Melchizedek

=[|Melchizedek]=



Urantia Book [|Paper 35]:1[|. THE FATHER MELCHIZEDEK]
35:1.1 After bringing into [|existence] the [|beings] of [|personal] aid, such as the [|Bright and Morning Star] and other [|administrative] [|personalities], in accordance with the [|divine] [|purpose] and [|creative] [|plans] of a given [|universe], there occurs a new form of [|creative] [|union] between the [|Creator Son] and the [|Creative Spirit], the [|local universe] Daughter of the [|Infinite Spirit]. The [|personality] [|offspring] resulting from this [|creative] [|partnership] is the [|original] [|Melchizedek]—the //Father Melchizedek//—that [|unique] [|being] who subsequently [|collaborates] with the [|Creator Son] and the [|Creative Spirit] to bring into [|existence] the entire [|group] of that [|name]. 35:1.2 In the [|universe] of [|Nebadon] the //Father Melchizedek// [|acts] as the first [|executive] [|associate] of the [|Bright and Morning Star]. [|Gabriel] is occupied more with [|universe] [|policies], [|Melchizedek] with [|practical] [|procedures]. [|Gabriel] presides over the regularly constituted [|tribunals] and councils of Nebadon, [|Melchizedek] over the special, extraordinary, and emergency commissions and [|advisory] bodies. [|Gabriel] and the //Father Melchizedek// are never away from [|Salvington] at the same time, for in Gabriel's absence the Father Melchizedek [|functions] as the chief [|executive] of [|Nebadon]. 35:1.3 The [|Melchizedeks] of our [|universe] were all [|created] within one [|millennial] period of [|standard] [|time] by the [|Creator Son] and the [|Creative Spirit] in [|liaison] with the Father Melchizedek. Being an order of sonship wherein one of their own [|number] [|functioned] as [|co-ordinate] [|creator], [|Melchizedeks] are in [|constitution] partly of self-origin and therefore [|candidates] for the [|realization] of a [|supernal] [|type] of [|self-government]. They [|periodically] [|elect] their own [|administrative] chief for a term of seven years of standard [|time] and otherwise [|function] as a self-regulating order, though the original Melchizedek does [|exercise] certain [|inherent] coparental [|prerogatives]. From time to time this Father Melchizedek designates certain [|individuals] of his order to [|function] as [|special Life Carriers] to the //midsonite worlds//, a [|type] of [|inhabited planet] not heretofore [|revealed] on [|Urantia]. 35:1.4 The [|Melchizedeks] do not [|function] extensively outside the [|local universe] except when they are called as [|witnesses] in matters pending before the [|tribunals] of the [|superuniverse], and when designated special [|ambassadors], as they sometimes are, representing one [|universe] to another in the same [|superuniverse]. The [|original] or first-born [|Melchizedek] of each [|universe] is always at [|liberty] to [|journey] to the neighboring universes or to [|Paradise] on missions having to do with the interests and [|duties] of his order. 

Urantia Book [|Paper 35]:[|2. THE MELCHIZEDEK SONS]
35:2.1 The [|Melchizedeks] are the first order of [|divine] Sons to approach sufficiently near the lower [|creature] life to be able to [|function] directly in the [|ministry] of [|mortal] uplift, to serve the [|evolutionary] [|races] without the [|necessity] of [|incarnation]. These Sons are naturally at the mid-point of the great [|personality] [|descent], by [|origin] being just about midway between the highest [|Divinity] and the lowest [|creature] life of will [|endowment]. They thus become the [|natural] [|intermediaries] between the higher and [|divine] [|levels] of living [|existence] and the lower, even the [|material], forms of life on the [|evolutionary worlds]. The [|seraphic orders], the [|angels], delight to [|work] with the [|Melchizedeks]; in [|fact], all forms of [|intelligent] life find in these Sons [|understanding] [|friends], [|sympathetic] [|teachers], and [|wise] [|counselors]. 