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Perfections of Days

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

15:10.141. Per­fec­tions of Days—the rulers of the super­uni­verse ma­jor sec­tors.

15:13.1A ma­jor sec­tor com­prises about one tenth of a super­uni­verse and con­sists of one hun­dred mi­nor sec­tors, ten thou­sand lo­cal uni­verses, about one hun­dred bil­lion in­hab­it­able worlds. These ma­jor sec­tors are ad­min­is­tered by three Per­fec­tions of Days, Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties.

15:13.2The courts of the Per­fec­tions of Days are con­sti­tuted much as are those of the An­cients of Days ex­cept that they do not sit in spir­i­tual judg­ment upon the realms. The work of these ma­jor sec­tor gov­ern­ments has chiefly to do with the in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus of a far-flung cre­ation. The ma­jor sec­tors de­tain, ad­ju­di­cate, dis­pense, and tab­u­late, for re­port­ing to the courts of the An­cients of Days, all mat­ters of super­uni­verse im­por­tance of a rou­tine and ad­min­is­tra­tive na­ture which are not im­me­di­ately con­cerned with the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the realms or with the out­work­ing of the mor­tal-as­cen­sion plans of the Par­a­dise Rulers. The per­son­nel of a ma­jor sec­tor gov­ern­ment is no dif­fer­ent from that of the super­uni­verse.

18:0.54. Per­fec­tions of Days.

18:4.1There are just two hun­dred and ten Per­fec­tions of Days, and they pre­side over the gov­ern­ments of the ten ma­jor sec­tors of each super­uni­verse. They were trin­i­tized for the spe­cial work of as­sist­ing the super­uni­verse di­rec­tors, and they rule as the im­me­di­ate and per­sonal vicegerents of the An­cients of Days.

18:4.2Three Per­fec­tions of Days are as­signed to each ma­jor sec­tor cap­i­tal, but un­like the An­cients of Days, it is not nec­es­sary that all three be pres­ent at all times. From time to time one of this trio may ab­sent him­self to con­fer in per­son with the An­cients of Days con­cern­ing the wel­fare of his realm.

18:4.3These tri­une rulers of the ma­jor sec­tors are pe­cu­liarly per­fect in the mas­tery of ad­min­is­tra­tive de­tails, hence their name—Per­fec­tions of Days. In record­ing the names of these be­ings of the spir­i­tual world, we are con­fronted with the prob­lem of trans­lat­ing into your tongue, and very of­ten it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to ren­der a sat­is­fac­tory trans­la­tion. We dis­like to use ar­bi­trary des­ig­na­tions which would be mean­ing­less to you; hence we of­ten find it dif­fi­cult to choose a suit­able name, one which will be clear to you and at the same time be some­what rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the orig­i­nal.

18:4.4The Per­fec­tions of Days have a mod­er­ate-sized corps of Di­vine Coun­selors, Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors at­tached to their gov­ern­ments. They have still larger num­bers of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. But much of the rou­tine work of ma­jor sec­tor af­fairs is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants. These two groups are drawn from among the trin­i­tized off­spring of ei­ther Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these two or­ders of crea­ture-trin­i­tized be­ings are re­trini­tized by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and then are dis­patched to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

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.

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.

18:4.7You will early see the Per­fec­tions of Days when you ad­vance to the head­quar­ters of Splan­don af­ter your so­journ on the worlds of your mi­nor sec­tor, for these ex­alted rulers are closely as­so­ci­ated with the sev­enty ma­jor sec­tor worlds of higher train­ing for the as­cen­dant crea­tures of time. The Per­fec­tions of Days, in per­son, ad­min­is­ter the group pledges to the as­cend­ing grad­u­ates of the ma­jor sec­tor schools.

18:4.8The work of the pil­grims of time on the worlds sur­round­ing a ma­jor sec­tor head­quar­ters is chiefly of an in­tel­lec­tual na­ture in con­trast with the more phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial char­ac­ter of the train­ing on the seven ed­u­ca­tional spheres of a mi­nor sec­tor and with the spir­i­tual un­der­tak­ings on the four hun­dred ninety uni­ver­sity worlds of a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

18:4.9Al­though you are en­tered only upon the reg­istry of the ma­jor sec­tor of Splan­don, which em­braces the lo­cal uni­verse of your ori­gin, you will have to pass through ev­ery one of the ten ma­jor di­vi­sions of our super­uni­verse. You will see all thirty of the Or­von­ton Per­fec­tions of Days be­fore you reach Uversa.

30:1.114. Per­fec­tions of Days.

30:2.264. Per­fec­tions of Days.

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Cited alongside: superuniverses, the seven, Recents of Days, major sectors