In the wake of the Dominion of Melchizedek acceding to numerous international treaties,
the Dominion of Melchizedek Embassy officially opened its "doors of peace"
during the month of September, 1997. Pursuant to Article 5 of the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations and Optional Protocols done at Vienna on 18, April 1961 [U.N.T.S.
Nos. 7310-7312, vol. 500, pp. 95-239. Governmental accreditation of an Embassy is
sometimes a secular "process" described within, among other places, Article 5 of
the Vienna Convention stating:
"Article 5
1. The sending State may, after it has given due notification to the receiving States
concerned, accredit a mission or assign any member of the diplomatic staff, as the case
may be, to more than one State, unless there is express objection by any of the receiving
States.
2. If the sending state accredits a head of mission to one or more other States it may
establish a diplomatic mission headed by a charge d'affaires ad interim in each State
where the head of mission has not his permanent seat.
3. A head of mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission may act as
representative of the sending State to any international organization."
As the reader may however be aware, the Dominion of Melchizedek is an ecclesiastical
sovereignty unlike the secular states, which comprise in large part the members of the
United Nations. Many have reviewed the history of the Dominion of Melchizedek, and asked
the obvious question, who and what is the "sending" state for purposes of
Article 5 analysis.
Philo, an Alexandrian Jewish philosopher [circa 30
B.C.E. to 45 C.E.], known for his
attempts to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason articulately explained
each human serving the Most High God finds his or her citizenship in the Kingdom of
Heaven, and each earthly nation is foreign soil to their pilgrimage:
"All whom Moses calls wise are represented as sojourners. Their souls are never
colonists leaving heaven for a new home. Their way is to visit earthly nature as men who
travel abroad to see and learn. So when they have stayed awhile in their bodies, and
beheld through them all that sense and mortality has to show, they make their way back to
the place from which they set out at first. To them the heavenly region, where their
citizenship lies, is their native land: the earthly region in which they became sojourners
is a foreign country."
To further understand the significance of the foregoing, the terms "pilgrim",
pilgrimage" and "sojourner" need to be analyzed in their Biblical context.
"Pilgrim. ...In Scripture, one that has only a temporary residence
on earth. Heb. xi. Webster, Pilgrimage. ... In Scripture the journey
of a human life. Gen. xvii". American Dictionary of the English Language
(1828) Vol. II p. 35. "Sojourner. ...A stranger or traveler who dwells in a
place for a time." American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) Vol. II
p. 75.
In the Holy Writ it is written of Abraham and his descendants" "And I will
give to you, and your descendants after you, the land in which you sojourn, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting inheritance; and I will be their God." (Genesis
17:8) "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me the possession of a
burial ground with you that I might bury my dead out of my sight." (Genesis 23:4)
"And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a
hundred and thirty years; few and difficult have been the years of my life, and I have not
attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
(Genesis 47:9) "Surely the land shall not be sold outright; for the land is mine; you
are strangers and sojourners with me." (Leviticus 25:23) "For we are like
the proverb of the vapor and of the potter, and we are sojourners before thee and a
small people in the world, but thou didst rule over our fathers of old, and thou didst
command them by which way they should walk and live." 1 Chronicles 29:15.
Based upon the foregoing, it is the understanding of the Ministers and Ambassadors of
the Dominion of Melchizedek Embassy at Austin, that the heavenly region of the Dominion of
Melchizedek, described in the Scriptures as an everlasting "dominion",
"kingdom" and "priesthood", is the "sending state" for
purposes of Article 5 of the Vienna Convention above-quoted. Accordingly, each state
wherein a mission, embassy or consulate is established as a "calling" from the
Most High God to encourage peace and righteousness upon the Earth is a "receiving
state". The heavenly region of the Dominion of Melchizedek is not required to present
a secular "legal" land description with a surveyed meets and bounds map in order
to meet a challenge of authenticity. Media coverage over the past five years or more has
asserted the Dominion of Melchizedek's sovereign rights over South Pacific islands known
as Taongi and Karitane [many nautical miles apart from one another] is not sufficient to
establish credible statehood. Nothing could be further from the truth. [See Legal Opinion]
As further evidence of this point, the ecclesiastical State of the Vatican City whose
benefice is The Holy See had absolutely no land over which it had sovereign rights until
11 February 1929 (wherein independence was achieved from Italy) [See World Fact Book
1994 published by Central Intelligence Agency at pp. 174.] Likewise, the same may be
said for the State of Israel, which achieved the acquisition of its own land on 14 May
1948. ) [See World Fact Book 1994 published by Central Intelligence Agency at pp.
