Deep and high in the Bulgarian Rila mountain a yearly ceremony is taking place to commemorate the passing of the summer season and beginning of White Brotherhood's new year on August 19. 🇧🇬

Every year several thousands members of the White Brotherhood gather to mark their New Year which falls on August, 19, as they follow the movement, founded by Bulgarian Petar Deunov, a synthesis of Christianity and Hinduism with a heavy emphasis on brotherly love, a healthy diet and living in harmony with nature.

The event organised by the White Brotherhood sect, also called Beinsa Duno. Founded by Petar Deunov, the sect's beliefs are based on a new interpretation of traditional Christian doctrines and man's interaction with the physical world. Worshippers also attribute spiritual powers to the mountain.As the sun rises on the mountain range, bleary eyed members of the sect begin their ceremonies by singing religious songs. Followers believe the mountains are a symbol of the Divine World.

The ceremony begins in full swing with all the members of the sect dressed in white meeting on a nearby plateau. Members of the White Brotherhood perform a sacred dance called Paneurhythmy, paying tribute to the movement of the planets and stars. Each dance has three main movements that signify the heavenly bodies. All the dances are accompanied by music with violins playing an important role in the ceremonies.

As the dancing comes to an end, the worshippers begin the journey back to their everyday lives. Summer ceremonies in the mountains have been taking place since 1929. Petar Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He lived July 1864 - December 1944.
The Master Petar Deunov is amongst the most famous personalities in Bulgarian history and spiritual culture. He is the adept of the involution and the evolution as a supreme and basic manifestation of the absolute, as a general law of universal life dominating everything. In his doctrine he follows also the main ideas of the karma and the reincarnation of souls. For him these are tested and indubitable truths of life. According to the Master existence is not accomplished with the so-called "material world" of tridimensional space. It manifests itself simultaneously in higher fields and worlds -- astral, mental, causal and so. The powers of each higher field, being thinner and more spiritual, penetrate the lower one and create an integrated existence, an integrated life of the universal spirit.

The main principles of the new Teaching are Love, Wisdom, Truth, Equity, and Virtue. As supreme cosmic forces, they operate in every mind. Even if this process is unconscious, it is most important for the individual. The five principles are graphically represented in the Pentagram, the symbol of human development, of the man who walks the path of self-perfection.

Paneurhythmy is a sacral dance, which combines in itself movement, music and text. The performers move in a round in couples and follow the rhythm of the melodies created for the occasion. We can find the significance of the dance in the etymology of the word Paneurhythmy -- universal cosmic rhythm. The total duration of Paneurhythmy is about 1 hour. An unlimited number of performers can take part in Paneurhythmy. The music is played on various instruments. Priority is given to the violin -- closest to human voice interpreter of the melody.

Paneurhythmy is played from March 22nd to September 22nd early in the morning, close to nature, as the days from August 19 till August 21 the most many people come to the Rila mountain to play the dance. There, pure air and light can freely penetrate the human body and vitalize it. Since the first days of spring to the end of summer the energies that operate in nature are positive.

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