From Holocaust victim to immanent messiah – III

In the Spiritual School of the Soul – II

Continuing the spiritual journey in the Spiritual School of the Soul, in January 1972 I met a Bulgarian friend in Moscow, who introduced me to the Bulgarian Spiritual Tradition called the Universal Brotherhood, initiated by the Spiritual Master Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov 1864-1944). In February 1972, during my winter holidays in Sofia, I established personal contact with Brothers and Sisters from the Universal Brotherhood and was introduced to the Teaching and the Cause of the Master Beinsa Douno as the World Teacher for our time.

It is well known that when the disciple is ready, the Master appears. Ramakrishna was my first love, but the Master Beinsa Douno became my personal spiritual Teacher. Interestingly, I was studying and living in Moscow (writing my PhD thesis), but I found my Teacher, Beinsa Douno, almost on my doorstep in Sofia – his community was about twenty minutes from my home. Here it is very important to emphasise the great role of the  Master Beinsa Douno in salvation of the Bulgarian Jews during the World War Two: In a crucial moment, through one of his disciples, the Master told King Boris III: Do not allow the deportation of the Jews because you, your family and your Kingdom will be destroyed! I would like to use the opportunity and to express again my deepest  gratitude to the Master Beinsa Douno, to the political and church Leaders, to the whole Bulgarian people who save us from the Holocaust!

So, in the summer of 1972, during my summer holidays in Bulgaria, I participated in the summer camp of the Universal Brotherhood on the sacred mountain Rila in Bulgaria. This first summer camp was a revelation for me and gave me a real experience of the level of consciousness which I subsequently experienced as the reality of the Garden of Paradise. In the summer camps, lasting for a month or so, the participants learned to live together in love and friendship as one great spiritual family, to appreciate Nature and all forms of life and to overcome the challenges which the high mountains provide. The focus of the day in these summer camps was the morning prayer and meditation at sunrise, which lasted about ninety minutes, followed by the sacred dance Paneurhythmy (i.e., high cosmic rhythm), lasting another ninety minutes. So, for about three hours every day I was witnessing and participating in the great cosmic-spiritual life, integrating all levels of Being. After this inspiring morning activities, we were free, participating in the common lunch in the camp and in the evening prayer. Of course, during the day there were a lot of other group activities such as personal meetings, excursions, concerts, readings from the books of the Master Beinsa Douno and others.

On the third day of my first Summer camp in 1972, after the morning prayer and the sacred dance Paneurhythmy, a little group of 8-10 young  people decided to visit the Leader of the Brotherhood, Brother Boris Nikolov and his wife Sister Maria Todorova, whose tent was on a very picturesque hill above the main camp. Brother Boris and Sister Maria were one of the most advanced Disciples of the Master Beinsa Douno. The top of the hill was an extremely picturesque place from where there was a great panorama of Rila itself and the surrounding mountains – Verila, Vitosha, Plana and Stara Planina.

When we ascended to the hill, Brother Boris met us very friendly and with a great smile. My first meeting with him was unforgettable spiritual event. He shacked my hand and said ‘clairvoyantly’: You are looking for a new language to glorify G-d and you will find it! I became absolutely amazed and speechless. After this we entered in the tent and he narrated three wonderful stories looking mainly at me. The stories were very interesting, emotional and symbolic as a guidance for the spiritual path.

When the time for common lunch came, Brother Boris and Sister Maria discussed were to have the lunch – in the tent, or outside. Outside was very windy, but because in the small tent we were more then 10 people, they decided to have the lunch outside any way. To my great surprise Brother Boris turned to me and said: Please, tell the wind to stop. Of course, I was shocked by this suggestion and did not know what to do, except to pray as usually. Nevertheless, the wind softened, most probably by the prayer of Brother Boris, and we had a wonderful friendly lunch, continuing our sharing. After the common lunch, with great joy, gratitude and appreciation we left the place and say Good Bye to Brother Boris and Sister Maria. Finally, he turned to me and said: Remember, I told you three stories! At another occasion, after a few years, in special circumstances, Brother Boris told me: Know, Leon, we were together with Moses in the desert!

As to his prediction about finding a new language for glorifying G-d, now I connect his words with my interpretation of the celestial archetypes from the Books of the Prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, St. John and other Holy Scriptures. When they become like a plan and scenario for spiritual action, then of cause, we altogether will find the new language for glorifying G-d and establishing the Kingdom of G-d on Earth!

