The Urantia Book
PAPER 18
THE SUPREME TRINITY PERSONALITIES
Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.
18:0.1 SUPREME Trinity Personalities are all
created for specific service. They are designed by the divine
Trinity for the fulfillment of certain specific duties, and they
are qualified to serve with perfection of technique and finality
of devotion. There are seven orders of the Supreme Trinity
Personalities:
1. Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy.
2. Eternals of Days.
3. Ancients of Days.
4. Perfections of Days.
5. Recents of Days.
6. Unions of Days.
7. Faithfuls of Days.
18:0.2 These beings of administrative
perfection are of definite and final numbers. Their creation is
a past event; no more are being personalized.
18:0.3 Throughout the grand universe these
Supreme Trinity Personalities represent the administrative
policies of the Paradise Trinity; they represent the justice and
are the executive judgment of the Paradise Trinity. They form an
interrelated line of administrative perfection extending from
the Paradise spheres of the Father to the headquarters worlds of
the local universes and to the capitals of their component
constellations.
18:0.4 All Trinity-origin beings are created
in Paradise perfection in all their divine attributes. Only in
the realms of experience has the passing of time added to their
equipment for cosmic service. There is never any danger of
default or risk of rebellion with Trinity-origin beings. They
are of divinity essence, and they have never been known to
depart from the divine and perfect path of personality conduct.
1. THE TRINITIZED SECRETS OF SUPREMACY
18:1.1 There are seven worlds in the innermost
circuit of the Paradise satellites, and each of these exalted
worlds is presided over by a corps of ten Trinitized Secrets of
Supremacy. They are not creators, but they are supreme and
ultimate administrators. The conduct of the affairs of these
seven fraternal spheres is wholly committed to this corps of
seventy supreme directors. Though the offspring of the Trinity
supervise these seven sacred spheres nearest Paradise, this
group of worlds is universally known as the personal circuit of
the Universal Father.
18:1.2 The Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy
function in groups of ten as co-ordinate and joint directors of
their respective spheres, but they also function individually in
particular fields of responsibility. The work of each of these
special worlds is divided into seven major departments, and one
of these co-ordinate rulers presides over each such division of
specialized activities. The remaining three act as the personal
representatives of triune Deity in relation to the other seven,
one representing the Father, one the Son, and one the Spirit.
18:1.3 Although there is a definite class
resemblance which typifies the Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy,
they also disclose seven distinct group characteristics. The ten
supreme directors of Divinington affairs are reflective of the
personal character and nature of the Universal Father; and so it
is with each of these seven spheres: Each group of ten resembles
that Deity or Deity association which is characteristic of their
domain. The ten directors who rule Ascendington are reflective
of the combined nature of the Father, Son, and Spirit.
18:1.4 I can reveal very little about the work
of these high personalities on the seven sacred worlds of the
Father, for they are truly the Secrets of Supremacy.
There are no arbitrary secrets associated with the approach to
the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, or the Infinite Spirit.
The Deities are an open book to all who attain divine
perfection, but all the Secrets of Supremacy can never be fully
attained. Always will we be unable fully to penetrate the realms
containing the personality secrets of Deity association with the
sevenfold grouping of created beings.
18:1.5 Since the work of these supreme
directors has to do with the intimate and personal contact of
the Deities with these seven basic groupings of universe beings
when domiciled on these seven special worlds or while
functioning throughout the grand universe, it is fitting that
these very personal relations and extraordinary contacts should
be held sacredly secret. The Paradise Creators respect the
privacy and sanctity of personality even in their lowly
creatures. And this is true both of individuals and of the
various separate orders of personalities.
18:1.6 To beings of even high universe
attainment these secret worlds ever remain a test of loyalty. It
is given us fully and personally to know the eternal Gods,
freely to know their characters of divinity and perfection, but
it is not granted us fully to penetrate all of the personal
relations of the Paradise Rulers with all of their creature
beings.
2. THE ETERNALS OF DAYS
18:2.1 Each of the billion worlds of Havona is
directed by a Supreme Trinity Personality. These rulers are
known as the Eternals of Days, and they number exactly one
billion, one for each of the Havona spheres. They are the
offspring of the Paradise Trinity, but like the Secrets of
Supremacy there are no records of their origin. Forever have
these two groups of all-wise fathers ruled their exquisite
worlds of the Paradise-Havona system, and they function without
rotation or reassignment.
18:2.2 The Eternals of Days are visible to all
will creatures dwelling in their domains. They preside over the
regular planetary conclaves. Periodically, and by rotation, they
visit the headquarters spheres of the seven superuniverses. They
are close of kin to, and are the divine equals of, the Ancients
of Days, who preside over the destinies of the seven
supergovernments. When an Eternal of Days is absent from his
sphere, his world is directed by a Trinity Teacher Son.
