The Paradise Trinity

10:6.1All law takes ori­gin in the First Source and Cen­ter; he is law. The ad­min­is­tra­tion of spir­i­tual law in­heres in the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. The rev­e­la­tion of law, the pro­mul­ga­tion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the di­vine statutes, is the func­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter. The ap­pli­ca­tion of law, jus­tice, falls within the prov­ince of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and is car­ried out by cer­tain Sons of the Trin­ity.

10:6.2Jus­tice is in­her­ent in the uni­ver­sal sov­er­eignty of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but good­ness, mercy, and truth are the uni­verse min­istry of the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties, whose De­ity union con­sti­tutes the Trin­ity. Jus­tice is not the at­ti­tude of the Fa­ther, the Son, or the Spirit. Jus­tice is the Trin­ity at­ti­tude of these per­son­al­i­ties of love, mercy, and min­istry. No one of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties fos­ters the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice. Jus­tice is never a per­sonal at­ti­tude; it is al­ways a plu­ral func­tion.

10:6.3Ev­i­dence, the ba­sis of fair­ness (jus­tice in har­mony with mercy), is sup­plied by the per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the con­joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son to all realms and to the minds of the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of all cre­ation.

10:6.4Judg­ment, the fi­nal ap­pli­ca­tion of jus­tice in ac­cor­dance with the ev­i­dence sub­mit­ted by the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit, is the work of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, be­ings par­tak­ing of the Trin­ity na­ture of the united Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

10:6.5This group of Trin­ity Sons em­braces the fol­low­ing per­son­al­i­ties:

10:6.61. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

10:6.72. Eter­nals of Days.

10:6.83. An­cients of Days.

10:6.94. Per­fec­tions of Days.

10:6.105. Re­cents of Days.

10:6.116. Unions of Days.

10:6.127. Faith­fuls of Days.

10:6.138. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

10:6.149. Di­vine Coun­selors.

10:6.1510. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

10:6.16We are the chil­dren of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties func­tion­ing as the Trin­ity, for I chance to be­long to the tenth or­der of this group, the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. These or­ders are not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the at­ti­tude of the Trin­ity in a uni­ver­sal sense; they rep­re­sent this col­lec­tive at­ti­tude of De­ity only in the do­mains of ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment—jus­tice. They were specif­i­cally de­signed by the Trin­ity for the pre­cise work to which they are as­signed, and they rep­re­sent the Trin­ity only in those func­tions for which they were per­son­al­ized.

10:6.17The An­cients of Days and their Trin­ity-ori­gin as­so­ciates mete out the just judg­ment of su­preme fair­ness to the seven super­uni­verses. In the cen­tral uni­verse such func­tions ex­ist in the­ory only; there fair­ness is self-ev­i­dent in per­fec­tion, and Ha­vona per­fec­tion pre­cludes all pos­si­bil­ity of dishar­mony.

10:6.18Jus­tice is the col­lec­tive thought of righ­teous­ness; mercy is its per­sonal ex­pres­sion. Mercy is the at­ti­tude of love; pre­ci­sion char­ac­ter­izes the op­er­a­tion of law; di­vine judg­ment is the soul of fair­ness, ever con­form­ing to the jus­tice of the Trin­ity, ever ful­fill­ing the di­vine love of God. When fully per­ceived and com­pletely un­der­stood, the righ­teous jus­tice of the Trin­ity and the mer­ci­ful love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther are co­in­ci­dent. But man has no such full un­der­stand­ing of di­vine jus­tice. Thus in the Trin­ity, as man would view it, the per­son­al­i­ties of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are ad­justed to co-or­di­nate min­istry of love and law in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses of time.