farewell salutations

119:5.3On Sal­ving­ton we fol­lowed the ca­reer of this spirit pil­grim with con­sum­mate in­ter­est, know­ing full well, by the pres­ence of Ga­briel, that this unas­sum­ing and un­num­bered pil­grim spirit was none other than the be­stowed ruler of our lo­cal uni­verse. This first ap­pear­ance of Mi­chael in­car­nated in the role of one stage of mor­tal evo­lu­tion was an event which thrilled and en­thralled all Neb­a­don. We had heard of such things but now we be­held them. He ap­peared on Uversa as a fully de­vel­oped and per­fectly trained spirit mor­tal and, as such, con­tin­ued his ca­reer up to the oc­ca­sion of the ad­vance­ment of a group of as­cend­ing mor­tals to Ha­vona; where­upon he held con­verse with the An­cients of Days and im­me­di­ately, in the com­pany of Ga­briel, took sud­den and un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous leave of Uversa, ap­pear­ing shortly there­after in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton.

133:0.1When prepar­ing to leave Rome, Je­sus said good-bye to none of his friends. The scribe of Da­mas­cus ap­peared in Rome with­out an­nounce­ment and dis­ap­peared in like man­ner. It was a full year be­fore those who knew and loved him gave up hope of see­ing him again. Be­fore the end of the sec­ond year small groups of those who had known him found them­selves drawn to­gether by their com­mon in­ter­est in his teach­ings and through mu­tual mem­ory of their good times with him. And these small groups of Sto­ics, Cyn­ics, and mys­tery cultists con­tin­ued to hold these ir­reg­u­lar and in­for­mal meet­ings right up to the time of the ap­pear­ance in Rome of the first preach­ers of the Chris­tian re­li­gion.

137:5.1Though many of the guests re­mained for the full week of wed­ding fes­tiv­i­ties, Je­sus, with his newly cho­sen dis­ci­ple-apos­tles—James, John, An­drew, Pe­ter, Philip, and Na­than­iel—de­parted very early the next morn­ing for Ca­per­naum, go­ing away with­out tak­ing leave of any­one. Je­sus’ fam­ily and all his friends in Cana were much dis­tressed be­cause he so sud­denly left them, and Jude, Je­sus’ young­est brother, set out in search of him. Je­sus and his apos­tles went di­rectly to the home of Zeb­e­dee at Beth­saida. On this jour­ney Je­sus talked over many things of im­por­tance to the com­ing king­dom with his newly cho­sen as­so­ciates and es­pe­cially warned them to make no men­tion of the turn­ing of the wa­ter into wine. He also ad­vised them to avoid the cities of Sep­pho­ris and Tiberias in their fu­ture work.

93:8.1It was shortly af­ter the de­struc­tion of Sodom and Go­mor­rah that Ma­chi­venta de­cided to end his emer­gency be­stowal on Uran­tia. Mel­chiz­e­dek’s de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate his so­journ in the flesh was in­flu­enced by nu­mer­ous con­di­tions, chief of which was the grow­ing ten­dency of the sur­round­ing tribes, and even of his im­me­di­ate as­so­ciates, to re­gard him as a demigod, to look upon him as a super­nat­u­ral be­ing, which in­deed he was; but they were be­gin­ning to rev­er­ence him un­duly and with a highly su­per­sti­tious fear. In ad­di­tion to these rea­sons, Mel­chiz­e­dek wanted to leave the scene of his earthly ac­tiv­i­ties a suf­fi­cient length of time be­fore Abra­ham’s death to in­sure that the truth of the one and only God would be­come strongly es­tab­lished in the minds of his fol­low­ers. Ac­cord­ingly Ma­chi­venta re­tired one night to his tent at Salem, hav­ing said good night to his hu­man com­pan­ions, and when they went to call him in the morn­ing, he was not there, for his fel­lows had taken him.

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.