Sacred
Schools Under the Authority and Direction of Melchizedek
Historical Relationship Between the First, Second and Third Sacred Schools
Loveland
Fireside Talks No. Eleven
Uranda July 11, 1944
Tonight, our Service will be
parenthetical to our regular subject matter, although it relates directly
thereto. The purpose of this Service is to provide a clarification of the
Teaching of the Third Sacred School as it relates in function and manifestation
to the First and Second Sacred Schools, all three of which date back in
vibrational foundation to the Motherland, or the Edenic State, as God first
established it in the earth. Information concerning what is commonly called the
pre‑historic period, as presented in the Third Sacred School, is not dependent
upon mythology, although mythology lends abundant evidence of the authenticity
of that which is presented. Neither is it dependent upon legend, although many
legends springing from the dim antiquity of time point with clarity, for all
those who read the symbolism aright, to the fact that what is sometimes called
antedeluvian history must be considered in terms of thousands of years rather
than of the short period commonly conceived to be correct by reason of Biblical
chronology. It must be remembered that generally accepted historical records
which are commonly known, or known of, by the masses of people are largely
limited to the last 5,000 years. It does not in any sense deny the authenticity
of the Bible to recognize that Biblical chronology, as more or less arbitrarily
applied by most scholars to the early part of world history as presented in
Genesis, is not correct and is, in fact, very misleading. This is not a
refutation of the Bible, but rather, a refutation of the chronology more or
less arbitrarily established in relationship to the Bible.
It will be recalled that we
have already emphasized the fact that the first 9 chapters of the Bible cover a
period from the beginning of the creation of this world to the time of the
death of Noah. The 10th chapter of Genesis is devoted to an outline of the
generations of the sons of Noah, and in the 26th verse of the 11th chapter we
have the beginning of the story of Abraham. The story from the time of Abraham
to the present is reasonably complete. The remainder of the Bible covers a
period of a little over 2,000 years. Whatever period of time is conceived to
have elapsed prior to the time of Abraham is covered in 10 short chapters, but
it took almost the entire Bible to cover the period of time from Abraham to the
days when the New Testament events took place nearly 2,000 years ago. Even
Biblical chronology over a period of nearly 2,000 years is covered in these 10
chapters, and the next 2,000 years involve the rest of the Bible. It is
obvious, then, that those who insist on accepting the usual Biblical chronology
must admit, at least, that the Biblical history covering the period prior to
the time of Abraham is extremely sketchy. We cannot accept the idea that
creation of this world began only about 6,000 years ago, and while there may be
some religionists who still hold to such a belief, the preponderance of
evidence from the standpoint of nature, from the standpoint of historical
records unearthed during the last 50 years, and from the standpoint of an
unbiased consideration of the Bible itself, indicates that a much longer period
of time in world history preceded the advent of Abraham. On the other hand, we
do not accept the idea that millions of years have elapsed, as is commonly
taught from a so‑called scientific standpoint. All of the phenomena used to
support the theory that millions of years have elapsed are easily and correctly
understood once the fundamentals of the factual history of the world, as
related to the period prior to Abraham's time, are grasped by the Student.
More than once the question has
been asked as to what Biblical authority we have for that which we teach
concerning the history of the world prior to the time of Abraham. That we have
Biblical authority goes without saying, but it is not offered here because the
Student must first grasp the fundamentals of the Teaching before he can
understand that which the Bible actually reveals on this point. It must again
be emphasized that all of the scientific discoveries in the fields of
archeology and geology, when correctly understood, correlate perfectly with
that which is actually revealed by the Bible, and that all these sources of
information correlate with history as known and presented in the Third Sacred
School. For practical reasons, which should be obvious in view of the fact that
we are dealing with a vast period of time, the history of which is unknown to
the world as a whole, we decline to deal more explicitly with the question of
the source of the historical presentation concerning the period in question
until the student is advanced sufficiently to allow him to perceive the facts
for himself.
