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The Melchizedek Priesthood!

By Dr Joshua David Stone

The Melchizedek priesthood has always been a term that has held great interest for me. Many of you who have been involved in metaphysical and esoteric studies, have probably heard of the term but don’t know that much about it, like me. I personally feel this incredible attunement and affinity with this group and teaching, however there has been very little available written information on planet Earth concerning this group. Through my extensive research I have been able to uncover some of the hidden mysteries and deeper understanding of this most amazing group.

Modern history knows of Melchizedek through the Old Testament. For it was Melchizedek who was the spiritual teacher of Abraham. This is clearly documented. Edgar Cayce, in his channelings, says that one of the incarnations of Jesus Christ was a man named Melchizedek.

It is important to understand here that there is a Being who is Melchizedek, and there is the Melchizedek priesthood. When a person achieves spiritual illumination within this order they are called a "Melchizedek." "The Keys of Enoch" describes the Being in the spiritual worlds who heads the Melchizedek priesthood as the "Eternal Lord of Light," Sovereign of Light in charge of organizing the levels of the heavenly worlds of YHWH (God) for transit into new creation, co-equal with Metatron and Michael in the resource, regenesis, and re-education of worlds going through the purification of the living light. He is in charge of the heavenly order / Brotherhood of Melchizedek and the spiritual and planetary priesthood of Melchizedek.

"Jehovah, (revealed God of our universe), will prepare the world for deliverance through Melchizedek and the Order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek is a manifestation of a Son of God in the history of the planet. Melchizedek was commissioned (according to the covenant of Enoch) to prepare the true priesthood of sonship upon a planet for eschatological participation with the Sons of Light."

The clearest definition of the Order of Melchizedek is that it is in charge of the consciousness reprogramming that is necessary to link physical creation with the externalization of the Divine Hierarchy. It is a royal priesthood of priests receiving the voice of God, for the sanctification of the people of the light. The re-administration and teaching affects the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual states of existence and consciousness. This priesthood is visible within every generation as a scattered Brotherhood of Light. It permeates the tree of the human race.

The order of Melchizedek has the anointing power to reawaken and resurrect the righteous people of the world into the light of the higher worlds. They are the sons of truth behind historical wisdom. They hold the keys to the true history of the planet. They gather the light of man, which they have cultivated through the teachings of the word of God. According to Enoch in "The Keys of Enoch," the sacred library of their priesthood document was moved from the temple in Jerusalem into the desert areas of Qumran, (see the chapter "The Untold story of Jesus the Christ," and the chapter on the "Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls") to preserve their records until the end of time. It is then that the Sons of Light, as the Order of Melchizedek will return to Earth to unite the scattered Brotherhood of Melchizedek and establish the Kingdom of God.

Jesus is a high priest of the Order of Melchizedek. Moses also had the keys to this priesthood of Light. When He came to the earth, he was anointed by the priesthood of earth as a righteous recipient of the light. The order had been passed on from Noah to Abraham, to Jethro and then to Moses. Aaron, the brother of Moses and mouthpiece for Moses, and the Word of God, was commissioned along with the seventy elders of Israel, to establish a priesthood which was subordinate to the Order of Melchizedek.

The order of Melchizedek also governs quadrants of the planetary worlds where the adamic seed has been transplanted. It is there that they administer and teach spiritual principles to these worlds. The order of Melchizedek has the ability to communicate with the other celestial communities and brotherhoods of light throughout the universes of God, coordinating the work of the Christ in the heavens and on earth. In the history of the planet Earth, the Order of Melchizedek has existed in small family communities of patriarchs-priests, priest-scientists, and poet-scholars who have faithfully attended to the word of God. This light has been passed from Melchizedek, to Abraham, to Moses, to Elijah, to David, and to Jesus."

