Melchizedek receivers

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.

67:6.6The twelve Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia did heroic work. They pre­served the rem­nants of civ­i­liza­tion, and their plan­e­tary poli­cies were faith­fully ex­e­cuted by Van. Within one thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion he had more than three hun­dred and fifty ad­vanced groups scat­tered abroad in the world. These out­posts of civ­i­liza­tion con­sisted largely of the de­scen­dants of the loyal An­don­ites slightly ad­mixed with the San­gik races, par­tic­u­larly the blue men, and with the Nod­ites.

93:0.2The Mel­chiz­e­dek or­der of uni­verse son­ship has been ex­ceed­ingly ac­tive on Uran­tia. A corps of twelve served in con­junc­tion with the Life Car­ri­ers. A later corps of twelve be­came re­ceivers for your world shortly af­ter the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion and con­tin­ued in au­thor­ity un­til the time of Adam and Eve. These twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks re­turned to Uran­tia upon the de­fault of Adam and Eve, and they con­tin­ued there­after as plan­e­tary re­ceivers on down to the day when Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, as the Son of Man, be­came the tit­u­lar Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia.

74:2.6The next act was the de­liv­ery of the charge of plan­e­tary cus­tody to Adam and Eve by the se­nior Mel­chiz­e­dek, chief of the coun­cil of re­ceiver­ship on Uran­tia. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter took the oath of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek and to Mi­chael of Neb­a­don and were pro­claimed rulers of Uran­tia by Van, who thereby re­lin­quished the tit­u­lar au­thor­ity which for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years he had held by virtue of the ac­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers.

74:5.1For al­most seven years af­ter Adam’s ar­rival the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers re­mained on duty, but the time fi­nally came when they turned the ad­min­is­tra­tion of world af­fairs over to Adam and re­turned to Je­ru­sem.

50:4.13Many of the off­spring of the as­cend­ers of the Prince’s ma­te­ri­al­ized staff re­mained loyal, de­sert­ing the ranks of Cali­gas­tia. These loy­al­ists were en­cour­aged by the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia, and in later times their de­scen­dants did much to up­hold the plan­e­tary con­cepts of truth and righ­teous­ness. The work of these loyal evan­gels helped to pre­vent the to­tal oblit­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual truth on Uran­tia. These coura­geous souls and their de­scen­dants kept alive some knowl­edge of the Fa­ther’s rule and pre­served for the world races the con­cept of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions of the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons.

75:6.1When Adam learned that the Nod­ites were on the march, he sought the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, but they re­fused to ad­vise him, only telling him to do as he thought best and promis­ing their friendly co-op­er­a­tion, as far as pos­si­ble, in any course he might de­cide upon. The Mel­chiz­e­deks had been for­bid­den to in­ter­fere with the per­sonal plans of Adam and Eve.

79:5.9These civ­i­liza­tions were evo­lu­tion­ary prod­ucts of the San­giks, not­with­stand­ing that traces of And­ite blood reached Peru. Ex­cept­ing the Es­ki­mos in North Amer­ica and a few Poly­ne­sian And­ites in South Amer­ica, the peo­ples of the West­ern Hemi­sphere had no con­tact with the rest of the world un­til the end of the first mil­len­nium af­ter Christ. In the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek plan for the im­prove­ment of the Uran­tia races it had been stip­u­lated that one mil­lion of the pure-line de­scen­dants of Adam should go to up­step the red men of the Amer­i­cas.

76:5.1Not long af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond Eden, Adam and Eve were duly in­formed that their re­pen­tance was ac­cept­able, and that, while they were doomed to suf­fer the fate of the mor­tals of their world, they should cer­tainly be­come el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the ranks of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of Uran­tia. They fully be­lieved this gospel of res­ur­rec­tion and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion which the Mel­chiz­e­deks so touch­ingly pro­claimed to them. Their trans­gres­sion had been an er­ror of judg­ment and not the sin of con­scious and de­lib­er­ate re­bel­lion.

75:5.8Time passed, but Adam was not cer­tain of the na­ture of their of­fense un­til sev­enty days af­ter the de­fault of Eve, when the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers re­turned to Uran­tia and as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion over world af­fairs. And then he knew they had failed.

67:3.10There is no end to the recital of the stir­ring events of these tragic days. But at last the fi­nal de­ci­sion of the last per­son­al­ity was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Eden­tia ar­rive with the emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks to seize au­thor­ity on Uran­tia. The Cali­gas­tia panoramic reign-rec­ords on Je­ru­sem were oblit­er­ated, and the pro­ba­tion­ary era of plan­e­tary re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion was in­au­gu­rated.

74:1.3When the procla­ma­tion was is­sued call­ing for vol­un­teers for the mis­sion of Adamic ad­ven­ture on Uran­tia, the en­tire se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters vol­un­teered. The Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, with the ap­proval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Eden­tia, fi­nally se­lected the Adam and Eve who sub­se­quently came to func­tion as the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Uran­tia.

74:1.4Adam and Eve had re­mained loyal to Mi­chael dur­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion; nev­er­the­less, the pair were called be­fore the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and his en­tire cab­i­net for ex­am­i­na­tion and in­struc­tion. The de­tails of Uran­tia af­fairs were fully pre­sented; they were ex­haus­tively in­structed as to the plans to be pur­sued in ac­cept­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ruler­ship on such a strife-torn world. They were put un­der joint oaths of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Eden­tia and to Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And they were duly ad­vised to re­gard them­selves as sub­ject to the Uran­tia corps of Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers un­til that gov­ern­ing body should see fit to re­lin­quish rule on the world of their as­sign­ment.

93:1.3And it was in con­se­quence of hav­ing been thrown so com­pletely on their own re­sources that Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, one of the twelve plan­e­tary re­ceivers, vol­un­teered to do that which had been done only six times in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don: to per­son­al­ize on earth as a tem­po­rary man of the realm, to be­stow him­self as an emer­gency Son of world min­istry. Per­mis­sion was granted for this ad­ven­ture by the Sal­ving­ton au­thor­i­ties, and the ac­tual in­car­na­tion of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek was con­sum­mated near what was to be­come the city of Salem, in Pales­tine. The en­tire trans­ac­tion of the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of this Mel­chiz­e­dek Son was com­pleted by the plan­e­tary re­ceivers with the co-op­er­a­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers, cer­tain of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, and other ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on Uran­tia.

51:3.4The plans for race up­step­ping are pre­pared by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff and are ex­e­cuted by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Ma­te­rial Son and his com­pan­ion were placed at great dis­ad­van­tage when they ar­rived on Uran­tia. Cali­gas­tia of­fered crafty and ef­fec­tive op­po­si­tion to the Adamic mis­sion; and not­with­stand­ing that the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia had duly warned both Adam and Eve con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary dan­gers in­her­ent in the pres­ence of the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, this arch­re­bel, by a wily stratagem, out­ma­neu­vered the Edenic pair and en­trapped them into a vi­o­la­tion of the covenant of their trustee­ship as the vis­i­ble rulers of your world. The traitorous Plan­e­tary Prince did suc­ceed in com­pro­mis­ing your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his ef­fort to in­volve them in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.