Machiventa Melchizedek

93:1.1Re­vealed 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.

93:1.2The 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.”

93:1.3And 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.