18:2.3 Except for the established orders of
life, such as the Havona natives and other living creatures of
the central universe, the resident Eternals of Days have
developed their respective spheres entirely in accordance with
their own personal ideas and ideals. They visit each other's
planets, but they do not copy or imitate; they are always and
wholly original.
18:2.4 The architecture, natural
embellishment, morontia structures, and spirit creations are
exclusive and unique on each sphere. Every world is a place of
everlasting beauty and is wholly unlike any other world in the
central universe. And you will each spend a longer or shorter
time on each of these unique and thrilling spheres on your way
inward through Havona to Paradise. It is natural, on your world,
to speak of Paradise as upward, but it would be more
correct to refer to the divine goal of ascension as inward.
3. THE ANCIENTS OF DAYS
18:3.1 When mortals of time graduate from the
training worlds surrounding the headquarters of a local universe
and are advanced to the educational spheres of their
superuniverse, they have progressed in spiritual development to
that point where they are able to recognize and communicate with
the high spiritual rulers and directors of these advanced
realms, including the Ancients of Days.
18:3.2 The Ancients of Days are all basically
identical; they disclose the combined character and unified
nature of the Trinity. They possess individuality and are in
personality diverse, but they do not differ from each other as
do the Seven Master Spirits. They provide the uniform
directorship of the otherwise differing seven superuniverses,
each of which is a distinct, segregated, and unique creation.
The Seven Master Spirits are unlike in nature and attributes,
but the Ancients of Days, the personal rulers of the
superuniverses, are all uniform and superperfect offspring of
the Paradise Trinity.
18:3.3 The Seven Master Spirits on high
determine the nature of their respective superuniverses,
but the Ancients of Days dictate the administration of
these same superuniverses. They superimpose administrative
uniformity on creative diversity and insure the harmony of the
whole in the face of the underlying creational differences of
the seven segmental groupings of the grand universe.
18:3.4 The Ancients of Days were all
trinitized at the same time. They represent the beginning of the
personality records of the universe of universes, hence their
name -- Ancients of Days. When you reach Paradise and
search the written records of the beginning of things, you will
find that the first entry appearing in the personality section
is the recital of the trinitization of these twenty-one Ancients
of Days.
18:3.5 These high beings always govern in
groups of three. There are many phases of activity in which they
work as individuals, still others in which any two can function,
but in the higher spheres of their administration they must act
jointly. They never personally leave their residential worlds,
but then they do not have to, for these worlds are the
superuniverse focal points of the far-flung reflectivity system.
18:3.6 The personal abodes of each trio of the
Ancients of Days are located at the point of spiritual polarity
on their headquarters sphere. Such a sphere is divided into
seventy administrative sectors and has seventy divisional
capitals in which the Ancients of Days reside from time to time.
18:3.7 In power, scope of authority, and
extent of jurisdiction the Ancients of Days are the most
powerful and mighty of any of the direct rulers of the
time-space creations. In all the vast universe of universes they
alone are invested with the high powers of final executive
judgment concerning the eternal extinction of will creatures.
And all three Ancients of Days must participate in the final
decrees of the supreme tribunal of a superuniverse.
18:3.8 Aside from the Deities and their
Paradise associates, the Ancients of Days are the most perfect,
most versatile, and the most divinely endowed rulers in all
time-space existence. Apparently they are the supreme rulers of
the superuniverses; but they have not experientially earned this
right to rule and are therefore destined sometime to be
superseded by the Supreme Being, an experiential sovereign,
whose vicegerents they will undoubtedly become.
18:3.9 The Supreme Being is achieving the
sovereignty of the seven superuniverses by experiential service
just as a Creator Son experientially earns the sovereignty of
his local universe. But during the present age of the unfinished
evolution of the Supreme, the Ancients of Days provide the
co-ordinated and perfect administrative overcontrol of the
evolving universes of time and space. And the wisdom of
originality and the initiative of individuality characterize all
the decrees and rulings of the Ancients of Days.
4. THE PERFECTIONS OF DAYS
18:4.1 There are just two hundred and ten
Perfections of Days, and they preside over the governments of
the ten major sectors of each superuniverse. They were
trinitized for the special work of assisting the superuniverse
directors, and they rule as the immediate and personal
vicegerents of the Ancients of Days.
18:4.2 Three Perfections of Days are assigned
to each major sector capital, but unlike the Ancients of Days,
it is not necessary that all three be present at all times. From
time to time one of this trio may absent himself to confer in
person with the Ancients of Days concerning the welfare of his
realm.
