melchizedec's

Updated: June 20, 2025

"The gnostics revered him as an Eon superior to Jesus; and in the third century Theodore le Changeur also asserted that he was not a man, but a virtue transcending Christ, because Christ's priesthood was but a copy of Melchizedec's. "According to another sect, he was neither more nor less than the Paraclete. But come, in the absence of early Scriptures what do the seers say?

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - The Cathedral