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Paper 19

The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings

Divine Counselor

3. The Divine Counselors

19:3.1These Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings are the coun­sel of De­ity to the realms of the seven super­uni­verses. They are not re­flec­tive of the di­vine coun­sel of the Trin­ity; they are that coun­sel. There are twenty-one bil­lion Coun­selors in ser­vice, and three bil­lion are as­signed to each super­uni­verse.

19:3.2Di­vine Coun­selors are the as­so­ciates and equals of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, from one to seven Coun­selors be­ing as­so­ci­ated with each of these lat­ter per­son­al­i­ties. All three or­ders par­tic­i­pate in the gov­ern­ment of the An­cients of Days, in­clud­ing ma­jor and mi­nor sec­tors, in the lo­cal uni­verses and con­stel­la­tions, and in the coun­cils of the lo­cal sys­tem sov­er­eigns.

19:3.3We act as in­di­vid­u­als, as I do in in­dit­ing this state­ment, but we also func­tion as a trio when­ever the oc­ca­sion re­quires. When we act in an ex­ec­u­tive ca­pac­ity, al­ways there are as­so­ci­ated to­gether a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor, and from one to seven Di­vine Coun­selors.

19:3.4One Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, seven Di­vine Coun­selors, and one Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor con­sti­tute a tri­bu­nal of Trin­ity di­vin­ity, the high­est mo­bile ad­vi­sory body in the uni­verses of time and space. Such a group of nine is known ei­ther as a fact-find­ing or as a truth-re­veal­ing tri­bu­nal, and when it sits in judg­ment upon a prob­lem and ren­ders a de­ci­sion, it is just as if an An­cient of Days had ad­ju­di­cated the mat­ter, for in all the an­nals of the super­uni­verses such a ver­dict has never been re­versed by the An­cients of Days.

19:3.5When the three An­cients of Days func­tion, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity func­tions. When the tri­bu­nal of nine ar­rives at a de­ci­sion fol­low­ing its united de­lib­er­a­tions, to all in­tents and pur­poses the An­cients of Days have spo­ken. And it is in this man­ner that the Par­a­dise Rulers make per­sonal con­tact, in ad­min­is­tra­tive mat­ters and gov­ern­men­tal reg­u­la­tion, with the in­di­vid­ual worlds, sys­tems, and uni­verses.

19:3.6Di­vine Coun­selors are the per­fec­tion of the di­vine coun­sel of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We rep­re­sent, in fact are, the coun­sel of per­fec­tion. When we are sup­ple­mented by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial coun­sel of our as­so­ciates, the per­fected and Trin­ity-em­braced be­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent, our com­bined con­clu­sions are not only com­plete but re­plete. When our united coun­sel has been as­so­ci­ated, ad­ju­di­cated, con­firmed, and pro­mul­gated by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor, it is very prob­a­ble that it ap­proaches the thresh­old of uni­ver­sal to­tal­ity. Such ver­dicts rep­re­sent the near­est pos­si­ble ap­proach to the ab­so­lute at­ti­tude of De­ity within the time-space lim­its of the sit­u­a­tion in­volved and the prob­lem con­cerned.

19:3.7Seven Di­vine Coun­selors in li­ai­son with a trin­i­tized evo­lu­tion­ary trio—a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, One High in Au­thor­ity, and One with­out Name and Num­ber—rep­re­sent the near­est super­uni­verse ap­proach to the union of the hu­man view­point and the di­vine at­ti­tude on near-par­a­di­si­a­cal lev­els of spir­i­tual mean­ings and re­al­ity val­ues. Such close ap­prox­i­ma­tion of the united cos­mic at­ti­tudes of the crea­ture and the Cre­ator is only sur­passed in the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons, who are, in ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence, God and man.