August 24, 2014


Order of Melchizedek





Abram, Lot and Melchizedek


Uranda  April 2, 1953 



Melchizedek, priest of the Most High God, King of Salem. Salem, as you know, means peace: King of Peace; priest of the Most High God. The Levites became the priesthood in the pattern of the children of Israel and were supposed to maintain a priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. From the divine standpoint we can classify any true priesthood as belonging to the priesthood of the order of Melchizedek.

"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."

Your function here in this School has for its purpose the basic initiation into the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. There can be no true manifestation of spiritual power except on the basis of the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. This is the keynote, the key point, in relationship to the outworking of the whole divine plan and pattern. And those who would share in the fulfilment of that divine purpose on earth must, to some degree at least, begin to share the reality of the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.

Now, you begin to feel, the moment we touch this point with respect to Melchizedek, the moment there is any recognition of the reality of this priesthood, that to Melchizedek God was no mystery, the divine pattern of being was no mystery—the focalization of manifestation on earth where God was not mystery. And in the blueprint as outlined in the Book of Revelation, the 10th chapter and the 7th verse, we read: "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."

The mystery of God should be finished. God has never sought to be a mystery to man, but man's refusal to know God has caused God to be a mystery to man. Until we begin to realize that the ending, or the finishing, of the mystery of God is a process that takes place within, in you as an individual, you cannot have the joy of seeing the finishing of the mystery of God. And while God is a mystery to you, you cannot know the fulness of that which you should reveal on earth; for you came into the world to reveal God, and you cannot reveal that which is a mystery, unknown to yourself.

Here, in the very beginning of the pattern as we share it at this time, Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the Most High God. And the pattern of our purpose and goal is that the mystery of God should be finished. Only to the degree that we today let that be the case, let that process work out in ourselves as a unit, or as a body, or as members of that body, can we be priests and priestesses after the order of Melchizedek. What does it mean to be a priest? What does it mean to be a prophet? The true meaning of a prophet is one who speaks the word of the Lord on earth. And to whatever degree you let the spirit of God determine the words you speak you are a prophet. But there is something higher and greater than being a prophet. We might note that one can be a disciple without being a prophet; one can be a prophet without being a priest.

We begin to recognize that it is not enough merely to be a disciple, one who follows after; it is not enough merely to be a prophet, one who speaks the word of the Lord on earth; it is necessary that we enter the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek—not only to speak the word of the Lord but to do the works of the Lord, to work out the divine pattern on earth, to live the reality of that which is, to the world, the mystery of God. And it is only as this reality of priesthood is made manifest that we can have the manifestation of power necessary to the accomplishment of the divine purpose on earth.

There have been quite a number of people who have sensed something of the significance of Melchizedek, or the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. There are some so-called modern schools of thought which claim to stem from that point but which, by their very attitudes and actions, show that it is a forgery and nothing more. You may run into people who think that they know something about Melchizedek and the order of the priesthood. We would recognize that wherever truth is in expression, there the influence of this priesthood is to be seen and felt to some degree. But the control pattern with respect to humanity, and the design pattern with respect to the plan and purpose individually and collectively, is carried over in focus to this present period of time, which begins with Abram and extends to ourselves, from the Motherland.

The focalization of the divine pattern as it was working in the Motherland, the pattern of government, the manifestation of the educational system and what we might call the religious or spiritual life of the people, all came to focus in the priest of the Most High God. The pattern of connecting that which was known in the garden of Eden, or in the Motherland, with that which is known within the period of recorded history is carried over to us, and made available to us, on this basis: Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the Most High God. And that particular focalization, in manifestation, of priesthood gave man the opportunity of returning to the divine estate.

The true purpose of the development of the pattern of the children of Israel was to make possible the manifestation of this priesthood, not for purposes of selfish nationalism but to the end that through such a manifestation of priesthood the spirit and power of God could be extended out to all humanity. The real purpose with respect to all of the tribes of the children of Israel was to the end that the different tribes could be different parts of the body, finding true expression and meaning in and through the focalization of priesthood, by which the power and spirit of God should extend to the whole earth.

Melchizedek established this pattern with respect to Abram, outlined the plan and the purpose and the method—not all at once but over a period of time—and carried the pattern through with respect to Isaac and Jacob, who became Israel, and gave those who were at that time responding to divine direction an opportunity to allow the full manifestation of the divine plan in action in relationship to the physical world. This first step in the dawn of history, in the unfolding of the divine plan, had to be on the basis of reestablishing the First Sacred School, giving human beings an opportunity to approach the process of development into the divine pattern on what we might call the physical plane; that is, an outer, physical approach.

The Master refocalized, when He came into the world, exactly the same thing. He did not undertake to change the pattern around in some fashion. He did use the second plane approach instead of the first plane approach. It was impossible to undertake to use the first plane approach anymore; the conditions necessary for its use had passed, and humanity had failed to carry through in it, so there was nothing more that could be done about it except to use the next cycle in order to make the next plane approach. And the Master Himself came into the world to do that. But again, just as with the children of Israel, the purpose was not recognized, the plan was not accepted, and those who call themselves Christians have, in following out their own ideas and concepts with respect to these things, produced the same type of failure which was made manifest with respect to the children of Israel.

