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.

15:10.11The three An­cients of Days are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by a corps of one bil­lion Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, with whom are as­so­ci­ated three bil­lion Di­vine Coun­selors. One bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are at­tached to each super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These three groups are Co-or­di­nate Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, tak­ing ori­gin di­rectly and di­vinely in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

19:0.9Ex­cept­ing the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and pos­si­bly the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, these groups are of def­i­nite num­bers; their cre­ation is a fin­ished and past event.

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.

28:5.8It is writ­ten, “If any man lack wis­dom, let him ask.” On Uversa, when it be­comes nec­es­sary to ar­rive at the de­ci­sions of wis­dom in the per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tions of the com­plex af­fairs of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment, when both the wis­dom of per­fec­tion and of prac­ti­ca­bil­ity must be forth­com­ing, then do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom sum­mon a bat­tery of the Voices of Wis­dom and, by the con­sum­mate skill of their or­der, so at­tune and di­rec­tion­ize these liv­ing re­ceivers of the en­minded and cir­cu­lat­ing wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses that pres­ently, from these sec­o­raphic voices, there en­sues a stream of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity from the uni­verse above and a flood of the wis­dom of prac­ti­cal­ity from the higher minds of the uni­verses be­low.

22:10.1The High Son As­sis­tants are the su­pe­rior group of the re­trini­tized trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant be­ings of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of their eter­nal as­so­ciates, the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties. They are as­signed to the super­uni­verse ser­vice and func­tion as per­sonal aids to the high sons of the gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days. They might fit­tingly be de­nom­i­nated pri­vate sec­re­taries. They act, from time to time, as clerks for spe­cial com­mis­sions and other group as­so­ci­a­tions of the high sons. They serve Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

30:1.158. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

30:2.319. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

19:4.4When­ever and wher­ever a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor is pres­ent, then and there is the judg­ment of De­ity. And since the Cen­sors al­ways ren­der their ver­dicts in li­ai­son with Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and Di­vine Coun­selors, such de­ci­sions em­brace the united wis­dom, coun­sel, and judg­ment of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In this ju­ridi­cal trio the Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom would be the “I was,” the Di­vine Coun­selor the “I will be,” but the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor is al­ways “I am.”

46:5.15The fourth cir­cle is the home of the Voron­dadeks and all other or­ders of the vis­it­ing and ob­server Sons who are not oth­er­wise pro­vided for. The Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take up their abode in this cir­cle when on vis­its of in­spec­tion to the lo­cal sys­tem. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors all re­side in this cir­cle when on duty in the sys­tem.

• serve superuniverse governments; preside over some superuniverse courts

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:

15:10.41. An­cients of Days.

15:10.52. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

15:10.63. Di­vine Coun­selors.

15:10.74. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

15:10.85. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.96. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

15:10.107. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• serve superuniverse governments; preside over some superuniverse courts

15:12.1When we speak of ex­ec­u­tive and de­lib­er­a­tive branches of the Uversa gov­ern­ment, you may, from the anal­ogy of cer­tain forms of Uran­tian civil gov­ern­ment, rea­son that we must have a third or ju­di­cial branch, and we do; but it does not have a sep­a­rate per­son­nel. Our courts are con­sti­tuted as fol­lows: There pre­sides, in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and grav­ity of the case, an An­cient of Days, a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, or a Di­vine Coun­selor. The ev­i­dence for or against an in­di­vid­ual, a planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse is pre­sented and in­ter­preted by the Cen­sors. The de­fense of the chil­dren of time and the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets is of­fered by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment to the lo­cal uni­verses and sys­tems. The at­ti­tude of the higher gov­ern­ment is por­trayed by Those High in Au­thor­ity. And or­di­nar­ily the ver­dict is for­mu­lated by a vary­ing-sized com­mis­sion con­sist­ing equally of Those with­out Name and Num­ber and a group of un­der­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties cho­sen from the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly.

• on major sectors

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.

• with associates and co-ordinates, constitute highest mobile advisory body

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.

• train Celestial Recorders on Uversa

25:6.1These are the re­cord­ers who ex­e­cute all rec­ords in du­pli­cate, mak­ing an orig­i­nal spirit record­ing and a semi­ma­te­rial coun­ter­part—what might be called a car­bon copy. This they can do be­cause of their pe­cu­liar abil­ity si­mul­ta­ne­ously to ma­nip­u­late both spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial en­ergy. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers are not cre­ated as such; they are as­cen­dant ser­a­phim from the lo­cal uni­verses. They are re­ceived, clas­si­fied, and as­signed to their spheres of work by the coun­cils of the Chiefs of Rec­ords on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. There also are lo­cated the schools for train­ing Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers. The school on Uversa is con­ducted by the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and the Di­vine Coun­selors.

• as Most High Assistants

37:4.2From time to time we thus ben­e­fit from the min­istry and as­sis­tance of such Par­a­dise-ori­gin be­ings as Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Trin­i­tized Sons, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, ter­tiaphim, and other gra­cious min­is­ters, who so­journ with us for the pur­pose of help­ing our na­tive per­son­al­i­ties in the ef­fort to bring all Neb­a­don into fuller har­mony with the ideas of Or­von­ton and the ide­als of Par­a­dise.

