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Paper 93
Machiventa Melchizedek
93:0.1 The Melchizedeks are widely known as emergency Sons,
for they engage in an amazing range of activities on the worlds
of a local universe. When any extraordinary problem arises,
or when something unusual is to be attempted, it is quite often
a Melchizedek who accepts the assignment. The ability of the
Melchizedek Sons to function in emergencies and on widely divergent
levels of the universe, even on the physical level of personality
manifestation, is peculiar to their order. Only the Life Carriers
share to any degree this metamorphic range of personality function.
93:0.2 The Melchizedek order of universe sonship has been exceedingly
active on Urantia. A corps of twelve served in conjunction with
the Life Carriers. A later corps of twelve became receivers
for your world shortly after the Caligastia secession and continued
in authority until the time of Adam and Eve. These twelve Melchizedeks
returned to Urantia upon the default of Adam and Eve, and they
continued thereafter as planetary receivers on down to the day
when Jesus of Nazareth, as the Son of Man, became the titular
Planetary Prince of Urantia.
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1. The Machiventa
Incarnation
93:1.1 Revealed truth was threatened with
extinction during the millenniums which followed the miscarriage
of the Adamic mission on Urantia. Though making progress intellectually,
the human races were slowly losing ground spiritually. About
3000 B.C. the concept of God had grown very hazy in the minds
of men.
93:1.2 The twelve Melchizedek receivers knew of Michael's impending
bestowal on their planet, but they did not know how soon it
would occur; therefore they convened in solemn council and petitioned
the Most Highs of Edentia that some provision be made for maintaining
the light of truth on Urantia. This plea was dismissed with
the mandate that "the conduct of affairs on 606 of Satania
is fully in the hands of the Melchizedek custodians." The
receivers then appealed to the Father Melchizedek for help but
only received word that they should continue to uphold truth
in the manner of their own election "until the arrival
of a bestowal Son," who "would rescue the planetary
titles from forfeiture and uncertainty."
93:1.3 And it was in consequence of having been thrown so completely
on their own resources that Machiventa Melchizedek, one of the
twelve planetary receivers, volunteered to do that which had
been done only six times in all the history of Nebadon: to personalize
on earth as a temporary man of the realm, to bestow himself
as an emergency Son of world ministry. Permission was granted
for this adventure by the Salvington authorities, and the actual
incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek was consummated near what
was to become the city of Salem, in Palestine. The entire transaction
of the materialization of this Melchizedek Son was completed
by the planetary receivers with the co-operation of the Life
Carriers, certain of the Master Physical Controllers, and other
celestial personalities resident on Urantia.
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2. The Sage
of Salem
93:2.1 It was 1,973 years before the birth
of Jesus that Machiventa was bestowed upon the human races of
Urantia. His coming was unspectacular; his materialization was
not witnessed by human eyes. He was first observed by mortal
man on that eventful day when he entered the tent of Amdon,
a Chaldean herder of Sumerian extraction. And the proclamation
of his mission was embodied in the simple statement which he
made to this shepherd, "I am Melchizedek, priest of El
Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God."
93:2.2 When the herder had recovered from his astonishment,
and after he had plied this stranger with many questions, he
asked Melchizedek to sup with him, and this was the first time
in his long universe career that Machiventa had partaken of
material food, the nourishment which was to sustain him throughout
his ninety-four years of life as a material being.
93:2.3 And that night, as they talked out under the stars, Melchizedek
began his mission of the revelation of the truth of the reality
of God when, with a sweep of his arm, he turned to Amdon, saying,
"El Elyon, the Most High, is the divine creator of the
stars of the firmament and even of this very earth on which
we live, and he is also the supreme God of heaven."
93:2.4 Within a few years Melchizedek had gathered around himself
a group of pupils, disciples, and believers who formed the nucleus
of the later community of Salem. He was soon known throughout
Palestine as the priest of El Elyon, the Most High, and as the
sage of Salem. Among some of the surrounding tribes he was often
referred to as the sheik, or king, of Salem. Salem was the site
which after the disappearance of Melchizedek became the city
of Jebus, subsequently being called Jerusalem.
93:2.5 In personal appearance, Melchizedek resembled the then
blended Nodite and Sumerian peoples, being almost six feet in
height and possessing a commanding presence. He spoke Chaldean
and a half dozen other languages. He dressed much as did the
Canaanite priests except that on his breast he wore an emblem
of three concentric circles, the Satania symbol of the Paradise
Trinity. In the course of his ministry this insignia of three
concentric circles became regarded as so sacred by his followers
that they never dared to use it, and it was soon forgotten with
the passing of a few generations.
93:2.6 Though Machiventa lived after the manner of the men of
the realm, he never married, nor could he have left offspring
on earth. His physical body, while resembling that of the human
male, was in reality on the order of those especially constructed
bodies used by the one hundred materialized members of Prince
Caligastia' s staff except that it did not carry the life plasm
of any human race. Nor was there available on Urantia the tree
of life. Had Machiventa remained for any long period on earth,
his physical mechanism would have gradually deteriorated; as
it was, he terminated his bestowal mission in ninety-four years
long before his material body had begun to disintegrate.
93:2.7 This incarnated Melchizedek received a Thought Adjuster,
who indwelt his superhuman personality as the monitor of time
and the mentor of the flesh, thus gaining that experience and
practical introduction to Urantian problems and to the technique
of indwelling an incarnated Son which enabled this spirit of
the Father to function so valiantly in the human mind of the
later Son of God, Michael, when he appeared on earth in the
likeness of mortal flesh. And this is the only Thought Adjuster
who ever functioned in two minds on Urantia, but both minds
were divine as well as human.
93:2.8 During the incarnation in the flesh, Machiventa was in
full contact with his eleven fellows of the corps of planetary
custodians, but he could not communicate with other orders of
celestial personalities. Aside from the Melchizedek receivers,
he had no more contact with superhuman intelligences than a
human being.
