is a result of Divine manifestation, and God lives within each human being and potentially – under particular circumstances – He has got an opportunity to manifest Himself through each of us in a specific way. One of the light motifs of the Word is “Do not restrain the Divine!”. Thus the perfection is a result of the freedom achieved, and the absolute purity, which allows you to manifest and strengthen your divine origin, that is sleeping deeply in the innermost parts of your soul.

The three universal principles are the objective nucleus of the New Teaching: Love, Wisdom and Truth – they are manifested subjectively in the person under the form of feeling, reason and will. They are called principles, because we talk about universal powers that are woven in the tissue, powers which build up the whole existing material and spiritual universe. The idea of human evolution or evolution of the human spirit has sprung from the conception of the animate, rational nature, which includes the whole visible and invisible world; it actually originates the world, like a mother. Human being’s vocation is to live in harmony with the natural powers. He or she is not the crown of Creation, but а very important and inseparable element. People in their present form, however, have a very long way of development and evolution until they will display their full endowments.
All living creatures are children of the animate, rational nature. Because of that, they are also rational, and close, and kindred – they are brothers in the light of the universal evolution. Irrespective of one’s own current level of development, every being will be faced with a great future – no matter if it belongs to the human, animal, plant or mineral world. In fact, the conception “human being” in the context of the animate, rational nature is extending. It has already included not only the known human form and culture, but also all evolving rational human forms, all rational beings in the infinite cosmos. This is the conception of the Cosmic Man, which (on a spiritual level) connects collectively the common development of all rational beings into аn individual plan.

The New Teaching brings a fresh breath of air in the subjective moral field. One’s vocation is to get to know and to come to love for oneself – both one’s power and dignity, and also the weaknesses, illnesses, mistakes. As long as one fears or despises them, one relates to them inevitably. After one comes to love them, one understands and transforms them into virtues. The suffering is a task that should be performed rightly. Being alien to the Victorian moralizing spirit, the New Teaching introduces a natural measure and a sober-minded attitude towards life. It overcomes the dualism of the widespread notion of good and evil. The evil is a servant to the good and a part of the unified global organism. The evil functions as a cleaning installation for the whole life – as long as impurity exists, the evil will be necessary for the sake of the Whole. That’s why the mechanical rejection could not improve the situation, but only the judicious and wise attitude. The truth – the aim of all that breathes – is able to reconcile all contradictions. If there is something, which is not allowed explicitly in the New Teaching, that’s namely the lie and delusion. The five universal virtues – Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice and Virtue – are placed as stairs on the path to the human soul, waiting to be climbed. Poverty and wealth are circumstances for the development of human soul – they are equally good. But the real wealth is within us, it is not outside at all. Sure enough – Do we not see nowadays more than ever the deficiency and discontent of the business carrier? Do we not feel the absurdity of a life which binds us to the work place in 80% of our time?

Within the scope of the aesthetic, the New Teaching announces its definite positions. The beauty is an expression of the Divine harmony, a connection with the Divine world. The arts are, in general, an expression of impulses that come from sublime and light beings. The beautiful is necessary for life to feed the human soul, which would be able to develop rightly in this way. To a great extend, the human life could be made worthwhile through the different kinds of arts. The creative work – closely connected with the world of beauty – is a divine blessing. The new teaching works for the development of the supreme origin in the human being. It does not tolerate the way the workaholic is absorbed nowadays into the working background. Its aim is to liberate the powers of the consciousness for constructive, creative purposes.

In 1904, Peter Dunov moved permanently in Sofia – he lived at 66 Opalchenska Street. The change was of a particular importance both for him and for the movement that he established. That lodging on Opalchenska Street was the place where started the presentation of the so called talks. No official announcements were made about them, but the news was spread from person to person. In the beginning, the mechanism of talks was the same as at the gatherings – a personal invitation on the part of P. Deunov for a meeting or a dialogue, as through these acquaintances the number of the attendees grew up continually.