All of this relates directly to
the subject in hand, because it must be recognized, tentatively at least, by
the student that, roughly speaking, the advent of man into the world through
creation took place a little over 150,000 years prior to the time of Abraham,
and that when God first created man and placed him in the earth, man was fully
instructed concerning all phases of knowledge necessary to man's perfect
function, physically, mentally and Spiritually. In the period preceding the
fall of man, God established through Divine Man a system of education which was
designed to provide full understanding of all things needful to man in all
three phases of his being throughout the period of this world's existence. The
basic principles of the educational system then established have been retained
in the outworking of the Divine Plan for man as established and set in motion
.at the time of man's fall, and have continued until the present time. In other
words, it must be recognized that the Divine Plan originally established for
Divine Man did not anticipate, or provide for, the fall of man, but when man
fell the Divine Plan was re-arranged, retaining the same fundamentals in all
respects, with a view to the restoration of man to his Divine Estate in a
manner which would permit the original plan to be carried on effectively from
the time when restoration should be accomplished. This must be understood, in
principle at least, in order to allow a basic understanding of the place which
the Third Sacred School holds in the Cosmic Order of things. Time and space do
not permit us at this point to deal more than briefly with the educational
system and program which was in operation prior to the time of the fall of man,
but it must be recognized that the idea that Adam and Eve, as thought of as two
individuals, were most certainly not the only ones living at the time of the
fall; in other words, Adam and Eve refer symbolically to all of those thousands
of individuals who participated in self-active function, commonly described as
the fall of man. The Bible itself gives evidence of this fact when we note that
Cain, the first-born of Adam and Eve, according to the story, journeyed from
the place where his parents lived, after he had killed his only brother, and
readily found a wife.
This Divine Educational System
that was in operation prior to the fall of man was carried on through the means
of what we properly call Seven Sacred Schools, which had their vibrational
foundation in the Seven Planes of this Whole, Holy World. These Seven Sacred
Schools of the Motherland of man, or the Garden of Eden, were the seats of
learning and all government; in other words, all educational instruction issued
forth from these Seven Sacred Schools, and they were in actuality the
controlling factors in all phases of life, including that which we would
describe as religion and government. Under this system of function the whole
world was populated and the whole world was governed. It should be remembered
that in this period the preponderance of earth's surface was land, as the
preponderance of the earth's surface is now water. Other instruction papers
deal with the process of the fall and the geographical changes which took
place, but in relationship to our present subject matter it must be recalled
that in a period of 7,000 years, dating from the time of the fall, these Seven
Sacred Schools originally established by God as a means of providing all
educational facilities and government for man, were temporarily withdrawn from
manifestation in the earth, culminating in the submersion of Lemuria, or that
which is described in the Bible as Adam and Eve being driven from the Garden of
Eden. About 1,000 years later the continent of Atlantis submerged beneath the
waters of what we now call the Atlantic Ocean, as described and alluded to in
the Biblical story of the Flood, and the scattered remnants of humanity who
survived these cataclysmic changes were forced by circumstance and violent
climatic changes to subsist under what we would classify as primitive
conditions closely akin to the state of the animal world. This, then, which
took place about 12,000 years ago produced what is commonly thought of as the
cave man era. From this low point to which man had descended by the process of
devolution, it took about 5,000 years of what we may call evolution for man to
reach a point where we have the beginnings of recorded history as generally
known in relationship to the Egyptian period; in other words, this carries us
up to the beginning of history as generally recognized.
It should be easily seen that
it would be necessary that the Sacred Schools which had been temporarily
withdrawn from manifestation would have to be re-established in the earth in
their natural order, and the outworking of man's progress in world events did
not permit the beginning of this phase of the fulfilment of the Divine Plan for
the fallen world until the time of Abraham, during whose lifetime Melchizedek
appeared. It is obvious from all Biblical references to Melchizedek that he was
the highest of Divine Beings who functioned in relationship to this world, and
it-should not be difficult to comprehend that the one who manifested as Melchizedek
later manifested as Jesus the Christ.
In connection with our
distinction between the Supreme Divine Being connected with this world, and
other members of the One Body of God, it should be understood that this relates
to the fact that there are many other worlds peopled and under the jurisdiction
of Divine Beings, and that it would be an assumption of the most egotistical
sort to imagine that this is the only world in all of the Cosmos which is
peopled, or which relates to the outworking of the Divine Order, through the
administration of Divine Beings. Therefore, when we speak of the One God Whom
we all recognize, we realize that the Divine Beings connected with the function
and manifestation of the other worlds in the Universe and in the Cosmos, are Members
of the ONE GOD BODY just as surely as are the Divine Beings Who administer the
Divine affairs of this world.
