Melchizedek Sons

• are › local universe Sons of God

20:1.64. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

• are › created by Creator Son, Mother Spirit, and Father Melchizedek

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.

• service › 12 accompany Magisterial Sons on bestowal missions

20:2.9In all their work for and on the in­hab­ited worlds, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons are as­sisted by two or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse crea­tures, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the arch­an­gels, while on be­stowal mis­sions they are also ac­com­pa­nied by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, like­wise of ori­gin in the lo­cal cre­ations. In ev­ery plan­e­tary ef­fort the sec­ondary Par­a­dise Sons, the Avo­nals, are sup­ported by the full power and au­thor­ity of a pri­mary Par­a­dise Son, the Cre­ator Son of their lo­cal uni­verse of ser­vice. To all in­tents and pur­poses their work on the in­hab­ited spheres is just as ef­fec­tive and ac­cept­able as would have been the ser­vice of a Cre­ator Son upon such worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion.

• Technical Advisers aid

25:4.18These ex­ceed­ingly wise and prac­ti­cal be­ings are al­ways closely as­so­ci­ated with the ser­vice and work of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The Mel­chiz­e­deks are pro­vided with an able corps. The rulers of the sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, uni­verses, and super­uni­verse sec­tors are all boun­ti­fully sup­plied with these tech­ni­cal or le­gal ref­er­ence minds of the spir­i­tual world. A spe­cial group act as law coun­selors to the Life Car­ri­ers, ad­vis­ing these Sons con­cern­ing the ex­tent of per­mis­si­ble de­par­ture from the es­tab­lished or­der of life prop­a­ga­tion and oth­er­wise in­struct­ing them re­spect­ing their pre­rog­a­tives and lat­i­tudes of func­tion. They are the ad­vis­ers of all classes of be­ings re­gard­ing the proper us­ages and tech­niques of all spirit-world trans­ac­tions. But they do not di­rectly and per­son­ally deal with the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realms.

• in personality registers

30:1.355. The Mel­chiz­e­deks.

• in personality registers

30:2.424. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

• are › created by Creator Son, Mother Spirit, and Father Melchizedek

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.

• all created in same millennium
• are › created by Creator Son, Mother Spirit, and Father Melchizedek
• are › life carriers to midsonite worlds
• are › self-governing

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.

• are › halfway between God and man
• service › function directly in mortal ministry without necessity of incarnation

35:2.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the first or­der of di­vine Sons to ap­proach suf­fi­ciently near the lower crea­ture life to be able to func­tion di­rectly in the min­istry of mor­tal up­lift, to serve the evo­lu­tion­ary races with­out the ne­ces­sity of in­car­na­tion. These Sons are nat­u­rally at the mid-point of the great per­son­al­ity de­scent, by ori­gin be­ing just about mid­way be­tween the high­est Di­vin­ity and the low­est crea­ture life of will en­dow­ment. They thus be­come the nat­u­ral in­ter­me­di­aries be­tween the higher and di­vine lev­els of liv­ing ex­is­tence and the lower, even the ma­te­rial, forms of life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The se­raphic or­ders, the an­gels, de­light to work with the Mel­chiz­e­deks; in fact, all forms of in­tel­li­gent life find in these Sons un­der­stand­ing friends, sym­pa­thetic teach­ers, and wise coun­selors.

• are › self-governing
• have never betrayed their trust

35:2.2The Mel­chiz­e­deks are a self-gov­ern­ing or­der. With this unique group we en­counter the first at­tempt at self-de­ter­mi­na­tion on the part of lo­cal uni­verse be­ings and ob­serve the high­est type of true self-gov­ern­ment. These Sons or­ga­nize their own ma­chin­ery for their group and home-planet ad­min­is­tra­tion, as well as that for the six as­so­ci­ated spheres and their trib­u­tary worlds. And it should be re­corded that they have never abused their pre­rog­a­tives; not once through­out all the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton have these Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons ever be­trayed their trust. They are the hope of ev­ery uni­verse group which as­pires to self-gov­ern­ment; they are the pat­tern and the teach­ers of self-gov­ern­ment to all the spheres of Neb­a­don. All or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, su­pe­ri­ors from above and sub­or­di­nates from be­low, are whole­hearted in their praise of the gov­ern­ment of the Mel­chiz­e­deks.

• are › by nature unprejudiced observers
• service › maintain autonomous intelligence organization

35:2.3The Mel­chiz­e­dek or­der of son­ship oc­cu­pies the po­si­tion, and as­sumes the re­spon­si­bil­ity, of the el­dest son in a large fam­ily. Most of their work is reg­u­lar and some­what rou­tine, but much of it is vol­un­tary and al­to­gether self-im­posed. A ma­jor­ity of the spe­cial as­sem­blies which, from time to time, con­vene on Sal­ving­ton are called on mo­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. On their own ini­tia­tive these Sons pa­trol their na­tive uni­verse. They main­tain an au­ton­o­mous or­ga­ni­za­tion de­voted to uni­verse in­tel­li­gence, mak­ing pe­ri­od­i­cal re­ports to the Cre­ator Son in­de­pen­dent of all in­for­ma­tion com­ing up to uni­verse head­quar­ters through the reg­u­lar agen­cies con­cerned with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the realm. They are by na­ture un­prej­u­diced ob­servers; they have the full con­fi­dence of all classes of in­tel­li­gent be­ings.

• service › function as mobile advisory review courts

35:2.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks func­tion as mo­bile and ad­vi­sory re­view courts of the realms; these uni­verse Sons go in small groups to the worlds to serve as ad­vi­sory com­mis­sions, to take de­po­si­tions, to re­ceive sug­ges­tions, and to act as coun­selors, thus help­ing to com­pose the ma­jor dif­fi­cul­ties and set­tle the se­ri­ous dif­fer­ences which arise from time to time in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains.