35:2.2 The [|Melchizedeks] are a [|self-governing] order. With this [|unique] [|group] we encounter the first attempt at [|self-determination] on the part of [|local universe] [|beings] and [|observe] the highest [|type] of true [|self-government]. These Sons [|organize] their own [|machinery] for their [|group] and [|home]-[|planet] [|administration], as well as that for the six [|associated] [|spheres] and their tributary worlds. And it should be recorded that they have never [|abused] their [|prerogatives]; not once throughout all the [|superuniverse] of [|Orvonton] have these Melchizedek Sons ever [|betrayed] their [|trust]. They are the [|hope] of every [|universe] [|group] which [|aspires] to [|self-government]; they are the [|pattern] and the [|teachers] of [|self-government] to all the [|spheres] of [|Nebadon]. All orders of [|intelligent] [|beings], superiors from above and subordinates from below, are wholehearted in their [|praise] of the [|government] of the [|Melchizedeks]. 35:2.3 The [|Melchizedek] order of sonship occupies the position, and [|assumes] the [|responsibility], of the eldest son in a large [|family]. Most of their [|work] is regular and somewhat [|routine], but much of it is [|voluntary] and altogether self-imposed. A [|majority] of the special assemblies which, from time to time, convene on [|Salvington] are called on motion of the [|Melchizedeks]. On their own initiative these Sons patrol their [|native] [|universe]. They maintain an [|autonomous] [|organization] [|devoted] to [|universe] [|intelligence], making [|periodical] reports to the [|Creator Son] [|independent] of all [|information] coming up to [|universe] [|headquarters] through the regular [|agencies] concerned with the routine [|administration] of the realm. They are by [|nature] unprejudiced [|observers]; they have the full [|confidence] of all [|classes] of [|intelligent] [|beings]. 35:2.4 The [|Melchizedeks] [|function] as mobile and advisory review [|courts] of the realms; these universe Sons go in small [|groups] to the worlds to serve as advisory commissions, to take depositions, to receive suggestions, and to [|act] as [|counselors], thus helping to [|compose] the major [|difficulties] and settle the serious [|differences] which arise from time to time in the affairs of the [|evolutionary] [|domains]. 35:2.5 These eldest Sons of a [|universe] are the chief aids of the [|Bright and Morning Star] in carrying out the [|mandates] of the [|Creator Son]. When a [|Melchizedek] goes to a remote world in the name of [|Gabriel], he may, for the [|purposes] of that particular mission, be deputized in the [|name] of the sender and in that [|event] will appear on the [|planet] of assignment with the full [|authority] of the [|Bright and Morning Star]. Especially is this true on those [|spheres] where a higher Son has not yet appeared in the likeness of the [|creatures] of the realm. 35:2.6 When a [|Creator Son] enters upon the [|bestowal career] on an [|evolutionary world], he goes alone; but when one of his [|Paradise] [|brothers], an [|Avonal Son], enters upon a bestowal, he is accompanied by the [|Melchizedek] supporters, twelve in [|number], who so [|efficiently] [|contribute] to the success of the [|bestowal mission]. They also [|support] the [|Paradise] [|Avonals] on [|magisterial missions] to the [|inhabited worlds], and in these assignments the [|Melchizedeks] are visible to [|mortal] eyes if the [|Avonal Son] is also thus [|manifest]. 35:2.7 There is no [|phase] of [|planetary] [|spiritual] need to which they do not [|minister]. They are the [|teachers] who so often win whole worlds of advanced life to the final and full [|recognition] of the [|Creator Son] and his [|Paradise Father]. 35:2.8 The [|Melchizedeks] are well-nigh [|perfect] in [|wisdom], but they are not [|infallible] in [|judgment]. When detached and alone on [|planetary] missions, they have sometimes erred in minor matters, that is, they have elected to do certain [|things] which their supervisors did not subsequently approve. Such an [|error] of [|judgment] temporarily disqualifies a [|Melchizedek] until he goes to [|Salvington] and, in [|audience] with the [|Creator Son], receives that instruction which effectually purges him of the disharmony which caused disagreement with his fellows; and then, following the correctional rest, reinstatement to [|service] ensues on the third day. But these minor misadaptations in [|Melchizedek] [|function] have rarely occurred in [|Nebadon]. 35:2.9 These Sons are not an increasing order; their [|number] is stationary, although varying in each [|local universe]. The number of [|Melchizedeks] of [|record] on their [|headquarters] [|planet] in [|Nebadon] is upward of ten million. 