By the end of the World War I, P. Deunov gave talks only on Sunday mornings at 10 o’clock. During the wars (The Balkan War, the Second Balkan War and the World War I) the number of his disciples in the capital was about 250-300 people. His views that Bulgaria did not have to take part in the World War I, his statements against the nationalism and chauvinism, made him to look suspicious to the state power. In 1917, the mayor of Sofia prohibited him from giving public talks. Soon he was exiled in Varna. He stayed there till the end of 1918, at London Hotel. Meanwhile, in his absence, the meetings of the Brotherhood in the capital were degraded to spiritistic séances. At that time started the organization of study groups in the province: Varna, Ruse, Yambol, Gabrovo, V. Tarnovo and so on.
The influence of P. Deunov and his ideas grew immensely on a national scale after the war. The main reasons for that, which are emphasized by his opponents, are connected with the thesis that the catastrophic consequences from the war conflicts led to an orientation towards superstitions and mysticism. In addition to the external prerequisites in the common post-war conditions, the reasons for the increased public significance of the White Brotherhood have been also sought in the very essence of his teaching. The famous church figure and Orthodox theologian Prof. Evtimiy Sapundzhiev accentuates on two circumstances: 1) the Movement “does not impose those prohibitions and chains upon the human weaknesses and sins that the Church does”; and 2) Peter Deunov promised religious science and sensible faith, answering to the thirst of our society to solve the contradiction between science and faith. I. G. Hall pays attention both to Peter Deunov’s quality of knowing and appraising people’s character, and the circumstance that the social problems of the real life are not directly referred to in his teaching. N. Pravoslavov points out the absolute freedom in the basis of the ethics as the most important power of attraction in the ideas of Peter Deunov.

In the publications that are well-disposed, the attempts to explain P. Deunov influence are fundamentally oriented towards a search for the reasons within the phenomenon. A. Tomov, in his extensive analysis, treats a variety of social and political reasons and the subsequent global problems that P. Deunov offers a solution for – the war and the post-war crises led to an aggravation of the social contradictions, misery and epidemics, as a result of which are noticed two tendencies: a) aspirations for justice and harmony are awakened within the human soul, it becomes more sensitive and receptive; b) the humanity itself, realizing the misery of the modern civilization, adopts the idea of overcoming the evil and laying the foundations of a new culture. Another important circumstance is that P. Deunov revealed certain parapsychological faculties, witnesses of which were both many of his disciples and outsiders. And yet, the most important is that P. Deunov’s teaching distinguishes from the rest of the ideological trends at that time (and not only then) by its practical orientation.

The intellectuals, who attended the lectures, were attracted by the perspective offered by the lecturer – a new order would triumph on Earth by means of self-cognition and self-improvement of each human individual. This major aim seems convincing, clear and completely well sustained from an ethical point of view. Extremely attractive is the evolutionary element that corresponds deeply with avoiding the bloodshed and fratricide, the terror of which still lives in the consciousness of the contemporaries. The teaching of Love as a main principle of the Existence and the brotherhood among people (analogical to the Christian and Theosophical conception) – a leading point in the ethics and metaphysics of P. Deunov – answered to the social and moral quests, and the aspiration of the epoch, and at that moment it was in harmony with the ideas of the most advanced European and world minds.
There is another essential aspect of the phenomenon under investigation – the distinctive institutionalization of Peter Deunov’s personality within the frames of the entire sociocultural background, which emerged very distinctly and in its most pure form about the middle 1920s. As a prototype, the spiritual leader (or “guru”) is more typical for the religious and philosophical systems of the eastern cultures. According to them, the term “Teacher” has an ancient tradition and implies a certain spiritual content in which basis stands the idea of a being from a higher heaven hierarchy, a messenger of God on Earth, who is entrusted with the mission to precipitate the evolution, and to raise the prosperity of his humble fellows, the ordinary people. In the Western European civilization that notion was introduced by the modern Theosophy, as the original Indian mystic content was substantiated by the disciples of the WB teaching in Bulgaria. The relationships inside the movement, between Teacher and disciples, are based on relevant ethical ground and are a peculiar emblem of the essence of this informal community. All observers are unanimous in their assessment that the influence of P. Deunov on those who are around him is tremendous, comprehensive and unyielding.

