The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident

98:0.1The Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ings en­tered Eu­rope along many routes, but chiefly they came by way of Egypt and were em­bod­ied in Oc­ci­den­tal phi­los­o­phy af­ter be­ing thor­oughly Hel­le­nized and later Chris­tian­ized. The ide­als of the West­ern world were ba­si­cally So­cratic, and its later re­li­gious phi­los­o­phy be­came that of Je­sus as it was mod­i­fied and com­pro­mised through con­tact with evolv­ing Oc­ci­den­tal phi­los­o­phy and re­li­gion, all of which cul­mi­nated in the Chris­tian church.

98:0.2For a long time in Eu­rope the Salem mis­sion­ar­ies car­ried on their ac­tiv­i­ties, be­com­ing grad­u­ally ab­sorbed into many of the cults and rit­ual groups which pe­ri­od­i­cally arose. Among those who main­tained the Salem teach­ings in the purest form must be men­tioned the Cyn­ics. These preach­ers of faith and trust in God were still func­tion­ing in Ro­man Eu­rope in the first cen­tury af­ter Christ, be­ing later in­cor­po­rated into the newly form­ing Chris­tian re­li­gion.

98:0.3Much of the Salem doc­trine was spread in Eu­rope by the Jew­ish mer­ce­nary sol­diers who fought in so many of the Oc­ci­den­tal mil­i­tary strug­gles. In an­cient times the Jews were famed as much for mil­i­tary valor as for the­o­logic pe­cu­liar­i­ties.

98:0.4The ba­sic doc­trines of Greek phi­los­o­phy, Jew­ish the­ol­ogy, and Chris­tian ethics were fun­da­men­tally reper­cus­sions of the ear­lier Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ings.