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Paper 18

The Supreme Trinity Personalities

Divine Counselor

2. The Eternals of Days

18:2.1Each 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.

18:2.2The 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.

18:2.3Ex­cept 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.

18:2.4The 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.