The Universal White Brotherhood spiritual society itself has been given various names in the public context. The most widespread among them is “danovism” after the name of its founder, leader and ideological inspirer. This term has also spread out naturally over the teaching of P. Deunov claiming to be comprehensive. We should emphasize here, however, that the name “danovism” is used only by researchers and persons who are not in the movement. Within the WB itself, this conception does not exist. The members of the brotherhood call one another “white brothers” or just “brothers and sisters”, by which they express one of the fundamental purposes of the movement – to achieve a brotherhood among all people on the planet. Peter Deunov himself never declared a monopoly over the knowledge that he presented, and he excluded the mechanical transfer of his personal name to his overall theoretic-practical conception and system.
He called his teaching – “teaching of the White Brotherhood”, and his disciples – “disciples of the White Brotherhood”. By “White Brotherhood”, in this instance, he understands an invisible community of beings that have completed their spiritual evolution in the material world and have reached the perfection (according to the meaning in Mathew 5:48), who take a vigorous part in the whole life of the mankind in all of its dimensions. In the broad sense, the term “White Brotherhood” has been adopted by the disciples of P. Deunov for designation of their own movement. Тhe white colour is a symbol of their spiritual community, as an expression of the purity and high spirituality.

At that time, the teaching of P. Deunov won followers also by its synthesis between eastern mysticism from the one hand, and the western scientific, rational thought from the other, i.e. by the yearning for unity of faith and reason. According to this teaching, the Christian dogmatism and church approaches are filled with conservatism and archaisms, the character of the church is assessed as incorrigibly formal and incompatible with the dynamics of the modern life.

After returning from the exile in Varna, P. Deunov stayed at 66 Opalchenska Street. His last tour around the country was in the very beginning of the 20s. At the same time he did not stop the talks in Sofia, which at a point were moved to 14 Oborishte Street (1922 - 1926). The hall on Oborishte Street was taken away from the WB after 1926, and was transformed into a local cinema. The Sunday talks were admission free for people since before 1918. This tradition was kept to the decease of the lecturer on 27/12/1944. This formulation does not mean that the access was unrestricted, because it was never forbidden to anyone at any of the lectures, but rather that the newcomers were not considered by all means as future members of the movement. P. Deunov revealed through the Sunday talks his ideas in the presence of the society. His aim was to work among as wide circle of people as possible in order to convince them to get into the path of the true Christian teaching, in the way he understood and interpreted it.

The first walks in the open air dated from 1920-1922.
At first the object of the visits was the meadows below the Dragalevski Monastery, after that on foot to Chamkoria (today’s Borovets) and to Musala Peak. During the hiking, P. Deunov talked to his followers about the language of the “Animate and Rational Nature” and the grandeur of its judiciousness.

On March 22, 1922, was opened the Youth Occult Class. P. Deunov himself made a list of 80 people that were supposed to participate, but the first lectures were visited by twice as many people because the news spread out in the circles of theosophists, spiritists, Tolstoyans and anarchists. Some of them hoped to see and hear sensations even miracles. P. Deunov himself defined the meaning of the School in the following way:”… So that the occult School is not for consolation of people, but it is a school for studying the great unalterable laws of the Existence and the manifestation of God, within Him our life is cultivating proportionally and harmoniously.” With these words he specified the creed of his future work – building of a strong spiritual environment where he could apply the new teaching, i.e. he undertook decisively an active and efficient direction for development of the movement.

The audience in the School was differentiated in Youth or Special class, and the classes were hold from 22 September to 22 March. In addition to the listening of the lectures, the students were given tasks for reflection, a written assignment or specific deeds. – for the next lecture. The essays on the assigned theme were looked over by P. Deunov and were discussed at the next lecture. “Youth Gatherings” were also held (eight in number), which in their essence represented conferences of the schools – each of them was held from 25 to 28 August, as the first one was in the summer of 1923 in the hall at 14 Oborishte Street. Besides the traditional talks of P. Deunov, essays were read and problems were discussed at these gatherings, concerning the organizational activity and dissemination of the teaching.

