The Torah of the Current Messiah – XI

Development of the Mission

Move to the Premises of Montessori Education Centre

In February 1989, after giving my warm-hearted thanks to Matthew Finnegan for his great hospitality, friendship and support, I moved to my new accommodation on North Great Georges Street, very close to the James Joyce Museum, in the centre of Dublin. My benefactors this time were Mary Bowers and Connie Fahey from the Montessori Education Centre, to whom I am very grateful for their kindness, hospitality and friendliness. The building housed a Montessori Training School, a hostel and other rooms. They provided me with suitable accommodation and good conditions for my work for three and a half years. Unfortunately, during this time Connie Fahey passed over, but the loving memory of her remains with me. Mary Bowers continued to provide great support enabling me to finish the manuscript of the book The Second Coming and to carry out other spiritual activities.

When I entered into my new room for the first time, I was greatly surprised. It was very big, full of flowers, spiritual pictures, icons on the walls and with comfortable furniture. The friends had done amazing work to furnish, paint, decorate and arranged the room for me! The room itself had an interesting history – in the past it was a washroom for children; this was why it had eight basins and two bathrooms. In its new arrangement the basins were covered with flowers and the bathrooms were separated by a door. Altogether the room became very appropriate for living and for gatherings. This is why very soon after my new accommodation was organised, the spiritual meetings started.

The help and support of my friends from my public lectures in Dublin never ceased! Moreover, thanks to the great hospitality and generosity of Marie I attended some remarkable concerts in the National Concert Hall of Ireland. One of them was the performance of the oratorio The Messiah by Handel. It is well known that Handel, in great inspiration, composed his oratorio The Messiah in Dublin in 1741 and its first performance on April 13, 1742, was a great success. There is a wonderful Irish tradition to have a performance of The Messiah every year before Christmas. For me to attend the performance of The Messiah oratorio in the National Concert Hall was a great event. Another unforgettable concert was the performance of one of the great flutist of the time Games Galway. I attended this concert with Marie and her son, who later became a very good professional flutist himself.

The list of inspiring cultural-spiritual events could easily be continued. I would like to mention only another one – the visit of the famous Moscow Art Theatre to the Abby Theatre. I enjoyed the play of well known Russian artists tremendously. Interestingly, everybody in the audience had to use earphones except me: some people around me were surprised and wondered why I did not have earphones – then however I knew Russian much better than English?!

The Great American Friend and Helper

After settling in Ireland, I continued my links with England. In May 1989 I was invited to participate in the celebration of the Vesak Festival in Glastonbury. In this celebration I led the sacred dance Paneurhythmy and Mandala Meditation. Vesak Festival is consecrated to the Enlightenment of Buddha. Certainly, the Mandala Meditation was very appropriate for this celebration, especially in line with the prediction of the coming New Buddha – Maitreya.

In Glastonbury I met many wonderful spiritual friends, one of whom was Mary-Susann Sheppard from the USA. She was born in Seattle, became a nun in a religious order and studied in the Californian Institute for Integral Studies. In May 1989 she left her Convent and came to England, to Glastonbury, with a return ticket after two months. At the Vesak Festival we established a very good spiritual contact and discussed the possibility of her coming to Ireland. She was happy to even settle for a while in Ireland if she could find appropriate accommodation and work. Thankfully, with the help of a friend of mine, she found a temporary job and rented a room in the Montessori Hostel. For two years I had in the person of Mary-Susann a great supporter, helper and collaborator. My daily routine changed with Mary-Susann: often she was able to cook dinner for the evenings; at the weekends we would work on manuscripts and go for walks together.

So, here I would like to use the opportunity and to thank very warmly my great American friend Mary-Susann Shephard. She devoted two years of her life to the Mission of the Second Coming. Her help in my daily life, in hosting the group activities, editing my manuscripts, participating in the pilgrimages and so on, was enormous indeed.

Forming the Group and Spiritual Activities in Montessori Centre

With my settling in the Montessori Centre, the arrival of Mary-Susann Shephard and with the help of friends, a devoted group, interested in my spiritual work, began to form. In the autumn of 1989, I started the weekly group gatherings in the Montessori Centre. The group between twelve to fifteen people comprised of the friends from my first public lecture in Dublin, some friends from the Theosophical Society and some other friends interested in prayer and meditation. In all our gatherings Mary-Susann was the organiser of the group, taking care of the room, the cassette player, the leaflets, the materials, the refreshments and so on.

