The Supreme Trinity Personalities

18:5.1The 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.

18:5.2The 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.

18:5.3The 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.

18:5.4Since 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.

18:5.5You 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.