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93:3.3 (1016.5) ¼¼ µ¿½É¿øÀÇ »ó¡Àº ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÌ Àڽмö¿©ÀÇ Ç¥½Ã·Î äÅÃÇߴµ¥, ´ë´Ù¼öÀÇ »ç¶÷µéÀÌ
»ç¶÷¤ýõ»ç¤ýÇϳª´ÔÀÇ ¼¼ ¿Õ±¹À» ´ëÇ¥ÇÑ´Ù°í Ç®ÀÌÇß´Ù. ±×µéÀº ÀÌ ¹ÏÀ½À» °è¼Ó °¡Áöµµ·Ï Çã¶ôµÇ¾ú´Ù. ±×ÀÇ ÃßÁ¾ÀÚµé
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93:3.4 (1016.6) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº ¿¡µ§½Ã¾Æ ÃÖ°íÀÚ¡ªÀ¯¶õ½Ã¾ÆÀÇ ½Å¡ªµéÀÌ ´Ù½º¸°´Ù´Â »ç½ÇÀ» ³Ñ¾î¼, ÇÏÃþ
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93:3.5 (1016.7) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº īƮ·ÎÀÇ °¡Á·°ú ÇÔ²² 30³âÀÌ ³Ñµµ·Ï °°ÀÌ »ì¾Ò´Âµ¥, ±× °¡Á·ÀÇ ½Ä±¸µéÀº
ÀÌ »ó±Þ Áø¸®¸¦ ¸¹ÀÌ ¾Ë¾Ò°í, ±×µé °¡Á· ¾È¿¡¼ ¿À·§µ¿¾È, ¾Æ´Ï ±×µéÀÇ ¶Ù¾î³ ÈÄ¼Õ ¸ð¼¼ÀÇ ½ÃÀý±îÁöµµ, ±×
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93:3.6 (1016.8) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº ÃßÁ¾Àڵ鿡°Ô ±×µéÀÌ ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀÌ°í ¼ÒÈÇÒ ¸¸ÇÑ ´É·ÂÀÌ ÀÖ´Â ¸ðµç °ÍÀ» °¡¸£ÃÆ´Ù.
Çϴðú ¶¥¿¡ ´ëÇÏ¿©, »ç¶÷¤ýÇϳª´Ô¤ýõ»ç¿¡ °üÇÑ Çö´ëÀÇ ¸¹Àº Á¾±³ °ü³äÁ¶Â÷ ÀÌ ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÇ °¡¸£Ä§°ú ±×´ÙÁö ¸ÖÁö
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93:3.7 (1017.1) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº ¾î´À ¾Õ³¯¿¡ ¶Ç ´Ù¸¥ Çϳª´ÔÀÇ ¾ÆµéÀÌ ÀڱⰡ ¿Â °Íó·³ À°Ã¼¸¦ ÀÔ°í
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¼¿À» ÁÀ´Â¡± »çÁ¦, °ð ºÀ»çÀÚ¶ó°í ÁÖÀåÇÑ ±î´ßÀÌ´Ù.
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3. Melchizedek¡¯s Teachings
93:3.1 With the passing of a decade, Melchizedek
organized his schools at Salem, patterning them on the olden
system which had been developed by the early Sethite priests
of the second Eden. Even the idea of a tithing system, which
was introduced by his later convert Abraham, was also derived
from the lingering traditions of the methods of the ancient
Sethites.
93:3.2 Melchizedek taught the concept of one God, a universal
Deity, but he allowed the people to associate this teaching
with the Constellation Father of Norlatiadek, whom he termed
El Elyon¡ªthe Most High. Melchizedek remained all but silent
as to the status of Lucifer and the state of affairs on Jerusem.
Lanaforge, the System Sovereign, had little to do with Urantia
until after the completion of Michael's bestowal. To a majority
of the Salem students Edentia was heaven and the Most High was
God.
93:3.3 The symbol of the three concentric circles, which Melchizedek
adopted as the insignia of his bestowal, a majority of the people
interpreted as standing for the three kingdoms of men, angels,
and God. And they were allowed to continue in that belief; very
few of his followers ever knew that these three circles were
emblematic of the infinity, eternity, and universality of the
Paradise Trinity of divine maintenance and direction; even Abraham
rather regarded this symbol as standing for the three Most Highs
of Edentia, as he had been instructed that the three Most Highs
functioned as one. To the extent that Melchizedek taught the
Trinity concept symbolized in his insignia, he usually associated
it with the three Vorondadek rulers of the constellation of
Norlatiadek.
93:3.4 To the rank and file of his followers he made no effort
to present teaching beyond the fact of the rulership of the
Most Highs of Edentia-Gods of Urantia. But to some, Melchizedek
taught advanced truth, embracing the conduct and organization
of the local universe, while to his brilliant disciple Nordan
the Kenite and his band of earnest students he taught the truths
of the superuniverse and even of Havona.
93:3.5 The members of the family of Katro, with whom Melchizedek
lived for more than thirty years, knew many of these higher
truths and long perpetuated them in their family, even to the
days of their illustrious descendant Moses, who thus had a compelling
tradition of the days of Melchizedek handed down to him on this,
his father's side, as well as through other sources on his mother's
side.
93:3.6 Melchizedek taught his followers all they had capacity
to receive and assimilate. Even many modern religious ideas
about heaven and earth, of man, God, and angels, are not far
removed from these teachings of Melchizedek. But this great
teacher subordinated everything to the doctrine of one God,
a universe Deity, a heavenly Creator, a divine Father. Emphasis
was placed upon this teaching for the purpose of appealing to
man's adoration and of preparing the way for the subsequent
appearance of Michael as the Son of this same Universal Father.
93:3.7 Melchizedek taught that at some future time another Son
of God would come in the flesh as he had come, but that he would
be born of a woman; and that is why numerous later teachers
held that Jesus was a priest, or minister, "forever after
the order of Melchizedek."
93:3.8 And thus did Melchizedek prepare the way and set the
monotheistic stage of world tendency for the bestowal of an
actual Paradise Son of the one God, whom he so vividly portrayed
as the Father of all, and whom he represented to Abraham as
a God who would accept man on the simple terms of personal faith.