This information from "The Keys of Enoch" correlates perfectly with the information given in the Urantia books. According to the Urantia books, the Melchizedek are widely known as emergency sons and daughters of God. They call them this for whenever an extraordinary problem arises it is quite often one among the Order of Melchizedek who accepts the assignment. They fulfill this function throughout the universe, not just on Earth. A Melchizedek actually physically incarnated in the year 1973 BC, years before the birth of Jesus. This Melchizedek’s name was Machiventa Melchizedek. According to the Urantia books, this had only been done six times in our local universe. This took place near what was called the City of Salem, in Palestine. He was first observed by mortal man when He walked into the tent of Andon, a Chaldean herder of Sumarian extraction, and said, "I am Melchizedek, Priest of El Elyon (The Most High), the one and only God. El Elyon, the Most High, is the divine creator of the stars of the firmament and even of this very earth on which we live, and He is also the Supreme God of heaven." Machiventa Melchizedek gathered around Himself a group of students and disciples, which became the nucleus of the later community of Salem. He soon became known throughout Palestine as the Priest of El Elyon, the Most High, and Sage of Salem. Salem eventually became the city of Jerusalem in Israel. He lived on the Earth for 94 years. He 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 virgin woman. This, of course, was Jesus. The teachings of Machiventa Melchizedek were very simple because the people were very uneducated at this period of history. The spiritual light on the planet was very dim at this time. Every person who signed or marked the clay tablet rolls of the Melchizedek Church committed to memory the following belief:

1. I believe in "El Elyon," the Most High God, the only universal father and creator of all things.

2. I accept the Melchizedek covenant with the Most High, which bestows the favor of God on my faith, not on sacrifices and burnt offerings.

3. I promise to obey the seven commandments of Melchizedek and to tell the good news of this covenant with the Most High to all men.

Even this short and simple creed turned out in actuality to be too advanced for the men of those days.

The seven commandments set up by Melchizedek were:

1. You shall not serve any God but the Most High Creator of heaven and earth.

2. You shall not doubt that faith is the only requirement of eternal salvation.

3. You shall not bear false witness.

4. You shall not kill.

5. You shall not steal.

6. You shall not commit adultery.

7. You shall not show disrespect for your parents and elders.

Melchizedek taught an elementary form of revealed truth during these 94 years. According to the Urantia teachings, Abraham, the father of the Jewish religion, attended this Salem school three different times. He became a convert and one of Melchizedek’s most brilliant students and supporters. Melchizedek laid upon Abraham, the responsibility of keeping alive the truth of the one God, as distinguished from the prevailing belief in the plural deities of that time.

In Melchizedek’s covenant with Abraham, he told him: "Look now up to the heavens, and number the stars if you are able. So numerous shall your seed be." Melchizedek told Abraham the story of the future occupation of Canaan by his offspring, after their sojourn in Egypt. It was upon receiving this covenant that Abraham changed his name from Abram to Abraham. According to the Urantia books, at its height there were over 100,000 members of this brotherhood. The Melchizedek teachings spread to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor.

As decades and centuries passed, these teachings spread throughout the tree of the human race. So it really was the Jewish religion and later the Christian religion that carried the initial torch of the Order of Melchizedek. After Melchizedek’s passing He continued to work with prophets and seers from the inner plane to continue the teachings He began with Abraham.

The Melchizedek Temple Teachings of Shield and Sharula and Earlyne Chaney In the chapter on the hollow Earth, I mentioned a woman who said that she came from the underground city of Telos, two miles beneath Mount Shasta. Her name is Sharula and her husband’s name is Shield. I saw a lecture they gave and was impressed with their presentation. She was the woman who also said that she was something like 350 years old. My clairvoyant healer friend saw her picture and said her aura was totally different than most Earthlings. I ordered some of their material, for they are connected with the Order of Melchizedek, in this underground civilization of Telos. She was a priestess in that temple. In their teachings they confirm that Melchizedek once lived on this planet. They also speak of the Order of Melchizedek as a cosmic priesthood. They speak of four levels of initiation within this priesthood.