The Supreme Trinity Personalities

18:3.1When 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.

18:3.2The 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.

18:3.3The 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.

18:3.4The 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.

18:3.5These 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.

18:3.6The 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.

18:3.7In 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.

18:3.8Aside 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.

18:3.9The 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.