concentric circles, three

53:5.4Since Mi­chael elected to re­main aloof from the ac­tual war­fare of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Ga­briel called his per­sonal staff to­gether on Eden­tia and, in coun­sel with the Most Highs, elected to as­sume com­mand of the loyal hosts of Sa­ta­nia. Mi­chael re­mained on Sal­ving­ton while Ga­briel pro­ceeded to Je­ru­sem, and es­tab­lish­ing him­self on the sphere ded­i­cated to the Fa­ther—the same Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther whose per­son­al­ity Lu­cifer and Sa­tan had ques­tioned—in the pres­ence of the for­gath­ered hosts of loyal per­son­al­i­ties, he dis­played the ban­ner of Mi­chael, the ma­te­rial em­blem of the Trin­ity gov­ern­ment of all cre­ation, the three azure blue con­cen­tric cir­cles on a white back­ground.

93:3.3The sym­bol of the three con­cen­tric cir­cles, which Mel­chiz­e­dek adopted as the in­signia of his be­stowal, a ma­jor­ity of the peo­ple in­ter­preted as stand­ing for the three king­doms of men, an­gels, and God. And they were al­lowed to con­tinue in that be­lief; very few of his fol­low­ers ever knew that these three cir­cles were em­blem­atic of the in­fin­ity, eter­nity, and uni­ver­sal­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of di­vine main­te­nance and di­rec­tion; even Abra­ham rather re­garded this sym­bol as stand­ing for the three Most Highs of Eden­tia, as he had been in­structed that the three Most Highs func­tioned as one. To the ex­tent that Mel­chiz­e­dek taught the Trin­ity con­cept sym­bol­ized in his in­signia, he usu­ally as­so­ci­ated it with the three Vo­ron­da­dek rulers of the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek.

93:2.5In per­sonal ap­pear­ance, Mel­chiz­e­dek re­sem­bled the then blended Nod­ite and Sume­rian peo­ples, be­ing al­most six feet in height and pos­sess­ing a com­mand­ing pres­ence. He spoke Chaldean and a half dozen other lan­guages. He dressed much as did the Ca­naan­ite priests ex­cept that on his breast he wore an em­blem of three con­cen­tric cir­cles, the Sa­ta­nia sym­bol of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In the course of his min­istry this in­signia of three con­cen­tric cir­cles be­came re­garded as so sa­cred by his fol­low­ers that they never dared to use it, and it was soon for­got­ten with the pass­ing of a few gen­er­a­tions.

104:1.3The third pre­sen­ta­tion of the Trin­ity was made by Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, and this doc­trine was sym­bol­ized by the three con­cen­tric cir­cles which the sage of Salem wore on his breast plate. But Ma­chi­venta found it very dif­fi­cult to teach the Pales­tinian Bed­ou­ins about the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit. Most of his dis­ci­ples thought that the Trin­ity con­sisted of the three Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek; a few con­ceived of the Trin­ity as the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther, and the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator De­ity; still fewer even re­motely grasped the idea of the Par­a­dise as­so­ci­a­tion of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

95:1.4The Salem teach­ers greatly re­duced the num­ber of the gods of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, at one time bring­ing the chief de­i­ties down to seven: Bel, Shamash, Nabu, Anu, Ea, Mar­duk, and Sin. At the height of the new teach­ing they ex­alted three of these gods to su­prem­acy over all oth­ers, the Baby­lo­nian triad: Bel, Ea, and Anu, the gods of earth, sea, and sky. Still other tri­ads grew up in dif­fer­ent lo­cal­i­ties, all rem­i­nis­cent of the trin­ity teach­ings of the And­ites and the Sume­ri­ans and based on the be­lief of the Salemites in Mel­chiz­e­dek’s in­signia of the three cir­cles.