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Paper 18

The Supreme Trinity Personalities

Divine Counselor

7. The Faithfuls of Days

18:7.1These high Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties are the Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers to the rulers of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions in each lo­cal uni­verse. There are sev­enty mil­lion Faith­fuls of Days, and like the Unions of Days, not all are in ser­vice. Their Par­a­dise re­serve corps is the Ad­vi­sory Com­mis­sion of In­teruni­verse Ethics and Self-gov­ern­ment. Faith­fuls of Days ro­tate in ser­vice in ac­cor­dance with the rul­ings of the su­preme coun­cil of their re­serve corps.

18:7.2All that a Union of Days is to a Cre­ator Son of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Faith­fuls of Days are to the Vo­ron­da­dek Sons who rule the con­stel­la­tions of that lo­cal cre­ation. They are su­premely de­voted and di­vinely faith­ful to the wel­fare of their con­stel­la­tions of as­sign­ment, hence the name—Faith­fuls of Days. They act only as coun­selors; never do they par­tic­i­pate in ad­min­is­tra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties ex­cept upon the in­vi­ta­tion of the con­stel­la­tion au­thor­i­ties. Nei­ther are they di­rectly con­cerned in the ed­u­ca­tional min­istry to the pil­grims of as­cen­sion on the ar­chi­tec­tural train­ing spheres sur­round­ing a con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters. All such un­der­tak­ings are un­der the super­vi­sion of the Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

18:7.3All Faith­fuls of Days func­tion­ing in the con­stel­la­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse are un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of, and re­port di­rectly to, the Union of Days. They do not have a far-flung sys­tem of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, be­ing or­di­nar­ily self-lim­ited to an in­teras­so­ci­a­tion within the lim­its of a lo­cal uni­verse. Any Faith­ful of Days on duty in Neb­a­don can and does com­mu­ni­cate with all oth­ers of his or­der on duty in this lo­cal uni­verse.

18:7.4Like the Union of Days on a uni­verse head­quar­ters, the Faith­fuls of Days main­tain their per­sonal res­i­dences on the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tals sep­a­rate from those of the ad­min­is­tra­tive di­rec­tors of such realms. Their abodes are in­deed mod­est in com­par­i­son with the homes of the Vo­ron­da­dek rulers of the con­stel­la­tions.

18:7.5The Faith­fuls of Days are the last link in the long ad­min­is­tra­tive-ad­vi­sory chain which reaches from the sa­cred spheres of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther near the cen­ter of all things to the pri­mary di­vi­sions of the lo­cal uni­verses. The Trin­ity-ori­gin regime stops with the con­stel­la­tions; no such Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers are per­ma­nently sit­u­ated on their com­po­nent sys­tems or on the in­hab­ited worlds. These lat­ter ad­min­is­tra­tive units are wholly un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of be­ings na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses.

18:7.6[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]