In 1972 I joined the Bulgarian Brotherhood of the Master Beinsa Douno and my spiritual journey began in earnest. I attended spiritual gatherings on a weekly basis, participated in excursions with inspiring spiritual conversations every weekend and celebrated the main spiritual festivals of the year. The climax of the spiritual year was the Summer camp in the Rila mountains. There, 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 one and a half hours, followed by the Paneurhythmy, lasting another one and a half hours. So, for about three hours every day the participants witnessed and participated in the great cosmic-spiritual life, integrating all levels of Being.
On Rila I had a living experience of the higher celestial worlds and the Garden of Paradise. 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, Colours and spiritual Thought-forms. I felt a deep spiritual contact with the beloved Master Beinsa Douno, who’s Spirit, led me from one to another beautiful world in the Kingdom of God.
Little by little I realised that I was becoming clairvoyant and able to perceive the beauty and richness of the celestial worlds. I started having visions and insights into various spiritual traditions, which revealed to me the reality of the Kingdom of God with many mansions. I had a living experience and visions of the Cosmic Christ, the Orpheus mysteries, the 'harmony of the spheres' in the Pythagoras tradition, the epoch of the last Golden Age on Earth, the life of the first Christian communities, Rudolf Steiner's esoteric university and others. If the summer camp was like a divine valley in the Garden of Paradise, these visions revealed the bright and awesome summits of initiation in the spiritual Himalayas surrounding this valley.
The Celestial School of the Master
One of the most inspiring first experiences on Rila was the vision of the celestial school of the Master Beinsa Douno. In 1975, in preparation for the Summer camp, I spent a few days alone in the mountain house of Yastrebetz. At that time the lift from Borovetz did not exist and the virginity and the beauty of the area was exquisite. Every morning I would meet the Sunrise from the hill above the house.
In general, the Sunrises were magnificent but one surpassed them all. The prayers, the songs and the formulas of the Master Beinsa Douno became alive and the whole space was lit by his Divine Spirit: the Songs reverberated as celestial music (revealing the harmony of the spheres); the Prayers and the Formulas became Living Words; the Universe appeared as a living spiritual cosmos, full of Light Beings.
Little by little, caressed by the Sun beams and the tender breeze, I entered into a new time-space experience - the cosmic-spiritual Spring of the Universe. In it Creation was like a ‘blossoming’ Divine entity! The vibrations of the four elements were raised up to the ethereal level and became the metaphysical essence of 'initiations' through the elements.
At this sublime moment I entered into the Celestial School of the Master Beinsa Douno. In it the Universe, the Solar system, the Earth and all the Kingdoms of life became a continuum of living Divine energies. There I felt that we, the awakening human beings, as Sons and Daughters of God, were invited to enter into our Celestial Home and to grow in Divine Love, Wisdom and Truth.
I had heard a lot about the Celestial School of the Master from the older brothers and sisters, but I never imagined such a wonderful and majestic metaphysical Reality. The thoughts and the feelings which I experienced were ecstatic and I gave thanks to the Master from the depths of my heart, mind, soul and Spirit. Mystically I merged with the perfect Celestial Body of the Master and felt his Divine embrace.
The Legendary Summit
The Prayer Summit, in the area of the Seven Lakes, is a legendary Summit indeed. There the Master Beinsa Douno led inspirational meetings of magnificent Sunrises and gave many enlightening lectures. Since then the Prayer Summit became the magnetic centre of the Teaching and the Cause of the Master in the spiritual life of the Brotherhood.
In accordance with the concept of the Sacred Mountain the Prayer Summit is one of the highest summits in the Spiritual Himalayas. On the Prayer Summit the Master mystically opened the Eastern Universal Gate of the Heavenly Jerusalem, that of the Cosmic-spiritual Spring in the life of humankind; on the Prayer Summit the participants in the Brotherhood meet the rising Sun of the New Epoch of the Holy Spirit and the coming New Solar Culture; there they experience the great mystical depths of the Divine Teaching and Cause of the Master.
I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to meet many Sunrises from the Prayer Summit. There is something deeply emotional and magical to go there before the Sunrise, to remain silently among friends in deep reflection and meditation and to await the first ray of the Sun. Then, when the Sun rises, to link with the Solar Logos, the Cosmic Christ and the World Teacher Beinsa Douno.
