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Eternals of Days

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Every paragraph the index cites under Eternals of Days, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

14:3.3The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Ha­vona is not au­to­matic, but it is mar­velously per­fect and di­vinely ef­fi­cient. It is chiefly plan­e­tary and is vested in the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days, each Ha­vona sphere be­ing di­rected by one of these Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties. Eter­nals of Days are not cre­ators, but they are per­fect ad­min­is­tra­tors. They teach with su­preme skill and di­rect their plan­e­tary chil­dren with a per­fec­tion of wis­dom bor­der­ing on ab­so­lute­ness.

14:5.6There is a re­fresh­ing orig­i­nal­ity about this vast cen­tral cre­ation. Aside from the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter and the fun­da­men­tal con­sti­tu­tion of the ba­sic or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings and other liv­ing things, there is noth­ing in com­mon be­tween the worlds of Ha­vona. Ev­ery one of these plan­ets is an orig­i­nal, unique, and ex­clu­sive cre­ation; each planet is a match­less, su­perb, and per­fect pro­duc­tion. And this di­ver­sity of in­di­vid­u­al­ity ex­tends to all fea­tures of the phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual as­pects of plan­e­tary ex­is­tence. Each of these bil­lion per­fec­tion spheres has been de­vel­oped and em­bel­lished in ac­cor­dance with the plans of the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days. And this is just why no two of them are alike.

14:5.7–8 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

14:5.7Not un­til you tra­verse the last of the Ha­vona cir­cuits and visit the last of the Ha­vona worlds, will the tonic of ad­ven­ture and the stim­u­lus of cu­rios­ity dis­ap­pear from your ca­reer. And then will the urge, the for­ward im­pulse of eter­nity, re­place its fore­run­ner, the ad­ven­ture lure of time.

14:5.8Mo­not­ony is in­dica­tive of im­ma­tu­rity of the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion and in­ac­tiv­ity of in­tel­lec­tual co-or­di­na­tion with the spir­i­tual en­dow­ment. By the time an as­cen­dant mor­tal be­gins the ex­plo­ration of these heav­enly worlds, he has al­ready at­tained emo­tional, in­tel­lec­tual, and so­cial, if not spir­i­tual, ma­tu­rity.

14:5.9Not only will you find un­dreamed-of changes con­fronting you as you ad­vance from cir­cuit to cir­cuit in Ha­vona, but your as­ton­ish­ment will be in­ex­press­ible as you pro­gress from planet to planet within each cir­cuit. Each of these bil­lion study worlds is a ver­i­ta­ble uni­ver­sity of sur­prises. Con­tin­u­ing as­ton­ish­ment, un­end­ing won­der, is the ex­pe­ri­ence of those who tra­verse these cir­cuits and tour these gi­gan­tic spheres. Mo­not­ony is not a part of the Ha­vona ca­reer.

18:0.32. Eter­nals of Days.

18:2.1Each of the bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona is di­rected by a Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­ity. These rulers are known as the Eter­nals of Days, and they num­ber ex­actly one bil­lion, one for each of the Ha­vona spheres. They are the off­spring of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but like the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy there are no rec­ords of their ori­gin. For­ever have these two groups of all-wise fa­thers ruled their ex­qui­site worlds of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem, and they func­tion with­out ro­ta­tion or re­as­sign­ment.

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.

18:2.3Ex­cept for the es­tab­lished or­ders of life, such as the Ha­vona na­tives and other liv­ing crea­tures of the cen­tral uni­verse, the res­i­dent Eter­nals of Days have de­vel­oped their re­spec­tive spheres en­tirely in ac­cor­dance with their own per­sonal ideas and ide­als. They visit each other’s plan­ets, but they do not copy or im­i­tate; they are al­ways and wholly orig­i­nal.

18:2.4The ar­chi­tec­ture, nat­u­ral em­bel­lish­ment, mor­ontia struc­tures, and spirit cre­ations are ex­clu­sive and unique on each sphere. Ev­ery world is a place of ev­er­last­ing beauty and is wholly un­like any other world in the cen­tral uni­verse. And you will each spend a longer or shorter time on each of these unique and thrilling spheres on your way in­ward through Ha­vona to Par­a­dise. It is nat­u­ral, on your world, to speak of Par­a­dise as up­ward, but it would be more cor­rect to re­fer to the di­vine goal of as­cen­sion as in­ward.

18:4.6Be­fore the times of the full un­fold­ing of the gov­ern­men­tal scheme of the seven super­uni­verses, prac­ti­cally all ad­min­is­tra­tors of the var­i­ous di­vi­sions of these gov­ern­ments, ex­cept­ing the An­cients of Days, served ap­pren­tice­ships of vary­ing du­ra­tion un­der the Eter­nals of Days on the var­i­ous worlds of the per­fect Ha­vona uni­verse. The later trin­i­tized be­ings like­wise passed through a sea­son of train­ing un­der the Eter­nals of Days be­fore they were at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days, the Per­fec­tions of Days, and the Re­cents of Days. They are all sea­soned, tried, and ex­pe­ri­enced ad­min­is­tra­tors.

26:11.2Among those who dwell on this in­ner cir­cuit are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The pri­mary and the sec­ondary super­na­phim are the gen­eral cus­to­di­ans of the con­joint corps of these sons, in­clud­ing the trin­i­tized off­spring of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters and sim­i­lar progeny of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. Cer­tain of these sons are Trin­ity em­braced and com­mis­sioned in the super­gov­ern­ments, oth­ers are var­i­ously as­signed, but the great ma­jor­ity are be­ing gath­ered to­gether in the con­joint corps on the per­fect worlds of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. Here, un­der the super­vi­sion of the super­na­phim, they are be­ing pre­pared for some fu­ture work by a spe­cial and un­named corps of high Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who were, prior to the times of Grand­fanda, first ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants to the Eter­nals of Days. There are many rea­sons for con­jec­tur­ing that these two unique groups of trin­i­tized be­ings are go­ing to work to­gether in the re­mote fu­ture, not the least of which is their com­mon des­tiny in the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:1.92. Eter­nals of Days.

30:2.242. Eter­nals of Days.

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See also Havona

Cited alongside: Havona