• are › chief aids of Gabriel

35:2.5These el­dest Sons of a uni­verse are the chief aids of the Bright and Morn­ing Star in car­ry­ing out the man­dates of the Cre­ator Son. When a Mel­chiz­e­dek goes to a re­mote world in the name of Ga­briel, he may, for the pur­poses of that par­tic­u­lar mis­sion, be dep­u­tized in the name of the sender and in that event will ap­pear on the planet of as­sign­ment with the full au­thor­ity of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Es­pe­cially is this true on those spheres where a higher Son has not yet ap­peared in the like­ness of the crea­tures of the realm.

• service › 12 accompany Magisterial Sons on bestowal missions
• service › incarnate when accompanying Avonal Sons on planetary bestowals

35:2.6When a Cre­ator Son en­ters upon the be­stowal ca­reer on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, he goes alone; but when one of his Par­a­dise broth­ers, an Avo­nal Son, en­ters upon a be­stowal, he is ac­com­pa­nied by the Mel­chiz­e­dek sup­port­ers, twelve in num­ber, who so ef­fi­ciently con­tribute to the suc­cess of the be­stowal mis­sion. They also sup­port the Par­a­dise Avo­nals on mag­is­te­rial mis­sions to the in­hab­ited worlds, and in these as­sign­ments the Mel­chiz­e­deks are vis­i­ble to mor­tal eyes if the Avo­nal Son is also thus man­i­fest.

35:2.7There is no phase of plan­e­tary spir­i­tual need to which they do not min­is­ter. They are the teach­ers who so of­ten win whole worlds of ad­vanced life to the fi­nal and full rec­og­ni­tion of the Cre­ator Son and his Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• are › not infallible in judgment

35:2.8The Mel­chiz­e­deks are well-nigh per­fect in wis­dom, but they are not in­fal­li­ble in judg­ment. When de­tached and alone on plan­e­tary mis­sions, they have some­times erred in mi­nor mat­ters, that is, they have elected to do cer­tain things which their super­vi­sors did not sub­se­quently ap­prove. Such an er­ror of judg­ment tem­porar­ily dis­qual­i­fies a Mel­chiz­e­dek un­til he goes to Sal­ving­ton and, in au­di­ence with the Cre­ator Son, re­ceives that in­struc­tion which ef­fec­tu­ally purges him of the dishar­mony which caused dis­agree­ment with his fel­lows; and then, fol­low­ing the cor­rec­tional rest, re­in­state­ment to ser­vice en­sues on the third day. But these mi­nor mis­adap­ta­tions in Mel­chiz­e­dek func­tion have rarely oc­curred in Neb­a­don.

• stationary number; 10 million in Nebadon

35:2.9These Sons are not an in­creas­ing or­der; their num­ber is sta­tion­ary, al­though vary­ing in each lo­cal uni­verse. The num­ber of Mel­chiz­e­deks of rec­ord on their head­quar­ters planet in Neb­a­don is up­ward of ten mil­lion.

35:3.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks oc­cupy a world of their own near Sal­ving­ton, the uni­verse head­quar­ters. This sphere, by name Mel­chiz­e­dek, is the pi­lot world of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit of sev­enty pri­mary spheres, each of which is en­cir­cled by six trib­u­tary spheres de­voted to spe­cial­ized ac­tiv­i­ties. These mar­velous spheres—sev­enty pri­maries and 420 trib­u­taries—are of­ten spo­ken of as the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity. As­cend­ing mor­tals from all the con­stel­la­tions of Neb­a­don pass through train­ing on all 490 worlds in the ac­quire­ment of res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Sal­ving­ton. But the ed­u­ca­tion of as­cend­ers is only one phase of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties tak­ing place on the Sal­ving­ton clus­ter of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres.

• home world is sphere Melchizedek

35:3.2The 490 spheres of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are di­vided into ten groups, each con­tain­ing seven pri­mary and forty-two trib­u­tary spheres. Each of these groups is un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of some one of the ma­jor or­ders of uni­verse life. The first group, em­brac­ing the pi­lot world and the next six pri­mary spheres in the en­cir­cling plan­e­tary pro­ces­sion, is un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. These Mel­chiz­e­dek worlds are:

35:3.31. The pi­lot world—the home world of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

35:3.42. The world of the phys­i­cal-life schools and the lab­o­ra­to­ries of liv­ing en­er­gies.

35:3.53. The world of mor­ontia life.

35:3.64. The sphere of ini­tial spirit life.

35:3.75. The world of mid-spirit life.

35:3.86. The sphere of ad­vanc­ing spirit life.

35:3.97. The do­main of co-or­di­nate and su­preme self-re­al­iza­tion.

35:3.10The six trib­u­tary worlds of each of these Mel­chiz­e­dek spheres are de­voted to ac­tiv­i­ties ger­mane to the work of the as­so­ci­ated pri­mary sphere.

35:3.11The pi­lot world, the sphere Mel­chiz­e­dek, is the com­mon meet­ing ground for all be­ings who are en­gaged in ed­u­cat­ing and spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time and space. To an as­cender this world is prob­a­bly the most in­ter­est­ing place in all Neb­a­don. All evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals who grad­u­ate from their con­stel­la­tion train­ing are des­tined to land on Mel­chiz­e­dek, where they are ini­ti­ated into the regime of the dis­ci­plines and spirit pro­gres­sion of the Sal­ving­ton ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem. And never will you for­get your re­ac­tions to the first day of life on this unique world, not even af­ter you have reached your Par­a­dise des­ti­na­tion.

35:3.12As­cend­ing mor­tals main­tain res­i­dence on the Mel­chiz­e­dek world while pur­su­ing their train­ing on the six en­cir­cling plan­ets of spe­cial­ized ed­u­ca­tion. And this same method is ad­hered to through­out their so­journ on the sev­enty cul­tural worlds, the pri­mary spheres of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit.

35:3.13Many di­verse ac­tiv­i­ties oc­cupy the time of the nu­mer­ous be­ings who re­side on the six trib­u­tary worlds of the Mel­chiz­e­dek sphere, but as con­cerns the as­cend­ing mor­tals, these satel­lites are de­voted to the fol­low­ing spe­cial phases of study:

35:3.141. Sphere num­ber one is oc­cu­pied with the re­view of the ini­tial plan­e­tary life of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. This work is car­ried on in classes com­posed of those who hail from a given world of mor­tal ori­gin. Those from Uran­tia pur­sue such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­view to­gether.