The children of Israel were finally taken into captivity and scattered. Have the so-called Christians been taken into captivity? The answer is obviously Yes—taken into captivity on a basis which has not allowed the manifestation of power, the reality of the divine priesthood. The disciples were supposed to become prophets, and as the cycle worked out and the day of Pentecost came, they began to function on the basis of speaking the word of the Lord. If they had been content to wait for the Lord's direction, instead of impulsively using the current of power on the basis of their own choices, they would have become prophets, so that they could have actually expressed the word of the Lord and begun to see the plan of God, the plan that the Master brought into focalized manifestation on earth. And then they would have become, had they held steady, priests after the order of Melchizedek, and there would have been the manifestation of power, under the divine pattern, sufficient to influence every phase and department of life, extending into the spiritual influence or control in the world of government. A little of this has of course gotten through now and again, shaping the divine ordering of human events in order to make it possible for us to have this present opportunity.

You are sharing the work of the Third Sacred School again being made manifest on earth. Humanity had failed to utilize the opportunity when the First Sacred School was being reestablished. The same is true with respect to the Second. Those chances, those opportunities, are gone. Now that does not mean that the truths that were contained in the teachings and presentations of the First or the Second were lost. The focalization aspects were carried over and they were just the same in principle in the Second as they were in the First. And the same is true today. God made arrangements for the refocalization of the divine pattern, or the blueprint. He gave what we call the Book of Revelation, so it would be on hand, within manifestation, for the next cycle of outworking.

We have something new, something altogether different. Now it is the same truths, the same laws, the same basic purpose, but the approach is different, and must be different. However, the Christian world tries to make the approach on the basis of what they think the Master used, when they do not understand the Second Sacred School at all. They are just simply utterly ignorant of what is meant, what the divine plan was then, and the human concepts of pattern derived out of that simply do not work, not in the sense that God intended. And any effort to still use that pattern of approach must fail, because God Himself would not try it. It would be impossible to God, because it would be an attempt on God's part to violate His own laws, to ignore the vibrational factors in the cosmos, to ignore the natural cycles of the unfolding pattern of the four forces.

So we come to the Third. The Third Sacred School has the approach on the spiritual expression plane basis. We can, under this vibrational pattern, make a third plane approach and revitalize the factors of the second and first plane patterns in relationship to ourselves. We use the third plane approach today, and it is the only way that will work, because we have an altogether different vibrational pattern than was present in the past, either at the time of the children of Israel or at the time of the Master. Once we begin to function correctly on the basis of the third plane approach, the second and first plane patterns become reactivated and drawn into alignment with respect to ourselves, because the mind and the body, individually speaking, begin to come under subjection to that. The alignment is established and you begin to be what you should be; you begin to have the manifestation of healing power, for instance. But this is the third step in the period of recorded history, to give man an opportunity of restoration. The outline in Revelation relates to this third plane approach. Not until we make the third plane approach can the Book of Revelation have any meaning, and under that approach it does have meaning; it is the divine blueprint.

Now suppose this cycle were broken. The only cycle that could be opened to humanity would be with respect to the fourth. But if man has thrown away the first and second, and then should throw away the third, which is really the highest level contact that he can hope to make—if he throws this one away and has to be limited to the fourth plane approach, would he have any chance? Obviously not.

In other words man has thrown away two opportunities, the third one is established, and if he throws that one away there is no more, it is finished. Now he is not going to throw it away; I am not suggesting that. There are going to be a few, somehow or other, to carry the pattern through. But that is what we are here for, and until we begin to let the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek have meaning in relationship to this Third Sacred School approach to the fulfilment of the divine pattern, we cannot hope to accomplish that to which we are called.

And so when you begin to see that our Lord, when He came on earth, was a priest of the Most High God, after the order of Melchizedek, you can begin to see that you cannot truly follow Him unless you too let that sensing of the divine pattern have meaning in your life, and unless we utilize the vibratory factors that are available to us today we cannot receive it. You try to receive it on the basis of the vibratory factors of the past cycles and it will not work—you cannot receive it. You may go into fantastic flights of fancy, as many have, but you will not receive it.

You must receive the gifts of God on the basis of the vibrational factors, and we remember that our present vibrational pattern is what? Air, water, air. And if we try to use the vibrational patterns at work at the time of the Master we fail; it will not work, not today. It could have worked then, under His leadership, but it cannot work today, under these vibrational factors, and I would not attempt to work it out. But I can—with the help of those who are willing to share it—I can work it out on the basis of the present vibrational factors. You can utilize those same elements and carry through to victory. And it is your choice. What shall it be?


© Emissaries of Divine Light

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