Melchizedek sphere

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.”

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.

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.

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.

35:3.20The 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.

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.