The Book of Messages: Writings Inspired by Melchizedek
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Mark David Gerson is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. His nonfiction includes popular titles for writers, inspiring personal growth books and compelling memoirs. As a novelist he is best known for The Legend of Q'ntana fantasy series, coming soon to movie theaters.
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The Book of Messages - Mark David Gerson
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Dialogues with the Divine: Encounters with My Wisest Self
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Writings Inspired by Melchizedek
The Book of
Messages
Mark David Gerson
The Book of Messages: Writings Inspired by Melchizedek
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Where there is revelation, explanation becomes superfluous.
Frederick Franck
Feel your fear, then pass through it to the other side, where your destiny awaits.
The MoonQuest
To the red rocks and transformative energy of Sedona, where these words first found me.
Foreword
Each time I revisit The Book of Messages, no matter how many years have passed since my previous reading, I am startled to discover how current its words still are — in my life as much as in the world.
At this writing, fear has so permeated the political culture of so many nations that it can feel some days as though we are plummeting into the hellish depths of darkness instead of skyrocketing toward the light of Ascension. That makes these messages even more relevant now than they were seventeen years ago when the first of them crept up on me just after dawn on a crisp November morning.
Yet, as I was reminded that morning and as these thirteen messages remind me still, no matter how dark the preceding night, the sun always rises on a new day. They remind me, too, that we are the architects of our own destinies and that when we shatter the illusion of duality and free ourselves to move through and past our fears and perceived limitations, anything is possible.
Anything is possible. I have experienced the truth of that more times and in more ways than I can enumerate here, and each reading of The Book of Messages reminds me of that. That’s because as much as this book is for you, its messages still speak powerfully to me.
Through this most recent reading, as I prepare Messages for a new edition, I have once again been amazed that its principle themes are as true to my life as ever — themes that remind me to empower myself, celebrate my voice, choose fearlessness and honor my inner diversity.
Perhaps the most compelling reminder of all, though, is the book’s call to re-member
: to bring back into wholeness all the scattered parts of myself…to reattach all the severed limbs of my beingness…to reweave all the loose threads of my story into a single tapestry.
Two of my books, Acts of Surrender: A Writer’s Memoir and The SunQuest, the third story in my Legend of Q’ntana fantasy series, also speak eloquently to those themes. By its nature, a memoir is a form of synthesis that forces its author to carry out the kind of re-membering called for in nearly every one of this book’s messages. Writing the Ben character in The SunQuest forced me onto a similar, if less direct journey.
In a curious twist of synchronicity, I recently reread both Acts of Surrender and The SunQuest; this, before I knew that I would be preparing this new Messages edition. Six years ago, the ink was barely dry on both Acts of Surrender and The SunQuest when I was getting The Book of Messages ready for its then-new edition. Books, including our own, always show up when we most need them.
In that earlier edition’s foreword, I remarked how both books had forced me to own all my ages and stages,
especially ones, like the original Book of Messages period in my life, that I had considered to be no longer relevant.
Why had I come to view the Book of Messages period in my life as irrelevant? In my mind, I had shut the door on Sedona when I moved away in 2004 and on my overtly metaphysical persona a few years later when I refocused my writing and teaching in more mainstream directions.
I hadn’t shut any doors, of course. As A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L’Engle so eloquently put it, I am still every age that I have been.
That was one of the reasons why in 2014 I felt called to bring The Book of Messages back into print.
Then, I was living in Albuquerque. Today, to my astonishment, I find myself not only back in Sedona but less than a mile from the scrubby, red-rock trail where the first of these messages came to me.
If that weren’t re-membering
enough, in returning to Sedona, my first home in this country, I have come back to my US roots, which makes my presence here another act of whole-making.
For many reasons, then, this is the perfect moment in my life to not only revisit The Book of Messages — both its timeless contents and its significance to my own journey — but to share a new edition with you.
Where did these Messages come from? You’ll find answers to that question in my Foreword to the First Edition,
which follows in a few pages, and in the Changing Channels
excerpt from my Acts of Surrender memoir at the back of the book.
Finally, I daren’t conclude this Foreword without addressing another question that I know some of you are already posing: Who or what is Melchizedek?
I promise you the beginnings of an answer once you have read Message #1 and more clarity still once you have finished Message #4. If you choose, you can have a direct Melchizedek experience of your own in You and Melchizedek,
which follows Message #13, and