The Gospels

Melchizedec

Melchizedek (Melki-Tsedeq or Melkisedek) is a sacred and mysterious personage, mentioned in some passages of the brought back Sacred Witnesses at the bottom to this page. his importance is extraordinary if it is considered that Jesus and Abraham belonged to the order of Melchizedek and that " is without father, mother, genealogy, principle of fine days neither of life, fact similar to the Son of God and remains clergyman in eternal".

Also O.M. Aïvanhov of it narrates with great devotion and admiration in more points about his works. It is advised, between the others, the reading of the book The Book of Revelations (A Commentary) - chap..3 Melchizedek and Initiation into the Mystery of the Two Principles.

Aïvanhov remember that the figure of Melchizedek is recalled not singularly in the Genesis, Gospels and Letters of S.Paul, but also in the Revelation of S. John:

* The mysterious Personage of which John in the Revelation speaks is Melchizedec (p.160 on The Fruits of the Tree of Life -The Kabbalistic Tradition) ;

* Celestial the New Jerusalem of which S. John speaks is connected to the work of Melchizedek.

According to the initiatic philosophy, Melchizedek he is the Master of all Masters (Melki), is the producer of the peace and the justice (tsedek) and all the great Masters who have carried civilization and light to several the people in the course of the centuries come from the order of Melkizedek. his order represents the true Tradition of the Love, the Wisdom, and the Truth. To this Order the teaching of Deunov and Aivanhov is inspired. The same Deunov has dedicated some sacred songs to It.

It is sent back to the books of Aïvanhov to deepen the following explanations on the meant one of topics.
chap.VIII " Communion " in The Yoga of Nutrition
chap.XVI "The Sacrament of the Eucharist " Cosmic Balance (The Secret of Polarity)
chap.IX "The True Solar Religion " Towards a Solar Civilization
chap.XI "The gates of celestial Jerusalem " in The Mysteries of Yesod - Study of purity
chap.XVII "The Heavenly City" in The Book of Revelations

The Fathers of the Church used his figure in order to make of the image of the Christ, and identified Salem with Gerusalem. Melchizedek and was, therefore, the Biblical model of the clergyman...

"In fact it is with prophetic spirit that it has been written: "You six clergyman in eternal to the way of Melchizedek": _ that is not the way of Aaron, which the priest, propagating through the generation, belonged to a ministry temporary, and of fact be stop with the law of the Old Testament; but through the way of Melchizedek in which the figure of the eternal pontiff was meant before. And since it does not come reported from which parent is understood that in him are shown those whose generation cannot be narrated. Therefore, reaching the human nature the mystery of this divine priest, propagates through generations, neither comes elect those that the flesh and the blood have formed. Stopped I privilege of the father; the hierarchy of the families is abolished: the Church receives as shepherds those the Saint Spirit has prepared. In such a way that, in the people, adopted to the divine offspring, totally sacerdotal and regale, they do not obtain the union privileges to you from the origin field, but already to be born priest the favor of the heavenly grace".(.(St.Leon gno-www.bno.urbe.it)

Psalm 110... attributes to Re-Messy a singular sacerdotal character for directing the investiture of God: "Your six clergymen always in order on the way of Melchizedek" (Sal 109,4). The day before his dead on the cross, Christ instituted in the Cenacle the Eucharist Bread and also offered wine... He carried therefore to fulfillment the prophesy of the ancient alliance, tied to the offer sacrifices them of Melchizedek. Just for this - the Letter to the Hebrew remembers - "He then became cause of eternal salvation for all those who obey to him, being proclaimed by God added a clergyman on the Melchizedek’s... will lead him to live in touch with our life and lay a trap from thousand dangers, overwhelmed from worries and pains, subject to the slow but inexorable wearing down of the time.

we will say with confidence - oh Jesus, thanks for feeding us and defending us, take us to the eternal assets. You that all know and can feed us on earth/take your brothers to the table of heaven,/in joy of your sant"omely of Pope John Paul the 22th of June 2000 in occasion of the Corpus Dominions www.vatican.it)