18:4.3 These triune rulers of the major
sectors are peculiarly perfect in the mastery of administrative
details, hence their name -- Perfections of Days. In
recording the names of these beings of the spiritual world, we
are confronted with the problem of translating into your tongue,
and very often it is exceedingly difficult to render a
satisfactory translation. We dislike to use arbitrary
designations which would be meaningless to you; hence we often
find it difficult to choose a suitable name, one which will be
clear to you and at the same time be somewhat representative of
the original.
18:4.4 The Perfections of Days have a
moderate-sized corps of Divine Counselors, Perfectors of Wisdom,
and Universal Censors attached to their governments. They have
still larger numbers of Mighty Messengers, Those High in
Authority, and Those without Name and Number. But much of the
routine work of major sector affairs is carried on by the
Celestial Guardians and the High Son Assistants. These two
groups are drawn from among the trinitized offspring of either
Paradise-Havona personalities or glorified mortal finaliters.
Certain of these two orders of creature-trinitized beings are
retrinitized by the Paradise Deities and then are dispatched to
assist in the administration of the superuniverse governments.
18:4.5 Most of the Celestial Guardians and the
High Son Assistants are assigned to the service of the major and
the minor sectors, but the Trinitized Custodians
(Trinity-embraced seraphim and midwayers) are the officers of
the courts of all three divisions, functioning in the tribunals
of the Ancients of Days, the Perfections of Days, and the
Recents of Days. The Trinitized Ambassadors (Trinity-embraced
ascendant mortals of Son- or Spirit-fused nature) may be
encountered anywhere in a superuniverse, but the majority are in
the service of the minor sectors.
18:4.6 Before the times of the full unfolding
of the governmental scheme of the seven superuniverses,
practically all administrators of the various divisions of these
governments, excepting the Ancients of Days, served
apprenticeships of varying duration under the Eternals of Days
on the various worlds of the perfect Havona universe. The later
trinitized beings likewise passed through a season of training
under the Eternals of Days before they were attached to the
service of the Ancients of Days, the Perfections of Days, and
the Recents of Days. They are all seasoned, tried, and
experienced administrators.
18:4.7 You will early see the Perfections of
Days when you advance to the headquarters of Splandon after your
sojourn on the worlds of your minor sector, for these exalted
rulers are closely associated with the seventy major sector
worlds of higher training for the ascendant creatures of time.
The Perfections of Days, in person, administer the group pledges
to the ascending graduates of the major sector schools.
18:4.8 The work of the pilgrims of time on the
worlds surrounding a major sector headquarters is chiefly of an
intellectual nature in contrast with the more physical and
material character of the training on the seven educational
spheres of a minor sector and with the spiritual undertakings on
the four hundred ninety university worlds of a superuniverse
headquarters.
18:4.9 Although you are entered only upon the
registry of the major sector of Splandon, which embraces the
local universe of your origin, you will have to pass through
every one of the ten major divisions of our superuniverse. You
will see all thirty of the Orvonton Perfections of Days before
you reach Uversa.
5. THE RECENTS OF DAYS
18:5.1 The Recents of Days are the youngest of
the supreme directors of the superuniverses; in groups of three
they preside over the affairs of the minor sectors. In nature
they are co-ordinate with the Perfections of Days, but in
administrative authority they are subordinate. There are just
twenty-one thousand of these personally glorious and divinely
efficient Trinity personalities. They were created
simultaneously, and together they passed through their Havona
training under the Eternals of Days.
18:5.2 The Recents of Days have a corps of
associates and assistants similar to that of the Perfections of
Days. In addition they have assigned to them enormous numbers of
the various subordinate orders of celestial beings. In the
administration of the minor sectors they utilize large numbers
of the resident ascending mortals, the personnel of the various
courtesy colonies, and the various groups originating in the
Infinite Spirit.
18:5.3 The governments of the minor sectors
are very largely, though not exclusively, concerned with the
great physical problems of the superuniverses. The minor sector
spheres are the headquarters of the Master Physical Controllers.
On these worlds ascending mortals carry on studies and
experiments having to do with an examination of the activities
of the third order of the Supreme Power Centers and of all seven
orders of the Master Physical Controllers.
18:5.4 Since the regime of a minor sector is
so extensively concerned with physical problems, its three
Recents of Days are seldom together on the capital sphere. Most
of the time one is away in conference with the Perfections of
Days of the supervising major sector or absent while
representing the Ancients of Days at the Paradise conclaves of
the high Trinity-origin beings. They alternate with the
Perfections of Days in representing the Ancients of Days at the
supreme councils on Paradise. Meanwhile, another Recent of Days
may be away on a tour of inspection of the headquarters worlds
of the local universes belonging to his jurisdiction. But at
least one of these rulers always remains on duty at the
headquarters of a minor sector.
