Petar Danov

Petar Danov

Petar Konstantinov Danow ( Bulgarian Петър Константинов Дънов * 11. July 1864 in Hadarscha today Nikolaewka at Varna in Bulgaria ; † 27. December 1944 in Sofia ) was under the name Beinsa Duno a Bulgarian spiritual teacher and founder of the occult - religious community Universal White brotherhood .

Life

Danow was the third child of the Orthodox priest Konstantin Danowski (1830-1918) and his wife Dobra Georgiewa. His maternal grandfather, Atanas Georgiev (1805-1865), was a Bulgarian enlightenment who campaigned for the independence of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church .

From 1872 he attended the Bulgarian primary school in Hadarscha. After the liberation of Bulgaria, he completed the five-year Bulgarian high school for men in Varna , then the US Methodist school in Swishtov . From the fall of 1887 he was a teacher at the school in Chotanza in what is now Rousse District for a year .

From 1888 to 1895 he studied at the Methodist Theological Academy in Madison (New Jersey) and finished his studies in May 1892. In the fall of 1892 he enrolled at the Methodist seminary at Boston University and completed his theological studies in June 1893 with a thesis about "The migration of the Germanic tribes and their Christianization". For a year he was a regular student at the School of Medicine at Boston University. During his seven-year stay in the United States, he came into contact with the local occult societies of the Theosophists and Rosicrucians .

In 1895 he returned to Bulgaria and settled in Varna, but refused the offered position of Methodist priest. In 1896 he published his first book "Science and Education", which presented his basic philosophical ideas. In 1896 he and Petko Wojwoda founded a cultural center in Varna, where he worked as a librarian and gave his first lectures. From 1897 he worked as a spiritual teacher under the name Beinsa Douno ; He met his first pupils that year and then founded the Society for the Elevation of the Religious Spirit of the Bulgarian People , which was later renamed Synarchical Chain ( The Chain for short ) and in 1919 Universal White Brotherhood (UWB). From 1900 to 1944 he headed the annual meetings of the UWB in different locations.

From 1901 to 1912 Danow traveled to various cities in Bulgaria and dealt with phrenological studies; During this time he also began to give public lectures. In 1912 he settled in the village of Arbanassi , near Veliko Tarnovo , where he wrote “The Testament of the Colored Rays of Light”, which was published in September of the same year. On March 16, 1914, he gave the first officially co- stenographed Sunday lecture in Sofia with the title Hier ist der Mensch , which appeared in the series “Strength and Life”. In the lectures of this series he set out the basic principles of his teaching. In 1917 he was interned for casting doubt on the spirit of the soldiers at the front. After the end of the war, the number of his Bulgarian students grew to around 40,000 in the 1930s.

On February 24, 1922, he opened an esoteric school within the UWB in Sofia . The lectures to the two school classes - the "general" and the "special occult class" - were held weekly until December 1944. Within the occult school he composed over 190 spiritual songs. In 1927 he founded the Isgrew settlement on the outskirts of Sofia to concentrate his work in the school.

In the summer of 1929 he carried out the first summer camp at the Seven Rila Lakes . On September 21, 1930, he opened a new series of lectures, which he called "Sunday Morning Lectures" and held until April 1944. From 1934 he began to work with the spiritual dance Paneurhythmie , which consists of three parts and 30 forms of movement with melody and text. The creative process ended in 1941.

During the air raids on Sofia in early 1944, Petar Danov organized the escape of the residents of Isgrew to Martschajewo , a village 24 kilometers southwest of Sofia. There he settled in the house of his student Temelko Temelkov - now a museum.

He returned to Isgrew on October 19, 1944. On December 20, 1944, he gave the lecture The Last Word to the “General Occult Class” . He died on December 27, 1944 in Isgrew, where he was buried. His grave has been preserved to this day.

Works in German

Danow presented his teaching in around 4,000 lectures between 1914 and 1944. The German translation has been published:

• The master speaks. The word of the high universal brotherhood . Reichl, Remagen 1970; 2. A. ibid. 2000, ISBN 3-87667-025-X
• The word of the master Beinsa Duno . Hueber, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-19-007220-5
• So that they have life . Alfiola, Varna 1994, ISBN 954-8139-09-X
• Strength and life . Heliopol, Sofia 1997, ISBN 954-578-047-9
• The three pillars of life . Oratio, Schaffhausen 2002, ISBN 3-7214-1002-5
• The testament of the colored rays of light . Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia 2010, ISBN 978-954-744-130-9
• Paneurhythmy . Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia 2007, ISBN 978-954-744-079-1
• The high ideal . Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia 2003, ISBN 954-744-040-3
• The glory of life . Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia 2007, ISBN 978-954-744-078-4
• Peter Danow: The migration of the Teutonic tribes and their conversion to Christianity . Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2007, ISBN 978-954-744-086-9
• Clues of Life , Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2015 978-954-744-263-4
• Science and education , Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2016, ISBN 978-954-744-254-2
• Prayer book , Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2015, ISBN 978-954-744-273-3
• The pentagram , Bjalo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2015, ISBN 978-954-744-267-2

literature

• Thomas Heinzel: White Brotherhood and Delphic Idea. Esoteric religiosity in Bulgaria and Greece in the first half of the 20th century. (Erfurt Studies on the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity, Vol. 9) Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Petăr K. Dănov in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the UWB website
• Universal White Brotherhood The official website of the UWB
• Petar Danov Library Library with lectures by Petar Danov
• Website about Petar Danov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Danow: The migration of the Teutonic tribes and their conversion to christianity. Bialo Bratstvo, Sofia, 2007
2. ↑ Biography of Peter Danow ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Peter Danow: The testament of the colored rays of light. Bialo Bratstvo, Sofia. 2010
4. ↑ Thomas Heinzel, 2015, p. 54