And Michael, when he appeared on earth, confirmed all that Melchizedek
had taught concerning the Paradise Father.
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4.
»ì·½ÀÇ Á¾±³
93:4.1 (1017.3) »ì·½ÀÇ ¿¹¹è ¿¹½ÄÀº ¹«Ã´ °£´ÜÇß´Ù. ¸á±â¼¼µ¦
±³È¸ÀÇ ÁøÈë ¼ÆÇ ¸íºÎ¿¡ ¼¸íÇϰųª Ç¥½ÃÇÑ »ç¶÷Àº ´©±¸³ª ´ÙÀ½ ½ÅÁ¶¸¦ ¿Ü¿ì°í µ¿ÀÇÇß´Ù:
93:4.2 (1017.4) 1. ³ª´Â ¿¤ ¿¤¸®¿æ, ÃÖ°íÀÚ Çϳª´Ô, ¸¸¹°ÀÇ À¯ÀÏÇÑ ¿ìÁÖ ¾Æ¹öÁö¿ä âÁ¶ÀÚ¸¦ ¹Ï´Â´Ù.
93:4.3 (1017.5) 2. Èñ»ý¹°°ú Å¿î Á¦¹°ÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó ³ªÀÇ ¹ÏÀ½À» º¸°í Çϳª´ÔÀÌ ÀºÃÑÀ» ³»¸°´Ù°í ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÌ
ÃÖ°íÀÚ¿Í ÇÑ ¾ð¾àÀ» ³ª´Â ¹Ï´Â´Ù.
93:4.4 (1017.6) 3. ³ª´Â ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÇ Àϰö °è¸í¿¡ º¹Á¾Çϰí, ÃÖ°íÀÚ¿Í ÀÌ·¸°Ô ¾à¼ÓÇß´Ù´Â º¹À½À»
¸ðµç »ç¶÷¿¡°Ô À̸¦ °ÍÀ» ¾à¼ÓÇÑ´Ù.
93:4.5 (1017.7) À̰ÍÀÌ »ì·½ ºÎ¶ôÀÇ ±³¸®ÀÇ ÀüºÎ¿´´Ù. ±×·¯³ª ±×·¸°Ô ª°íµµ ´Ü¼øÇÑ ¹ÏÀ½ÀÇ ¼±¾ðÁ¶Â÷
±× ½ÃÀýÀÇ »ç¶÷µé¿¡°Ô ³Ê¹« ¸¹°í ¾Õ¼± °ÍÀ̾ú´Ù. ±×µéÀº ´Ù¸¸ ¾Æ¹«°Íµµ ¹ÙÄ¡Áö ¾Ê°í¡ª¹ÏÀ½À¸·Î¡ª½ÅÀÇ ÀºÃÑÀ» ¾ò´Â´Ù´Â
°³³äÀ» ±ú´ÞÀ» ¼ö ¾ø¾ú´Ù. ±×µéÀº »ç¶÷ÀÌ ½Åµé¿¡°Ô ¹ú±ÝÀ» ¹°¾î¾ß ÇÒ ½Å¼¼¸¦ Ÿ°í³µ´Ù´Â ¹ÏÀ½À» ³Ê¹«³ª ±íÀÌ È®½ÅÇß´Ù.
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¾ð¾àÀ» ¹Ï°íÀÚ ÇÏ´Â ¸ðµç »ç¶÷¿¡°Ô °ÅÀú ÁÖ´Â ¼±¹°À̶ó´Â ÁÁÀº ¼Ò½ÄÀ» ÀÌÇØÇÒ ¼ö ¾ø¾ú´Ù. ±×·¯³ª ¾Æºê¶óÇÔÀº °Ç¼ºÀ¸·Î
¹Ï¾ú°í, ±×°ÍÁ¶Â÷ ¡°¿Ç°Ô ¿©±èÀ»¡± ¹Þ¾Ò´Ù.
93:4.6 (1017.8) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÌ ¼±Æ÷ÇÑ Ä¥°è¸íÀº ¿¾³¯ ´Þ¶ó¸¶½Ã¾Æ ÃÖ°í ¹ýÀÇ ¼ø¼¸¦ µû¶ó¼ ¸ð½ÀÀ» °®Ãß¾ú°í,
ù°¿Í µÑ° ¿¡µ§¿¡¼ °¡¸£Ä£ Ä¥°è¸í°ú ¹«Ã´ ºñ½ÁÇß´Ù. »ì·½ Á¾±³ÀÇ ÀÌ ¸í·ÉÀº ´ÙÀ½°ú °°¾Ò´Ù:
93:4.7 (1017.9) 1. ³ÊÈñ´Â Çϴðú ¶¥À» ÁöÀ¸½Å ÃÖ°í âÁ¶ÀÚ ¿Ü¿¡ ¾î¶² ½Åµµ ¼¶±âÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.8 (1017.10) 2. ¹ÏÀ½ÀÌ ¿µ¿øÇÑ ±¸¿øÀ» ¾ò´Â µ¥ À¯ÀÏÇÑ ¿ä±¸ Á¶°ÇÀÓÀ» ÀǽÉÇÏÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.9 (1017.11) 3. °ÅÁþ Áõ¾ðÇÏÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.10 (1017.12) 4. »ç¶÷À» Á×ÀÌÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.11 (1017.13) 5. ÈÉÄ¡Áö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.12 (1018.1) 6. °£À½ÇÏÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.13 (1018.2) 7. ³ÊÈñ ºÎ¸ð¿Í Àå·Îµé¿¡°Ô ºÒ°æÇÔÀ» º¸ÀÌÁö ¸»¶ó.
