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salutations

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Every paragraph the index cites under salutations, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

Paper 63 · The First Human Family

7. The Survival of Andon and Fonta

63:7.3An­don and Fonta, shortly af­ter their ar­rival on Je­ru­sem, re­ceived per­mis­sion from the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to re­turn to the first man­sion world to serve with the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties who wel­come the pil­grims of time from Uran­tia to the heav­enly spheres. And they have been as­signed in­def­i­nitely to this ser­vice. They sought to send greet­ings to Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with these rev­e­la­tions, but this re­quest was wisely de­nied them.

Paper 163 · Ordination of the Seventy at Magadan

1. Ordination of the Seventy

163:1.3Be­fore Je­sus laid his hands upon the heads of the sev­enty to set them apart as gospel mes­sen­gers, ad­dress­ing them, he said: “The har­vest is in­deed plen­teous, but the la­bor­ers are few; there­fore I ex­hort all of you to pray that the Lord of the har­vest will send still other la­bor­ers into his har­vest. I am about to set you apart as mes­sen­gers of the king­dom; I am about to send you to Jew and gen­tile as lambs among wolves. As you go your ways, two and two, I in­struct you to carry nei­ther purse nor ex­tra cloth­ing, for you go forth on this first mis­sion for only a short sea­son. Salute no man by the way, at­tend only to your work. When­ever you go to stay at a home, first say: Peace be to this house­hold. If those who love peace live therein, you shall abide there; if not, then shall you de­part. And hav­ing se­lected this home, re­main there for your stay in that city, eat­ing and drink­ing what­ever is set be­fore you. And you do this be­cause the la­borer is wor­thy of his sus­te­nance. Move not from house to house be­cause a bet­ter lodg­ing may be of­fered. Re­mem­ber, as you go forth pro­claim­ing peace on earth and good will among men, you must con­tend with bit­ter and self-de­ceived en­e­mies; there­fore be as wise as ser­pents while you are also as harm­less as doves.

Paper 163 · Ordination of the Seventy at Magadan

4. Farewell to the Seventy

163:4.54. Avoid loss of time through over­much so­cial vis­it­ing and other triv­i­al­i­ties which might de­tract from whole­hearted de­vo­tion to preach­ing the gospel.

163:4.6–12 · seven paragraphs not cited here ·

163:4.65. If the first house to be se­lected for a head­quar­ters proves to be a wor­thy home, abide there through­out the so­journ in that city.

163:4.76. Make clear to all faith­ful be­liev­ers that the time for an open break with the re­li­gious lead­ers of the Jews at Je­ru­sa­lem has now come.

163:4.87. Teach that man’s whole duty is summed up in this one com­mand­ment: Love the Lord your God with all your mind and soul and your neigh­bor as your­self. (This they were to teach as man’s whole duty in place of the 613 rules of liv­ing ex­pounded by the Phar­isees.)

163:4.9When Je­sus had talked thus to the sev­enty in the pres­ence of all the apos­tles and dis­ci­ples, Si­mon Pe­ter took them off by them­selves and preached to them their or­di­na­tion ser­mon, which was an elab­o­ra­tion of the Mas­ter’s charge given at the time he laid his hands upon them and set them apart as mes­sen­gers of the king­dom. Pe­ter ex­horted the sev­enty to cher­ish in their ex­pe­ri­ence the fol­low­ing virtues:

163:4.101. Con­se­crated de­vo­tion. To pray al­ways for more la­bor­ers to be sent forth into the gospel har­vest. He ex­plained that, when one so prays, he will the more likely say, “Here am I; send me.” He ad­mon­ished them to ne­glect not their daily wor­ship.

163:4.112. True cour­age. He warned them that they would en­counter hos­til­ity and be cer­tain to meet with per­se­cu­tion. Pe­ter told them their mis­sion was no un­der­tak­ing for cow­ards and ad­vised those who were afraid to step out be­fore they started. But none with­drew.

163:4.123. Faith and trust. They must go forth on this short mis­sion wholly un­pro­vided for; they must trust the Fa­ther for food and shel­ter and all other things need­ful.

163:4.134. Zeal and ini­tia­tive. They must be pos­sessed with zeal and in­tel­li­gent en­thu­si­asm; they must at­tend strictly to their Mas­ter’s busi­ness. Ori­en­tal salu­ta­tion was a lengthy and elab­o­rate cer­e­mony; there­fore had they been in­structed to “salute no man by the way,” which was a com­mon method of ex­hort­ing one to go about his busi­ness with­out the waste of time. It had noth­ing to do with the mat­ter of friendly greet­ing.