Reference is here made to those great souls, priests ‘for ever after the order of Melchizedek” or the Unspoken Name. They are Christs of former periods of evolution bound to earth by their desire to lift mankind to their own level of consciousness. These are the Masters of the Masters. Melchizedek was himself the Master to whom Moses said, “Shall I follow thee that thou teach me, for guidance, of that which thou too hast been taught?” Koran, Sura XVIII.
St. Paul says of him, “For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, — without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” And of Christ he declares, “After the similitude of Mel- chizedek there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.” Hebrews vii., 1, 3, 15, 16