93:4.14 (1018.3) ¾î¶² Èñ»ý¹°À» ¹ÙÄ¡´Â °Íµµ ±× ºÎ¶ô ¾È¿¡¼ Çã¶ôµÇÁö ¾Ê¾ÒÁö¸¸, ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº ¿À·§µ¿¾È
ÁöÄÑ ¿Â °ü½ÀÀ» °©Àڱ⠻Ѹ®»Ì±â°¡ ¾ó¸¶³ª ¾î·Á¿î°¡ Àß ¾Ë¾Ò°í, µû¶ó¼ °í±â¿Í ÇǸ¦ ¹ÙÄ¡´Â ¿¹ÀüÀÇ Á¦»ç°¡ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó
»§°ú Æ÷µµÁÖÀÇ ¼ºÂùÀ¸·Î ´ë½ÅÇ϶ó°í ÀÌ »ç¶÷µé¿¡°Ô ÁöÇý·Ó°Ô Á¦¾ÈÇÏ¿´´Ù. ¡°»ì·½ÀÇ ¿Õ ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº »§°ú Æ÷µµÁÖ¸¦
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±³¿Ü¿¡¼ º¸Á¶ Á߽ɵéÀ» À¯ÁöÇß°í, °Å±â¼ Èñ»ý¹°°ú Å¿î Á¦¹°À» ¹ÙÃÆ´Ù. Äɵµ¶ó¿À¸Ó¿¡°Ô ½Â¸®ÇÑ µÚ¿¡, ¾Æºê¶óÇÔµµ
ÀÌ ¹Ì°³ÇÑ Ç³½À¿¡ ÀÇÁ¸ÇÏ¿´´Ù. ±×´Â ÀüÅëÀû Èñ»ý¹°À» ¹ÙÄ¥ ¶§±îÁö ´Ù¸¸ ¼ÓÀÌ ¾ÆÁÖ ÆíÄ¡ ¾Ê¾Ò´Ù. ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº,
¾Æºê¶óÇÔ±îÁö Æ÷ÇÔÇÏ¿©, ÃßÁ¾ÀÚµéÀÇ Á¾±³ °ü½À¿¡¼ Èñ»ý¹° ¹ÙÄ¡´Â ÀÌ ¼ºÇâÀ» °áÄÚ ¿ÏÀüÈ÷ ¾ø¾Ö´Â µ¥ ¼º°øÇÏÁö ¸øÇß´Ù.
93:4.15 (1018.4) ¿¹¼öó·³, ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº ¾ö°ÝÇÏ°Ô ±×ÀÇ ¼ö¿© ÀÓ¹«¸¦ ¸¶Ä¡´Â ÀÏ¿¡ ÈûÀ» ±â¿ï¿´´Ù.
±×´Â µµ´ö °ü½ÀÀ» °³ÇõÇÏ°í ¼¼»óÀÇ °ü½ÀÀ» ¹Ù²Ù·Á ¾Ö¾²Áö ¾Ê¾Ò°í, »ó±ÞÀÇ À§»ý °ü½ÀÀ̳ª °úÇÐÀû Áø¸®¸¦ ¼±Æ÷ÇÏ·Á
ÇÏÁöµµ ¾Ê¾Ò´Ù. ±×´Â µÎ °¡Áö °úÁ¦¸¦ ÀÌ·ç·Á°í ¿Ô´Âµ¥, Çϳª´Â Çϳª´ÔÀÌ ÇÑ ºÐ °è½Ã´Ù´Â Áø¸®¸¦ ¶¥¿¡¼ »ì·Á
µÎ´Â °ÍÀ̰í, ´Ù¸¥ Çϳª´Â ±× ¿ìÁÖÀÇ ¾Æ¹öÁöÀÇ ÆÄ¶ó´ÙÀ̽º ¾ÆµéÀÌ ³ªÁß¿¡ »ç¶÷À¸·Î¼ ÀÚ½ÅÀ» ¼ö¿©ÇÏ´Â °ÍÀ» À§ÇÏ¿©
±æÀ» ¿¹ºñÇÏ´Â °ÍÀ̾ú´Ù.
93:4.16 (1018.5) ¸á±â¼¼µ¦Àº »ì·½¿¡¼ 94³â µ¿¾È °è½ÃµÈ ±âº»Àû Áø¸®¸¦ °¡¸£Ãưí, ÀÌ ±â°£¿¡ ¾Æºê¶óÇÔÀº
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ÁÖ¿äÇÑ ÁöÁöÀÚÀÇ Çϳª°¡ µÇ¾ú´Ù.
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4. The Salem Religion
93:4.1 The ceremonies of the Salem worship
were very simple. Every person who signed or marked the clay-tablet
rolls of the Melchizedek church committed to memory, and subscribed
to, the following belief:
93:4.2 I believe in El Elyon, the Most High God, the only Universal
Father and Creator of all things.
93:4.3 I accept the Melchizedek covenant with the Most High,
which bestows the favor of God on my faith, not on sacrifices
and burnt offerings.
93:4.4 I promise to obey the seven commandments of Melchizedek
and to tell the good news of this covenant with the Most High
to all men.
93:4.5 And that was the whole of the creed of the Salem colony.
But even such a short and simple declaration of faith was altogether
too much and too advanced for the men of those days. They simply
could not grasp the idea of getting divine favor for nothing¡ªby
faith. They were too deeply confirmed in the belief that man
was born under forfeit to the gods. Too long and too earnestly
had they sacrificed and made gifts to the priests to be able
to comprehend the good news that salvation, divine favor, was
a free gift to all who would believe in the Melchizedek covenant.
But Abraham did believe halfheartedly, and even that was "counted
for righteousness."
93:4.6 The seven commandments promulgated by Melchizedek were
patterned along the lines of the ancient Dalamatian supreme
law and very much resembled the seven commands taught in the
first and second Edens. These commands of the Salem religion
were:
93:4.7 You shall not serve any God but the Most High Creator
of heaven and earth.
93:4.8 You shall not doubt that faith is the only requirement
for eternal salvation.
93:4.9 You shall not bear false witness.
93:4.10 You shall not kill.
93:4.11 You shall not steal.
93:4.12 You shall not commit adultery.
93:4.13 You shall not show disrespect for your parents and elders.