The Letter to the Hebrew... will see on the face of Melchizedek the profile of the perfect clergyman Jesus Christ, as Turoldo father sang: "Nobody has never known of him, who was his father; they only know: that he was the clergyman of the highest God. it was the figure of another, the single king who free us and safe us: a king who prays for the man and loves him, but who is going to die for others; one that offers bread and wine to the highest God in sign of mercy: the bread and the wine of free men, behind Abraham always in way.(www.novena.it/ravasi/ravasi24.htm)

Melchizedek is the King of the World, the Monarch of the Earth of Livings, the Earth of Immortality. In all the traditions earth paradiziac (Agharta, Shamballa made reference to the existence of one etc.) governed by the Pontiff Monarch, king of Justice and Peace (Guenon, The King of the World, Melchizedek - "Le Roi du Monde"- 1972).

What means the expression "the Earth of Living" mentioned in Him knows ("I to me I will walk in front of the Eternal one, on the Earth of Living) compare chap. 1 and following of the book The Fruits of the Tree of Life .

"Great Master Melchisedec is recognized for the generality of the countries and people to which he came with the living CROSS and the ROSE, and many are the traditions millenarians who recognized him like the bearer of the BREAD and the WINE, or emerging victorious from Waters of the life (Rosicrucian letter).

Melchizedek is quoted in the Paradise of Dante (song VIII, 125); in the sacred story shortly appeared the clergyman of the Jewish tradition

 

Psalms - Chapter 109
The priesthood of the Messiah

[1] Here is the Lord’s oracle to my master: “Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!” The Lord6 extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you. The Lord makes this promise on oath and will not revoke it: “You are an eternal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek. O sovereign Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger. He executes judgment against the nations; he fills the valleys with corpses; he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield. From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head.

Letters to the Jews
Chapter 5

 

For every high priest is taken from among people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness, and for this reason he is obligated to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people. And no one assumes this honor4 on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was. So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,” as also in another place God says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” During his earthly life Christoffered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

Letters to the Jews
Chapter 6

 

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God, teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this is what we intend to do, if God permits. For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God. But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned. But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints. But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises. Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise. For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath, so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain, where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

 

Letters to the Jews
Chapter 7

 

Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him. To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace. Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his finest plunder. And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise. Now without dispute the inferior is blessed by the superior, and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive. And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham. For he was still in his ancestor’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

(Genesis 14:17-20)

After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King’s Valley.). Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.). He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth. Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand. Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything

Depictions

We provide some simple guidance on some artistic representations concerning Melchizedek or Melchizedec:

* Mosaic depicting the offering of Melchizedek (Ravenna, San Vitale)

 

* Offer of Melchizedek (on the right wall of the transept, next to the triumphal arch of access) Church of San Giacomo di Vicenza (www.comune.vicenza.it / turismo / Church / sgiacomo.htm).

* In the lunette of the right wall of the presbytery "Abel and Melchizedek sacrifice to the Lord" church of S. Vitale (www.queen.it / city / Ravenna / Monument / vitale.htm).

* Mosaics in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (fifth century.) - Offering of Melchizedek placed near the altar.

* On the inner wall of the facade of Reims Cathedral in France (XIII sec.), The meeting between Abraham and the King of Salem.

* Rubens in '600 situated the scene inside of the tapestry which is about the triumph of the Eucharist " .

* Church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo-Ragusa-paintings that depict the act of Melchizedek offering bread and wine to Abraham (www.comune.ragusa.it / Ragusa / spasimo.htm).

* Parish of St. Lorenzo (1633-47), in which are great paintings, among them stands out on either side of the left transept, a large canvas (sacrifice of Melchizedek) painted by GB Tiepolo.

* In the cathedral of Chartres, Mechizedek is placed at the forefront of the Old Testament fathers, to follow him Abraham, Moses, Samuel and David.