35:3.152. The spe­cial work of sphere num­ber two con­sists in a sim­i­lar re­view of the ex­pe­ri­ences passed through on the man­sion worlds en­cir­cling the pre­mier satel­lite of the lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters.

35:3.163. The re­views of this sphere per­tain to the so­journ on the cap­i­tal of the lo­cal sys­tem and em­brace the ac­tiv­i­ties of the re­main­der of the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters clus­ter.

35:3.174. The fourth sphere is oc­cu­pied with a re­view of the ex­pe­ri­ences of the sev­enty trib­u­tary worlds of the con­stel­la­tion and of their as­so­ci­ated spheres.

35:3.185. On the fifth sphere there is con­ducted the re­view of the as­cen­dant so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters world.

35:3.196. The time on sphere num­ber six is de­voted to an at­tempt to cor­re­late these five epochs and thus achieve co-or­di­na­tion of ex­pe­ri­ence prepara­tory to en­ter­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek pri­mary schools of uni­verse train­ing.

35:3.20The schools of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and spir­i­tual wis­dom are lo­cated on the Mel­chiz­e­dek home world, where also are to be found those schools de­voted to a sin­gle line of re­search, such as en­ergy, mat­ter, or­ga­ni­za­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, rec­ords, ethics, and com­par­a­tive crea­ture ex­is­tence.

35:3.21In the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Spir­i­tual En­dow­ment all or­ders—even the Par­a­dise or­ders—of the Sons of God co-op­er­ate with the Mel­chiz­e­dek and the se­raphic teach­ers in train­ing the hosts who go forth as evan­gels of des­tiny, pro­claim­ing spir­i­tual lib­erty and di­vine son­ship even to the re­mote worlds of the uni­verse. This par­tic­u­lar school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity is an ex­clu­sive uni­verse in­sti­tu­tion; stu­dent vis­i­tors are not re­ceived from other realms.

• Nebadon’s M.S. are renowned

35:3.22The high­est course of train­ing in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion is given by the Mel­chiz­e­deks on their home world. This Col­lege of High Ethics is pre­sided over by the orig­i­nal Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. It is to these schools that the var­i­ous uni­verses send ex­change stu­dents. While the young uni­verse of Neb­a­don stands low in the scale of uni­verses as re­gards spir­i­tual achieve­ment and high eth­i­cal de­vel­op­ment, nev­er­the­less, our ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­bles have so turned the whole uni­verse into a vast clinic for other near-by cre­ations that the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges are thronged with stu­dent vis­i­tors and ob­servers from other realms. Be­sides the im­mense group of lo­cal reg­is­trants there are al­ways up­ward of one hun­dred thou­sand for­eign stu­dents in at­ten­dance upon the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools, for the or­der of Mel­chiz­e­deks in Neb­a­don is renowned through­out all Splan­don.

35:4.1A highly spe­cial­ized branch of Mel­chiz­e­dek ac­tiv­i­ties has to do with the super­vi­sion of the pro­gres­sive mor­ontia ca­reer of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. Much of this train­ing is con­ducted by the pa­tient and wise se­raphic min­is­ters, as­sisted by mor­tals who have as­cended to rel­a­tively higher lev­els of uni­verse at­tain­ment, but all of this ed­u­ca­tional work is un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• are › known as emergency Sons

35:4.2While the Mel­chiz­e­dek or­ders are chiefly de­voted to the vast ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem and ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing regime of the lo­cal uni­verse, they also func­tion in unique as­sign­ments and in un­usual cir­cum­stances. In an evolv­ing uni­verse even­tu­ally em­brac­ing ap­prox­i­mately ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, many things out of the or­di­nary are des­tined to hap­pen, and it is in such emer­gen­cies that the Mel­chiz­e­deks act. On Eden­tia, your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, they are known as emer­gency Sons. They are al­ways ready to serve in all ex­i­gen­cies—phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, or spir­i­tual—whether on a planet, in a sys­tem, in a con­stel­la­tion, or in the uni­verse. When­ever and wher­ever spe­cial help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

35:4.3When fail­ure of some fea­ture of the Cre­ator Son’s plan is threat­ened, forth­with will go a Mel­chiz­e­dek to ren­der as­sis­tance. But not of­ten are they sum­moned to func­tion in the pres­ence of sin­ful re­bel­lion, such as oc­curred in Sa­ta­nia.

• are › receivers of defaulting planetary governments
• easily make themselves visible
• service › incarnated as humans 7 times in Nebadon
• service › metamorphic range of personality function, incarnation

35:4.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the first to act in all emer­gen­cies of what­ever na­ture on all worlds where will crea­tures dwell. They some­times act as tem­po­rary cus­to­di­ans on way­ward plan­ets, serv­ing as re­ceivers of a de­fault­ing plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment. In a plan­e­tary cri­sis these Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons serve in many unique ca­pac­i­ties. It is eas­ily pos­si­ble for such a Son to make him­self vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings, and some­times one of this or­der has even in­car­nated in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. Seven times in Neb­a­don has a Mel­chiz­e­dek served on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in the simil­i­tude of mor­tal flesh, and on nu­mer­ous oc­ca­sions these Sons have ap­peared in the like­ness of other or­ders of uni­verse crea­tures. They are in­deed the ver­sa­tile and vol­un­teer emer­gency min­is­ters to all or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences and to all the worlds and sys­tems of worlds.

35:4.5The Mel­chiz­e­dek who lived on Uran­tia dur­ing the time of Abra­ham was lo­cally known as Prince of Salem be­cause he pre­sided over a small colony of truth seek­ers re­sid­ing at a place called Salem. He vol­un­teered to in­car­nate in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh and did so with the ap­proval of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of the planet, who feared that the light of life would be­come ex­tin­guished dur­ing that pe­riod of in­creas­ing spir­i­tual dark­ness. And he did fos­ter the truth of his day and safely pass it on to Abra­ham and his as­so­ciates.