93:4.14 While no sacrifices were permitted within the colony,
Melchizedek well knew how difficult it is to suddenly uproot
long-established customs and accordingly had wisely offered
these people the substitute of a sacrament of bread and wine
for the older sacrifice of flesh and blood. It is of record,
"Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine."
But even this cautious innovation was not altogether successful;
the various tribes all maintained auxiliary centers on the outskirts
of Salem where they offered sacrifices and burnt offerings.
Even Abraham resorted to this barbarous practice after his victory
over Chedorlaomer; he simply did not feel quite at ease until
he had offered a conventional sacrifice. And Melchizedek never
did succeed in fully eradicating this proclivity to sacrifice
from the religious practices of his followers, even of Abraham.
93:4.15 Like Jesus, Melchizedek attended strictly to the fulfillment
of the mission of his bestowal. He did not attempt to reform
the mores, to change the habits of the world, nor to promulgate
even advanced sanitary practices or scientific truths. He came
to achieve two tasks: to keep alive on earth the truth of the
one God and to prepare the way for the subsequent mortal bestowal
of a Paradise Son of that Universal Father.
93:4.16 Melchizedek taught elementary revealed truth at Salem
for ninety-four years, and during this time Abraham attended
the Salem school three different times. He finally became a
convert to the Salem teachings, becoming one of Melchizedek's
most brilliant pupils and chief supporters.
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5. The Selection of Abraham
93:5.1 Although it may be an error to speak
of "chosen people," it is not a mistake to refer to
Abraham as a chosen individual. Melchizedek did lay upon Abraham
the responsibility of keeping alive the truth of one God as
distinguished from the prevailing belief in plural deities.
93:5.2 The choice of Palestine as the site for Machiventa's
activities was in part predicated upon the desire to establish
contact with some human family embodying the potentials of leadership.
At the time of the incarnation of Melchizedek there were many
families on earth just as well prepared to receive the doctrine
of Salem as was that of Abraham. There were equally endowed
families among the red men, the yellow men, and the descendants
of the Andites to the west and north. But, again, none of these
localities were so favorably situated for Michael's subsequent
appearance on earth as was the eastern shore of the Mediterranean
Sea. The Melchizedek mission in Palestine and the subsequent
appearance of Michael among the Hebrew people were in no small
measure determined by geography, by the fact that Palestine
was centrally located with reference to the then existent trade,
travel, and civilization of the world.
93:5.3 For some time the Melchizedek receivers had been observing
the ancestors of Abraham, and they confidently expected offspring
in a certain generation who would be characterized by intelligence,
initiative, sagacity, and sincerity. The children of Terah,
the father of Abraham, in every way met these expectations.
It was this possibility of contact with these versatile children
of Terah that had considerable to do with the appearance of
Machiventa at Salem, rather than in Egypt, China, India, or
among the northern tribes.
93:5.4 Terah and his whole family were halfhearted converts
to the Salem religion, which had been preached in Chaldea; they
learned of Melchizedek through the preaching of Ovid, a Phoenician
teacher who proclaimed the Salem doctrines in Ur. They left
Ur intending to go directly through to Salem, but Nahor, Abraham's
brother, not having seen Melchizedek, was lukewarm and persuaded
them to tarry at Haran. And it was a long time after they arrived
in Palestine before they were willing to destroy all of the
household gods they had brought with them; they were slow to
give up the many gods of Mesopotamia for the one God of Salem.
93:5.5 A few weeks after the death of Abraham's father, Terah,
Melchizedek sent one of his students, Jaram the Hittite, to
extend this invitation to both Abraham and Nahor: "Come
to Salem, where you shall hear our teachings of the truth of
the eternal Creator, and in the enlightened offspring of you
two brothers shall all the world be blessed." Now Nahor
had not wholly accepted the Melchizedek gospel; he remained
behind and built up a strong city-state which bore his name;
but Lot, Abraham's nephew, decided to go with his uncle to Salem.
93:5.6 Upon arriving at Salem, Abraham and Lot chose a hilly
fastness near the city where they could defend themselves against
the many surprise attacks of northern raiders. At this time
the Hittites, Assyrians, Philistines, and other groups were
constantly raiding the tribes of central and southern Palestine.
From their stronghold in the hills Abraham and Lot made frequent
pilgrimages to Salem.
93:5.7 Not long after they had established themselves near Salem,
Abraham and Lot journeyed to the valley of the Nile to obtain
food supplies as there was then a drought in Palestine. During
his brief sojourn in Egypt Abraham found a distant relative
on the Egyptian throne, and he served as the commander of two
very successful military expeditions for this king. During the
latter part of his sojourn on the Nile he and his wife, Sarah,
lived at court, and when leaving Egypt, he was given a share
of the spoils of his military campaigns.
93:5.8 It required great determination for Abraham to forego
the honors of the Egyptian court and return to the more spiritual
work sponsored by Machiventa. But Melchizedek was revered even
in Egypt, and when the full story was laid before Pharaoh, he
strongly urged Abraham to return to the execution of his vows
to the cause of Salem.
93:5.9 Abraham had kingly ambitions, and on the way back from
Egypt he laid before Lot his plan to subdue all Canaan and bring
its people under the rule of Salem. Lot was more bent on business;
so, after a later disagreement, he went to Sodom to engage in
trade and animal husbandry. Lot liked neither a military nor
a herder's life.
93:5.10 Upon returning with his family to Salem, Abraham began
to mature his military projects. He was soon recognized as the
civil ruler of the Salem territory and had confederated under
his leadership seven near-by tribes. Indeed, it was with great
difficulty that Melchizedek restrained Abraham, who was fired
with a zeal to go forth and round up the neighboring tribes
with the sword that they might thus more quickly be brought
to a knowledge of the Salem truths.
93:5.11 Melchizedek maintained peaceful relations with all the
surrounding tribes; he was not militaristic and was never attacked
by any of the armies as they moved back and forth. He was entirely
willing that Abraham should formulate a defensive policy for
Salem such as was subsequently put into effect, but he would
not approve of his pupil's ambitious schemes for conquest; so
there occurred a friendly severance of relationship, Abraham
going over to Hebron to establish his military capital.
