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35:2.1 The [[Melchizedeks]] are the first order of [[divine]] Sons to approach sufficiently near the lower [[creature]] life to be able to [[function]] directly in the [[ministry]] of [[mortal]] uplift, to serve the [[evolutionary]] [[races]] without the [[necessity]] of [[incarnation]]. These Sons are naturally at the mid-point of the great [[personality]] [[descent]], by [[origin]] being just about midway between the highest [[Divinity]] and the lowest [[creature]] life of will [[endowment]]. They thus become the [[natural]] [[intermediaries]] between the higher and [[divine]] [[levels]] of living [[existence]] and the lower, even the [[material]], forms of life on the [[evolutionary worlds]]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 seraphic orders], the [[angels]], delight to [[work]] with the [[Melchizedeks]]; in [[fact]], all forms of [[intelligent]] life find in these Sons [[understanding]] [[friends]], [[sympathetic]] [[teachers]], and [[wise]] [[counselors]].
35:2.2 The [[Melchizedeks]] are a [[self-governing]] order. With this [[unique]] [[group]] we encounter the first attempt at [[self-determination]] on the part of [[local universe]] [[beings]] and [[observe]] the highest [[type]] of true [[self-government]]. These Sons [[organize]] their own [[machinery]] for their [[group]] and [[home]]-[[planet]] [[administration]], as well as that for the six [[associated]] [[spheres]] and their tributary worlds. And it should be recorded that they have never [[abused]] their [[prerogatives]]; not once throughout all the [[superuniverse]] of [[Orvonton]] have these Melchizedek Sons ever [[betrayed]] their [[trust]]. They are the [[hope]] of every [[universe]] [[group]] which [[aspires]] to [[self-government]]; they are the [[pattern]] and the [[teachers]] of [[self-government]] to all the [[spheres]] of [[Nebadon]]. All orders of [[intelligent]] [[beings]], superiors from above and subordinates from below, are wholehearted in their [[praise]] of the [[government]] of the [[Melchizedeks]].
35:2.3 The [[Melchizedek]] order of sonship occupies the position, and [[assumes]] the [[responsibility]], of the eldest son in a large [[family]]. Most of their [[work]] is regular and somewhat [[routine]], but much of it is [[voluntary]] and altogether self-imposed. A [[majority]] of the special assemblies which, from time to time, convene on [[Salvington]] are called on motion of the [[Melchizedeks]]. On their own initiative these Sons patrol their [[native]] [[universe]]. They maintain an [[autonomous]] [[organization]] [[devoted]] to [[universe]] [[intelligence]], making [[periodical]] reports to the [[Creator Son]] [[independent]] of all [[information]] coming up to [[universe]] [[headquarters]] through the regular [[agencies]] concerned with the routine [[administration]] of the realm. They are by [[nature]] unprejudiced [[observers]]; they have the full [[confidence]] of all [[classes]] of [[intelligent]] [[beings]].
35:2.4 The [[Melchizedeks]] [[function]] as mobile and advisory review [[courts]] of the realms; these universe Sons go in small [[groups]] to the worlds to serve as advisory commissions, to take depositions, to receive suggestions, and to [[act]] as [[counselors]], thus helping to [[compose]] the major [[difficulties]] and settle the serious [[differences]] which arise from time to time in the affairs of the [[evolutionary]] [[domains]].
35:2.5 These eldest Sons of a [[universe]] are the chief aids of the [[Bright and Morning Star]] in carrying out the [[mandates]] of the [[Creator Son]]. When a [[Melchizedek]] goes to a remote world in the name of [[Gabriel]], he may, for the [[purposes]] of that particular mission, be deputized in the [[name]] of the sender and in that [[event]] will appear on the [[planet]] of assignment with the full [[authority]] of the [[Bright and Morning Star]]. Especially is this true on those [[spheres]] where a higher Son has not yet appeared in the likeness of the [[creatures]] of the realm.