18:5.5 You will all sometime know the three
Recents of Days in charge of Ensa, your minor sector, since you
must pass through their hands on your way inward to the training
worlds of the major sectors. In ascending to Uversa, you will
pass through only one group of minor sector training spheres.
6. THE UNIONS OF DAYS
18:6.1 The Trinity personalities of the order
of "Days" do not function in an administrative capacity below
the level of the superuniverse governments. In the evolving
local universes they act only as counselors and advisers. The
Unions of Days are a group of liaison personalities accredited
by the Paradise Trinity to the dual rulers of the local
universes. Each organized and inhabited local universe has
assigned to it one of these Paradise counselors, who acts as the
representative of the Trinity, and in some respects, of the
Universal Father, to the local creation.
18:6.2 There are seven hundred thousand of
these beings in existence, though they have not all been
commissioned. The reserve corps of the Unions of Days functions
on Paradise as the Supreme Council of Universe Adjustments.
18:6.3 In a special manner these Trinity
observers co-ordinate the administrative activities of all
branches of the universal government, from those of the local
universes up through the sector governments to those of the
superuniverse, hence their name -- Unions of Days. They
make a threefold report to their superiors: They report
pertinent data of a physical and semi-intellectual nature to the
Recents of Days of their minor sector; they report intellectual
and quasi-spiritual happenings to the Perfections of Days of
their major sector; they report spiritual and semiparadisiacal
matters to the Ancients of Days at the capital of their
superuniverse.
18:6.4 Since they are Trinity-origin beings,
all of the Paradise circuits are available to them for
intercommunication, and thus are they always in touch with each
other and with all other required personalities up to the
supreme councils of Paradise.
18:6.5 A Union of Days is not organically
connected with the government of the local universe of his
assignment. Aside from his duties as an observer, he acts only
at the request of the local authorities. He is an ex officio
member of all primary councils and all important conclaves of
the local creation, but he does not participate in the technical
consideration of administrative problems.
18:6.6 When a local universe is settled in
light and life, its glorified beings associate freely with the
Union of Days, who then functions in an enlarged capacity in
such a realm of evolutionary perfection. But he is still
primarily a Trinity ambassador and Paradise counselor.
18:6.7 A local universe is directly ruled by a
divine Son of dual Deity origin, but he has constantly by his
side a Paradise brother, a Trinity-origin personality. In the
event of the temporary absence of a Creator Son from the
headquarters of his local universe, the acting rulers are
largely guided in their major decisions by the counsel of their
Union of Days.
7. THE FAITHFULS OF DAYS
18:7.1 These high Trinity-origin personalities
are the Paradise advisers to the rulers of the one hundred
constellations in each local universe. There are seventy million
Faithfuls of Days, and like the Unions of Days, not all are in
service. Their Paradise reserve corps is the Advisory Commission
of Interuniverse Ethics and Self-government. Faithfuls of Days
rotate in service in accordance with the rulings of the supreme
council of their reserve corps.
18:7.2 All that a Union of Days is to a
Creator Son of a local universe, the Faithfuls of Days are to
the Vorondadek Sons who rule the constellations of that local
creation. They are supremely devoted and divinely faithful to
the welfare of their constellations of assignment, hence the
name -- Faithfuls of Days. They act only as counselors;
never do they participate in administrative activities except
upon the invitation of the constellation authorities. Neither
are they directly concerned in the educational ministry to the
pilgrims of ascension on the architectural training spheres
surrounding a constellation headquarters. All such undertakings
are under the supervision of the Vorondadek Sons.
18:7.3 All Faithfuls of Days functioning in
the constellations of a local universe are under the
jurisdiction of, and report directly to, the Union of Days. They
do not have a far-flung system of intercommunication, being
ordinarily self-limited to an interassociation within the limits
of a local universe. Any Faithful of Days on duty in Nebadon can
and does communicate with all others of his order on duty in
this local universe.
18:7.4 Like the Union of Days on a universe
headquarters, the Faithfuls of Days maintain their personal
residences on the constellation capitals separate from those of
the administrative directors of such realms. Their abodes are
indeed modest in comparison with the homes of the Vorondadek
rulers of the constellations.
18:7.5 The Faithfuls of Days are the last link
in the long administrative-advisory chain which reaches from the
sacred spheres of the Universal Father near the center of all
things to the primary divisions of the local universes. The
Trinity-origin regime stops with the constellations; no such
Paradise advisers are permanently situated on their component
systems or on the inhabited worlds. These latter administrative
units are wholly under the jurisdiction of beings native to the
local universes.
18:7.6
Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.