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Truth, Love, Wisdom

Peter Deunov speaks of these three - Truth, Love, and Wisdom - as the three principles in which the healing of the world takes place.

These three can only ever manifest together within the human being: as soon as one of these becomes a guiding principle, there, attendant, are the flowerings of the other two.

Rudolf Steiner likewise speaks of the threefold aspect of the human being in which the Limbs, the Heart and the Head are expressions of these three forces. These three, though symbolically located in the regions mentioned, interweave through the whole being and embody Will, Feeling and Thinking.

As an example, thinking is only present with the forces of will and feeling, though we may decide to extract a particular aspect (in this case thinking) for discussion or reflection. The activity of thinking nonetheless involves and includes the will and feeling.

The light of Wisdom weaves itself throughout the space of thinking, willing and feeling, yet can be seen to more readily reflect the capacity of thinking in the head; the freedom generated by truth weaves itself through each three, yet can be seen through the forces of the will in hte limbs; and the flow and glow of love again weaves through the three faculties, yet can be seen as dominantly characterised by the feeling heart.

In Peter Deunov’s offerings, these also give rise to two teachings that have their mirror in the teachings of Rudolf Steiner: on the one hand the development of the inner person, developing character, virtue, and the capacity to act at all times according the merits presented by the specific individual ethical circumstances at hand; on the other hand to develop an understanding of ourselves in and of the world at large - transcend the current horizon of understanding through unveiling and unfurling our own worldview ever mindful of the world’s own unveiling - a development of (as John Deely would call these) our Innenwelt and our Umwelt.

Truth, Love, Wisdom. These are also the keys of the heights of, respectively, the three transcendentals (the True, the Good and the Beautiful); the three theological virtues (Love, Faith and Hope); and the four cardinal virtues (Wisdom, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude).

There encapsulated, Peter Deunov captures the highest development of human consciousness and philosophical understanding in highlighting these: Truth, Love, and Wisdom…

‘We teach the Christ of Love, which supports and fills every heart; we teach the Christ of Wisdom, which illuminates every mind; we teach the Christ of Truth, which liberates and elevates the world.
In these three principles lies the salvation of the world.’

Peter Deunov