Miracles Do Happen

My spiritual and mystical work in Ireland would not have been possible without the very generous and selfless help from the Irish Friends. For many of them I wrote in my autobiographical book On the Path of Enlightenment, but in this article, I would like to share an amazing story, connected with J. C. who played a pivotal role in our Mission. Today, January 28, he has a Birthday Jubilee and may God and the Divine Mother bless him and his wonderful family with Peace, Love, Health, Joy, Happiness and Success!

In the summer of 1996, Jerry, a very close friend and supporter, offered to provide good rented premises where I, with the help of Bernadette, could establish a spiritual centre and have gatherings and seminars. We looked at a few houses but we did not find a suitable one. When in the autumn we told him the results of our search, he said: I will have to buy a house then! Within a short time, he gave us two addresses to look at. We chose one of the houses and it became the spiritual centre. Definitely this was the Will of the Invisible World!

Our friend bought the house and organised a big renovation in order to make it suitable for gatherings and for the unfolding of the Mission. The work on the house continued for some time and on September 26, 1997 we started the spiritual work there!

It took a few months to complete the house and to develop it into the ‘Divine Rainbow Centre’! This was not all! My dear friend and heaven-sent benefactor was kind enough to sponsor my stay in Ireland because he believed that my spiritual work was of great importance and that I should be free from financial concerns in order to focus completely on the work. Even now I cannot find enough words to express my deep gratitude for the great generosity, the deep friendship and the spiritual goodness of this precious friend. I can only say: Miracles do happen and may God bless him and all his family abundantly!

The new house provided good possibilities for the unfolding of the Mission. We moved our core-group meetings to the house and started planning how and where to develop the Mission. Soon, after the publication of the book The Second Coming in Bulgarian (in 1998) the answer came: the new house in Ireland had to become the ‘headquarters’, while the ‘front line’ would be in Bulgaria. Actually, this is what happened: with this friend and benefactor, we continued to meet almost on the weekly basis and discuss many strategic topics reflecting the unfolding of the Mission in Bulgaria, in Ireland and in other countries.

With the close friends in Ireland we started our weekly gatherings in the National Gallery. The gatherings were open and almost every week we had interesting guests around the table. I looked forward to our weekly gatherings with joy and enthusiasm. The cafe in the National Gallery of Ireland was comfortable, clean, with a lot of light and provided a very artistic atmosphere for the meetings. We enjoyed the conversations about life, the arts, philosophy and, of course, living spirituality. The main themes were the spiritual ideas and the development of my manuscript of the book The Second Coming.

These friends in general, and Jerry in particular, were very interested in my understanding of living spirituality, of the state of contemporary religion and philosophy, of the coming new spiritual reality. Some of my key ideas, which later entered into the Conclusion of the published book were as follows:

In the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth the conceptions and original Teachings of the existing world religions will become a living experience - we will move from intellectual reflections and occasional communions with God through the Divine Masters to a life in the reality of the Kingdom of God. We can compare this shift in the life of humankind with the opposite shift which occurred in the time of Plato. One of the greatest initiates and philosophers of his time, Plato translated the mythological reality of the ancient Greek mysteries into the language of philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, gnoseology and so on. In other words, he took the living practice of the mysteries, and while keeping something of their essence, presented them transformed into intellectual conceptions. It is not surprising then, that he compared the life of human beings to life at the bottom of a cave where the dazzling light of the higher world of Divine ideas comes through only as shadows.

Now humankind will move in the opposite direction: from the abstract reality of philosophy, ideology, religion, ethics, aesthetics, etc., back to the reality of living mysteries, a movement which will be initiated by the new creative impulse of the Living God. So, if Plato translated the Greek mythology into the language of philosophy and ideology, now humankind has to move from the reality of contemporary philosophy, ideology and religion to the new living mythology of the Heavenly Jerusalem civilisation which integrates the mysteries of all spiritual traditions. Thus, humankind will ascend from the 'bottom of the cave' to the transcendental world of Divine ideas.

With the ascent of human consciousness to the reality of the new living mythology, the two main streams of time - the historical, as a chain of actual events, and the mythological, as an expectancy of the return to the Kingdom of God, will merge. The myths and prophecies about the Second Coming will become actual spiritual events, while the sacred books and prophecies will provide plans and scenarios for action (as we saw, for example, with the Book of Revelation). In the light of the Second Coming consciousness the mythologies in all spiritual traditions will be activated and will introduce us to an immense field of spiritual work.

Now in earthly existence human beings have to work very constructively within the socio-cultural structures in all areas of life in order to survive and maintain materially. When humanity enters into the reality of the Kingdom of God, just as it now works in the material world, it will work very constructively in the spiritual world as well. There the tasks are enormous indeed: to transform our lives, to embark on the Nine-Fold Rainbow Path, to heal, purify and illuminate the Earth, to transform the earthly culture into a celestial culture, to participate in the Divine services in Heaven, and so forth. In the new Epoch of the Holy Spirit a critical mass has to be reached and there will be a paradigm shift to a new way of Being!

Around these spiritual, religious and philosophical ideas we had very interesting and vivid discussions. Naturally they blended with many events in our daily lives and in the world. Above I gave only one example, but of course our themes for discussions were much more diverse and comprehensive. Altogether, a new spiritual paradigm was forming.

When the manuscript of my book was more or less completed, our gatherings became focused on the process of finalising the text, editing and preparing it for publication. This was a big endeavour and was full of interesting and exciting moments. A few of them are still very vivid in my mind. I was giving some of the chapters of my book to Jerry for reading and for a friendly opinion. One of them was the Mandala of the Heavenly Jerusalem. At the next gathering Jerry came with a flowering pot plant and said: Leon, the material is wonderful and deserves appreciation. Of course, I and Bernadette, who edited the material, were very happy.

When the manuscript was ready for publication, the friends took care of the editing, correcting, financial support, book launch and distribution. Truly there are no words to thank them enough!

The house, which Jerry built as our