Soon I understood that some of the main principles in the Spiritual School of the Soul of the Master Beinsa Douno were: a) observe a vegetarian diet; b) abstain from alcohol, drugs and smoking; c) develop the highest human virtues such as love, friendship, peace, joy, harmony and many others; d) make daily life as a spiritual school; e) live a healthy, wholesome life in harmony with Nature and frequent mountain excursions; f) meet the sunrise whenever possible with appropriate prayers, songs, meditations and spiritual ceremonies.

Gradually, the first spiritual results began to appear. My eyes were opened and I perceived the mountains, Nature, the Earth and all of life as a magnificent sea of Divine Love, Light, Music, Colour Rays of Light and spiritual thought-forms. I had a real experience of the Garden of Paradise consciousness and of the blossoming of the Soul. I became much more sensitive spiritually and developed some clairvoyant abilities. My feeling was that through the style of life, the prayers, the songs and the Teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno, he himself revealed to me the essence of the spiritual Universe and the many Divine worlds in it. This period of my life was a very joyful active participation in the great Spiritual School of the Soul.

The Master Beinsa Douno often said that his Teaching and the Paneurhythmy would spread among the Slav Nations and would become the seed for the New Solar Culture on Earth and for the Sixth Race of Love in human civilisation. I am very grateful that I was blessed by the Master to bring his Teaching, and especially the sacred dance Paneurhythmy, to Russia for the first time.

The Light Leaders in the Bulgarian Brotherhood saw in me an opportunity to spread the Teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno in Russia. I was delighted with this idea and we started making plans to achieve this. Unfortunately, one attempt to introduce the Teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno a few years earlier had failed with serious consequences for the participants; so, we had to envisage a way to circumvent the Bulgarian and the Russian communist authorities and to fulfil this important task.

After the summer camp in Bulgaria in 1972, I shared the good news with my friends in Moscow. We decided to form a spiritual group and to get acquainted with the Teaching and the Cause of the Master Beinsa Douno, especially with his sacred dance Paneurhythmy, as a focus of his entire Teaching. Our aim was to set in motion the circle of the Paneurhythmy in Moscow on March 22, 1973. For this purpose, starting from the month of October 1972, we gathered once a week and made contact with various other spiritual groups and traditions. This was an amazing period in our lives, full of inspiration, enthusiasm, challenges and many unforgettable spiritual events.

The first Paneurhythmy, on March 22, in the suburbs of Moscow, was a great spiritual event. Because the Master predicted that the New Solar Culture would come from a Slav Country, we had the feeling that our modest circle of Paneurhythmy set in motion the great historical process of developing this New Solar Culture. Without exaggeration it could be said that bringing the Teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno to Russia for the first time was a big story for a whole book. Now the Teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno and the Paneurhythmy are well spread in many countries in the world and give important spiritual fruits.

After my return to Bulgaria (July 1973), I rearranged my life in accordance with the spiritual tradition of the Master Beinsa Douno. From a ‘bright intellectual’ I became a devoted spiritual disciple – prayerful, meditative, studying spiritual literature and living a wholesome style of life. Moreover, I transformed and spiritualised all relationships in my life – social, professional, friendly, family, intimate and others. Thus, at the risk of losing my job, being exiled and other possible recriminations from the authorities, I became a committed participant in the Spiritual School of the Soul of the Master Beinsa Douno and started my journey to the higher celestial worlds, led by him.

From the point of view of the monumental Kabbalistic Scheme by Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi (referred to in the Post The Transcendent and the Immanent Messiah – III, from February 18, 2024) I could summarise that all my spiritual activities, from January 1971 until January 1974, were an active participation in the Lesser Mysteries: Schools of the Soul in the World of Formation. The possible next step on my spiritual journey was to ascend to the Mystery School of the Spirit, in the World of Creation. Amazingly, soon this event happened in most strange circumstances, resembling the process of awakening of an Immanent Messiah, described in the Post from February 24, 2024. With this event starts a new series of Posts describing my development as an Immanent Messiah. In the Mystery School of the Spirit I had to merge with many Divine Masters and Personifications of the Divine Feminine from the Messianic Line of the coming new Heavenly-Jerusalem cosmic cycle.  These connections substantiate the Teaching and the Cause of the Immanent Messiah(s).