The foregoing clearly refutes
the false assumption which has been made on the part of some that the Third
Sacred School must, in some manner, purport to be higher or more advanced than
the First or Second Sacred Schools, merely because it is designated as the
Third Sacred School. If the First and Second Sacred Schools had not been
established and in manifestation, the Third could not have been brought forth.
The work of establishing the First Sacred School was, obviously, the most
difficult of all, because it was a beginning, in outer manifestation, without
any historical background in the period immediately preceding, or known to man
in general, so that it could have been accomplished in no way other than it was
accomplished, namely, through the ministrations of Melchizedek, who was
manifest in the earth, without father, without mother, and without end of days.
There is no record in any part of Biblical history of a more marvelous and
wonderful Divine manifestation in the earth, and it was, simply, a
manifestation of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings Whom we know in the New
Testament period as Jesus the Christ, Who came into the world through the
operation of Divine Laws without the medium of a physical body produced by the
process of conception and birth, or limited by the processes of decrepitude and
death. Only by means of such a Divine manifestation could the beginning
processes of re-manifestation of the Seven Sacred Schools be brought about in
the earth under conditions that then existed. Certainly, then, in so far as the
world now is, the process by which the First Sacred School was again
established in the earth must be recognized as being Supreme, and even more
beyond the comprehension of the human mind, than was the manifestation and
function of Jesus Christ. It must be understood that the First Sacred School
established by Melchizedek through the responsive co-operation of Abraham, extended
in its dominant influence in the world until the time of the dispersion of the
Israelites; in other words, it includes and contains within itself all that
took place in revelation and function through Jacob, through Joseph, through
Moses, through the Judges, through David and Solomon, through Elijah and
Elisha, and through all of the Faithful Prophets of the Old Testament.
As we have already recognized
that it was necessary that the Sacred Schools be re-established in their
chronological order, it must also be recognized that they had to be established
in accordance with their vibrational order relating to the Seven Planes of
Being. These requirements were fulfilled in each instance. Through the First
Sacred School established by Melchizedek and carried forward so effectively by
Moses and the Faithful Ones who followed after him, there was provided a means
whereby the mass body of a selected portion of humanity could have returned
immediately to the Edenic State if they had remained steadfast and true to God,
thereby opening the way whereby the world as a whole could have been restored
to the Edenic State en masse. This certainly must be classified as the greatest
opportunity accorded to man since the day of the fall until this present time,
and was the greatest undertaking from the standpoint of man that could possibly
have been inaugurated. When the selected portion of the world body failed to
carry through, and the immediate program under the First Sacred School could
not be brought to fruition, the vibrational basis of the Second Sacred School
had to be resorted to. But this does not mean that the basic vibrational
function of the First Sacred School was lost to the world, for it was, and
still is, providing a basic foundation for all that has, or will, come after
it. When man failed to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the
First Sacred School, it became necessary for Jesus Christ to manifest in the
world, to bring into manifestation the function and vibrational basis of the
Second Sacred School.
The Life and Ministry of Jesus and that which is recorded
in the New Testament period all relates thereto, and provides the immediate
foundation for all of the spiritually progressive activities in the world
today. While the work of establishing the Second Sacred School was more
painful, it was not as difficult task in one sense of the word as was the work
of establishing the First Sacred School; but in both instances the work was so
difficult and so gravely important to the world that it could be entrusted to
no one but the LORD of Lords Himself. In the opportunity afforded by the Life
Ministry of Jesus Christ through His work in establishing the Second Sacred
School, the field was narrowed down from the broad scope that was utilized in
the First Sacred School, which had provided the easiest process of response
from the standpoint of humanity, to the field of what we classify as the
mental. I would here point out that because it is so classified a few persons
who are ignorant of the outworking of the Divine Plan have jumped to the false
conclusion that we were relegating the work of Jesus Christ to something below
the Spiritual vibration classification which is utilized in relation to the
Third Sacred School. Such an idea is completely false. The First Sacred School,
while utilizing the basic vibrations of physical response, in the primary
sense, certainly included in every respect all that is properly classified as
the mental and the Spiritual. When humanity rejected this easy way, the next
more difficult way had to be resorted to, and when I speak of it as being
difficult here, I have reference only to humanity's opportunities therein, and
not to the difficulties involved in establishing the Second Sacred School.