35:2.6 When a [[Creator Son]] enters upon the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal career] on an [[evolutionary world]], he goes alone; but when one of his [[Paradise]] [[brothers]], an [[Avonal Son]], enters upon a bestowal, he is accompanied by the [[Melchizedek]] supporters, twelve in [[number]], who so [[efficiently]] [[contribute]] to the success of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowal mission]. They also [[support]] the [[Paradise]] [[Avonals]] on [[magisterial missions]] to the [[inhabited worlds]], and in these assignments the [[Melchizedeks]] are visible to [[mortal]] eyes if the [[Avonal Son]] is also thus [[manifest]].
35:2.7 There is no [[phase]] of [[planetary]] [[spiritual]] need to which they do not [[minister]]. They are the [[teachers]] who so often win whole worlds of advanced life to the final and full [[recognition]] of the [[Creator Son]] and his [[Paradise Father]].
35:2.8 The [[Melchizedeks]] are well-nigh [[perfect]] in [[wisdom]], but they are not [[infallible]] in [[judgment]]. When detached and alone on [[planetary]] missions, they have sometimes erred in minor matters, that is, they have elected to do certain [[things]] which their supervisors did not subsequently approve. Such an [[error]] of [[judgment]] temporarily disqualifies a [[Melchizedek]] until he goes to [[Salvington]] and, in [[audience]] with the [[Creator Son]], receives that instruction which effectually purges him of the disharmony which caused disagreement with his fellows; and then, following the correctional rest, reinstatement to [[service]] ensues on the third day. But these minor misadaptations in [[Melchizedek]] [[function]] have rarely occurred in [[Nebadon]].
35:2.9 These Sons are not an increasing order; their [[number]] is stationary, although varying in each [[local universe]]. The number of [[Melchizedeks]] of [[record]] on their [[headquarters]] [[planet]] in [[Nebadon]] is upward of ten million.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Go to Paper 35]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 35 - The Local Universe Sons of God]]
35:2.1 The [[Melchizedeks]] are the first order of [[divine]] Sons to approach sufficiently near the lower [[creature]] life to be able to [[function]] directly in the [[ministry]] of [[mortal]] uplift, to serve the [[evolutionary]] [[races]] without the [[necessity]] of [[incarnation]]. These Sons are naturally at the mid-point of the great [[personality]] [[descent]], by [[origin]] being just about midway between the highest [[Divinity]] and the lowest [[creature]] life of will [[endowment]]. They thus become the [[natural]] [[intermediaries]] between the higher and [[divine]] [[levels]] of living [[existence]] and the lower, even the [[material]], forms of life on the [[evolutionary worlds]]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 seraphic orders], the [[angels]], delight to [[work]] with the [[Melchizedeks]]; in [[fact]], all forms of [[intelligent]] life find in these Sons [[understanding]] [[friends]], [[sympathetic]] [[teachers]], and [[wise]] [[counselors]].
35:2.2 The [[Melchizedeks]] are a [[self-governing]] order. With this [[unique]] [[group]] we encounter the first attempt at [[self-determination]] on the part of [[local universe]] [[beings]] and [[observe]] the highest [[type]] of true [[self-government]]. These Sons [[organize]] their own [[machinery]] for their [[group]] and [[home]]-[[planet]] [[administration]], as well as that for the six [[associated]] [[spheres]] and their tributary worlds. And it should be recorded that they have never [[abused]] their [[prerogatives]]; not once throughout all the [[superuniverse]] of [[Orvonton]] have these Melchizedek Sons ever [[betrayed]] their [[trust]]. They are the [[hope]] of every [[universe]] [[group]] which [[aspires]] to [[self-government]]; they are the [[pattern]] and the [[teachers]] of [[self-government]] to all the [[spheres]] of [[Nebadon]]. All orders of [[intelligent]] [[beings]], superiors from above and subordinates from below, are wholehearted in their [[praise]] of the [[government]] of the [[Melchizedeks]].
