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Just as Abram began the line which eventually resulted in the ultimate incarnation in the flesh of the Son of the Living God, Edgar Cayce told a woman that in a very distant and ancient age, she had begun activities and established a line which made the appearance of Melchizedek possible. Although Melchizedek’s genealogy is not known, Edgar Cayce said that in prehistoric Egypt [884] had been his great-great-grandmother:

. . . we find the entity was in what is now known as the Egyptian land, during those experiences when there were those being sent as the emissaries for the peoples 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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