Melchizedek had the most difficult task, but he provided humanity with the
easiest possible way of restoration. Jesus Christ had almost as difficult a
task and one that was more painful, in establishing the Second Sacred School,
and He provided the next easiest way of direct approach from the standpoint of
humanity as a whole. That which Jesus Christ established is still in force, and
no one who has any understanding of the work of the Third Sacred School has
ever supposed, for even a fraction of a second, that the Third Sacred School or
those who function therein supersede in any manner whatsoever the work of Jesus
Christ, for we recognize Him as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and have never
at any time suggested that the Third Sacred School or any individual in it was
equal to, let alone above or beyond, that which was made manifest in and
through our Beloved Master, Jesus Christ.
While Jesus Christ was on
earth, a means was provided by which the world could have been restored to the
Edenic State at that time, so that Jesus Himself would not have been crucified,
and so that the intervening 2,000 years of misery, suffering and death could
have been avoided by humanity as a whole. When the world rejected that which
Jesus Christ offered, and crucified Him, the third alternative Plan had to come
into effect, and Jesus Christ Himself established the authorization and
provided the direction for the outworking on the basis of the third alternative
Plan; but, by reason of the fact that He was crucified by the world, and by
reason of the fact of that which He had provided for the world, both in teaching
and actual manifestation of vibrational function according to the Divine Order,
it was not necessary that He assume personal responsibility in outer
manifestation for the establishment of the Third Sacred School. In other words,
the processes of bringing the Third Sacred School again into manifestation
could be, and were, delegated to a subordinate by Jesus Christ Himself.
However, by reason of the world's rejection of Jesus Christ, the second alternative
Plan ceased to be available to man in the very hour when Jesus was crucified on
Calvary, and the third alternative Plan has been in effect since that hour, and
it utilizes the approach to the Divine on a vibrational basis of Spiritual
response as the starting point. Here, then, we have the first three of the
seven Planes as manifest in this world on a vibrational basis represented in
the manifestation and function of the first three of the Sacred Schools.
The
Fourth Sacred School will not be brought into manifestation until after the
restoration of man to the Edenic State. In other words, man must come through
the program provided on the third-plane vibration, or not at all. In this
connection, it is necessary to point out that every church and all individuals
who honestly and sincerely seek to follow Jesus Christ, to do His Will, and who
desire to receive that which Jesus Christ offered to the world, are, to the
degree that they are correct in their understanding of that which Jesus Christ
taught and accomplished, in the Third Sacred School already, and this has been
true since the moment when Jesus Christ Himself recognized that the third
alternative Plan would have to be utilized, and therefore authorized the
Beloved Disciple John as the Head thereof in the earth, while He Himself was on
the cross. Jesus did not give that Authorization prior to the time that He was
on the cross, because up until that moment humanity had the opportunity of
responding on the basis of the second alternative Plan. The moment He was on
the cross humanity lost that opportunity, and from that moment onward the third
alternative Plan was in effect. So it is that the re-manifestation of the Third
Sacred School, which vibrationally dates back to the period of the Edenic State
long before the fall of man, has been in actual existence by decree and
authority of Jesus Christ since the hour
when He was crucified on Calvary. It is under this authority, and on a
vibrational foundation dating into antiquity more than 150,000 years ago, that
the Third Sacred School is now operating in the world, that all who will may
know the whole Truth and be set completely free, according to the promise of
Jesus Christ, our Lord, and Master.
The history of the world since
the time of the crucifixion of Jesus down through the dark ages to the present
time, as it relates to the manifestation and function of the Third Sacred
School, is a vast subject which has been touched upon to a degree in other
writings, and which we must now leave for further elucidation until another
time.
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