The Local Universe Sons of God

35:4.1A 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.

35:4.2While 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.

35:4.3When 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.

35:4.4The 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.

35:4.5The 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.