About the Master Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno):

It is true that one can point out the Master Peter Deunov's external life, considering dates and major events in the life of an individuality in the hope of throwing light upon either his works or his character. Doing this, however, one somehow eludes the individuality itself, which cannot be fully contained in the facts of the outer life. Where then, is the Master to be sought? He can be discovered in his lectures, for there indeed are found the internal revelations of the life of a pure, exalted Spirit, who wholly dedicated himself to serve God and to teach and work among people, for their enlightenment and upliftment, preparing them to receive in the future the grace of the Holy Spirit and the perfect Light of the Truth. In the lectures, of which there are over 4000 extant, the Master bestowed upon humanity the True philosophy - the original Teaching of Jesus Christ given 2000 years ago. It is a philosophy unlike any other, for it has applications to life; and the results of this application are these: that one lives and abides in God. This is not something that can be spoken of, but lived and experienced. It is for this reason, when "words are mere stammerings, considering the subject matter", that Christophorus (the author and translator of this web-site) points to the Master's lectures - that one may from one's own experience perceive the Love, Wisdom and Truth of the Teaching of the Master Peter Deunov, thereby perceiving him, too.

About this web page:

The fundamental aim of this web page is to present in English translation the pure, unedited Word of the Master Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno). It may be known to some, and not to others, that many of the lectures of the Master exist in edited form. Indeed, editing procedures were applied even during the Master's lifetime - without his consent - and they consisted in modifying the Words of the Master, in removing diagrams, in changing whole sentences and other such alterations - to the detriment of the Word itself. Unfortunately, this has meant that many of the Master's lectures in the original Bulgarian are available only in modified form, even before translation. And then, of those lectures currently available in English, many are edited and modified yet again! Given that the Master's Word is not mere literature, the effects of this are disastrous. "However, no human judgment is competent to decide this, for no-one fully knows the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him, and the Judge of consciences, who alone knows the secrets of the heart." The action of editing, however, is disapproved by Christophorus.

So it is that many people are unaware of this editing, and they unbeguilingly read these modified lectures, which are most easily accessible through the internet, believing them to be authentic and to be pure. This web site aims to change this. In the last decade of the last century, effort was made by a certain group of people in Bulgaria to recover the authenticity of the Master's Word by collecting and publishing from what remains of the unedited records containing the Master's lectures. The lectures to be offered on this site are translated only from this corpus of authentic and unedited sources - published in the Bulgarian publishing house "Janua-98" and the volumes "Izgrevat" (by Vergilii Kreustev). The translations, furthermore, aspire to be scholarly, painstakingly accurate both in meaning and in words, and completely true to the Word of the Master.

About the translator and author of the web page:

The author and translator is named Christophorus.

In the ancient times, Christophorus was taken to mean someone who has achieved a certain level of initiation into the mysteries of the Cosmos, who, in a sense, bears Christ within himself and thus reflects Him, as the Moon reflects the Sun. The Word of the Master Peter Deunov is Light - the living Word of Christ. Christophorus is thus someone who reflects the Light in its pure form, who bears witness to the true Light, so "that all may believe through him" (Jn 1:7). He himself is "not the light, but came to bear witness to the light" (Jn 1:8).

About the format of the web page:

As a secondary aim, the web page wishes to enrich the reader with the manifestations of the Word - with Art, Poetry, Philosophy, Theology - so that the reader may leave this site a richer, better person, having filled themselves with both the true, pure Word, and its manifestations. In this way, the site itself becomes a living application of the Teaching of the Master Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno).

About contributing translations:

The author of the web page, Christophorus, is more than pleased to accept English translations from people all over the world, given that they comply with the aims of the web page stated above for purity, authenticity and scholarship. Please e-mail: christophorus@beinsa-douno.net