• no powers of reproduction

35:5.2The num­ber of Voron­dadeks varies in each lo­cal uni­verse, just one mil­lion be­ing the re­corded num­ber in Neb­a­don. These Sons, like their co-or­di­nates, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, pos­sess no power of re­pro­duc­tion. There ex­ists no known method whereby they can in­crease their num­bers.

• service › sent as advisers to Life Carriers until arrival of Planetary Prince

36:1.3Life Car­ri­ers are graded into three grand di­vi­sions: The first di­vi­sion is the se­nior Life Car­ri­ers, the sec­ond, as­sis­tants, and the third, cus­to­di­ans. The pri­mary di­vi­sion is sub­di­vided into twelve groups of spe­cial­ists in the var­i­ous forms of life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The seg­re­ga­tion of these three di­vi­sions was ef­fected by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, who con­ducted tests for such pur­poses on the Life Car­ri­ers’ head­quar­ters sphere. The Mel­chiz­e­deks have ever since been closely as­so­ci­ated with the Life Car­ri­ers and al­ways ac­com­pany them when they go forth to es­tab­lish life on a new planet.

• service › in charge of 1st, 4th Salvington circuits

36:2.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks have the gen­eral over­sight of the fourth group of seven pri­mary spheres in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit. These worlds of the Life Car­ri­ers are des­ig­nated as fol­lows:

36:4.1In ev­ery lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds through­out Neb­a­don there is a sin­gle sphere whereon the Mel­chiz­e­deks have func­tioned as life car­ri­ers. These abodes are known as the sys­tem mid­sonite worlds, and on each of them a ma­te­ri­ally mod­i­fied Mel­chiz­e­dek Son has mated with a se­lected Daugh­ter of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship. The Mother Eves of such mid­sonite worlds are dis­patched from the sys­tem head­quar­ters of ju­ris­dic­tion, hav­ing been cho­sen by the des­ig­nated Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­rier from among the nu­mer­ous vol­un­teers who re­spond to the call of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ad­dressed to the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters of his sphere.

36:4.2The progeny of a Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­rier and a Ma­te­rial Daugh­ter are known as mid­soniters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek fa­ther of such a race of su­per­nal crea­tures even­tu­ally leaves the planet of his unique life func­tion, and the Mother Eve of this spe­cial or­der of uni­verse be­ings also de­parts upon the ap­pear­ance of the sev­enth gen­er­a­tion of plan­e­tary off­spring. The di­rec­tion of such a world then de­volves upon her el­dest son.

36:4.3The mid­sonite crea­tures live and func­tion as re­pro­duc­ing be­ings on their mag­nif­i­cent worlds un­til they are one thou­sand stan­dard years of age; where­upon they are trans­lated by se­raphic trans­port. Mid­soniters are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings there­after be­cause the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which they pass through in prepa­ra­tion for en­seraphim­ing for­ever de­prives them of re­pro­duc­tive pre­rog­a­tives.

36:4.4The pres­ent sta­tus of these be­ings can hardly be reck­oned as ei­ther mor­tal or im­mor­tal, nei­ther can they be def­i­nitely clas­si­fied as hu­man or di­vine. These crea­tures are not Ad­juster in­dwelt, hence hardly im­mor­tal. But nei­ther do they seem to be mor­tal; no mid­soniter has ex­pe­ri­enced death. All mid­soniters ever born in Neb­a­don are alive to­day, func­tion­ing on their na­tive worlds, on some in­ter­ven­ing sphere, or on the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere in the fi­nal­i­ters’ group of worlds.

36:4.5The Sal­ving­ton Worlds of the Fi­nal­i­ters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers, as well as the as­so­ci­ated Mother Eves, go from the sys­tem mid­sonite spheres to the fi­nal­i­ters’ worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit, where their off­spring are also des­tined to for­gather.

36:4.6It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that the fifth group of seven pri­mary worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the Neb­a­don worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters. The chil­dren of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers and the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters are domi­ciled on the sev­enth world of the fi­nal­i­ters, the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere.

36:4.7The satel­lites of the seven pri­mary worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters are the ren­dezvous of the per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses who may be ex­e­cut­ing as­sign­ments in Neb­a­don. While the as­cend­ing mor­tals go about freely on all of the cul­tural worlds and train­ing spheres of the 490 worlds com­pris­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity, there are cer­tain spe­cial schools and nu­mer­ous re­stricted zones which they are not per­mit­ted to en­ter. This is es­pe­cially true of the forty-nine spheres un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the fi­nal­i­ters.

36:4.8The pur­pose of the mid­sonite crea­tures is not at pres­ent known, but it would ap­pear that these per­son­al­i­ties are for­gath­er­ing on the sev­enth fi­nal­i­ter world in prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture even­tu­al­ity in uni­verse evo­lu­tion. Our in­quiries con­cern­ing the mid­sonite races are al­ways re­ferred to the fi­nal­i­ters, and al­ways do the fi­nal­i­ters de­cline to dis­cuss the des­tiny of their wards. Re­gard­less of our un­cer­tainty as to the fu­ture of the mid­soniters, we do know that ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse in Or­von­ton har­bors such an ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of these mys­te­ri­ous be­ings. It is the be­lief of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers that their mid­sonite chil­dren will some day be en­dowed with the tran­scen­den­tal and eter­nal spirit of ab­sonity by God the Ul­ti­mate.

• service › sponsor Nebadon educational system

37:6.1The Neb­a­don ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem is jointly ad­min­is­tered by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and the Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ing corps, but much of the work de­signed to ef­fect its main­te­nance and up­build­ing is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Over­seers. These be­ings are a re­cruited corps em­brac­ing all types of in­di­vid­u­als con­nected with the scheme of ed­u­cat­ing and train­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals. There are up­ward of three mil­lion of them in Neb­a­don, and they are all vol­un­teers who have qual­i­fied by ex­pe­ri­ence to serve as ed­u­ca­tional ad­vis­ers to the en­tire realm. From their head­quar­ters on the Sal­ving­ton worlds of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, these over­seers range the lo­cal uni­verse as in­spec­tors of the Neb­a­don school tech­nique de­signed to ef­fect the mind train­ing and the spirit ed­u­ca­tion of the as­cend­ing crea­tures.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

38:9.14[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek act­ing by re­quest of the Chief of the Se­raphic Hosts of Neb­a­don.]