After the opening of the Youth School, a class for other disciples was also created – General Occult Class, which was visited by the family followers. Probably about 1930, the two formations united. In the School, which was founded in such a way, P. Deunov taught generally known truths to his disciples, which so far remained inapplicable by people in their life – love, brotherhood, esteem for your neighbor; he initiated them in the secrets of the nature and human essence; he offered them methods for a right and healthy way of life – vegetarianism, moderation, fasting. Heading these communities of teaching, P, Deunov definitely won recognition as a “Teacher” that invariably followed him till his death, and it became the only appeal to him by all of his disciples. His work received the necessary formal institutionalization both in the face of the society, and for his followers.

Source: http://www.beinsadouno.org/en/conten...rhood-teaching

Beinsa Douno

Great White Brotherhood
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Paneurhythmy - an archival movie

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CunoMxlGK_4

[PurpleLama]

There is a white brotherhood, whose origins far predate this planet. I shall examine this material for similarity. Thanks.

[PurpleLama]

http://www.beinsadouno.org/en/node/1985

[Wind]

I remember reading about this brotherhood a couple months ago, very fascinating. Especially this prophecy from the year 1944 is intriguing...

"Some highlights (please try to read the actual prophecy because you get so much more than just these points):"

• Ending of Kali Yuga and the birth of a NewAge
• Fire of Ascension
• Liberation of Humanity
• We are now exiting the Thirteenth Zone, or Duality/Polarity
• Take this "gift" of Ascension now so you won't have to wait for the next cycle
• Love is the answer
• Birth of the 6th Race of Humanity, the Race of Love
• Demise of the Dark and the reclamation of the surface by Gaia.

[PurpleLama]

http://www.panevritmia.info/author/?lang=en

[chocolate]

Posted by Wind (here)
I remember reading about this brotherhood a couple months ago, very fascinating. Especially this prophecy from the year 1944 is intriguing...

"Some highlights (please try to read the actual prophecy because you get so much more than just these points):"

• Ending of Kali Yuga and the birth of a NewAge
• Fire of Ascension
• Liberation of Humanity
• We are now exiting the Thirteenth Zone, or Duality/Polarity
• Take this "gift" of Ascension now so you won't have to wait for the next cycle
• Love is the answer
• Birth of the 6th Race of Humanity, the Race of Love
• Demise of the Dark and the reclamation of the surface by Gaia.

I remember you posted this also elsewhere, Wind.
I've been reading other materials related to the G.W.B., and thought I could share something close to my heart.

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Posted by PurpleLama (here)
http://www.beinsadouno.org/en/node/1985

Under close examination one can notice I have started from 'Introduction' of the same site, but humbly, thanks!

[PurpleLama]

I know you did, miss sweet brown one. That was a link to the 'meat' of the teaching, on that site. I am still reading, but what I see so far looks good. Thanks again.

[linksplatinum]

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/so...rotherhood.htm

Literally tons of info found above in this link.

[PurpleLama]

Posted by linksplatinum (here)
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/so...rotherhood.htm

Literally tons of info found above in this link.

I bet Sacred Texts has it too, but I haven't looked yet.

[linksplatinum]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

There can be info found here as well through their search engine

[PurpleLama]

Posted by linksplatinum (here)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

There can be info found here as well through their search engine

Huh. I looked but didn't see it.

[chocolate]

"All the world renders homage to me, and I render homage to the Master Peter Deunov from Bulgaria"
~Albert Einstein

[linksplatinum]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)

Posted by linksplatinum (here)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

There can be info found here as well through their search engine

Huh. I looked but didn't see it.

If you use Tor, it doesn't filter stuff like normally those engines would perhaps.

[PurpleLama]

Posted by linksplatinum (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)

Posted by linksplatinum (here)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

There can be info found here as well through their search engine

Huh. I looked but didn't see it.

If you use Tor, it doesn't filter stuff like normally those engines would perhaps.

Well then perhaps linksplatinum could provide one of those platinum links. I used the sites internal search engine, then went through authors by alphabetically. If it is there and you can find it, I would love to see it.

[linksplatinum]

Some of these links may overlap eachother, but that's how they came up. Maybe this will help a bit.