196.] At no time prior to the acquisition of sovereign rights over the pertinent land did
the international community contend the State of the Vatican City or the State of Israel
was not a state or nation, as the case may be.
Under parity of analysis, the location of the domain of the Dominion of Melchizedek
upon Earth is not only to be found on the foregoing identified South Pacific islands. It
is also found in each of the human earthly body "temples" of clay which
constitute each citizen who answers the call of the Most High God to serve Melchizedek's
mission of establishing "peace" and "righteousness" on Earth. . With
this understanding the teachings of Yehoshua concerning the rebuilding of the
"temple" in three days takes on new meaning. "Jesus answered and said unto
them, Destroy this temple, and three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty
and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he
spoke of the temple of the body." John 2:19-21.
In The N'tzarim Matiytyahe, Volume II: Miydrash by Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ben-David published
by Schueller House 1994 at p. II: 26,26 the equivalent passage at Matthew 26:61 it is
stated: "The reference to rebuilding it in the heavens, in the spiritual dimension.
He refers to the Beyt Ha-Miykdash of the heavens, for which the earthly Ha-Miykdash was a
mere pattern."
Likewise in the Gospel of Luke it is written: "Neither shall they say, Lo here!
Of, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21. Further in
the Gospel of Matthew, it is written: "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to
say, Repent: for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17.
Pursuant to a calling from the Most High God the Dominion of Melchizedek Embassy was
established at Austin, Texas in September, 1997. Accreditation of the Embassy occurred by
appointment of the House of Elders of the Office of Ambassador to Geoffrey Craig
benRichard barAbba, JD of the House of Thayer on August 22, 1997. The establishment of the
Dominion of Melchizedek Embassy is not unlike the International Christian Embassy
established in Jerusalem in 1980.
Many nations, including the United States of America have, from time to time, found it
necessary to embrace the Holy Sciptures as the Word of God, thereby precluding any
official dispute with their import and meaning. For example, by Public Law 97-280 dated
October 4, 1982 the 97th Congress [96 Stat. 1211] acknowledged:
"Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in the shaping
of the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people;
Whereas deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the
early settlement of our Nation;
Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in
our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States;
Whereas many of our great national leaders - among them President Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln and Wilson - paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in
our country's development, as the words of President Jackson that the Bible is 'the rock
on which our Republic rests.
Whereas the history of our Nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying
the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families, and societies;
Whereas this nation now faces great challenges that will test this Nation as it has
never been tested before;
Whereas that renewing our knowledge of and faith in god through Holy Scripture can
strengthen us as a nation and a people; Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, That the President is authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a
national 'Year of the Bible' in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has
been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy
Scriptures."
The Dominion of Melchizedek as an ecclesiastical sovereignty was first recognized in a
written book at Genesis, Chapter 14 verses 16-20. [See, Legal Opinion]. Author Z'ev
benShimon Halevi has written:
"According to tradition, Melchizedek, the King of Righteousness and of Salem, and
priest of the Most High God, initiated Abraham into the knowledge of esoteric Teaching
which concerns man, the universe and God. Melchizedek . . . is traditionally called a son
of God abiding forever . . . Out of this encounter between a celestial and a terrestrial
man came the spiritual line later known as Kabbalah." Kabbalah: Tradition of Hidden
Knowledge (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980), p. 32.
The Dominion of Melchizedek represents a spiritual office of service to the Most High
God, El Elyon, which is everlasting from generation to generation and from sea to sea.