Every Sunrise is a unique spiritual event, but some of them are like mystical initiations into the Teaching and the Cause of the Master Beinsa Douno. In meeting these Sunrises I felt the Master Beinsa Douno as a Ray from the Cosmic-spiritual Sun at the Centre of the Universe who lights the whole Three-fold Structure of Creation (the earthly, the spiritual and the Divine worlds) and shines as a Cosmic Being in the image and likeness of God. In this way one can realise the glory, the majesty and the greatness of the World Teacher Beinsa Douno and appreciates his Three Perfect Bodies – the ethereal body, full of life, colours and spiritual presence, the celestial body of all human virtues and the highest universal body of Divine Love, Wisdom and Truth.
In these sacred moments I merged mystically with the Master and penetrated into the mystery of the Paneurhythmy, the Pentagram, the Testament of the Colour Rays of Light, his Living Word and Spiritual Music. By dissolving into the Perfect Bodies of the Master (in a similar way as our Lord Jesus Christ said “Remain in me and I will remain in you”) I received the initiation into the mystical depths of his Divine Teaching and Cause.
Sunrise from the Prayer Summit – Pepa Girginova
The Sacred Dance Paneurhythmy
When I joined the Brotherhood in 1972, I was doing my PhD in the philosophy of music in Moscow. Because of my musical background and intensive spiritual awakening I was chosen by the Master Beinsa Douno to bring his Teaching, especially the Paneurhythmy, to Russia. This was a very emotional and dramatic story. Here it is important to share some interesting aspects of this story which helped me over the years to penetrate deeply into the esoteric dimensions of the Paneurhythmy.
During my work on a PhD thesis I became very interested in the great Russian composer Scriabin and learned a lot about his musical ethos. The dream of Scriabin was to activate again the Orpheus principle in music. The legendary Orpheus was able to awaken human souls and spirits, to influence the weather and to tame the wild animals with his music. So, Scriabin had a monumental project for the spiritual transfiguration and enlightenment of human beings through music and dance. This special ritual dance-transfiguration had to take place in India, early in the morning, performed by people clothed in white, dancing and singing around a Hindu Temple. Scriabin planned to write the music and to develop the whole ritual so that the participants in it could undergo a transfiguration and enter into the blissful state of enlightenment. Unfortunately Scriabin wrote only the Preliminary Act to this Musical Mystery and was not able to complete the dream of his life.
Now we know well that the fundamental idea of spiritual transfiguration through sacred dance was realised by the World Teacher Beinsa Douno. For this purpose he created the sacred dance Paneurhythmy (high cosmic rhythm), in which he encoded the vibrations of spiritual awakening, resurrection and enlightenment.
I was blessed by the Divine Master Beinsa Douno not only to introduce his Teaching and Paneurhythmy to Russia, but also to enter deeply into the esoteric dimensions of his Teaching. It embraces all three worlds in the Universe and illuminates the Tree of Life in Creation. In spiritual contact with the Master and mystically guided by him, I appreciated the Paneurhythmy, the Pentagram and the Testament of the Colour Rays of Light as blossoming Trees of Life.
For instance, the sacred dance Paneurhythmy is like a new type of spiritual practice for the epoch of Aquarius. It is a gate which leads us to the reality of the Kingdom of God and integrates within itself Divine Music, Colour Rays of Light and Sacred Words. The energy of the new Solar Culture and of the Sixth Race of Light is encoded in the Paneurhythmy. When it is performed with deep understanding and mystical appreciation, the Paneurhythmy becomes a sacred spiritual action and activates the Tree of Life: its roots are in the earthly world; the trunk grows in the celestial world and the crown blossoms and gives fruits in the Highest Divine World. And in a similar way as "the leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations" (Revelation 22:2), the Paneurhythmy brings the energy for the purification, rejuvenation and illumination of humankind and of the whole Earth. Over the recent years we have had many inspiring performances of the Paneurhythmy as a blossoming Tree of Life (especially July 15, 2002) and this brings the Paneurhythmy to a new metaphysical planetary level in accordance with the Divine purpose of the Master. Now we could well understand Scriabin's dream of a musical mystery which could transform the people and the world.
The Pentagram
The sacred dance Paneurhythmy concludes with a series of movements called the Pentagram - a symbol of the cosmic-spiritual Being. The Pentagram has to be performed in such a way that the participants experience the essence of the human being as a Being "created in the image and likeness of God". This is the human being who "has a heart as pure as a crystal, a mind as bright as the Sun, a soul as vast as the Universe and a spirit as powerful as God and one with God". (Formula for the disciple given by the Master Beinsa Douno).
