The Teacher, Volume 1

Peter Deunov (1864-1944), who is also known as Beinsa Douno, was a spiritual teacher in Bulgaria. He said that a new epoch has begun in which human beings will come to live in love and freedom. His mission was to prepare us for this new life. To those who followed him he was simply 'the Teacher'. Using simple language, he taught profound and practical Christianity, guiding his disciples to establish direct contact with the Spirit, and holding that true knowledge is only that which is personally tested and verified. After he passed away, his teaching was suppressed for forty-five years, during the communist rule in Bulgaria. With the arrival of democracy in 1989 his voice began to emerge from obscurity. While Peter Deunov again became a known figure in his homeland, he remained almost invisible to the wider world. Gradually this began to change, and in recent years there has been a growing international recognition of the value of his work. The Teacher encouraged his disciples to think of themselves as brothers and sisters, and he worked for the idea of Brotherhood to inform all levels of human relations, from the personal to that between nations. As part of this process, he developed the Paneurhythmy, a communal dance set to music to promote social harmony, spiritual development, energetic balance and physical health. According to Peter Deunov, the inner side of all religions is the same, there being one great truth, that of the relationship between the human soul and God. This edition presents the lectures of the Teacher, Peter Deunov, Beinsa Douno, along with relevant passages from the Bible, in a suitable form for readers of the English language.