This concept of spiritual office habituated by "Priests after the Order of
Melchizedek" is certainly no recent understanding, but is a fact with ancient and
modern meaning. Quoting Philo once again he states:
"We say, then, that the High Priest is not a man, but a Divine Word, and immune
from all unrighteousness whether intentional or unintentional. For Moses says that he
cannot defile himself (Lev.xxi.II) either for the father (the mind), or for the mother
(sense-perception), because methinks, he is the child of parents incorruptible and wholly
free from stain, his father being God, who is likewise Father of all, and his mother
Wisdom, through whom the universe came into existence; because moreover, his head has been
anointed with oil, and by this I mean his ruling faculty has been illumined with a
brilliant light, in such wise that he is deemed worthy 'to put on the garments' (i.e. the
high priesthood). Now the garments which the supreme Word of Him-that-is puts on the
raiment are the World, for he arrays Himself in earth and air and water and fire all that
comes from these." Hugh Schonfield, The Essene Odyssey, Element Publishing,
Shaftsbury, England, 1984 at pp. 144
In service of the Most High God various ministerial and ambassadorial offices have been
created within the Dominion of Melchizedek. For purposes of this statement, certain terms
need to be defined for complete understanding. Those terms include "embassy" and
"ambassador".
Black's Law Dictionary [1st ed. 1891] describes:
"Embassage, or Embassy. The message or commission given by a sovereign or
state to a minister, called an 'ambassador,' empowered to treat or communicate with
another sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador."
One unsurpassed authority in the field of international law and relations is Monsieur
De Vattel who wrote his watershed volume entitled The Law of Nations or Principles of
the Law of Nature applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns at
approximately 1797. On the issue of the "right of embassy" Vattel wrote
extensively, in pertinent part declaring:
"Section 62. The right of embassy, like all other rights of sovereignty,
originally resides in the nation as its principal and primitive subject. During an
interregnum, the exercise of that right reverts to the nation, or devolves on those whom
the laws have invested with regency of the state. They may send ministers in the same
manner as the sovereign used to do; and these ministers posses the same rights as were
enjoyed by those of the sovereign. The republic of Poland sends ambassadors while her
throne is vacant: nor would she suffer that they should be treated with less respect and
consideration than those who are sent while she has a king. Cromwell effectually
maintained ambassadors of England in the same rank and respectability, which they
possessed under regal authority.
Section 63. Such being the right o nations, a sovereign who attempts to hinder
another from sending and receiving public ministers, does him an injury, and offends
against the law of nations. It is attacking a nation in one of her most valuable rights,
and dispensing her title to that which nature herself gives to every
independent society: it is offering an insult to nations in general, and tearing asunder
the ties by which they are united. . .
Section 65. As nations are obliged to correspond together, to attend to the
proposals and demands made to them, to keep open a free and safe channel of communication
for the purpose of mutually understanding each other's views and bringing their disputes
to an accommodation, a sovereign cannot, without very particular reasons, refuse admitting
and hearing the minister of a friendly power, or of one with whom he is at peace. .
."
On the subject of the nature of ambassadors, Vattel wrote:
"Section 69. In former days, people were scarcely acquainted with more than one
order of public ministers, in Latin termed legati, which appellation has been rendered by
that of 'ambassadors.'. Section 71. The representative character so termed by way of
pre-eminence; or in contradistinction to other kinds of representation, constitutes the
minister of the first rank of ambassador. It places him above all other ministers who are
not invested with the same character, and precludes their entering into competition with
the ambassador. . ."
In 2 Corinthians 5 referring to the human bodily "temple" described earlier
in this statement, Paul describes the habiliment as a "tent" on the issue of
ambassadors of the Most High God:
"For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building
from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan,
longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling -- if indeed, when we have taken it off
we will not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our
burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is
mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who
has given us the Spirit as a guarantee . . .So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is
making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to
God." 2 Corinthians 5:1-5; 20.
The Office of the Ambassador at Large of the Dominion of Melchizedek Embassy at Austin
(was) filled and (served) the Most High God according to the mission of Melchizedek on
this earthly plane. (Any one who wishes to correspond with the new office of Ambassador at
Large in Canoga Park is invited to do so in writing by telecopying any such
correspondence to 1-818-703-5037 .)
May the Peace Which Passes All Understanding Bless
Each of You and Your Loved Ones
L.S./s/
Geoffrey Craig benRichard barAbba, JD
Ambassador at Large (Geoffrey is no longer an Ambassador of DOM and the
Embassy-at-large in Austin has since moved to 585 Box Canyon Road, Canoga Park,
California, 91304 with Richard James McDonald serving as the new Ambassador-at-large)
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