93:5.12 Abraham, because of his close connection with the illustrious
Melchizedek, possessed great advantage over the surrounding
petty kings; they all revered Melchizedek and unduly feared
Abraham. Abraham knew of this fear and only awaited an opportune
occasion to attack his neighbors, and this excuse came when
some of these rulers presumed to raid the property of his nephew
Lot, who dwelt in Sodom. Upon hearing of this, Abraham, at the
head of his seven confederated tribes, moved on the enemy. His
own bodyguard of 318 officered the army, numbering more than
4,000, which struck at this time.
93:5.13 When Melchizedek heard of Abraham's declaration of war,
he went forth to dissuade him but only caught up with his former
disciple as he returned victorious from the battle. Abraham
insisted that the God of Salem had given him victory over his
enemies and persisted in giving a tenth of his spoils to the
Salem treasury. The other ninety per cent he removed to his
capital at Hebron.
93:5.14 After this battle of Siddim, Abraham became leader of
a second confederation of eleven tribes and not only paid tithes
to Melchizedek but saw to it that all others in that vicinity
did the same. His diplomatic dealings with the king of Sodom,
together with the fear in which he was so generally held, resulted
in the king of Sodom and others joining the Hebron military
confederation; Abraham was really well on the way to establishing
a powerful state in Palestine.
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6. Melchizedek¡¯s
Covenant with Abraham
93:6.1 Abraham envisaged the conquest of
all Canaan. His determination was only weakened by the fact
that Melchizedek would not sanction the undertaking. But Abraham
had about decided to embark upon the enterprise when the thought
that he had no son to succeed him as ruler of this proposed
kingdom began to worry him. He arranged another conference with
Melchizedek; and it was in the course of this interview that
the priest of Salem, the visible Son of God, persuaded Abraham
to abandon his scheme of material conquest and temporal rule
in favor of the spiritual concept of the kingdom of heaven.
93:6.2 Melchizedek explained to Abraham the futility of contending
with the Amorite confederation but made it equally clear that
these backward clans were certainly committing suicide by their
foolish practices so that in a few generations they would be
so weakened that the descendants of Abraham, meanwhile greatly
increased, could easily overcome them.
93:6.3 And Melchizedek made a formal covenant with Abraham at
Salem. Said he to Abraham: "Look now up to the heavens
and number the stars if you are able; so numerous shall your
seed be." And Abraham believed Melchizedek, "and it
was counted to him for righteousness." And then Melchizedek
told Abraham the story of the future occupation of Canaan by
his offspring after their sojourn in Egypt.
93:6.4 This covenant of Melchizedek with Abraham represents
the great Urantian agreement between divinity and humanity whereby
God agrees to do everything; man only agrees to believe God's
promises and follow his instructions. Heretofore it had been
believed that salvation could be secured only by works¡ªsacrifices
and offerings; now, Melchizedek again brought to Urantia the
good news that salvation, favor with God, is to be had by faith.
But this gospel of simple faith in God was too advanced; the
Semitic tribesmen subsequently preferred to go back to the older
sacrifices and atonement for sin by the shedding of blood.
93:6.5 It was not long after the establishment of this covenant
that Isaac, the son of Abraham, was born in accordance with
the promise of Melchizedek. After the birth of Isaac, Abraham
took a very solemn attitude toward his covenant with Melchizedek,
going over to Salem to have it stated in writing. It was at
this public and formal acceptance of the covenant that he changed
his name from Abram to Abraham.
93:6.6 Most of the Salem believers had practiced circumcision,
though it had never been made obligatory by Melchizedek. Now
Abraham had always so opposed circumcision that on this occasion
he decided to solemnize the event by formally accepting this
rite in token of the ratification of the Salem covenant.
93:6.7 It was following this real and public surrender of his
personal ambitions in behalf of the larger plans of Melchizedek
that the three celestial beings appeared to him on the plains
of Mamre. This was an appearance of fact, notwithstanding its
association with the subsequently fabricated narratives relating
to the natural destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. And these
legends of the happenings of those days indicate how retarded
were the morals and ethics of even so recent a time.
93:6.8 Upon the consummation of the solemn covenant, the reconciliation
between Abraham and Melchizedek was complete. Abraham again
assumed the civil and military leadership of the Salem colony,
which at its height carried over one hundred thousand regular
tithe payers on the rolls of the Melchizedek brotherhood. Abraham
greatly improved the Salem temple and provided new tents for
the entire school. He not only extended the tithing system but
also instituted many improved methods of conducting the business
of the school, besides contributing greatly to the better handling
of the department of missionary propaganda. He also did much
to effect improvement of the herds and the reorganization of
the Salem dairying projects. Abraham was a shrewd and efficient
business man, a wealthy man for his day; he was not overly pious,
but he was thoroughly sincere, and he did believe in Machiventa
Melchizedek.
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7. The Melchizedek Missionaries
93:7.1 Melchizedek continued for some years
to instruct his students and to train the Salem missionaries,
who penetrated to all the surrounding tribes, especially to
Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor. And as the decades passed,
these teachers journeyed farther and farther from Salem, carrying
with them Machiventa's gospel of belief and faith in God.
93:7.2 The descendants of Adamson, clustered about the shores
of the lake of Van, were willing listeners to the Hittite teachers
of the Salem cult. From this onetime Andite center, teachers
were dispatched to the remote regions of both Europe and Asia.
Salem missionaries penetrated all Europe, even to the British
Isles. One group went by way of the Faroes to the Andonites
of Iceland, while another traversed China and reached the Japanese
of the eastern islands. The lives and experiences of the men
and women who ventured forth from Salem, Mesopotamia, and Lake
Van to enlighten the tribes of the Eastern Hemisphere present
a heroic chapter in the annals of the human race.
93:7.3 But the task was so great and the tribes were so backward
that the results were vague and indefinite. From one generation
to another the Salem gospel found lodgment here and there, but
except in Palestine, never was the idea of one God able to claim
the continued allegiance of a whole tribe or race. Long before
the coming of Jesus the teachings of the early Salem missionaries
had become generally submerged in the older and more universal
superstitions and beliefs. The original Melchizedek gospel had
been almost wholly absorbed in the beliefs in the Great Mother,
the Sun, and other ancient cults.
