in the various lands; where there had been and were the attempts to correlate the teachings of those in various portions of that eastern land.
The entity was among those that aided in the establishing of that in the Persian land, which later became as the tenets of that people from whom—many ages later—Melchizedek came. And the entity finds that when this is said within its inner self there is a response which makes for an opening of the greater promises from within: M-e-l-c-h-i-z-e-d-e-k, the great-great-grandson of the entity, who came as without days, as without father or mother, yet as in [the] desire of the entity that—as Sususus—created or begun the condition through its efforts.
For it brought into the associations of those with whom the entity labored that which would make for peace, harmony; glorying in the acceptance of the truths from the Infinite—as it may express itself in the finite minds of men.
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If Cayce is correct, one of Melchizedek’s greatest contributions to the spiritual development of mankind was the creation of the Book of Job, a religious allegory, a pattern of man’s experience in the earth:
(Q) Was Jesus, the Christ, ever Job in the physical body? . . .
(A) No. Not ever in the physical body . . . For, as the Sons of God came together to reason, as recorded in Job, who recorded same? The Son of Man! Melchizedek wrote Job!
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Another body of teaching initiated by Melchizedek was later used to found the School of Prophets, which eventually became the Essene Community to which many of the early Christian Jews belonged, including Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.
Hence the group we refer to . . . as the Essenes . . . was the outgrowth of the periods of preparations from the teachings of Melchizedek, as propagated by Elijah and Elisha and Samuel.
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Thus the teachings of Melchizedek are not only the basis for much of the Old Testament wisdom, but the Christian philosophy as well.
Melchizedek’s blessing of Abram in Genesis 14 provides another example of a spiritual service:
. . . Melchizedek, a prince of peace, one seeking ever to be able to bless those in their judgments who have sought to become channels for a helpful influence without any seeking for material gain or mental or material glory . . .
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Father Abraham
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were the first patriarchs and set the examples. All the later prophets, seers, and writers of the Old Testament refer to the experiences of these three men. God spoke to Adam, walked with Enoch, and talked with Noah, but only with the coming of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did man’s concept of God become a personal thing.
On February 19, 1939, a fifty-four-year-old beauty salon manager obtained a Life reading. In this very touching extract from it, Cayce describes the influence Abraham and his family had upon her.
. . . the entity was in that land when there were those activities in which the chosen of the Lord, as recorded, were making for those activities which later brought about the dwellings of him called father of the faithful.
The entity then was among the daughters of Heth from whom Abraham purchased the land near Socoh. [Genesis 23] The entity was acquainted with that patriarch, though—as considered in those days—of an unknown people; yet through the activities viewed by the entity as to same there was aroused that which brought a longing for a knowledge of a something of which the entity had heard.
For the manner in which Abraham, Isaac, and Sarah—and even Ishmael—were in the care of their own brought the love of a home; yet to the entity—as in the present—seeking rather the knowledge of that city not built with hands, but rather that eternal in the heart and soul of those.12
Hence we find again those abilities of ministering, of teaching—not as proclaiming but in living, and in the quietness of the conversation, being able to give that which awakens within the minds and hearts of others that search for that which the entity finds in its emblem—the lamb and the lotus, in purity that touches even to the lips of God.
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On May 2, 1935, a young writer was told of an early life and Abraham’s effect upon her:
. . . when there were the settlings of the land, when first the land of promise came to be a portion of Abraham’s or Abram’s and Sarai’s activity. The entity was then among the daughters of Heth, of those peoples in that land, in the name then Beloi, and was very closely associated with Sarah, Abraham, Lot, and those people that settled in those plains of Abraham. And the entity’s daughter became then the leading among those that made for the combinations of the peoples of Isaac’s son and those of the Canaanite land.
In the experience the entity gained, for it proclaimed many of those tenets or lessons or philosophies, or activities—as would be called in the present—as to establishing the relationships with individuals, and what became as the Creative Forces or that philosophy of life as pertaining to the Creative Energies as given out by Abraham during the period. The entity proclaimed same to the peoples roundabout, and made for the closer companionships with those first leaders of those people set apart for an activity in the earth.
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A Jewish businessman was told when Abraham went out from Ur, he had accompanied him. A love of travel and adventure is a result of that experience.
. . . before this we find in the Promised Land to those peoples who came up from Ur, and the entity was among those who served that leader, ruler, or patriarch, and gave much and required much at the hand of those about the entity in that day. Then the name was Shouel, and the urge as is seen—the desire of travel, and the urge of profit in traffic, for this, as is seen, is the greater influence in the present experience in earth’s sojourn.
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A twenty-year-old stenographer was told that Abraham had had a decided influence upon her in an earlier incarnation as one of his grandchildren.
. . . the early portion of those activities with Abraham, known as the father of the faithful. And the entity then was acquainted with those activities, being the daughter of Ishmael-Temah by name. And, being associated and acquainted with those activities and influences, the entity was among those who brought many of the changes in the affairs and activities of the peoples during that experience.
The entity held to rather the tenets of Abraham, as well as the knowledge of the activities of Isaac.
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