David Lorimer - Prophet for Our Times: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov

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Text David Lorimer, 2015

Previously published by Element, 1991 (ISBN: 1-85230-211-9)

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You are holding in your hands a book that I love, written by a Master whom I revere. I am honoured to say a few words in this collection of sayings and writings by the esteemed Peter Deunov in the English language.

To me, Peter Deunov, also known by his spiritual name Beinsa Douno, ranks as one of the greatest and most influential spiritual teachers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I remember reading a quote by the eminent scientist Albert Einstein that prompted me to look into the life and teachings of this man, of whom Id had no previous knowledge or awareness:

The whole world bows down before me; I bow down before the Master Peter Deunov.

As I began to investigate the teachings of this man, I was exposed to a new way of looking at life, one in which the highest principle was something that Deunov called Divine Love. The more I studied the life of this man and his lifetime commitment to creating a world that lived by spiritual precepts and laws, the more I began to realize that this great man, who died when I was only four years of age, and who was born in 1864 while the American civil war raged on, was having a huge impact on my own life and teachings. I found his teaching slipping into my writing, my lectures all over the world and particularly in my own personal life as well.

Peter Deunov explained to me via his translated lectures that there are three kinds of love.

The first he called Human Love, that is, a love that changes and varies:

I love you when you please me, and I hate you when you disappoint me.

My love for you is strong and unquestioned this morning, but it fades as the day progresses depending on how I feel and the circumstances surrounding us.

The second kind of love that Deunov spoke of he called Spiritual Love, that is, a love that varies, but never changes. This is the kind of love often reserved for our immediate family members, especially our children and parents:

It doesnt matter how much you disappoint me, my love for you is eternal and changeless.

My love for you, eternal though it may be, can be hot and cold, again oftentimes dependent upon how you are behaving today, or how I am feeling.

But the essence of the teachings of Peter Deunov are in his third category of love, that he called Divine Love. This is a love that never changes and never varies.

This is the kind of love that our source of being has for us. This is the kind of love I am committed to cultivating within myself and all of my teachings as well.

For many years I have given the example of the Orange asking my audiences to imagine what happens when you squeeze an orange as hard as possible, and enquiring what will come out. The answer of course is that the only thing that can come out of an orange is orange juice, because thats whats inside. It doesnt matter who does the squeezing, what the circumstances might be or anything else; when you squeeze an orange you get whats inside.

Then, I would ask my audience to see the metaphor here and become the orange. If someone squeezes you, that is, puts pressure on you, or behaves rudely to you or is outright angry towards you, what is it that comes out? It doesnt matter who does the squeezing or what the circumstances might be, you get whats inside. If there is anger, resentment, fear, hatred, stress or anything else inside, that is what will come out, and it has nothing to do with who does the squeezing, just like with the orange.

Peter Deunov suggests that when we get to the stage of Divine Love, and that is all that we have inside of us, that is what will be on display. This is the kind of Love that great spiritual masters not only speak about, but that they live at all times a love that never varies and never changes. It was in the reading of this mans lifetime of spiritual instruction that I began to live each day from the perspective of the orange, that is, to be free of blame, judgment, criticism and condemnation towards any of Gods children.

Deunov spoke passionately about the need to create a new man for a world desperately in need of transformation. This is how he described this phenomenon: The new man who is now being created I call the man of light. Wherever he goes he illuminates things with the light he radiates The new man is sustained only by positive thoughts and feelings. He lives in joy He is the man of Truth and Freedom who has found himself His consciousness transcends the limits of the family, of the nation, even of humanity. He considers himself a citizen of the boundless Universe. The new man and the new world are being born. Tomorrow belongs to them.

I pride myself in my efforts to live and teach as this new man. When I was just a child living in foster homes in America, Peter Deunov put his own unique spiritual understandings to work in a very practical way by playing a very critical role in saving the Bulgarian Jews from deportation by using his spiritual intuition, as David Lorimer explains in his .

The teachings of Peter Deunov are based on three main principles. Divine Wisdom, Divine Truth and especially Divine Love. He felt that the the True Master, the Messenger of God, is sent to Earth with a special mission. He is to reveal the Truth to humanity. Only he who has no violence in him can be a true Master in the world. He is strong but he never preaches violence.

I am so blessed that I have come to be familiar with the life and teachings of this Master who was so influential in teaching the world about a spiritual Renaissance, about a grand idea whose time is coming and cannot be stopped. I have heard many great teachers speak to the idea that the only thing that is real, is that which never changes. These bodies we occupy and the entire physical universe is in a perpetual state of change, yet there is something within each of us that is infinite. Robert Frost put it this way: