The following excerpt is from the Introduction to the White Brotherhood Teachings at the White Brotherhood Society. It was founded in 1897 by Peter Deunov who was called Master and took the spiritual name of Biensa Douna. The teachings are very popular in Bulgaria and spread throughout Europe. The history is interesting, inspiring and Im grateful to have been introduced to Biensa Douna by BhaJan. I like the simplicity and clarity. The New Teaching brings a fresh breath of air in the subjective moral field. One’s vocation is to get to know and to come to love for oneself – both one’s power and dignity, and also the weaknesses, illnesses, mistakes. As long as one fears or despises them, one relates to them inevitably. After one comes to love them, one understands and transforms them into virtues. The suffering is a task that should be performed rightly. Being alien to the Victorian moralizing spirit, the New Teaching introduces a natural measure and a sober-minded attitude towards life. It overcomes the dualism of the widespread notion of good and evil. The evil is a servant to the good and a part of the unified global organism. The evil functions as a cleaning installation for the whole life – as long as impurity exists, the evil will be necessary for the sake of the Whole. That’s why the mechanical rejection could not improve the situation, but only the judicious and wise attitude. The truth – the aim of all that breathes – is able to reconcile all contradictions. If there is something, which is not allowed explicitly in the New Teaching, that’s namely the lie and delusion. The five universal virtues – Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice and Virtue – are placed as stairs on the path to the human soul, waiting to be climbed. Poverty and wealth are circumstances for the development of human soul – they are equally good. But the real wealth is within us, it is not outside at all. Sure enough – Do we not see nowadays more than ever the deficiency and discontent of the business carrier? Do we not feel the absurdity of a life which binds us to the work place in 80% of our time? Within the scope of the aesthetic, the New Teaching announces its definite positions. The beauty is an expression of the Divine harmony, a connection with the Divine world. The arts are, in general, an expression of impulses that come from sublime and light beings. The beautiful is necessary for life to feed the human soul, which would be able to develop rightly in this way. To a great extend, the human life could be made worthwhile through the different kinds of arts. The creative work – closely connected with the world of beauty – is a divine blessing. The new teaching works for the development of the supreme origin in the human being. It does not tolerate the way the workaholic is absorbed nowadays into the working background. Its aim is to liberate the powers of the consciousness for constructive, creative purposes.
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