93:7.4 You who today enjoy the advantages of the art of printing
little understand how difficult it was to perpetuate truth during
these earlier times; how easy it was to lose sight of a new
doctrine from one generation to another. There was always a
tendency for the new doctrine to become absorbed into the older
body of religious teaching and magical practice. A new revelation
is always contaminated by the older evolutionary beliefs.
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8. Departure
of Melchizedek
93:8.1 It was shortly after the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah that Machiventa decided to end his emergency
bestowal on Urantia. Melchizedek's decision to terminate his
sojourn in the flesh was influenced by numerous conditions,
chief of which was the growing tendency of the surrounding tribes,
and even of his immediate associates, to regard him as a demigod,
to look upon him as a supernatural being, which indeed he was;
but they were beginning to reverence him unduly and with a highly
superstitious fear. In addition to these reasons, Melchizedek
wanted to leave the scene of his earthly activities a sufficient
length of time before Abraham's death to insure that the truth
of the one and only God would become strongly established in
the minds of his followers. Accordingly Machiventa retired one
night to his tent at Salem, having said good night to his human
companions, and when they went to call him in the morning, he
was not there, for his fellows had taken him.
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9. After
Melchizedek¡¯s Departure
93:9.1 It was a great trial for Abraham
when Melchizedek so suddenly disappeared. Although he had fully
warned his followers that he must sometime go as he had come,
they were not reconciled to the loss of their wonderful leader.
The great organization built up at Salem nearly disappeared,
though the traditions of these days were what Moses built upon
when he led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt.
93:9.2 The loss of Melchizedek produced a sadness in the heart
of Abraham that he never fully overcame. Hebron he had abandoned
when he gave up the ambition of building a material kingdom;
and now, upon the loss of his associate in the building of the
spiritual kingdom, he departed from Salem, going south to live
near his interests at Gerar.
93:9.3 Abraham became fearful and timid immediately after the
disappearance of Melchizedek. He withheld his identity upon
arrival at Gerar, so that Abimelech appropriated his wife. (Shortly
after his marriage to Sarah, Abraham one night had overheard
a plot to murder him in order to get his brilliant wife. This
dread became a terror to the otherwise brave and daring leader;
all his life he feared that someone would kill him secretly
in order to get Sarah. And this explains why, on three separate
occasions, this brave man exhibited real cowardice.)
93:9.4 But Abraham was not long to be deterred in his mission
as the successor of Melchizedek. Soon he made converts among
the Philistines and of Abimelech's people, made a treaty with
them, and, in turn, became contaminated with many of their superstitions,
particularly with their practice of sacrificing first-born sons.
Thus did Abraham again become a great leader in Palestine. He
was held in reverence by all groups and honored by all kings.
He was the spiritual leader of all the surrounding tribes, and
his influence continued for some time after his death. During
the closing years of his life he once more returned to Hebron,
the scene of his earlier activities and the place where he had
worked in association with Melchizedek. Abraham's last act was
to send trusty servants to the city of his brother, Nahor, on
the border of Mesopotamia, to secure a woman of his own people
as a wife for his son Isaac. It had long been the custom of
Abraham's people to marry their cousins. And Abraham died confident
in that faith in God which he had learned from Melchizedek in
the vanished schools of Salem.
93:9.5 It was hard for the next generation to comprehend the
story of Melchizedek; within five hundred years many regarded
the whole narrative as a myth. Isaac held fairly well to the
teachings of his father and nourished the gospel of the Salem
colony, but it was harder for Jacob to grasp the significance
of these traditions. Joseph was a firm believer in Melchizedek
and was, largely because of this, regarded by his brothers as
a dreamer. Joseph's honor in Egypt was chiefly due to the memory
of his great-grandfather Abraham. Joseph was offered military
command of the Egyptian armies, but being such a firm believer
in the traditions of Melchizedek and the later teachings of
Abraham and Isaac, he elected to serve as a civil administrator,
believing that he could thus better labor for the advancement
of the kingdom of heaven.
93:9.6 The teaching of Melchizedek was full and replete, but
the records of these days seemed impossible and fantastic to
the later Hebrew priests, although many had some understanding
of these transactions, at least up to the times of the en masse
editing of the Old Testament records in Babylon.
93:9.7 What the Old Testament records describe as conversations
between Abraham and God were in reality conferences between
Abraham and Melchizedek. Later scribes regarded the term Melchizedek
as synonymous with God. The record of so many contacts of Abraham
and Sarah with "the angel of the Lord" refers to their
numerous visits with Melchizedek.
93:9.8 The Hebrew narratives of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are
far more reliable than those about Abraham, although they also
contain many diversions from the facts, alterations made intentionally
and unintentionally at the time of the compilation of these
records by the Hebrew priests during the Babylonian captivity.
Keturah was not a wife of Abraham; like Hagar, she was merely
a concubine. All of Abraham's property went to Isaac, the son
of Sarah, the status wife. Abraham was not so old as the records
indicate, and his wife was much younger. These ages were deliberately
altered in order to provide for the subsequent alleged miraculous
birth of Isaac.
93:9.9 The national ego of the Jews was tremendously depressed
by the Babylonian captivity. In their reaction against national
inferiority they swung to the other extreme of national and
racial egotism, in which they distorted and perverted their
traditions with the view of exalting themselves above all races
as the chosen people of God; and hence they carefully edited
all their records for the purpose of raising Abraham and their
other national leaders high up above all other persons, not
excepting Melchizedek himself. The Hebrew scribes therefore
destroyed every record of these momentous times which they could
find, preserving only the narrative of the meeting of Abraham
and Melchizedek after the battle of Siddim, which they deemed
reflected great honor upon Abraham.