The gatherings of the group were scheduled to start on September 29, 1989, in my room in Montessori. Initially they were envisaged as an Initiatic Cycle of nine lectures with meditation. I wanted the beginning of the cycle to coincide with the Day of St. Michael, September 29, who is considered as the Heavenly driving force for the new epoch. For some reason we started our Initiatic Cycle one week later, on October 6, but the gatherings reflected the new spiritual impulses which were coming through St. Michael with power and glory. The group was like a spiritual laboratory for channelling the new creative impulse from G-d, Who now make all things new (The Book of Revelation, 21:5). 

The Initiatic Cycle, The Blessings of the Integral Messiah (Please see, the Post from the 9th of May, 2023), consisted of nine Friday evenings, from 18.00 to 20.30. The Integral Messiah was considered as a symbol of the great Divine Light which encompasses the whole Earth. It is an actualisation of the Divine presence, revealing the reality of the Kingdom of God as an Initiation and taking the form of an Enlightenment. The Friday evenings included my lectures describing the different aspects of the Initiation of the Integral Messiah and many practical activities – meditations, ceremonies, rituals, communions, sharing’s, etc. The main purpose of this Cycle was to merge with the cosmic-spiritual stream of the Integral Messiah and to receive G-d’s Blessings.

In the cycle, The Blessings of the Integral Messiah, I included some of the main themes in my previous work, such as The Blessings of the Integral Messiah , The Reality of the Heavenly Jerusalem, The New Apocalypse, Christ Genesis, The Initiation of the Divine Spirit, The New Golden Age, The Sacred Mountain, The Cosmic-Spiritual Zodiac and The Rose of the World. Each one of the lectures had a second part for achievement the living experience through  prayers,  meditations, formulas, music, readings, and so on. After the Initiatic Cycle, we continued our weekly gatherings and we had more than fifty gatherings and pilgrimages altogether. Some of them were:

1. The Coming of the Light into the World (Public Lecture in Montessori Centre, December 17, 1989). This lecture actually marked the end of the Initiatic Cycle! In it I summarised the development of the Mission in 1989: the previous lectures, the esoteric gatherings in Montessori, the work on the book The Second Coming and the results of the Initiatic Cycle!

2. Resurrection and Enlightenment (Public Lecture, Mount Herbert Hotel – May 9, 1990). This lecture coincided with the celebration of Vesak festival – the day of Buddha’s Enlightenment. In it I connected the two great Teachings – one from the West and one from the East: the Teaching of Christ about spiritual Resurrection and the Teaching of the Enlightened One – Gautama Buddha! This lecture was another example of the new creative impulse from G-d, Who acted through the Integral Messiah – a collective Personification of the Divine Masters.

3. The Sacred Dance Paneurhythmy (One-day Workshop in Glendalough, Summer 1990). Glendalough became our favourite place for outings and pilgrimages. One of my dreams was to have a Paneurhythmy day in Glendalough (Please see, the Featured Image). The spiritual presence in this place is extraordinary. So, with great joy in the summer of 1990, the group went there for a full day. A whole article could be written about this event, but now, in brief – this was a spiritual celebration on a sacred place, connecting the first Golden Age with the coming New One through the sacred dance Paneurhythmy!

4. The Immaculate Conception in our Lives (workshop – 8 December, 1991, Milltown Park Institute, Dublin). December 8 is an important day in the Christian Calendar – the celebration of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary! Gathered in the big hall of Milltown Park Institute we appreciated this great spiritual festival. In this workshop, I introduced my emotional dream connected with the Divine Mother and we began the preparation for our mystical birth from the Rainbow Body of the Divine Feminine. The theme– Glorification of the Divine Feminine – became one of the most important themes in our group work and resulted in the development of a whole New Gospel – the Gospel of the Divine Mother, which was introduced in the book The Second Coming. In the Conclusion of this book, The New Mysteries from Ireland, the mystical birth from the Rainbow Body of Light of the Divine Mother is presented as an inspiring spiritual programme!

In general, the group was much more than a spiritual study-group – it was a circle of good spiritual friends participating together in various types of activities – weekly gatherings, attending my public lectures, seminars, pilgrimages, personal meetings and so on. A bright example of the life of the group was the collective attendance at a great musical event in Ireland – the premiere of the symphony Turangalila by the great French composer, Olivier Messiaen. This was a remarkable concert in the National Concert Hall of Ireland with the presence of Olivier Messiaen himself. I was very happy that we attended this concert because he played an important role in my musical career. In 1964, in Sofia, I attended the Bulgarian premiere of his monumental symphony where he was present also. The rehearsals and the concert, his other musical pieces and theoretical conceptions were important events in my musicological education. At the premiere of Turangalila in Ireland, in 1991, I was happy to see Olivier Messiaen again and this was my farewell to one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. In 1992 he passed peacefully in the celestial worlds. Peace, Love, Light and Divine Music for his great Soul!