Urantia Book [|Paper 35]:[|3. THE MELCHIZEDEK WORLDS]
35:3.1 The [|Melchizedeks] occupy a world of their own near [|Salvington], the [|universe] [|headquarters]. This [|sphere], by name //Melchizedek//, is the pilot world of the [|Salvington] circuit of seventy primary spheres, each of which is encircled by six tributary spheres [|devoted] to specialized activities. These [|marvelous] spheres—seventy primaries and 420 tributaries—are often spoken of as the [|Melchizedek University]. [|Ascending mortals] from all the [|constellations] of [|Nebadon] pass through [|training] on all 490 worlds in the acquirement of residential [|status] on [|Salvington]. But the [|education] of ascenders is only one [|phase] of the manifold [|activities] taking place on the [|Salvington] cluster of [|architectural spheres]. 35:3.2 The 490 spheres of the [|Salvington] [|circuit] are divided into ten [|groups], each containing [|seven] primary and forty-two tributary spheres. Each of these [|groups] is under the general supervision of some one of the major orders of universe life. The first group, [|embracing] the pilot world and the next six primary spheres in the encircling [|planetary] [|procession], is under the supervision of the [|Melchizedeks]. These Melchizedek worlds are: 35:3.3 The six tributary worlds of each of these [|Melchizedek] [|spheres] are [|devoted] to [|activities] germane to the [|work] of the associated primary sphere. 35:3.4 The pilot world, the sphere [|Melchizedek], is the common meeting ground for all [|beings] who are engaged in educating and spiritualizing the [|ascending mortals] of [|time and space]. To an ascender this world is probably the most interesting place in all [|Nebadon]. All [|evolutionary mortals] who [|graduate] from their [|constellation] [|training] are destined to land on //Melchizedek//, where they are initiated into the [|regime] of the [|disciplines] and [|spirit] [|progression] of the [|Salvington] [|educational] [|system]. And never will you forget your [|reactions] to the first day of life on this [|unique] world, not even after you have reached your [|Paradise] destination. 35:3.5 [|Ascending mortals] maintain [|residence] on the Melchizedek world while pursuing their [|training] on the six encircling [|planets] of specialized [|education]. And this same [|method] is adhered to throughout their [|sojourn] on the seventy cultural worlds, the primary spheres of the [|Salvington] circuit. 35:3.6 Many [|diverse] [|activities] occupy the [|time] of the numerous [|beings] who reside on the six tributary worlds of the //Melchizedek// [|sphere], but as concerns the [|ascending mortals], these [|satellites] are [|devoted] to the following special [|phases] of [|study]: 35:3.13 The schools of [|universe] [|administration] and [|spiritual] [|wisdom] are located on the [|Melchizedek] [|home] world, where also are to be found those schools [|devoted] to a single line of [|research], such as [|energy], [|matter], [|organization], [|communication], [|records], [|ethics], and comparative [|creature] [|existence]. 35:3.14 In the //Melchizedek College of Spiritual Endowment// all orders—even the [|Paradise] orders—of the [|Sons of God] [|co-operate] with the [|Melchizedek] and the [|seraphic] [|teachers] in [|training] the hosts who go forth as evangels of [|destiny], proclaiming [|spiritual] [|liberty] and divine sonship even to the remote worlds of the [|universe]. This particular school of the [|Melchizedek University] is an exclusive [|universe] [|institution]; student visitors are not received from other realms. 35:3.15 The highest [|course] of [|training] in [|universe] [|administration] is given by the [|Melchizedeks] on their home world. This //College of High Ethics// is presided over by the [|original] [|Father Melchizedek]. It is to these schools that the various universes send exchange students. While the young [|universe] of [|Nebadon] stands low in the [|scale] of [|universes] as regards [|spiritual] [|achievement] and high [|ethical] [|development], nevertheless, our [|administrative] [|troubles] have so turned the whole [|universe] into a vast clinic for other near-by [|creations] that the Melchizedek colleges are thronged with student visitors and [|observers] from other realms. Besides the immense [|group] of local registrants there are always upward of one hundred thousand foreign students in attendance upon the [|Melchizedek schools], for the order of [|Melchizedeks] in [|Nebadon] is renowned throughout all [|Splandon].  == Urantia Book [|Paper 35]:[|4. SPECIAL WORK OF THE MELCHIZEDEKS] ==
 * 1. The pilot world—the [|home] world of the [|Melchizedek] Sons.
 * 2. The world of the [|physical]-life schools and the laboratories of living [|energies].
 * 3. The world of [|morontia] life.
 * 4. The sphere of initial [|spirit] life.
 * 5. The world of mid-[|spirit] life.
 * 6. The sphere of advancing [|spirit] life.
 * 7. The [|domain] of [|co-ordinate] and [|supreme] [|self-realization].
