Father Melchizedek

• created Melchizedek Sons with Creator Son and Mother Spirit

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• order in Paradise classification

30:1.344. Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­deks.

• executive associate of Gabriel; chief executive in Gabriel’s absence
• original Melchizedek Son

33:6.2The Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek is Ga­briel’s first as­sis­tant. When the Bright and Morn­ing Star is ab­sent from Sal­ving­ton, his re­spon­si­bil­i­ties are as­sumed by this orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek Son.

• created Melchizedek Sons with Creator Son and Mother Spirit
• original Melchizedek Son

35:1.1Af­ter bring­ing into ex­is­tence the be­ings of per­sonal aid, such as the Bright and Morn­ing Star and other ad­min­is­tra­tive per­son­al­i­ties, in ac­cor­dance with the di­vine pur­pose and cre­ative plans of a given uni­verse, there oc­curs a new form of cre­ative union be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit, the lo­cal uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The per­son­al­ity off­spring re­sult­ing from this cre­ative part­ner­ship is the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek—the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek—that unique be­ing who sub­se­quently col­lab­o­rates with the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit to bring into ex­is­tence the en­tire group of that name.

• executive associate of Gabriel; chief executive in Gabriel’s absence
• never away from Salvington when Gabriel is away
• presides over emergency commissions, advisory bodies

35:1.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek acts as the first ex­ec­u­tive as­so­ciate of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Ga­briel is oc­cu­pied more with uni­verse poli­cies, Mel­chiz­e­dek with prac­ti­cal pro­ce­dures. Ga­briel pre­sides over the reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted tri­bu­nals and coun­cils of Neb­a­don, Mel­chiz­e­dek over the spe­cial, ex­traor­di­nary, and emer­gency com­mis­sions and ad­vi­sory bod­ies. Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek are never away from Sal­ving­ton at the same time, for in Ga­briel’s ab­sence the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek func­tions as the chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don.

35:1.3The Mel­chiz­e­deks of our uni­verse were all cre­ated within one mil­len­nial pe­riod of stan­dard time by the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit in li­ai­son with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Be­ing an or­der of son­ship wherein one of their own num­ber func­tioned as co-or­di­nate cre­ator, Mel­chiz­e­deks are in con­sti­tu­tion partly of self-ori­gin and there­fore can­di­dates for the re­al­iza­tion of a su­per­nal type of self-gov­ern­ment. They pe­ri­od­i­cally elect their own ad­min­is­tra­tive chief for a term of seven years of stan­dard time and oth­er­wise func­tion as a self-reg­u­lat­ing or­der, though the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek does ex­er­cise cer­tain in­her­ent co­parental pre­rog­a­tives. From time to time this Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek des­ig­nates cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als of his or­der to func­tion as spe­cial Life Car­ri­ers to the mid­sonite worlds, a type of in­hab­ited planet not here­to­fore re­vealed on Uran­tia.

• always free to travel in interests of his order

35:1.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side the lo­cal uni­verse ex­cept when they are called as wit­nesses in mat­ters pend­ing be­fore the tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse, and when des­ig­nated spe­cial am­bas­sadors, as they some­times are, rep­re­sent­ing one uni­verse to an­other in the same super­uni­verse. The orig­i­nal or first-born Mel­chiz­e­dek of each uni­verse is al­ways at lib­erty to jour­ney to the neigh­bor­ing uni­verses or to Par­a­dise on mis­sions hav­ing to do with the in­ter­ests and du­ties of his or­der.

• represents Michael in Life Carrier deliberations

36:2.12The Sec­ond World is the life-de­sign­ing sphere; here all new modes of life or­ga­ni­za­tion are worked out. While the orig­i­nal life de­signs are pro­vided by the Cre­ator Son, the ac­tual out­work­ing of these plans is in­trusted to the Life Car­ri­ers and their as­so­ciates. When the gen­eral life plans for a new world have been for­mu­lated, they are trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters sphere, where they are minutely scru­ti­nized by the su­preme coun­cil of the se­nior Life Car­ri­ers in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a corps of con­sult­ing Mel­chiz­e­deks. If the plans are a de­par­ture from pre­vi­ously ac­cepted for­mu­las, they must be passed upon, and en­dorsed by, the Cre­ator Son. The chief of Mel­chiz­e­deks of­ten rep­re­sents the Cre­ator Son in these de­lib­er­a­tions.

