The Inner Life

the New Covenant—that Covenant where He promised to meet them in Heaven and to be with them ever afterward?

WHAT we are trying to prepare your minds to understand is that there is a certain very high state of Spiritual Consciousness attainable by man that was known from the beginning; and that once more the cyclic cosmic wave approaches that will gather to the bosom of the vast ocean of the Father’s Consciousness those who have finished their term of mere human expression, and who are now prepared to serve as perfect instruments for the Father’s use—even as was Jesus, for the short period He was on earth after His Baptism.

In other words, there awaits for a certain special few Spiritually prepared souls of the race advancement into a new Order of being, one eligible to the Elect only; and that Order is so high that it is impossible of attainment except to those of proven service and who have washed their souls clean in the Blood of the Lamb.

In only three places in the Bible is this Order spoken of by name, and always with such import that its significance indicates it was beyond mere human comprehension. These three instances were:

In Genesis when Melchizedek, King of Salem, Priest of God Most High, brought bread and wine and blessed Abram; one where David sings of how Jehovah swears of the Lord, saying “Thou art a priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek;” and where in the Epistle to the Hebrews all of the foregoing is recounted and this stated that Jesus Christ our Lord was meant by David, and then in great detail is explained how those who follow Christ, live His Life, and prove themselves like Him in all ways, are fitting themselves for admittance into this High Order.

We will try to make clear to all those who can receive it just what is the Order of Melchizedek. First let us consider what is the Second Baptism.

You must remember that the birth of the Christ or Divine Love in the soul is caused by the actual “descent” of a Son of God, Who is One with Christ, into the soul, thereby making it a “living” soul—a “reborn” soul. From that moment the outer man is changed and begins to live in a new world of consciousness;