the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxv (exit from the old to the new)

โ€œHaving taken this covenant, you have become a neophyte, so to speak, in that wondrous order of Melchizedek, of which Jesus was the earthly representative in his time, for you remember the declaration of the Apostle (quoting from the Psalms), โ€œThou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.โ€ After you have taken the [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)

โ€œYou here meet a law in God's great nature that is hard to understand. If you condemn yourself, you stand condemned before God. Therefore, we urge upon you the necessity of settling the matter, according to the directions of Christ: โ€œIf therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xiii (Jesus of the order of Melchizedek)

A WORD OF CAUTION โ€œWe have presented in this chapter the thought of a mystic order that, from all eternity, has existed in all worlds and systems of worlds. The methods of this order lead men from the narrow sphere of his earthly consciousness, into the consciousness of having become a center through which the [...]