• are › receivers of defaulting planetary governments

39:4.3These same se­raphic ad­min­is­tra­tors are also at­tached to the gov­ern­ments of the world rulers, the Plan­e­tary Princes. The ma­jor­ity of plan­ets in a given uni­verse are un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of a sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son, but on cer­tain worlds, such as Uran­tia, there has been a mis­car­riage of the di­vine plan. In the event of the de­fec­tion of a Plan­e­tary Prince, these ser­a­phim be­come at­tached to the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers and their suc­ces­sors in plan­e­tary au­thor­ity. The pres­ent act­ing ruler of Uran­tia is as­sisted by a corps of one thou­sand of this ver­sa­tile or­der of ser­a­phim.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

39:9.4[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek act­ing by re­quest of the Chief of the Se­raphic Hosts of Neb­a­don.]

• service › supervise resurrection halls for modified ascenders on Edentia

43:1.5Sit­u­ated on the sum­mit of the sev­enth high­land range are the res­ur­rec­tion halls of Eden­tia, wherein awaken the as­cend­ing mor­tals of the sec­ondary mod­i­fied or­der of as­cen­sion. These cham­bers of crea­ture re­assem­bly are un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. The first of the re­ceiv­ing spheres of Eden­tia (like the planet Mel­chiz­e­dek near Sal­ving­ton) also has spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion halls, wherein the mor­tals of the mod­i­fied or­ders of as­cen­sion are re­assem­bled.

• service › colleges on Edentia

43:1.6The Mel­chiz­e­deks also main­tain two spe­cial col­leges on Eden­tia. One, the emer­gency school, is de­voted to the study of prob­lems grow­ing out of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion. The other, the be­stowal school, is ded­i­cated to the mas­tery of the new prob­lems aris­ing out of the fact that Mi­chael made his fi­nal be­stowal on one of the worlds of Nor­la­ti­adek. This lat­ter col­lege was es­tab­lished al­most forty thou­sand years ago, im­me­di­ately af­ter the an­nounce­ment by Mi­chael that Uran­tia had been se­lected as the world for his fi­nal be­stowal.

• service › all judicial problems reviewed by council of

43:2.4All ju­di­cial prob­lems are first re­viewed by the coun­cil of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Twelve of this or­der who have had cer­tain req­ui­site ex­pe­ri­ence on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets and on the sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds are em­pow­ered to re­view ev­i­dence, di­gest pleas, and for­mu­late pro­vi­sional ver­dicts, which are passed on to the court of the Most High, the reign­ing Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther. The mor­tal di­vi­sion of this lat­ter tri­bu­nal con­sists of seven judges, all of whom are as­cen­dant mor­tals. The higher you as­cend in the uni­verse, the more cer­tain you are to be judged by those of your own kind.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

43:9.6[Spon­sored by Malava­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek.]

• service › chief serves on Jerusem executive council

45:3.134. The chief of Sa­ta­nia Mel­chiz­e­deks.

45:7.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the di­rec­tors of that large corps of in­struc­tors—par­tially spir­i­tu­al­ized will crea­tures and oth­ers—who func­tion so ac­cept­ably on Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds but es­pe­cially on the seven man­sion worlds. These are the de­ten­tion plan­ets, where those mor­tals who fail to achieve fu­sion with their in­dwelling Ad­justers dur­ing the life in the flesh are re­ha­bil­i­tated in tran­sient form to re­ceive fur­ther help and to en­joy ex­tended op­por­tu­nity for con­tin­u­ing their striv­ings for spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, those very ef­forts which were pre­ma­turely in­ter­rupted by death. Or if, for any other rea­son of hered­i­tary hand­i­cap, un­fa­vor­able en­vi­ron­ment, or con­spir­acy of cir­cum­stances, this soul at­tain­ment was not com­pleted, no mat­ter what the rea­son, all who are true of pur­pose and wor­thy in spirit find them­selves, as them­selves, pres­ent on the con­tin­u­ing plan­ets, where they must learn to mas­ter the es­sen­tials of the eter­nal ca­reer, to pos­sess them­selves of traits which they could not, or did not, ac­quire dur­ing the life­time in the flesh.

• service › teach on Jerusem

45:7.2The Bril­liant Evening Stars (and their un­named co-or­di­nates) fre­quently serve as teach­ers in the var­i­ous ed­u­ca­tional en­ter­prises of the uni­verse, in­clud­ing those spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Also do the Trin­ity Teacher Sons col­lab­o­rate, and they im­part the touches of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion to these pro­gres­sive train­ing schools. But all these ac­tiv­i­ties are not ex­clu­sively de­voted to the ad­vance­ment of as­cend­ing mor­tals; many are equally oc­cu­pied with the pro­gres­sive train­ing of the na­tive spirit per­son­al­i­ties of Neb­a­don.

45:7.3The Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons con­duct up­ward of thirty dif­fer­ent ed­u­ca­tional cen­ters on Je­ru­sem. These train­ing schools be­gin with the col­lege of self-eval­u­a­tion and end with the schools of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship, wherein the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters join with the Mel­chiz­e­deks and oth­ers in their su­preme ef­fort to qual­ify the mor­tal sur­vivors for the as­sump­tion of the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment. The en­tire uni­verse is or­ga­nized and ad­min­is­tered on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive plan. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment is the di­vine ideal of self-gov­ern­ment among non­per­fect be­ings.

45:7.4Ev­ery one hun­dred years of uni­verse time each sys­tem se­lects its ten rep­re­sen­ta­tives to sit in the con­stel­la­tion leg­is­la­ture. They are cho­sen by the Je­ru­sem coun­cil of one thou­sand, an elec­tive body charged with the duty of rep­re­sent­ing the sys­tem groups in all such del­e­gated or ap­pointive mat­ters. All rep­re­sen­ta­tives or other del­e­gates are se­lected by the coun­cil of one thou­sand elec­tors, and they must be grad­u­ates of the high­est school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Ad­min­is­tra­tion, as also are all of those who con­sti­tute this group of one thou­sand elec­tors. This school is fos­tered by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, lat­terly as­sisted by the fi­nal­i­ters.

