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Paper 18

The Supreme Trinity Personalities

Divine Counselor

6. The Unions of Days

18:6.1The 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.

18:6.2There 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.

18:6.3In 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.

18:6.4Since 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.

18:6.5A 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.

18:6.6When 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.

18:6.7A 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.