35:2.3 The [[Melchizedek]] order of sonship occupies the position, and [[assumes]] the [[responsibility]], of the eldest son in a large [[family]]. Most of their [[work]] is regular and somewhat [[routine]], but much of it is [[voluntary]] and altogether self-imposed. A [[majority]] of the special assemblies which, from time to time, convene on [[Salvington]] are called on motion of the [[Melchizedeks]]. On their own initiative these Sons patrol their [[native]] [[universe]]. They maintain an [[autonomous]] [[organization]] [[devoted]] to [[universe]] [[intelligence]], making [[periodical]] reports to the [[Creator Son]] [[independent]] of all [[information]] coming up to [[universe]] [[headquarters]] through the regular [[agencies]] concerned with the routine [[administration]] of the realm. They are by [[nature]] unprejudiced [[observers]]; they have the full [[confidence]] of all [[classes]] of [[intelligent]] [[beings]].
35:2.4 The [[Melchizedeks]] [[function]] as mobile and advisory review [[courts]] of the realms; these universe Sons go in small [[groups]] to the worlds to serve as advisory commissions, to take depositions, to receive suggestions, and to [[act]] as [[counselors]], thus helping to [[compose]] the major [[difficulties]] and settle the serious [[differences]] which arise from time to time in the affairs of the [[evolutionary]] [[domains]].
35:2.5 These eldest Sons of a [[universe]] are the chief aids of the [[Bright and Morning Star]] in carrying out the [[mandates]] of the [[Creator Son]]. When a [[Melchizedek]] goes to a remote world in the name of [[Gabriel]], he may, for the [[purposes]] of that particular mission, be deputized in the [[name]] of the sender and in that [[event]] will appear on the [[planet]] of assignment with the full [[authority]] of the [[Bright and Morning Star]]. Especially is this true on those [[spheres]] where a higher Son has not yet appeared in the likeness of the [[creatures]] of the realm.
35:2.6 When a [[Creator Son]] enters upon the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal career] on an [[evolutionary world]], he goes alone; but when one of his [[Paradise]] [[brothers]], an [[Avonal Son]], enters upon a bestowal, he is accompanied by the [[Melchizedek]] supporters, twelve in [[number]], who so [[efficiently]] [[contribute]] to the success of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowal mission]. They also [[support]] the [[Paradise]] [[Avonals]] on [[magisterial missions]] to the [[inhabited worlds]], and in these assignments the [[Melchizedeks]] are visible to [[mortal]] eyes if the [[Avonal Son]] is also thus [[manifest]].
35:2.7 There is no [[phase]] of [[planetary]] [[spiritual]] need to which they do not [[minister]]. They are the [[teachers]] who so often win whole worlds of advanced life to the final and full [[recognition]] of the [[Creator Son]] and his [[Paradise Father]].
35:2.8 The [[Melchizedeks]] are well-nigh [[perfect]] in [[wisdom]], but they are not [[infallible]] in [[judgment]]. When detached and alone on [[planetary]] missions, they have sometimes erred in minor matters, that is, they have elected to do certain [[things]] which their supervisors did not subsequently approve. Such an [[error]] of [[judgment]] temporarily disqualifies a [[Melchizedek]] until he goes to [[Salvington]] and, in [[audience]] with the [[Creator Son]], receives that instruction which effectually purges him of the disharmony which caused disagreement with his fellows; and then, following the correctional rest, reinstatement to [[service]] ensues on the third day. But these minor misadaptations in [[Melchizedek]] [[function]] have rarely occurred in [[Nebadon]].
35:2.9 These Sons are not an increasing order; their [[number]] is stationary, although varying in each [[local universe]]. The number of [[Melchizedeks]] of [[record]] on their [[headquarters]] [[planet]] in [[Nebadon]] is upward of ten million.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Go to Paper 35]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 35 - The Local Universe Sons of God]]