Brother of the Third Degree: Chapter XI. The Black Brotherhood
The great Master who is Protector of yourself and parents, seeing that you are surrounded by a ... Many aspirants for the White Brotherhood have thus been lost , and are now identified with this Red ...
www.sacred-texts.com/sro/botd/botd12.htm - Similar

Brother of the Third Degree: Chapter XIII. The White Brotherhood
THE WHITE BROTHERHOOD. ... The white-robed assembly stood around with heads uncovered in .... a zodiac with movable planets in the different signs, while the great stars also had their places.
www.sacred-texts.com/sro/botd/botd14.htm - Similar


In America is one of the most Ancient Foci of the Great White Brotherhood which has been working for man's freedom ...
www.sacred-texts.com/eso/um/um02.htm - Similar

Unveiled Mysteries: Chapter IX. Venus Visits the Royal Teton
"In the 'Presence' of the One Supreme God—and those of the 'Great White Brotherhood' assembled here—these ...
www.sacred-texts.com/eso/um/um13.htm - Similar


Unveiled Mysteries: Title Page and Front Matter
... Saint Germain, the Great White Brotherhood, the Brotherhood of the Royal Teton, the Brotherhood of Mount Shasta, ...
www.sacred-texts.com/eso/um/um00.htm - Similar


Thelema Texts
... and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the ...
www.sacred-texts.com/oto/ - Similar

Chapter II: From The Absolute To Man
This august body is often called the Great White Brotherhood, but its members are not a community all living together.
www.sacred-texts.com/the/tot/chap02.htm - Similar

A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of the A.'. A.'.
... and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the ...
www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib207.htm - Similar

[Tangri]

What I know on white brotherhood is, survival instinct should not be overestimated, and it is not a new. A real white,/pure one does not want to be a master for mass, he/she is just a wandering.
But below abstracted statement is true.

One of the main characteristics of the word of the New Teaching is its high level of abstraction. Even when the Master is talking about something or someone with a concrete example, he always means to reveal a particular common regularity or a principle. The truth is not comprehended as a static entity, but rather it is realized in dynamics, as a process. That’s why, the truth is not specified as a definite conclusion or a final result, as it happens in the modern science.

Truth can not be worded, It only can be pursued to intuitive thinking by words .
Check Sufism.

[chocolate]

For I know internet (links) can not be fully trusted now-a-days, I have given only the links to the Bulgarian web page which can be trusted.

As far as The White Brotherhood goes, the fact that we are writing about it here is because at this moment, for various reasons, some more obscure but important teachings have to be revealed.

I cannot judge anyone who is not going to believe what has been said, more than a 100 years ago, much before the time of apparent New Age Movement. It is a matter of choice and a inherent depth of understanding.

As there are Qi Gong/Tai Chi Masters, that is how there are those who have become highly respected thus becoming Masters by the choice of people.
The core principle in every true teching is the same, but the externalization may vary depending on local circumstances.

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One of the reasons I posted the thread was in a way to show some who are still searching, coming from local traditions, but not fully able to trust them, that there is one Universal Teaching that adopts different outfits to accommodate different locales with their own specifics. So, put simply, the grass of the neighbor may look greener, but that doesn't make it 'a better grass' to lay on.
And in many occasions those who come with solidity, and with experience, often can be mistaken for lack of something ... 'spectacular' ... 'desirable' outwardly attractive, which may not be true.

If you have been told that you lack spiritual knowledge, may be you shouldn't take this too much inside, for nobody is anybody's judge on that.

I self introduced to the 'teachings' of the Bulgarian White Brotherhood when I was 14-15 years old, together with having a yoga teacher probably at around the same age. Both aspects gave me a solid base of logical, practical and let call it 'philosophical' understanding of this world, which hasn't been broken ever since, but onto which base there is always space for building up, change and advancement. Coupled with some life hardship, this is one type of 'teaching' I can still trust, in a world of many modern 'Masters' with the words of which this forum is full.

For those acquainted with Qi Gong and traditional Chinese methods and ways, they would find lots of similarities between the two traditions.

[chocolate]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=scb9TPlUihE

More videos:
http://www.beinsa-douno.com/video-of...youtubegallery

"Healing Recipes" by Beinsa Douno
http://www.beinsa-douno.com/healing-recipes-ebook.html

Music:
http://www.beinsa-douno.com/music-an...er-deunov.html

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In closing: