Ancients of Days

• Ancients of Days

15:0.2Early in the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation the sev­en­fold scheme of the super­uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and gov­ern­ment was for­mu­lated. The first post-Ha­vona cre­ation was di­vided into seven stu­pen­dous seg­ments, and the head­quar­ters worlds of these super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments were de­signed and con­structed. The pres­ent scheme of ad­min­is­tra­tion has ex­isted from near eter­nity, and the rulers of these seven super­uni­verses are rightly called An­cients of Days.

• Ancients of Days

15:2.86. The Super­uni­verse. Ten ma­jor sec­tors (about 1,000,000,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a super­uni­verse. Each super­uni­verse is pro­vided with an enor­mous and glo­ri­ous head­quar­ters world and is ruled by three An­cients of Days.

• Ancients of Days

15:10.3Each super­uni­verse is pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, the joint chief ex­ec­u­tives of the super­gov­ern­ment. In its ex­ec­u­tive branch the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment con­sists of seven dif­fer­ent groups:

18:3.1When mor­tals of time grad­u­ate from the train­ing worlds sur­round­ing the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse and are ad­vanced to the ed­u­ca­tional spheres of their super­uni­verse, they have pro­gressed in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment to that point where they are able to rec­og­nize and com­mu­ni­cate with the high spir­i­tual rulers and di­rec­tors of these ad­vanced realms, in­clud­ing the An­cients of Days.

18:3.2The An­cients of Days are all ba­si­cally iden­ti­cal; they dis­close the com­bined char­ac­ter and uni­fied na­ture of the Trin­ity. They pos­sess in­di­vid­u­al­ity and are in per­son­al­ity di­verse, but they do not dif­fer from each other as do the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. They pro­vide the uni­form di­rec­tor­ship of the oth­er­wise dif­fer­ing seven super­uni­verses, each of which is a dis­tinct, seg­re­gated, and unique cre­ation. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are un­like in na­ture and at­tri­butes, but the An­cients of Days, the per­sonal rulers of the super­uni­verses, are all uni­form and super­per­fect off­spring of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

18:3.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on high de­ter­mine the na­ture of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses, but the An­cients of Days dic­tate the ad­min­is­tra­tion of these same super­uni­verses. They super­im­pose ad­min­is­tra­tive uni­for­mity on cre­ative di­ver­sity and in­sure the har­mony of the whole in the face of the un­der­ly­ing cre­ational dif­fer­ences of the seven seg­men­tal group­ings of the grand uni­verse.

18:3.4The An­cients of Days were all trin­i­tized at the same time. They rep­re­sent the be­gin­ning of the per­son­al­ity rec­ords of the uni­verse of uni­verses, hence their name—An­cients of Days. When you reach Par­a­dise and search the writ­ten rec­ords of the be­gin­ning of things, you will find that the first en­try ap­pear­ing in the per­son­al­ity sec­tion is the recital of the trin­i­ti­za­tion of these twenty-one An­cients of Days.

18:3.5These high be­ings al­ways gov­ern in groups of three. There are many phases of ac­tiv­ity in which they work as in­di­vid­u­als, still oth­ers in which any two can func­tion, but in the higher spheres of their ad­min­is­tra­tion they must act jointly. They never per­son­ally leave their res­i­den­tial worlds, but then they do not have to, for these worlds are the super­uni­verse fo­cal points of the far-flung re­flec­tiv­ity sys­tem.

18:3.6The per­sonal abodes of each trio of the An­cients of Days are lo­cated at the point of spir­i­tual po­lar­ity on their head­quar­ters sphere. Such a sphere is di­vided into sev­enty ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors and has sev­enty di­vi­sional cap­i­tals in which the An­cients of Days re­side from time to time.

18:3.7In power, scope of au­thor­ity, and ex­tent of ju­ris­dic­tion the An­cients of Days are the most pow­er­ful and mighty of any of the di­rect rulers of the time-space cre­ations. In all the vast uni­verse of uni­verses they alone are in­vested with the high pow­ers of fi­nal ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment con­cern­ing the eter­nal ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. And all three An­cients of Days must par­tic­i­pate in the fi­nal de­crees of the su­preme tri­bu­nal of a super­uni­verse.

18:3.8Aside from the De­i­ties and their Par­a­dise as­so­ciates, the An­cients of Days are the most per­fect, most ver­sa­tile, and the most di­vinely en­dowed rulers in all time-space ex­is­tence. Ap­par­ently they are the su­preme rulers of the super­uni­verses; but they have not ex­pe­ri­en­tially earned this right to rule and are there­fore des­tined some­time to be su­per­seded by the Su­preme Be­ing, an ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign, whose vicegerents they will un­doubt­edly be­come.

18:3.9The Su­preme Be­ing is achiev­ing the sov­er­eignty of the seven super­uni­verses by ex­pe­ri­en­tial ser­vice just as a Cre­ator Son ex­pe­ri­en­tially earns the sov­er­eignty of his lo­cal uni­verse. But dur­ing the pres­ent age of the un­fin­ished evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, the An­cients of Days pro­vide the co-or­di­nated and per­fect ad­min­is­tra­tive over­con­trol of the evolv­ing uni­verses of time and space. And the wis­dom of orig­i­nal­ity and the ini­tia­tive of in­di­vid­u­al­ity char­ac­ter­ize all the de­crees and rul­ings of the An­cients of Days.

55:4.133. The third stage of light and life. Dur­ing this epoch the in­hab­ited worlds ar­rive at a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the An­cients of Days, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of these super­uni­verse rulers en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion.

56:5.3The pres­ent func­tion­ing of di­vin­ity in the super­uni­verses is ac­tively man­i­fest in the op­er­a­tions of the Su­preme Cre­ators—the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Sons and Spir­its, the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days, and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. These be­ings con­sti­tute the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold lead­ing in­ward to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this en­tire do­main of God the Sev­en­fold is co-or­di­nat­ing on the first level of ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­ity in the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.62. The An­cients of Days.

28:4.10The An­cients of Days per­fectly de­duce the Fa­ther’s will by equat­ing the Spirit voice-flash from above and the Mi­chael voice-flashes from be­low. Thus may they be unerringly cer­tain in cal­cu­lat­ing the Fa­ther’s will con­cern­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of the lo­cal uni­verses. But to de­duce the will of one of the Gods from a knowl­edge of the other two, the three An­cients of Days must act to­gether; two would not be able to achieve the an­swer. And for this rea­son, even were there no oth­ers, the super­uni­verses are al­ways pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, and not by one or even two.

116:2.4And this is the ori­gin of God the Sev­en­fold, whose suc­ces­sive lev­els are en­coun­tered by mor­tal man in the fol­low­ing or­der:

116:2.51. The Cre­ator Sons (and Cre­ative Spir­its).

116:2.73. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

116:2.84. The Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.95. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

116:2.106. The Eter­nal Son.

116:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:2.12The first three lev­els are the Su­preme Cre­ators; the last three lev­els are the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme ever in­ter­venes as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fo­cus of the evo­lu­tion­ary al­mighty power of the cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing is the max­i­mum rev­e­la­tion of De­ity to the seven super­uni­verses and for the pres­ent uni­verse age.

28:6.6The Mem­ory of Mercy is a liv­ing trial bal­ance, a cur­rent state­ment of your ac­count with the super­nat­u­ral forces of the realms. These are the liv­ing rec­ords of mercy min­is­tra­tion which are read into the tes­ti­mony of the courts of Uversa when each in­di­vid­ual’s right to un­end­ing life comes up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion, when “thrones are cast up and the An­cients of Days are seated. The broad­casts of Uversa is­sue and come forth from be­fore them; thou­sands upon thou­sands min­is­ter to them, and ten thou­sand times ten thou­sand stand be­fore them. The judg­ment is set, and the books are opened.” And the books which are opened on such a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion are the liv­ing rec­ords of the ter­tiary se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verses. The for­mal rec­ords are on file to cor­rob­o­rate the tes­ti­mony of the Mem­o­ries of Mercy if they are re­quired.

28:4.2This abil­ity—to hear and see, as it were, all things—can be per­fectly re­al­ized in the super­uni­verses only by the An­cients of Days and only on their re­spec­tive head­quar­ters worlds. Even there lim­its are en­coun­tered: From Uversa, such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is lim­ited to the worlds and uni­verses of Or­von­ton, and while in­op­er­a­tive be­tween the super­uni­verses, this same re­flec­tive tech­nique keeps each one of them in close touch with the cen­tral uni­verse and with Par­a­dise. The seven super­gov­ern­ments, though in­di­vid­u­ally seg­re­gated, are thus per­fectly re­flec­tive of the au­thor­ity above and are wholly sym­pa­thetic, as well as per­fectly con­ver­sant, with the needs be­low.

43:0.1Uran­tia is com­monly re­ferred to as 606 of Sa­ta­nia in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, mean­ing the six hun­dred sixth in­hab­ited world in the lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, sit­u­ated in the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, one of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Con­stel­la­tions be­ing the pri­mary di­vi­sions of a lo­cal uni­verse, their rulers link the lo­cal sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­tral ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse on Sal­ving­ton and by re­flec­tiv­ity to the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

116:4.6And as it is with the Mas­ter Spir­its of the super­uni­verses, so is it with the tri­une rulers of these super­cre­ations—the An­cients of Days. These per­son­i­fi­ca­tions of Trin­ity jus­tice-judg­ment in time and space are the field ful­crums for the mo­bi­liz­ing al­mighty power of the Su­preme, serv­ing as the sev­en­fold fo­cal points for the evo­lu­tion of trini­tar­ian sov­er­eignty in the do­mains of time and space. From their van­tage point mid­way be­tween Par­a­dise and the evolv­ing worlds, these Trin­ity-ori­gin sov­er­eigns see both ways, know both ways, and co-or­di­nate both ways.

18:2.2The Eter­nals of Days are vis­i­ble to all will crea­tures dwell­ing in their do­mains. They pre­side over the reg­u­lar plan­e­tary con­claves. Pe­ri­od­i­cally, and by ro­ta­tion, they visit the head­quar­ters spheres of the seven super­uni­verses. They are close of kin to, and are the di­vine equals of, the An­cients of Days, who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­gov­ern­ments. When an Eter­nal of Days is ab­sent from his sphere, his world is di­rected by a Trin­ity Teacher Son.

30:1.103. An­cients of Days.

30:2.253. An­cients of Days.

36:6.7There are some things con­nected with the elab­o­ra­tion of life on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets which are not al­to­gether clear to us. We fully com­pre­hend the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the elec­tro­chem­i­cal for­mu­las of the Life Car­ri­ers, but we do not wholly un­der­stand the na­ture and source of the life-ac­ti­va­tion spark. We know that life flows from the Fa­ther through the Son and by the Spirit. It is more than pos­si­ble that the Mas­ter Spir­its are the sev­en­fold chan­nel of the river of life which is poured out upon all cre­ation. But we do not com­pre­hend the tech­nique whereby the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit par­tic­i­pates in the ini­tial episode of life be­stowal on a new planet. The An­cients of Days, we are con­fi­dent, also have some part in this in­au­gu­ra­tion of life on a new world, but we are wholly ig­no­rant of the na­ture thereof. We do know that the Uni­verse Mother Spirit ac­tu­ally vi­tal­izes the life­less pat­terns and im­parts to such ac­ti­vated plasm the pre­rog­a­tives of or­gan­is­mal re­pro­duc­tion. We ob­serve that these three are the lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold, some­times des­ig­nated as the Su­preme Cre­ators of time and space; but oth­er­wise we know lit­tle more than Uran­tia mor­tals—sim­ply that con­cept is in­her­ent in the Fa­ther, ex­pres­sion in the Son, and life re­al­iza­tion in the Spirit.

15:12.4With cer­tain few ex­cep­tions the super­gov­ern­ments ex­er­cise ju­ris­dic­tion over all things and all be­ings in their re­spec­tive do­mains. There is no ap­peal from the rul­ings and de­ci­sions of the super­uni­verse au­thor­i­ties since they rep­re­sent the con­curred opin­ions of the An­cients of Days and that Mas­ter Spirit who, from Par­a­dise, pre­sides over the des­tiny of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

36:1.1Though the Life Car­ri­ers be­long to the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship, they are a pe­cu­liar and dis­tinct type of uni­verse Sons, be­ing the only group of in­tel­li­gent life in a lo­cal uni­verse in whose cre­ation the rulers of a super­uni­verse par­tic­i­pate. The Life Car­ri­ers are the off­spring of three pre-ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties: the Cre­ator Son, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, and, by des­ig­na­tion, one of the three An­cients of Days pre­sid­ing over the des­tinies of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. These An­cients of Days, who alone can de­cree the ex­tinc­tion of in­tel­li­gent life, par­tic­i­pate in the cre­ation of the Life Car­ri­ers, who are in­trusted with es­tab­lish­ing phys­i­cal life on the evolv­ing worlds.

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

28:4.1The pri­mary se­con­a­phim, of as­sign­ment to the An­cients of Days, are liv­ing mir­rors in the ser­vice of these tri­une rulers. Think what it means in the econ­omy of a super­uni­verse to be able to turn, as it were, to a liv­ing mir­ror and therein to see and there­with to hear the cer­tain re­sponses of an­other be­ing a thou­sand or a hun­dred thou­sand light-years dis­tant and to do all this in­stantly and unerringly. Rec­ords are es­sen­tial to the con­duct of the uni­verses, broad­casts are ser­vice­able, the work of the Soli­tary and other mes­sen­gers is very help­ful, but the An­cients of Days from their po­si­tion mid­way be­tween the in­hab­ited worlds and Par­a­dise—be­tween man and God—can in­stantly look both ways, hear both ways, and know both ways.

28:4.3The pri­mary se­con­a­phim are found to in­cline by in­her­ent na­ture to­wards seven types of ser­vice, and it is be­fit­ting that the first se­ri­als of this or­der should be so en­dowed as in­her­ently to in­ter­pret the mind of the Spirit to the An­cients of Days:

28:4.41. The Voice of the Con­joint Ac­tor. In each super­uni­verse the first pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one of that or­der sub­se­quently cre­ated ex­hibit a high or­der of adapt­abil­ity for un­der­stand­ing and in­ter­pret­ing the mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates in the super­gov­ern­ments. This is of great value on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses, for, un­like the lo­cal cre­ations with their Di­vine Min­is­ters, the seat of a super­gov­ern­ment does not have a spe­cial­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Hence these sec­o­raphic voices come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Third Source and Cen­ter on such a cap­i­tal sphere. True, the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its are there, but these moth­ers of the sec­o­raphic hosts are less truly and au­to­mat­i­cally re­flec­tive of the Con­joint Ac­tor than of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

28:4.52. The Voice of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The sec­ond pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after cre­ated in­cline to­wards por­tray­ing the col­lec­tive na­tures and re­ac­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Though each Mas­ter Spirit is al­ready rep­re­sented on a super­uni­verse cap­i­tal by some one of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its of as­sign­ment, such rep­re­sen­ta­tion is in­di­vid­ual, not col­lec­tive. Col­lec­tively, they are only re­flec­tively pres­ent; there­fore do the Mas­ter Spir­its wel­come the ser­vices of these highly per­sonal an­gels, the sec­ond se­ri­als of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim, who are so com­pe­tent to rep­re­sent them be­fore the An­cients of Days.

28:4.63. The Voice of the Cre­ator Sons. The In­fi­nite Spirit must have had some­thing to do with the cre­ation or train­ing of the Par­a­dise Sons of the or­der of Mi­chael, for the third pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial there­after pos­sess the re­mark­able gift of be­ing re­flec­tive of the minds of these Cre­ator Sons. If the An­cients of Days would like to know—re­ally know—the at­ti­tude of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don re­gard­ing some mat­ter un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, they do not have to call him on the lines of space; they need only call for the Chief of Neb­a­don Voices, who, upon re­quest, will pre­sent the Mi­chael se­con­a­phim of rec­ord; and right then and there the An­cients of Days will per­ceive the voice of the Mas­ter Son of Neb­a­don.

28:4.7No other or­der of son­ship is thus “re­flectible,” and no other or­der of an­gel can thus func­tion. We do not fully un­der­stand just how this is ac­com­plished, and I doubt very much that the Cre­ator Sons them­selves fully un­der­stand it. But of a cer­tainty we know it works, and that it un­fail­ingly works ac­cept­ably we also know, for in all the his­tory of Uversa the sec­o­raphic voices have never erred in their pre­sen­ta­tions.

28:4.8You are here be­gin­ning to see some­thing of the man­ner in which di­vin­ity en­com­passes the space of time and mas­ters the time of space. You are here ob­tain­ing one of your first fleet­ing glimpses of the tech­nique of the eter­nity cy­cle, di­ver­gent for the mo­ment to as­sist the chil­dren of time in their tasks of mas­ter­ing the dif­fi­cult hand­i­caps of space. And these phe­nom­ena are ad­di­tional to the es­tab­lished uni­verse tech­nique of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

28:4.9Though ap­par­ently de­prived of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spir­its above and of the Cre­ator Sons be­low, the An­cients of Days have at their com­mand liv­ing be­ings at­tuned to cos­mic mech­a­nisms of re­flec­tive per­fec­tion and ul­ti­mate pre­ci­sion whereby they may en­joy the re­flec­tive pres­ence of all those ex­alted be­ings whose per­sonal pres­ence is de­nied them. By and through these means, and oth­ers un­known to you, God is po­ten­tially pres­ent on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses.

28:4.114. The Voice of the An­gelic Hosts. The fourth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial prove to be an­gels pe­cu­liarly re­spon­sive to the sen­ti­ments of all or­ders of an­gels, in­clud­ing the super­na­phim above and the ser­a­phim be­low. Thus the at­ti­tude of any com­mand­ing or super­vis­ing an­gel is im­me­di­ately avail­able for con­sid­er­a­tion at any coun­cil of the An­cients of Days. Never a day passes on your world that the chief of ser­a­phim on Uran­tia is not made con­scious of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tive trans­fer­ence, of be­ing drawn upon from Uversa for some pur­pose; but un­less fore­warned by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, she re­mains wholly ig­no­rant of what is sought and of how it is se­cured. These min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time are con­stantly fur­nish­ing this sort of un­con­scious and cer­tainly, there­fore, un­prej­u­diced tes­ti­mony con­cern­ing the end­less ar­ray of mat­ters en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion and coun­sel of the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates.

28:4.125. Broad­cast Re­ceivers. There is a spe­cial class of broad­cast mes­sages which are re­ceived only by these pri­mary se­con­a­phim. While they are not the reg­u­lar broad­cast­ers of Uversa, they work in li­ai­son with the an­gels of the re­flec­tive voices for the pur­pose of syn­chro­niz­ing the re­flec­tive vi­sion of the An­cients of Days with cer­tain ac­tual mes­sages com­ing in over the es­tab­lished cir­cuits of uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Broad­cast re­ceivers are the fifth se­ri­als, the fifth pri­mary se­con­a­phim to be cre­ated and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after.

28:4.136. Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These are the se­con­a­phim who carry the pil­grims of time from the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona. They are the trans­port corps of the super­uni­verses, op­er­at­ing in­ward to Par­a­dise and out­ward to the worlds of their re­spec­tive sec­tors. This corps is com­posed of the sixth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one sub­se­quently cre­ated.

28:4.147. The Re­serve Corps. A very large group of se­con­a­phim, the sev­enth pri­mary se­ri­als, are held in re­serve for the un­clas­si­fied du­ties and the emer­gency as­sign­ments of the realms. Not be­ing highly spe­cial­ized, they can func­tion fairly well in any of the ca­pac­i­ties of their di­verse as­so­ciates, but such spe­cial­ized work is un­der­taken only in emer­gen­cies. Their usual tasks are the per­for­mance of those gen­er­al­ized du­ties of a super­uni­verse which do not fall within the scope of the an­gels of spe­cific as­sign­ment.

55:4.227. The sev­enth stage of light and life. Early in the sev­enth epoch the Trin­ity Teacher coun­selor of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign is joined by a vol­un­teer ad­viser sent by the An­cients of Days, and later on they will be aug­mented by a third coun­selor com­ing from the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive.

55:12.3If and when a super­uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, we be­lieve that the now ad­vi­sory Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme would be­come the high ad­min­is­tra­tive body on the head­quar­ters world of the super­uni­verse. These are the per­son­al­i­ties who are able to con­tact di­rectly with the ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, who will forth­with be­come ac­tive in the set­tled super­uni­verse. Al­though these Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors have long func­tioned as ad­vis­ers and coun­selors in ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary units of cre­ation, they do not as­sume ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties un­til the au­thor­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing be­comes sov­er­eign.

55:12.5None of us en­ter­tain a sat­is­fac­tory con­cept of what will hap­pen when the grand uni­verse (the seven super­uni­verses as de­pen­dent on Ha­vona) be­comes en­tirely set­tled in light and life. That event will un­doubt­edly be the most pro­found oc­cur­rence in the an­nals of eter­nity since the ap­pear­ance of the cen­tral uni­verse. There are those who hold that the Su­preme Be­ing him­self will emerge from the Ha­vona mys­tery en­shroud­ing his spirit per­son and will be­come res­i­den­tial on the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the per­fected cre­ations of time and space. But we re­ally do not know.

116:0.5The Su­preme Be­ing func­tions pri­mar­ily in the cen­tral uni­verse as a spirit per­son­al­ity; sec­on­dar­ily in the grand uni­verse as God the Al­mighty, a per­son­al­ity of power. The ter­tiary func­tion of the Su­preme in the mas­ter uni­verse is now la­tent, ex­ist­ing only as an un­known mind po­ten­tial. No one knows just what this third de­vel­op­ment of the Su­preme Be­ing will dis­close. Some be­lieve that, when the super­uni­verses are set­tled in light and life, the Su­preme will be­come func­tional from Uversa as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the grand uni­verse while ex­pand­ing in power as the super­al­mighty of the outer uni­verses. Oth­ers spec­u­late that the third stage of Su­prem­acy will in­volve the third level of De­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion. But none of us re­ally know.

117:2.7As ex­is­tent upon the con­sum­ma­tion of the pres­ent uni­verse age, the Su­preme Be­ing will func­tion as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign in the grand uni­verse. Outer-spac­ers—cit­i­zens of the next uni­verse age—will have a post­super­uni­verse growth po­ten­tial, a ca­pac­ity for evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment pre­sup­pos­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme, hence ex­clud­ing crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the pres­ent uni­verse age.

• invested with final judgment concerning extinction of will creatures

2:3.3Ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence is usu­ally de­creed at the dis­pen­sa­tional or ep­ochal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the realm or realms. On a world such as Uran­tia it comes at the end of a plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion. Ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence can be de­creed at such times by co-or­di­nate ac­tion of all tri­bu­nals of ju­ris­dic­tion, ex­tend­ing from the plan­e­tary coun­cil up through the courts of the Cre­ator Son to the judg­ment tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days. The man­date of dis­so­lu­tion orig­i­nates in the higher courts of the super­uni­verse fol­low­ing an un­bro­ken con­fir­ma­tion of the in­dict­ment orig­i­nat­ing on the sphere of the wrong­doer’s res­i­dence; and then, when sen­tence of ex­tinc­tion has been con­firmed on high, the ex­e­cu­tion is by the di­rect act of those judges res­i­den­tial on, and op­er­at­ing from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

• high review tribunals
• invested with final judgment concerning extinction of will creatures

15:12.2The courts of the An­cients of Days are the high re­view tri­bu­nals for the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all com­po­nent uni­verses. The Sov­er­eign Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses are su­preme in their own do­mains; they are sub­ject to the super­gov­ern­ment only in so far as they vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit mat­ters for coun­sel or ad­ju­di­ca­tion by the An­cients of Days ex­cept in mat­ters in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. Man­dates of judg­ment orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses, but sen­tences in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures are al­ways for­mu­lated on, and ex­e­cuted from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. The Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses can de­cree the sur­vival of mor­tal man, but only the An­cients of Days may sit in ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment on the is­sues of eter­nal life and death.

15:12.3In all mat­ters not re­quir­ing trial, the sub­mis­sion of ev­i­dence, the An­cients of Days or their as­so­ciates ren­der de­ci­sions, and these rul­ings are al­ways unan­i­mous. We are here deal­ing with the coun­cils of per­fec­tion. There are no dis­agree­ments nor mi­nor­ity opin­ions in the de­crees of these su­preme and su­perla­tive tri­bu­nals.

• Trinitized Custodians are officers of tribunals of

18:4.5Most of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants are as­signed to the ser­vice of the ma­jor and the mi­nor sec­tors, but the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans (Trin­ity-em­braced ser­a­phim and mid­way­ers) are the of­fi­cers of the courts of all three di­vi­sions, func­tion­ing in the tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days, the Per­fec­tions of Days, and the Re­cents of Days. The Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors (Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant mor­tals of Son- or Spirit-fused na­ture) may be en­coun­tered any­where in a super­uni­verse, but the ma­jor­ity are in the ser­vice of the mi­nor sec­tors.

• have never reversed verdict of combined Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors, Universal Censor, Mighty Messenger, One without Name and Number, and One High in Authority

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.

• personifications of Trinity justice-judgment

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.

• never sit in judgment without Universal Censors

19:4.1There are ex­actly eight bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors in ex­is­tence. These unique be­ings are the judg­ment of De­ity. They are not merely re­flec­tive of the de­ci­sions of per­fec­tion; they are the judg­ment of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Even the An­cients of Days do not sit in judg­ment ex­cept in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

• Celestial Guardians are apprehending agents for

22:9.4The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans are the of­fi­cers of the courts of the An­cients of Days, func­tion­ing as court mes­sen­gers and as bear­ers of the sum­monses and de­ci­sions of the var­i­ous tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. They are the ap­pre­hend­ing agents of the An­cients of Days; they go forth from Uversa to bring back be­ings whose pres­ence is re­quired be­fore the super­uni­verse judges; they ex­e­cute the man­dates for the de­ten­tion of any per­son­al­ity in the super­uni­verse. They also ac­com­pany Spirit-fused mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses when, for any rea­son, their pres­ence is re­quired on Uversa.

• invested with final judgment concerning extinction of will creatures

33:2.2Mi­chael elected to or­ga­nize this lo­cal uni­verse, and herein he now reigns su­preme. His per­sonal power is lim­ited by the pre-ex­is­tent grav­ity cir­cuits cen­ter­ing at Par­a­dise and by the reser­va­tion on the part of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of all fi­nal ex­ec­u­tive judg­ments re­gard­ing the ex­tinc­tion of per­son­al­ity. Per­son­al­ity is the sole be­stowal of the Fa­ther, but the Cre­ator Sons, with the ap­proval of the Eter­nal Son, do ini­ti­ate new crea­ture de­signs, and with the work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of their Spirit as­so­ciates they may at­tempt new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter.

• invested with final judgment concerning extinction of will creatures

37:3.7The Worlds of the Arch­an­gels. The sev­enth group of the en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton worlds, with their as­so­ci­ated satel­lites, is as­signed to the arch­an­gels. Sphere num­ber one and all of its six trib­u­tary satel­lites are oc­cu­pied by the per­son­al­ity rec­ord keep­ers. This enor­mous corps of re­cord­ers busy them­selves with keep­ing straight the rec­ord of each mor­tal of time from the mo­ment of birth up through the uni­verse ca­reer un­til such an in­di­vid­ual ei­ther leaves Sal­ving­ton for the super­uni­verse regime or is “blot­ted out of re­corded ex­is­tence” by the man­date of the An­cients of Days.

• accredit mortals for Son-fusion

40:8.3When it be­comes ap­par­ent that some syn­chro­niz­ing dif­fi­culty is in­hibit­ing Fa­ther fu­sion, the sur­vival ref­er­ees of the Cre­ator Son are con­vened. And when this court of in­quiry, sanc­tioned by a per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the An­cients of Days, fi­nally de­ter­mines that the as­cend­ing mor­tal is not guilty of any dis­cov­er­able cause for fail­ure to at­tain fu­sion, they so cer­tify on the rec­ords of the lo­cal uni­verse and duly trans­mit this find­ing to the An­cients of Days. There­upon does the in­dwelling Ad­juster re­turn forth­with to Di­vin­ing­ton for con­fir­ma­tion by the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors, and upon this leave-tak­ing the mor­ontia mor­tal is im­me­di­ately fused with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized gift of the spirit of the Cre­ator Son.

• judgment belongs to

53:1.2Lu­cifer was a mag­nif­i­cent be­ing, a bril­liant per­son­al­ity; he stood next to the Most High Fa­thers of the con­stel­la­tions in the di­rect line of uni­verse au­thor­ity. Not­with­stand­ing Lu­cifer’s trans­gres­sion, sub­or­di­nate in­tel­li­gences re­frained from show­ing him dis­re­spect and dis­dain prior to Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. Even the arch­an­gel of Mi­chael, at the time of Moses’ res­ur­rec­tion, “did not bring against him an ac­cus­ing judg­ment but sim­ply said, ‘the Judge re­buke you.’” Judg­ment in such mat­ters be­longs to the An­cients of Days, the rulers of the super­uni­verse.

• refuse to annihilate any being until all moral values are extinct in evildoer and sympathizers

54:3.3But if this uni­verse rebel against the re­al­ity of truth and good­ness re­fuses to ap­prove the ver­dict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the jus­tice of his con­dem­na­tion but re­fuses to make such con­fes­sion, then must the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tence be de­layed in ac­cor­dance with the dis­cre­tion of the An­cients of Days. And the An­cients of Days refuse to an­ni­hi­late any be­ing un­til all moral val­ues and all spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties are ex­tinct, both in the evil­doer and in all re­lated sup­port­ers and pos­si­ble sym­pa­thiz­ers.

• seldom execute wrongdoers without full hearing

54:5.76. The An­cients of Days could have im­me­di­ately an­ni­hi­lated these rebels, but they sel­dom ex­e­cute wrong­do­ers with­out a full hear­ing. In this in­stance they re­fused to over­rule the Mi­chael de­ci­sions.

• flash forth mandates of immediate resurrection

112:4.12If, when death over­takes you, you have at­tained the third cir­cle or a higher realm and there­fore have had as­signed to you a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny, and if the fi­nal tran­script of the sum­mary of sur­vival char­ac­ter sub­mit­ted by the Ad­juster is un­con­di­tion­ally cer­ti­fied by the des­tiny guard­ian—if both ser­a­phim and Ad­juster es­sen­tially agree in ev­ery item of their life rec­ords and rec­om­men­da­tions—if the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa con­firm this data and do so with­out equiv­o­ca­tion or reser­va­tion, in that event the An­cients of Days flash forth the man­date of ad­vanced stand­ing over the com­mu­ni­ca­tion cir­cuits to Sal­ving­ton, and, thus re­leased, the tri­bu­nals of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don will de­cree the im­me­di­ate pas­sage of the sur­viv­ing soul to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds.

18:0.43. An­cients of Days.

26:1.132. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Super­uni­verses—the se­con­a­phim, the ter­tiaphim, and the om­niaphim. Se­con­a­phim, the chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, var­i­ously serve in the seven super­uni­verses. Ter­tiaphim, of ori­gin in the In­fi­nite Spirit, are even­tu­ally ded­i­cated to the li­ai­son ser­vice of the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days. Om­niaphim are cre­ated con­cert­edly by the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, and they are the ex­clu­sive ser­vants of the lat­ter. The dis­cus­sion of these three or­ders forms the sub­ject of a suc­ceed­ing nar­ra­tive in this se­ries.

25:6.6On Uversa these se­nior Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers can show the rec­ords of ev­ery­thing of cos­mic im­port in all Or­von­ton since the far-dis­tant times of the ar­rival of the An­cients of Days, while on the eter­nal Isle the Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords guard the ar­chives of that realm which tes­tify to the trans­ac­tions of Par­a­dise since the times of the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

22:1.11The Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion em­brace the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans and the Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors. They are re­cruited from cer­tain of the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim and trans­lated mid­way crea­tures who have tra­versed Ha­vona and have at­tained Par­a­dise, as well as from cer­tain of the Spirit-fused and the Son-fused mor­tals who have like­wise as­cended to the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life. Sub­se­quent to their em­brace by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and af­ter a brief train­ing in Ha­vona, the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion are as­signed to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

30:1.108The Un­re­vealed Cre­ative Agen­cies of the An­cients of Days.

17:4.2The Re­flec­tive Spir­its them­selves are true per­son­al­i­ties but of such an or­der as to be in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to ma­te­rial be­ings. Even on a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters sphere they re­quire the as­sis­tance of their Im­age Aids in all per­sonal in­ter­course with the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates. In con­tacts be­tween the Im­age Aids and the An­cients of Days, some­times one Aid func­tions ac­cept­ably, while on other oc­ca­sions two, three, four, or even all seven are re­quired for the full and proper pre­sen­ta­tion of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion in­trusted to their trans­mis­sion. Like­wise, the mes­sages of the Im­age Aids are var­i­ously re­ceived by one, two, or all three An­cients of Days, as the con­tent of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion may re­quire.

23:2.153. Mes­sen­gers of the Super­uni­verses. The An­cients of Days, those per­son­al­i­ties of Trin­ity ori­gin who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­uni­verses, those trios of di­vine power and ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, are boun­ti­fully sup­plied with Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. It is only through this or­der of mes­sen­gers that the tri­une rulers of one super­uni­verse can di­rectly and per­son­ally com­mu­ni­cate with the rulers of an­other. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are the only avail­able type of spirit in­tel­li­gence—aside, pos­si­bly, from the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its—that can be dis­patched from the head­quar­ters of one super­uni­verse di­rectly to the head­quar­ters of an­other. All other per­son­al­i­ties must make such ex­cur­sions by way of Ha­vona and the ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Mas­ter Spir­its.