Paneurhythmy, the Pentagram – Pepa Girginova
All the Divine Masters and the personifications of the Divine Feminine are inspiring images of this Cosmic Being. In 1910 the Master Beinsa Douno revealed the mystery of the Pentagram as a magical figure through which, with the help of symbols and pictures, he depicted the evolution of the human being from ordinary earthly consciousness through the process of the blossoming of the human soul up to the awakening of the Higher Divine Self and merging with God. Thus the Pentagram presents in symbolic form the essence of the Human Being as the "crown of Creation".
The Master blessed us to experience the third part of the Paneurhythmy, the Pentagram, as the living energy of the cosmic-spiritual Being. Moreover, he revealed to me the whole mystery of the Pentagram as the symbol of the Cosmic Being, with its Outer Part (the Five lessons in the life of the ordinary human being), the Inner Part (the Five steps on the Path of the Disciple) and the Centre – the greatest trials and achievements on the Path of the Initiate. Many years ago I received the blessing from the Master to reveal the deep esoteric meaning of the Centre of the Pentagram. Now one of my main tasks is to introduce and to develop the Path of the Initiate, which makes the Human Being a blossoming Tree of Life.
The Testament of the Colour Rays of Light
The Master Beinsa Douno also blessed humankind with a very special and sacred book - The Testament of the Colour Rays of Light. In this book he selected verses from the Bible, which God Himself addressed to the prophets or spoke through Jesus Christ, and linked them to colour rays of Light, human virtues and Divine attributes. The book reveals the secret of the Human Being in the manifested universe - beginning with birth from God as a Divine spark, continuing through the conscious spiritual path as a disciple, until final mergence with Him. The book also contains esoteric keys to the Initiations of the epoch of the Old Testament, the epoch of the New Testament and the coming epoch of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the energies of the whole Messianic plan and the development of the human being as a Divine Tree of Life are encoded in this sacred book.
Here it is interesting to mention that in 1974 the leader of the Brotherhood, Brother Boris Nikolov, gave me the personal copy of the Testament of the Colour Rays of Light, which belonged to the late Brother Boyan Boev. This Brother was one of the most advanced spiritual disciples of the Master and received the book personally from the Master. I spent many hours and days with this book and it became for me a living "umbilical cord" of connection with Brother Boris Nikolov, Brother Boyan Boev and the Master Beinsa Douno himself. Because of this personal relationship, the book revealed to me many of its deeply hidden secrets. Now I consider the Testament of the Colour Rays of Light as one of the most sacred books in the spiritual history of humankind, which gives the keys to the essence of the Human Being as the blossoming Tree of Life in Creation.
The Common Cause
I am deeply thankful to the Brothers and Sisters in the Universal White Brotherhood in Bulgaria for their devoted work over the years. Without them I would not have had the blessing to link with the World Teacher Beinsa Douno and to receive the torch from him. Now, however, we could work joyfully together for the realisation of the Messianic Plan in our time. The people in the Brotherhood have the task to grow up as spiritual disciples in the aura of the Master and to spread his Divine Teaching all over the world, thus keeping the Eastern Universal Gate of the Heavenly Jerusalem always opened. I have the task to deepen the esoteric dimensions of the Teaching of the Master and to bring it to a realisation by opening the last gate, the Southern, Universal Gate of the Heavenly Jerusalem. For this purpose we have to experience the Presence of Christ, the World Teacher Beinsa Douno, and many other Divine Masters and Personifications of the Divine Feminine, so that "the gates of the city will stand open all day" (Revelation 21: 25). It would be a great joy, if, on the one hand, we merge together in the cosmic aura of our beloved Master Beinsa Douno and, on the other hand, with the disciples who are prepared and willing, we enter into the Holy City through the Southern Universal Gate, merging with many other Divine Masters and Personifications of the Divine Feminine as well.
Now, in retrospect, I could say that the World Teacher Beinsa Douno blessed me to reveal his new Manifestation on the ethereal level (as is the case with the Second Coming of Christ) and gave me the torch to continue his Divine Mission on Earth. My mission is to deepen the esoteric dimensions of the Teaching of the Master and to open the last Gate of the Heavenly Jerusalem (the Southern Universal Gate), which concludes the whole Indo-European Cycle and introduces humankind to the new cycle of existence in the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth. There the Path of the Disciple will be transformed into the Path of the Initiate and the spiritual community from Brotherhood will become Cosmic-spiritual Friendship.