• created spironga with Gabriel

37:10.2The Spironga are the spirit off­spring of the Bright and Morn­ing Star and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. They are ex­empt from per­son­al­ity ter­mi­na­tion but are not evo­lu­tion­ary or as­cend­ing be­ings. Nei­ther are they func­tion­ally con­cerned with the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion regime. They are the spirit helpers of the lo­cal uni­verse, ex­e­cut­ing the rou­tine spirit tasks of Neb­a­don.

• directs stabilization corps in light and life

55:10.3The As­so­ciate In­spec­tor now mo­bi­lizes all As­signed Sen­tinels to con­sti­tute the sta­bi­liza­tion corps of the lo­cal uni­verse and asks the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek to share its super­vi­sion with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Union of Days.

• temple to Michael is in foreground of F.M.’s home

119:1.4And this is about all that ap­pears on the rec­ords of Sal­ving­ton re­gard­ing the first Mi­chael be­stowal. Noth­ing more ap­pears un­til af­ter one hun­dred years of Uran­tia time, when there was re­corded the fact of Mi­chael’s re­turn and unan­nounced re­sump­tion of the di­rec­tion of uni­verse af­fairs. But a strange rec­ord is to be found on the Mel­chiz­e­dek world, a recital of the ser­vice of this unique Mel­chiz­e­dek Son of the emer­gency corps of that age. This rec­ord is pre­served in a sim­ple tem­ple which now oc­cu­pies the fore­ground of the home of the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, and it com­prises the nar­ra­tion of the ser­vice of this tran­si­tory Mel­chiz­e­dek Son in con­nec­tion with his as­sign­ment to twenty-four mis­sions of uni­verse emer­gency. And this rec­ord, which I have so re­cently re­viewed, ends thus:

• with Jesus at transfiguration

158:1.6It was about three o’clock on this beau­ti­ful af­ter­noon that Je­sus took leave of the three apos­tles, say­ing: “I go apart by my­self for a sea­son to com­mune with the Fa­ther and his mes­sen­gers; I bid you tarry here and, while await­ing my re­turn, pray that the Fa­ther’s will may be done in all your ex­pe­ri­ence in con­nec­tion with the fur­ther be­stowal mis­sion of the Son of Man.” And af­ter say­ing this to them, Je­sus with­drew for a long con­fer­ence with Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, not re­turn­ing un­til about six o’clock. When Je­sus saw their anx­i­ety over his pro­longed ab­sence, he said: “Why were you afraid? You well know I must be about my Fa­ther’s busi­ness; where­fore do you doubt when I am not with you? I now de­clare that the Son of Man has cho­sen to go through his full life in your midst and as one of you. Be of good cheer; I will not leave you un­til my work is fin­ished.”

• Father Melchizedek

189:1.10The first act of Je­sus on aris­ing from the tomb was to greet Ga­briel and in­struct him to con­tinue in ex­ec­u­tive charge of uni­verse af­fairs un­der Im­manuel, and then he di­rected the chief of the Mel­chiz­e­deks to con­vey his broth­erly greet­ings to Im­manuel. He there­upon asked the Most High of Eden­tia for the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the An­cients of Days as to his mor­tal tran­sit; and turn­ing to the as­sem­bled mor­ontia groups of the seven man­sion worlds, here gath­ered to­gether to greet and wel­come their Cre­ator as a crea­ture of their or­der, Je­sus spoke the first words of the post­mor­tal ca­reer. Said the mor­ontia Je­sus: “Hav­ing fin­ished my life in the flesh, I would tarry here for a short time in tran­si­tion form that I may more fully know the life of my as­cen­dant crea­tures and fur­ther re­veal the will of my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.”