Chapter #9

Book Of Melchizedek 2 ()

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dominated him, encouraging him to retire, but the thought of seeing Salem enslaved by rebellion, finally
led him to the decision to pay the ransom price, surrendering himself to humiliating suffering.
27 Having made the firm decision to rescue the scepter, the prince threw the clothes, placing them on a
stone. He lay down immediately on that cold floor, his forehead turned toward the west.
28 Mercilessly, Samael began to scourge him, using the scepter itself as an instrument of torture.
Moaning at the pain of the blows that made him bleed, the prince kept his eyes fixed on the sun that
seemed to stop over the cloud. Stunned by the pain, he finally watched the sun soon set. Encouraged by
the approaching victory, he muttered in a low voice:
29 “Jerusalem, Salem, from here I will have in your arms a precious scepter that, in my hands, will
become an instrument of justice and peace. -
30 Hearing the promise the prince made between groans, Samael shouted at him furiously:
31 —Your suffering will not bring any dawn to Salem, for your hands will never be able to touch in the
scepter. -
32 After making that affront, Samael took possession of a pointed stone, preparing to deal the last
blows.
33 While thinking of Salem's happy victory, Melchizedek felt his right arm being compressed by Samael's
feet. Following this rude gesture a blow that made him contort in agony. His hand had been cruelly dug,
beginning to pour abundant blood from the open wound. That same violence was later unloaded on his
left hand.
34 Not enduring the agony caused by those heartbreaking blows, the son of Adonijah, bloodied, plunged
into the darkness of a deep fainting.







(Samael, horrified by his guilt, leaves the prince leaving the scepter next to him. Melchizedek regains
consciousness, takes his clothes and his scepter, takes an oath and leaves for Salem. Samael does not
regret. The similarity of the experiences of Melchizedek with whom the Son of God would live.

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Melchizedek is received with acclamations for his redemptive act, is attended by his loving father and
the scepter is restored.)
1 When he stopped beating the prince, the rebel subject was possessed by a strange horror when he
contemplated on the face of the one who had only done him good, the drowsiness of death. He tried
not to remember the past, but, irresistibly, he felt himself being dragged into the days of his happy
innocence in Salem. Clothed in rich robes, he was always next to the prince who, with dedication, taught
him his songs every day about peace.
2 In the unwanted memories by which he was dragged, he revived his first steps on the path of pride
and selfishness. He remembered the incessant advice and pleas of the one who had been his best friend,
to give up that path that could lead him to unhappiness.
3 After being dragged in memories by all that past of happiness destroyed by his fault, Samael was
aware of his ingratitude. Horrified by what he had done, he leaned over Melchizedek's bloody body, and
despaired when he saw him lifeless. Not bearing the burden of great guilt, he left that place hurriedly,
wishing to hide away, under the darkness of the cold night.
4 After a deep fainting, the prince began to regain consciousness; In delusions that transported him to
the heart of his beloved Salem, he relived lived and dreamed moments: With joy he contemplated the
face of his best friend, to whom he extended his hand with a smile. But his gesture was frustrated by
deep pain. Amid the applause of the victorious subjects, he received the scepter from his father, but
when he touched it, he felt an irresistible pain in his hands.
5 With these dreams frustrated by pain, Melchizedek awoke to reality. He was naked, hurt and lonely, in
a dangerous place, away from Salem's coat and affection. More painful was to think that all that had
been the retribution of someone who had been the main target of all the gifts of his love.
6 The prince, unable to move, considering the great betrayal began to cry without comfort. He regretted
not for his pain, but for the downfall of those who had changed Salem's love and justice for the
contempt and hatred that would finally reduce them to ashes over that damned valley.
7 Through the tears, the prince watched the sky that, like a cloak inked with blood, stretched in the light
of the setting sun. He remembered then the lute for which he had paid such a high price. Where would
he be?
8 In his desperate escape, Samael had left the scepter abandoned next to Melchizedek's wounded body.
When he saw it, he forgot all the pain, and hugged him with his wounded hands. Stroking the ruined
convex part, with a smile he said:
9 —You are mine again. "I bought you with my blood."
10 Samael who, dominated by the strange horror, had fled after committing the horrible crime, stopped
a step away from Sodom's door. There, driven by pride, he repented with indignation at his weakness.
Why had he fled after winning such a great victory? Wasn't his plan to destroy the kingdom of Salem, to

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establish his own kingdom? Remembering the scepter, he decided to return to take it. Why had he left
him abandoned next to the corpse of that hated prince?
11 Gathering his few forces, Melchizedek went dumbfounded to the place where he had left his clothes.
12 After dressing, having the beloved scepter by the chest, the son of Adonijah, with deep emotion,
made an oath before leaving that place of his suffering. Stroking the scepter he said:
13 —My beloved scepter, you were created as an emblem of harmony that comes from justice and love.
All the glory of Salem rested upon you when the rebellion in his ingratitude enslaved you, dragging you
into this hostile valley. Here you were hurt and humiliated, becoming an instrument of impiety in the
hands of the tyrant. I, however, redeemed you with my blood. Now our wounds will be restored, and
soon we will be enthroned amid the praises of a victorious Salem. When this dream comes true, we will
witness together the end of those who rose against us to hurt us. Samael and his followers will be
devoured by the fire that will reduce Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes. -
14 Concluding his solemn oath, the young prince, already hidden by the darkness of the night, left that
hill, and on it the marks of his suffering.
15 Since the king's son had left, promising to return with the scepter, Salem lived moments of
unspeakable anxiety. In tears, the king and the remaining subjects remembered all that happy past
broken by the ingratitude of the rebels. What tortured them most was the absence of the prince and the
scepter, without which all the brightness of that kingdom of peace would be obfuscated.
16 Desiring to comfort the hearts of his subjects, Melchizedek advanced in the middle of the night
towards the mountains that surrounded Salem. Still weakened and injured, he continued on his upward
march, hoping to reach his homeland in the morning.
17 That long dark night was finally overcome by the rays of dawn. In Salem, the hope of seeing
Melchizedek again with his scepter was almost abandoned when, looking at the Mount of Olives, they
saw him descending down the road to Gethsemane. When they found him in the deep valley of Cedrón,
they were frightened with his appearance: his face was pale and his mantle soaked in blood. Precisely
still, he smiled expressing great joy.
18 When they asked him about the reason for those blood marks, Melchizedek took out his wounded
hands from under his mantle, showing them in their midst the redeemed scepter.
19 After telling them the steps that led him to the rescue of the scepter, the muted subjects bowed
reverently at his feet, acclaiming him as their redeemer and king.
20 In the midst of the praises of the redeemed hosts, the prince was introduced into the royal palace,
where under the care of his loving father, he should recover from his suffering. The disfigured scepter,
now more precious, would also be restored, having to become even more beautiful than before.