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<center>NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE EXPECTED DESCENT OF MACHIVENTA MELCHIZEDEK</center>

<center>NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE EXPECTED DESCENT OF MACHIVENTA MELCHIZEDEK</center>

<center>TO THE URANTIA BOOK COMMUNITY IN NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS IN APRIL, 1993</center>

<center>TO THE URANTIA BOOK COMMUNITY IN NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS IN APRIL, 1993</center>

<center>with a personal commentary of Steve Hecht appended</center>

<center>with a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Naperville#Steve_Hecht.27s_Commentary personal commentary of the writer]</center>

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I chose to attend the [[event]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois Naperville, Illinois] and went with my [[friend]] Eric Johnson. I went with a decidedly open [[frame of mind]]; I had consciously chosen not to ‘pre-empt’ my [[experience]] with either [[skepticism]] or an excitable [[expectation]]. I knew that many others had chosen one or the other [[orientation]] prior to attending; I just wanted to truly [[participate]]--but not as an outsider or an [[observer]] or a ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome true believer]’. At the time I had a [[healthy]] [[respect]] for the [[activities]] of the [[Teaching Mission]], and often had defended their [[beliefs]] on the various [[UB]] chat sites of the period.  

I chose to attend the [[event]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois Naperville, Illinois] on April 24, 1993 and went with my [[friend]] Eric Johnson. I went with a decidedly open [[frame of mind]]; I had consciously chosen not to ‘pre-empt’ my [[experience]] with either [[skepticism]] or an excitable [[expectation]]. I knew that many others had chosen one or the other [[orientation]] prior to attending; I just wanted to truly [[participate]]--but not as an outsider or an [[observer]] or a ‘[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome true believer]’. At the time I had a [[healthy]] [[respect]] for the [[activities]] of the [[Teaching Mission]], and often had defended their [[beliefs]] on the various [[UB]] chat sites of the period.  

The [[event]] took place in a large auditorium in the [http://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/aurora/chiau/hoteldetail Holiday Inn in Naperville]. If I remember correctly the place was filled to [[capacity]], maybe 250 people in total. The [[lights]] dimmed, and there was a period of approximately twenty minutes when the crowd sat in [[silence]], [[encouraged]] by an event coordinator to stay open to the [[spirit]] and to welcome [[Machiventa]]’s [[advent]]. There was definitely a [[powerful]] sense of [[silent]] [[expectancy]] in the room, which I was [[happy]] to [[share]].  

The [[event]] took place in a large auditorium in the [https://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/aurora/chiau/hoteldetail Holiday Inn in Naperville]. If I remember correctly the place was filled to [[capacity]], maybe 250 people in total. The [[lights]] dimmed, and there was a period of approximately twenty minutes when the crowd sat in [[silence]], [[encouraged]] by an event coordinator to stay open to the [[spirit]] and to welcome [[Machiventa]]’s [[advent]]. There was definitely a [[powerful]] sense of [[silent]] [[expectancy]] in the room, which I was [[happy]] to [[share]].  

[[Eventually]] there was a stirring in the open [[space]] and several white robed [[women]] appeared, forming a [[circle]]. I [[believe]] that the idea was to create an [[energy]] [[vortex]] which [[Machiventa]] would use to localize his [[materialization]] in the room. I honestly can’t [[remember]] what might have been said as part of a [[ceremonial]] [[invocation]] or welcoming during this time. I believe that there was someone vocalizing something of the sort, but that is all. This [[welcoming]] [[activity]] took maybe 15-20 minutes, and then [[silence]] ensued as folks waited for [[Machiventa]] to appear. Five minutes passed, then ten, then fifteen There was soft stirring in the auditorium. At twenty minutes people [[gradually]] began to leave the auditorium and congregate in the room outside until the auditorium had emptied.  

[[Eventually]] there was a stirring in the open [[space]] and several white robed [[women]] appeared, forming a [[circle]]. I [[believe]] that the idea was to create an [[energy]] [[vortex]] which [[Machiventa]] would use to localize his [[materialization]] in the room. I honestly can’t [[remember]] what might have been said as part of a [[ceremonial]] [[invocation]] or welcoming during this time. I believe that there was someone vocalizing something of the sort, but that is all. This [[welcoming]] [[activity]] took maybe 15-20 minutes, and then [[silence]] ensued as folks waited for [[Machiventa]] to appear. Five minutes passed, then ten, then fifteen There was soft stirring in the auditorium. At twenty minutes people [[gradually]] began to leave the auditorium and congregate in the room outside until the auditorium had emptied.  

I did not spend too much time talking to people after the [[event]] had ended, but the general tenor was downbeat, as nothing [[perceptible]] had occurred. A few people said that they had [[witnessed]] something, but I can’t [[remember]] what they claimed.  

I did not spend too much time talking to people after the [[event]] had ended, but the general tenor was downbeat, as nothing [[perceptible]] had occurred. A few people said that they had [[witnessed]] something, but I can’t [[remember]] what they claimed.  

==Personal Commentary==

==See also==

After flying back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts Boston] I vividly [[remember]] sitting in my car, [[listening]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]’ [[song]], “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_Fly_(Tom_Petty_song) Learning to Fly]”:

*'''''[[Spiritual Glamour]]'''''

 

 

 

At that [[moment]] I realized that I had been mightily [[touched]] with the [[romance]], the [[grandeur]], and the bittersweet aftertaste of what I could only think of as an [[experiential]] encounter with what [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky H.P. Blavatsky] had often warned her [[students]] about: [https://www.google.com/search?printsec=frontcover&dq=george+steiner+real+presences&hl=en&q=george%20steiner%20real%20presences&sa=N&tab=pw#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=spiritual+glamour&pbx=1&oq=spiritual+glamour&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=182044l185751l0l186199l19l15l1l3l3l0l115l1036l13.2l19l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9bf999b8b987bb6c&biw=643&bih=677 spiritual glamour].

For an interesting theosophical commentary on spiritual glamour, see [http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/articlesWQJ.php?d=GLAMOUR.htm&p=95 this link]

 

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