93:9.10 And thus, in losing sight of Melchizedek, they also
lost sight of the teaching of this emergency Son regarding the
spiritual mission of the promised bestowal Son; lost sight of
the nature of this mission so fully and completely that very
few of their progeny were able or willing to recognize and receive
Michael when he appeared on earth and in the flesh as Machiventa
had foretold.
93:9.11 But one of the writers of the Book of Hebrews understood
the mission of Melchizedek, for it is written: "This Melchizedek,
priest of the Most High, was also king of peace; without father,
without mother, without pedigree, having neither beginning of
days nor end of life but made like a Son of God, he abides a
priest continually." This writer designated Melchizedek
as a type of the later bestowal of Michael, affirming that Jesus
was "a minister forever on the order of Melchizedek."
While this comparison was not altogether fortunate, it was literally
true that Christ did receive provisional title to Urantia "upon
the orders of the twelve Melchizedek receivers" on duty
at the time of his world bestowal.
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10.
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10. Present
Status of Machiventa Melchizedek
93:10.1 During the years of Machiventa's
incarnation the Urantia Melchizedek receivers functioned as
eleven. When Machiventa considered that his mission as an emergency
Son was finished, he signalized this fact to his eleven associates,
and they immediately made ready the technique whereby he was
to be released from the flesh and safely restored to his original
Melchizedek status. And on the third day after his disappearance
from Salem he appeared among his eleven fellows of the Urantia
assignment and resumed his interrupted career as one of the
planetary receivers of 606 of Satania.
93:10.2 Machiventa terminated his bestowal as a creature of
flesh and blood just as suddenly and unceremoniously as he had
begun it. Neither his appearance nor departure were accompanied
by any unusual announcement or demonstration; neither resurrection
roll call nor ending of planetary dispensation marked his appearance
on Urantia; his was an emergency bestowal. But Machiventa did
not end his sojourn in the flesh of human beings until he had
been duly released by the Father Melchizedek and had been informed
that his emergency bestowal had received the approval of the
chief executive of Nebadon, Gabriel of Salvington.
93:10.3 Machiventa Melchizedek continued to take a great interest
in the affairs of the descendants of those men who had believed
in his teachings when he was in the flesh. But the progeny of
Abraham through Isaac as intermarried with the Kenites were
the only line which long continued to nourish any clear concept
of the Salem teachings.
93:10.4 This same Melchizedek continued to collaborate throughout
the nineteen succeeding centuries with the many prophets and
seers, thus endeavoring to keep alive the truths of Salem until
the fullness of the time for Michael's appearance on earth.
93:10.5 Machiventa continued as a planetary receiver up to the
times of the triumph of Michael on Urantia. Subsequently, he
was attached to the Urantia service on Jerusem as one of the
four and twenty directors, only just recently having been elevated
to the position of personal ambassador on Jerusem of the Creator
Son, bearing the title Vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia.
It is our belief that, as long as Urantia remains an inhabited
planet, Machiventa Melchizedek will not be fully returned to
the duties of his order of sonship but will remain, speaking
in the terms of time, forever a planetary minister representing
Christ Michael.
93:10.6 As his was an emergency bestowal on Urantia, it does
not appear from the records what Machiventa's future may be.
It may develop that the Melchizedek corps of Nebadon have sustained
the permanent loss of one of their number. Recent rulings handed
down from the Most Highs of Edentia, and later confirmed by
the Ancients of Days of Uversa, strongly suggest that this bestowal
Melchizedek is destined to take the place of the fallen Planetary
Prince, Caligastia. If our conjectures in this respect are correct,
it is altogether possible that Machiventa Melchizedek may again
appear in person on Urantia and in some modified manner resume
the role of the dethroned Planetary Prince, or else appear on
earth to function as vicegerent Planetary Prince representing
Christ Michael, who now actually holds the title of Planetary
Prince of Urantia. While it is far from clear to us as to what
Machiventa's destiny may be, nevertheless, events which have
so recently taken place strongly suggest that the foregoing
conjectures are probably not far from the truth.
93:10.7 We well understand how, by his triumph on Urantia, Michael
became the successor of both Caligastia and Adam; how he became
the planetary Prince of Peace and the second Adam. And now we
behold the conferring upon this Melchizedek of the title Vicegerent
Planetary Prince of Urantia. Will he also be constituted Vicegerent
Material Son of Urantia? Or is there a possibility that an unexpected
and unprecedented event is to take place, the sometime return
to the planet of Adam and Eve or certain of their progeny as
representatives of Michael with the titles vicegerents of the
second Adam of Urantia?
93:10.8 And all these speculations associated with the certainty
of future appearances of both Magisterial and Trinity Teacher
Sons, in conjunction with the explicit promise of the Creator
Son to return sometime, make Urantia a planet of future uncertainty
and render it one of the most interesting and intriguing spheres
in all the universe of Nebadon. It is altogether possible that,
in some future age when Urantia is approaching the era of light
and life, after the affairs of the Lucifer rebellion and the
Caligastia secession have been finally adjudicated, we may witness
the presence on Urantia, simultaneously, of Machiventa, Adam,
Eve, and Christ Michael, as well as either a Magisterial Son
or even Trinity Teacher Sons.
93:10.9 It has long been the opinion of our order that Machiventa's
presence on the Jerusem corps of Urantia directors, the four
and twenty counselors, is sufficient evidence to warrant the
belief that he is destined to follow the mortals of Urantia
on through the universe scheme of progression and ascension
even to the Paradise Corps of the Finality. We know that Adam
and Eve are thus destined to accompany their earth fellows on
the Paradise adventure when Urantia has become settled in light
and life.
93:10.10 Less than a thousand years ago this same Machiventa
Melchizedek, the onetime sage of Salem, was invisibly present
on Urantia for a period of one hundred years, acting as resident
governor general of the planet; and if the present system of
directing planetary affairs should continue, he will be due
to return in the same capacity in a little over one thousand
years.
93:10.11 This is the story of Machiventa Melchizedek, one of
the most unique of all characters ever to become connected with
the history of Urantia and a personality who may be destined
to play an important role in the future experience of your irregular
and unusual world.
93:10.12 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
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