45:7.5There are many elec­tive bod­ies on Je­ru­sem, and they are voted into au­thor­ity from time to time by three or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship—the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates, in­clud­ing mid­way crea­tures, and the as­cend­ing mor­tals. To re­ceive nom­i­na­tion for rep­re­sen­ta­tive honor a can­di­date must have gained req­ui­site rec­og­ni­tion from the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools of ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• service › test Jerusem citizens for suffrage qualifications

45:7.6Suf­frage is uni­ver­sal on Je­ru­sem among these three groups of cit­i­zen­ship, but the vote is dif­fer­en­tially cast in ac­cor­dance with the rec­og­nized and duly reg­is­tered per­sonal pos­ses­sion of mota—mor­ontia wis­dom. The vote cast at a Je­ru­sem elec­tion by any one per­son­al­ity has a value rang­ing from one up to one thou­sand. Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens are thus clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their mota achieve­ment.

45:7.7From time to time Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens pre­sent them­selves to the Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, who cer­tify to their at­tain­ment of mor­ontia wis­dom. Then they go be­fore the ex­am­in­ing corps of the Bril­liant Evening Stars or their des­ig­nates, who as­cer­tain the de­gree of spirit in­sight. Next they ap­pear in the pres­ence of the four and twenty coun­selors and their as­so­ciates, who pass upon their sta­tus of ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment of so­cial­iza­tion. These three fac­tors are then car­ried to the cit­i­zen­ship reg­is­trars of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment, who quickly com­pute the mota sta­tus and as­sign suf­frage qual­i­fi­ca­tions in ac­cor­dance there­with.

45:7.8Un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks the as­cend­ing mor­tals, es­pe­cially those who are tardy in their per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion on the new mor­ontia lev­els, are taken in hand by the Ma­te­rial Sons and are given in­ten­sive train­ing de­signed to rec­tify such de­fi­cien­cies. No as­cend­ing mor­tal leaves the sys­tem head­quar­ters for the more ex­ten­sive and var­ied so­cial­iza­tion ca­reer of the con­stel­la­tion un­til these Ma­te­rial Sons cer­tify to the achieve­ment of mota per­son­al­ity—an in­di­vid­u­al­ity com­bin­ing the com­pleted mor­tal ex­is­tence in ex­pe­ri­en­tial as­so­ci­a­tion with the bud­ding mor­ontia ca­reer, both be­ing duly blended by the spir­i­tual over­con­trol of the Thought Ad­juster.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

45:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of tem­po­rary as­sign­ment on Uran­tia.]

• are › dominant influence on Jerusem
• residence in Jerusem circles
• service › mortals’ foster fathers on Jerusem

46:5.14The third cir­cle is de­voted to the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Here the sys­tem chiefs re­side and super­vise the al­most end­less ac­tiv­i­ties of these ver­sa­tile Sons. From the first of the man­sion worlds on through all the Je­ru­sem ca­reer of as­cend­ing mor­tals, the Mel­chiz­e­deks are fos­ter fa­thers and ever-pres­ent ad­vis­ers. It would not be amiss to say that they are the dom­i­nant in­flu­ence on Je­ru­sem aside from the ever-pres­ent ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters.

• service › direct mansion worlds

47:0.4The seven man­sion worlds are in charge of the mor­ontia super­vi­sors and the Mel­chiz­e­deks. There is an act­ing gov­er­nor on each world who is di­rectly re­spon­si­ble to the Je­ru­sem rulers. The Uversa con­cil­ia­tors main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the man­sion worlds, while ad­join­ing is the lo­cal ren­dezvous of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors and ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans main­tain group head­quar­ters on each of these worlds. The spironga func­tion from man­sion world num­ber two on­ward, while all seven, in com­mon with the other tran­si­tional-cul­ture plan­ets and the head­quar­ters world, are abun­dantly pro­vided with sporna­gia of stan­dard cre­ation.

• service › direct mansion worlds

47:2.2It is these same de­serted cheru­bim who, as Man­sion World Teach­ers, un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, main­tain such ex­ten­sive ed­u­ca­tional fa­cil­i­ties for the train­ing of the pro­ba­tion­ary wards of the fi­nal­i­ters. These wards of the fi­nal­i­ters, these in­fants of as­cend­ing mor­tals, are al­ways per­son­al­ized as of their ex­act phys­i­cal sta­tus at the time of death ex­cept for re­pro­duc­tive po­ten­tial. This awak­en­ing oc­curs at the ex­act time of the pa­ren­tal ar­rival on the first man­sion world. And then are these chil­dren given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity, as they are, to choose the heav­enly way just as they would have made such a choice on the worlds where death so un­timely ter­mi­nated their ca­reers.

• service › commission Mansion World Teachers

48:5.4Man­sion World Teach­ers, like most of the other in­struc­tors, are com­mis­sioned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. They are gen­er­ally super­vised by the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions, but as in­di­vid­u­als and as teach­ers they are super­vised by the act­ing heads of the schools or spheres wherein they may be func­tion­ing as in­struc­tors.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

49:6.22[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of the Je­ru­sem School of Plan­e­tary Ad­min­is­tra­tion.]

• service › do not interfere with planetary administrations unless asked
• service › instruct prospective Planetary Princes

50:2.2The Plan­e­tary Princes may at any time seek the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, their for­mer in­struc­tors and spon­sors, but they are not ar­bi­trar­ily re­quired to ask for such as­sis­tance, and if such aid is not vol­un­tar­ily re­quested, the Mel­chiz­e­deks do not in­ter­fere with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion. These world rulers may also avail them­selves of the ad­vice of the four and twenty coun­selors, as­sem­bled from the be­stowal worlds of the sys­tem. In Sa­ta­nia these coun­selors are at pres­ent all na­tives of Uran­tia. And there is an anal­o­gous coun­cil of sev­enty at the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters also se­lected from the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of the realms.

