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Paper 19

The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings

Divine Counselor

2. The Perfectors of Wisdom

19:2.1The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom are a spe­cial­ized cre­ation of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity de­signed to per­son­ify the wis­dom of di­vin­ity in the super­uni­verses. There are ex­actly seven bil­lion of these be­ings in ex­is­tence, and one bil­lion are as­signed to each of the seven super­uni­verses.

19:2.2In com­mon with their co-or­di­nates, the Di­vine Coun­selors and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom passed through the wis­dom of Par­a­dise, of Ha­vona, and ex­cept for Di­vin­ing­ton, of the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise spheres. Af­ter these ex­pe­ri­ences the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom were per­ma­nently as­signed to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. They serve nei­ther on Par­a­dise nor on the worlds of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona cir­cuits; they are wholly oc­cu­pied with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

19:2.3Wher­ever and when­ever a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom func­tions, there and then di­vine wis­dom func­tions. There is ac­tu­al­ity of pres­ence and per­fec­tion of man­i­fes­ta­tion in the knowl­edge and wis­dom rep­re­sented in the do­ings of these mighty and ma­jes­tic per­son­al­i­ties. They do not re­flect the wis­dom of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; they are that wis­dom. They are the sources of wis­dom for all teach­ers in the ap­pli­ca­tion of uni­verse knowl­edge; they are the foun­tains of dis­cre­tion and the well­springs of dis­crim­i­na­tion to the in­sti­tu­tions of learn­ing and dis­cern­ment in all uni­verses.

19:2.4Wis­dom is two­fold in ori­gin, be­ing de­rived from the per­fec­tion of di­vine in­sight in­her­ent in per­fect be­ings and from the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired by evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom are the di­vine wis­dom of the Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of De­ity in­sight. Their ad­min­is­tra­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those with­out Name and Num­ber, and Those High in Au­thor­ity, when act­ing to­gether, are the uni­verse wis­dom of ex­pe­ri­ence. A di­vine be­ing can have per­fec­tion of di­vine knowl­edge. An evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal can some­time at­tain per­fec­tion of as­cen­dant knowl­edge, but nei­ther of these be­ings alone ex­hausts the po­ten­tials of all pos­si­ble wis­dom. Ac­cord­ingly, when­ever in the con­duct of the super­uni­verse it is de­sired to achieve the max­i­mum of ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, these per­fec­tors of the wis­dom of di­vine in­sight are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with those as­cen­dant per­son­al­i­ties who have come up to the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of super­uni­verse au­thor­ity through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial tribu­la­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion.

19:2.5The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom will al­ways re­quire this com­ple­ment of ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom for the com­ple­tion of their ad­min­is­tra­tive sagac­ity. But it has been pos­tu­lated that a high and hith­erto un­attained level of wis­dom may pos­si­bly be achieved by the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters af­ter they are some­time in­ducted into the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence. If this in­fer­ence is cor­rect, then would such per­fected be­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent un­doubt­edly be­come the most ef­fec­tive uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors ever to be known in all cre­ation. I be­lieve that such is the high des­tiny of fi­nal­i­ters.

19:2.6The ver­sa­til­ity of the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom en­ables them to par­tic­i­pate in prac­ti­cally all of the ce­les­tial ser­vices of the as­cen­dant crea­tures. The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and my or­der of per­son­al­ity, the Di­vine Coun­selors, to­gether with the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, con­sti­tute the high­est or­ders of be­ings who may and do en­gage in the work of re­veal­ing truth to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and sys­tems, whether in their ear­lier epochs or when set­tled in light and life. From time to time we all make con­tact with the ser­vice of the as­cend­ing mor­tals, from an ini­tial-life planet on up through a lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse, par­tic­u­larly the lat­ter.