Spiritual Transformation of the Human Being

The Human Being as a Tree of Life

The Human Being is created in the image and likeness of God. This means that he or she could live in the whole three-fold structure of the Universe simultaneously with a purified physical body and personality on Earth, with a blossoming soul in the celestial world and with an awakened Higher Self in the highest Divine world. For this purpose the human beings have to develop their bodies (physical, etheric, astral, causal, buddhic and atmic), contained in everyone in seed form. The essence of human evolution is the development of these bodies so that human beings may become beloved Sons and Daughters of God with hearts as pure as crystal, minds as bright as the Sun, Souls as vast as the Universe and Spirits as powerful as God and one with God (spiritual formula given by the Bulgarian Master Beinsa Douno).

In order to develop their spiritual bodies the human being has to undergo spiritual transformations - one after another. In a similar way as the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, so the human being becomes a cosmic-spiritual entity, able to fly with his or her spirit all over Creation. It is a long and difficult journey, taking many lifetimes, but it is predestined by God and the outcome is glorious!

I could present the development of the spiritual bodies of the human being and the subsequent transformations in schematic form. From the perspective of the colossal three-fold structure of the Universe depicted in Scheme 1, we live on Earth with physical, etheric, emotional, intellectual and will bodies, integrated by our ego-personality. To ascend to the celestial world (the second in the three-fold structure of the Universe) we have to embark on the spiritual path and enter into the Spiritual School of the Soul:

Scheme 1

To ascend to the celestial world, we have to purify our physical-etheric body and to develop our higher intellectual, emotional and will bodies. This process is well known in all world religions. As an example I could mention the practice of Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Raja Yoga in the Hindu tradition. When we purify our physical-etheric body, and develop the higher intellectual, emotional and will bodies, our ennobled ego-personality is able to give birth to our astral body – the Soul! Thus from ennobled ego-personalities we become living souls. At this stage we ‘complete’ the Spiritual School of the Soul and have the possibility to prepare ourselves for the Mystery School of the Spirit (essential for the highest third world of the three-fold structure of the Universe).

For the ascension to the Highest Divine World we have to illuminate our physical-etheric body and to transform our high intellectual, emotional and will bodies into bodies of Divine Wisdom, Truth and Love. With this transformation we enter into the Highest Divine

World and develop our causal body – the Divine Spirit within us! There we awaken our Higher Divine Self and merge with the Origin of Being. When we ‘complete’ our Mystery School of the Spirit and dissolve into the Absolute Origin of Being, we become co-creators with God.

Above the three-fold structure of the Universe is God the Absolute, the Primal Cause, the Origin of Being. In order to become co-creators with God, we have to develop our Buddhic and Atmic bodies (information about them is given in Chapters Five and Six). Then we realise our Divine potential and receive a mission on Earth. As you will see in the following mystical stories, this is a challenging process, but it is the purpose of human life on Earth and it is always a most inspiring spiritual journey.

When we develop all our spiritual bodies, we become self-realised Cosmic Beings, created in the image and likeness of God. In the world religions the vertical structure of Creation, the Axis Mundi, is considered as the Tree of Life. When we reach the point of self-realisation we become a micro-model of Creation, a Tree of Life, which stretches through the whole vertical structure of Creation. Then we live simultaneously on Earth with an ennobled ego-personality, in the Celestial World with a soul in full bloom and in the highest Divine World with an awakened Divine Self. In this high state of consciousness we can merge with the Absolute Origin of Being and become co-creators of God.

All human beings have the potential to grow as a Universal Tree of Life. This is the ultimate purpose of the great journey of our Spirits as sparks from the Living God. My metaphysical and mystical stories about the development of the spiritual bodies are examples of this journey. I would be very happy, dear reader, if you identify with one or another aspect of my journey and benefit from it.

The main theme of Part One, An Avatar of Synthesis, is my journey through the Mystery School of the Spirit. It is appropriate in this introduction to describe briefly some events in my Spiritual School of the Soul and the beginning of the Mystery School of the Spirit. Of course, I would like very much to start my Autobiography with the early years in my beloved family, then to include the interesting years of my study, first in the Musical Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, then in the Gnesin’s Academy of Music in Moscow, but this is an important and interesting subject for a possible volume of my Autobiography in the future. Then, a second possible volume of my Autobiography could be the detailed description of my journey in the Spiritual School of the Soul, full of interesting stories and events. Now, however, for the purpose of describing the development of my spiritual bodies on the Path of Enlightenment I have to concentrate on my journey in the Mystery School of the Spirit. Nevertheless very briefly I have to mention some main events leading to it.