• mortals sometimes permitted to see

50:2.7The con­trol­lers and trans­form­ers of plan­e­tary as­sign­ment are also able to col­lab­o­rate with an­gels and other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings in ren­der­ing these lat­ter per­son­al­i­ties vis­i­ble to mor­tal crea­tures. On spe­cial oc­ca­sions the se­raphic helpers and even the Mel­chiz­e­deks can and do make them­selves vis­i­ble to the in­hab­i­tants of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The prin­ci­pal rea­son for bring­ing mor­tal as­cend­ers from the sys­tem cap­i­tal as a part of the staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince is to fa­cil­i­tate com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the in­hab­i­tants of the realm.

• have never betrayed their trust

53:7.4This was a La­non­an­dek re­bel­lion. The higher or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship did not join the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion, al­though a few of the Life Car­ri­ers sta­tioned on the rebel plan­ets were some­what in­flu­enced by the re­bel­lion of the dis­loyal princes. None of the Trin­i­tized Sons went astray. The Mel­chiz­e­deks, arch­an­gels, and the Bril­liant Evening Stars were all loyal to Mi­chael and, with Ga­briel, valiantly con­tended for the Fa­ther’s will and the Son’s rule.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

53:9.9[Pre­sented by Manovan­det Mel­chiz­e­dek, one­time at­tached to the re­ceiver­ship of Uran­tia.]

• service › assist Trinity Teacher Sons in light and life

55:0.1The age of light and life is the fi­nal evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of a world of time and space. From the early times of prim­i­tive man, such an in­hab­ited world has passed through the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary ages—the pre- and the post-Plan­e­tary Prince ages, the post-Adamic age, the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son age, and the postbestowal Son age. And then is such a world made ready for the cul­mi­nat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment, the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, by the min­istry of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary mis­sions of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons with their ever-ad­vanc­ing rev­e­la­tions of di­vine truth and cos­mic wis­dom. In these en­deav­ors the Teacher Sons en­joy the as­sis­tance of the Bril­liant Evening Stars al­ways, and the Mel­chiz­e­deks some­times, in es­tab­lish­ing the fi­nal plan­e­tary age.

• service › remain with universes of origin in light and life

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• teachings have never been contradicted

55:12.1We can­not pos­i­tively fore­cast what would oc­cur when a super­uni­verse be­came set­tled in light be­cause such an event has never fac­tu­al­ized. From the teach­ings of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, which have never been con­tra­dicted, we in­fer that sweep­ing changes would be made in the en­tire or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of ev­ery unit of the cre­ations of time and space ex­tend­ing from the in­hab­ited worlds to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

56:10.23This pa­per on Uni­ver­sal Unity is the twenty-fifth of a se­ries of pre­sen­ta­tions by var­i­ous au­thors, hav­ing been spon­sored as a group by a com­mis­sion of Neb­a­don per­son­al­i­ties num­ber­ing twelve and act­ing un­der the di­rec­tion of Man­tu­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek. We in­dited these nar­ra­tives and put them in the En­glish lan­guage, by a tech­nique au­tho­rized by our su­pe­ri­ors, in the year 1934 of Uran­tia time.

• service › sent as advisers to Life Carriers until arrival of Planetary Prince

65:4.9On an or­di­nary in­hab­ited world a Plan­e­tary Prince would have been granted on the re­quest of the Life Car­ri­ers at, or some­time af­ter, the ap­pear­ance of An­don and Fonta. But Uran­tia hav­ing been des­ig­nated a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion planet, it was by prea­gree­ment that the Mel­chiz­e­dek ob­servers, twelve in num­ber, were sent as ad­vis­ers to the Life Car­ri­ers and as over­seers of the planet un­til the sub­se­quent ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. These Mel­chiz­e­deks came at the time An­don and Fonta made the de­ci­sions which en­abled Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell their mor­tal minds.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

66:8.8[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• service › immediately dispatched to Jerusem upon outbreak of rebellion

67:3.1The out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem, the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia, was broad­cast by the Mel­chiz­e­dek coun­cil. The emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to Je­ru­sem, and Ga­briel vol­un­teered to act as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son, whose au­thor­ity had been chal­lenged. With this broad­cast of the fact of re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia the sys­tem was iso­lated, quar­an­tined, from her sis­ter sys­tems. There was “war in heaven,” the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, and it spread to ev­ery planet in the lo­cal sys­tem.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

67:8.6[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

68:6.12[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek some­time sta­tioned on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

69:9.19[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

70:12.21[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

71:8.16[Spon­sored by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

72:12.6[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• use seraphic transport

74:5.2The farewell of the re­ceivers oc­cu­pied the whole of a day, and dur­ing the evening the in­di­vid­ual Mel­chiz­e­deks gave Adam and Eve their part­ing ad­vice and best wishes. Adam had sev­eral times re­quested his ad­vis­ers to re­main on earth with him, but al­ways were these pe­ti­tions de­nied. The time had come when the Ma­te­rial Sons must as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for the con­duct of world af­fairs. And so, at mid­night, the se­raphic trans­ports of Sa­ta­nia left the planet with four­teen be­ings for Je­ru­sem, the trans­la­tion of Van and Amadon oc­cur­ring si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the de­par­ture of the twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

90:5.9[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

92:7.16[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• are › known as emergency Sons
• service › metamorphic range of personality function, incarnation

93:0.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are widely known as emer­gency Sons, for they en­gage in an amaz­ing range of ac­tiv­i­ties on the worlds of a lo­cal uni­verse. When any ex­traor­di­nary prob­lem arises, or when some­thing un­usual is to be at­tempted, it is quite of­ten a Mel­chiz­e­dek who ac­cepts the as­sign­ment. The abil­ity of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons to func­tion in emer­gen­cies and on widely di­ver­gent lev­els of the uni­verse, even on the phys­i­cal level of per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion, is pe­cu­liar to their or­der. Only the Life Car­ri­ers share to any de­gree this meta­mor­phic range of per­son­al­ity func­tion.

• service › incarnated as humans 7 times in Nebadon

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.

