Machiventa Melchizedek

93:10.1Dur­ing 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.

93:10.2Ma­chi­venta 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.

93:10.3Ma­chi­venta 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.

93:10.4This 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.

93:10.5Ma­chi­venta 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.

93:10.6As 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.

93:10.7We 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?

93:10.8And 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.

93:10.9It 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.

93:10.10Less 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.

93:10.11This 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.]