 * 1. 35:3.7 //Sphere number one// is occupied with the review of the initial [|planetary] life of the ascending [|mortals]. This [|work] is carried on in classes [|composed] of those who hail from a given world of [|mortal] [|origin]. Those from [|Urantia] pursue such an experiential review together.
 * 2. 35:3.8 The special [|work] of //sphere number two// consists in a similar review of the [|experiences] passed through on the [|mansion worlds] encircling the premier [|satellite] of the [|local system headquarters].
 * 3. 35:3.9 The reviews of this sphere pertain to the [|sojourn] on the [|capital] of the [|local system] and [|embrace] the activities of the remainder of the [|architectural worlds] of the [Jerusem|system headquarters] cluster.
 * 4. 35:3.10 The //fourth sphere// is occupied with a review of the [|experiences] of the seventy tributary worlds of the [|constellation] and of their associated spheres.
 * 5. 35:3.11 On the //fifth sphere// there is conducted the review of the [|ascendant] [|sojourn] on the [|constellation headquarters] world.
 * 6. 35:3.12 The time on //sphere number six// is [|devoted] to an attempt to correlate these five [|epochs] and thus [|achieve] [|co-ordination] of [|experience] preparatory to entering the Melchizedek primary schools of [|universe] [|training].

35:4.1 A highly specialized branch of [|Melchizedek] [|activities] has to do with the supervision of the [|progressive] [|morontia] [|career] of the [|ascending mortals]. Much of this [|training] is conducted by the patient and [|wise] [|seraphic] ministers, [|assisted] by [|mortals] who have [|ascended] to [|relatively] higher levels of [|universe] [|attainment], but all of this [|educational] [|work] is under the general supervision of the [|Melchizedeks] in [|association] with the [|Trinity Teacher Sons]. 35:4.2 While the [|Melchizedek] orders are chiefly [|devoted] to the vast [|educational] system and experiential [|training] [|regime] of the [|local universe], they also [|function] in [|unique] assignments and in unusual [|circumstances]. In an evolving universe [|eventually] [|embracing] approximately ten million [|inhabited worlds], many [|things] out of the ordinary are [|destined] to happen, and it is in such [|emergencies] that the [|Melchizedeks] [|act]. On [|Edentia], your [|constellation] [|headquarters], they are known as [|emergency] Sons. They are always ready to [|serve] in all exigencies—[|physical], [|intellectual], or [|spiritual]—whether on a [|planet], in a [|system], in a [|constellation], or in the [|universe]. Whenever and wherever special help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Melchizedek Sons. 35:4.3 When [|failure] of some feature of the [|Creator Son]'s [|plan] is threatened, forthwith will go a [|Melchizedek] to render [|assistance]. But not often are they summoned to [|function] in the [|presence] of [|sinful] [|rebellion], such as occurred in [|Satania]. 35:4.4 The [|Melchizedeks] are the first to [|act] in all [|emergencies] of whatever [|nature] on all worlds where will [|creatures] dwell. They sometimes [|act] as temporary custodians on wayward [|planets], serving as receivers of a [|defaulting] [|planetary] [|government]. In a [|planetary] [|crisis] these Melchizedek Sons serve in many [|unique] capacities. It is easily [|possible] for such a Son to make himself [|visible] to [|mortal] [|beings], and sometimes one of this order has even [|incarnated] in the likeness of [|mortal] [|flesh]. [|Seven] times in [|Nebadon] has a [|Melchizedek] served on an [|evolutionary world] in the similitude of [|mortal] [|flesh], and on numerous occasions these Sons have [|appeared] in the likeness of other orders of [|universe] [|creatures]. They are indeed the [|versatile] and [|volunteer] [|emergency] ministers to all orders of [|universe] [|intelligences] and to all the [|worlds] and [|systems] of worlds. 35:4.5 The [|Melchizedek] who lived on [|Urantia] during the [|time] of [|Abraham] was locally known as //Prince of Salem// because he presided over a small colony of [|truth] [|seekers] residing at a place called [|Salem]. He [|volunteered] to [|incarnate] in the likeness of [|mortal] [|flesh] and did so with the approval of the Melchizedek receivers of the planet, who [|feared] that the [|light] of life would become extinguished during that period of increasing [|spiritual] [|darkness]. And he did foster the [|truth] of his day and safely pass it on to [|Abraham] and his [|associates].