• Jesus held to be priest after order of

93:3.7Mel­chiz­e­dek taught that at some fu­ture time an­other Son of God would come in the flesh as he had come, but that he would be born of a woman; and that is why nu­mer­ous later teach­ers held that Je­sus was a priest, or min­is­ter, “for­ever af­ter the or­der of Mel­chiz­e­dek.”

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

93:10.12[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

94:12.8[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

95:7.7[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

96:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

97:10.9[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

98:7.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

99:7.6[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

100:7.19[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

101:10.10[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

102:8.8[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

103:9.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

104:5.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

105:7.19[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

106:9.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

119:1.1It was a solemn oc­ca­sion on Sal­ving­ton al­most one bil­lion years ago when the as­sem­bled di­rec­tors and chiefs of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don heard Mi­chael an­nounce that his el­der brother, Im­manuel, would pres­ently as­sume au­thor­ity in Neb­a­don while he (Mi­chael) would be ab­sent on an un­ex­plained mis­sion. No other an­nounce­ment was made about this trans­ac­tion ex­cept that the farewell broad­cast to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, among other in­struc­tions, said: “And for this pe­riod I place you un­der the care and keep­ing of Im­manuel while I go to do the bid­ding of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther.”

119:1.2Af­ter send­ing this farewell broad­cast, Mi­chael ap­peared on the dis­patch­ing field of Sal­ving­ton, just as on many pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions when prepar­ing for de­par­ture to Uversa or Par­a­dise ex­cept that he came alone. He con­cluded his state­ment of de­par­ture with these words: “I leave you but for a short sea­son. Many of you, I know, would go with me, but whither I go you can­not come. That which I am about to do, you can­not do. I go to do the will of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, and when I have fin­ished my mis­sion and have ac­quired this ex­pe­ri­ence, I will re­turn to my place among you.” And hav­ing thus spo­ken, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don van­ished from the sight of all those as­sem­bled and did not reap­pear for twenty years of stan­dard time. In all Sal­ving­ton, only the Di­vine Min­is­ter and Im­manuel knew what was tak­ing place, and the Union of Days shared his se­cret only with the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

119:1.3All the in­hab­i­tants of Sal­ving­ton and those dwell­ing on the con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds as­sem­bled about their re­spec­tive re­ceiv­ing sta­tions for uni­verse in­tel­li­gence, hop­ing to get some word of the mis­sion and where­abouts of the Cre­ator Son. Not un­til the third day af­ter Mi­chael’s de­par­ture was any mes­sage of pos­si­ble sig­nif­i­cance re­ceived. On this day a com­mu­ni­ca­tion was reg­is­tered on Sal­ving­ton from the Mel­chiz­e­dek sphere, the head­quar­ters of that or­der in Neb­a­don, which sim­ply re­corded this ex­traor­di­nary and never-be­fore-heard-of trans­ac­tion: “At noon to­day there ap­peared on the re­ceiv­ing field of this world a strange Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, not of our num­ber but wholly like our or­der. He was ac­com­pa­nied by a soli­tary om­niaphim who bore cre­den­tials from Uversa and pre­sented or­ders ad­dressed to our chief, de­rived from the An­cients of Days and con­curred in by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, di­rect­ing that this new Mel­chiz­e­dek Son be re­ceived into our or­der and as­signed to the emer­gency ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don. And it has been so or­dered; it has been done.”

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:

119:1.5“And at noon on this day, with­out pre­vi­ous an­nounce­ment and wit­nessed by only three of our broth­er­hood, this vis­it­ing Son of our or­der dis­ap­peared from our world as he came, ac­com­pa­nied only by a soli­tary om­niaphim; and this rec­ord is now closed with the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion that this vis­i­tor lived as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, in the like­ness of a Mel­chiz­e­dek he worked as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, and he faith­fully per­formed all of his as­sign­ments as an emer­gency Son of our or­der. By uni­ver­sal con­sent he has be­come chief of Mel­chiz­e­deks, hav­ing earned our love and ado­ra­tion by his match­less wis­dom, su­preme love, and su­perb de­vo­tion to duty. He loved us, un­der­stood us, and served with us, and for­ever we are his loyal and de­voted fel­low Mel­chiz­e­deks, for this stranger on our world has now eter­nally be­come a uni­verse min­is­ter of Mel­chiz­e­dek na­ture.”

119:1.6And that is all I am per­mit­ted to tell you of the first be­stowal of Mi­chael. We, of course, fully un­der­stand that this strange Mel­chiz­e­dek who so mys­te­ri­ously served with the Mel­chiz­e­deks a bil­lion years ago was none other than the in­car­nated Mi­chael on the mis­sion of his first be­stowal. The rec­ords do not specif­i­cally state that this unique and ef­fi­cient Mel­chiz­e­dek was Mi­chael, but it is uni­ver­sally be­lieved that he was. Prob­a­bly the ac­tual state­ment of that fact can­not be found out­side of the rec­ords of Sonar­ing­ton, and the rec­ords of that se­cret world are not open to us. Only on this sa­cred world of the di­vine Sons are the mys­ter­ies of in­car­na­tion and be­stowal fully known. We all know of the facts of the Mi­chael be­stowals, but we do not un­der­stand how they are ef­fected. We do not know how the ruler of a uni­verse, the cre­ator of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, can so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously be­come one of their num­ber and, as one of them, live among them and work as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son for one hun­dred years. But it so hap­pened.

• wrote Papers 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 66–72, 90, 92–106, 120

120:0.1As­signed by Ga­briel to super­vise the re­state­ment of the life of Mi­chael when on Uran­tia and in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, I, the Mel­chiz­e­dek di­rec­tor of the rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion in­trusted with this task, am au­tho­rized to pre­sent this nar­ra­tive of cer­tain events which im­me­di­ately pre­ceded the Cre­ator Son’s ar­rival on Uran­tia to em­bark upon the ter­mi­nal phase of his uni­verse be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence. To live such iden­ti­cal lives as he im­poses upon the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of his own cre­ation, thus to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of cre­ated be­ings, is a part of the price which ev­ery Cre­ator Son must pay for the full and su­preme sov­er­eignty of his self-made uni­verse of things and be­ings.