28:3.1The sec­o­raphic hosts are pro­duced by the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its as­signed to the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. There is a def­i­nite Par­a­dise-re­spon­sive tech­nique as­so­ci­ated with the cre­ation of these an­gels in groups of seven. In each seven there are al­ways one pri­mary, three sec­ondary, and three ter­tiary se­con­a­phim; they al­ways per­son­al­ize in this ex­act pro­por­tion. When seven such se­con­a­phim are cre­ated, one, the pri­mary, be­comes at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. The three sec­ondary an­gels are as­so­ci­ated with three groups of Par­a­dise-ori­gin ad­min­is­tra­tors in the super­gov­ern­ments: the Di­vine Coun­selors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The three ter­tiary an­gels are at­tached to the as­cen­dant trin­i­tized as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse rulers: the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

28:5.3To the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom—the Voices of Wis­dom, the Souls of Phi­los­o­phy, and the Unions of Souls.

28:5.71. The Voice of Wis­dom. Cer­tain of these se­con­a­phim are in per­pet­ual li­ai­son with the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge be­long­ing to the pri­mary super­na­phim. In spe­cial­ized re­flec­tive ser­vice the Voices of Wis­dom are liv­ing, cur­rent, re­plete, and thor­oughly re­li­able con­cen­tra­tions and fo­cal­iza­tions of the co-or­di­nated wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses. To the well-nigh in­fi­nite vol­ume of in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing on the mas­ter cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses, these su­perb be­ings are so re­flec­tive and se­lec­tive, so sen­si­tive, as to be able to seg­re­gate and re­ceive the essence of wis­dom and unerringly to trans­mit these jew­els of men­ta­tion to their su­pe­ri­ors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom. And they so func­tion that the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom not only hear the ac­tual and orig­i­nal ex­pres­sions of this wis­dom but also re­flec­tively see the very be­ings, of high or lowly ori­gin, who gave voice to it.

28:5.112. The Soul of Phi­los­o­phy. These won­der­ful teach­ers are also at­tached to the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and, when not oth­er­wise di­rec­tion­ized, re­main in fo­cal syn­chrony with the mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy on Par­a­dise. Think of step­ping up to a huge liv­ing mir­ror, as it were, but in­stead of be­hold­ing the like­ness of your fi­nite and ma­te­rial self, of per­ceiv­ing a re­flec­tion of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity and the phi­los­o­phy of Par­a­dise. And if it be­comes de­sir­able to “in­car­nate” this phi­los­o­phy of per­fec­tion, so to di­lute it as to make it prac­ti­cal of ap­pli­ca­tion to, and as­sim­i­la­tion by, the lowly peo­ples of the lower worlds, these liv­ing mir­rors have only to turn their faces down­ward to re­flect the stan­dards and needs of an­other world or uni­verse.

28:5.12By these very tech­niques do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom adapt de­ci­sions and rec­om­men­da­tions to the real needs and ac­tual sta­tus of the peo­ples and worlds un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, and al­ways do they act in con­cert with the Di­vine Coun­selors and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. But the sub­lime re­plete­ness of these trans­ac­tions is be­yond even my abil­ity to com­pre­hend.

28:5.133. The Union of Souls. Com­plet­ing the tri­une staff of at­tach­ment to the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, are these re­flec­tors of the ide­als and sta­tus of eth­i­cal re­la­tion­ships. Of all the prob­lems in the uni­verse re­quir­ing an ex­er­cise of the con­sum­mate wis­dom of ex­pe­ri­ence and adapt­abil­ity, none are more im­por­tant than those aris­ing out of the re­la­tion­ships and as­so­ci­a­tions of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. Whether in hu­man as­so­ci­a­tions of com­merce and trade, friend­ship and mar­riage, or in the li­aisons of the an­gelic hosts, there con­tinue to arise petty fric­tions, mi­nor mis­un­der­stand­ings too triv­ial even to en­gage the at­ten­tion of con­cil­ia­tors but suf­fi­ciently ir­ri­tat­ing and dis­turb­ing to mar the smooth work­ing of the uni­verse if they were al­lowed to mul­ti­ply and con­tinue. There­fore do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom make avail­able the wise ex­pe­ri­ence of their or­der as the “oil of rec­on­cil­i­a­tion” for an en­tire super­uni­verse. In all this work these wise men of the super­uni­verses are ably sec­onded by their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates, the Unions of Souls, who make avail­able cur­rent in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the uni­verse and con­cur­rently por­tray the Par­a­dise ideal of the best ad­just­ment of these per­plex­ing prob­lems. When not specif­i­cally di­rec­tion­ized else­where, these se­con­a­phim re­main in re­flec­tive li­ai­son with the in­ter­preters of ethics on Par­a­dise.

28:5.14These are the an­gels who fos­ter and pro­mote the team­work of all Or­von­ton. One of the most im­por­tant lessons to be learned dur­ing your mor­tal ca­reer is team­work. The spheres of per­fec­tion are manned by those who have mas­tered this art of work­ing with other be­ings. Few are the du­ties in the uni­verse for the lone ser­vant. The higher you as­cend, the more lonely you be­come when tem­porar­ily with­out the as­so­ci­a­tion of your fel­lows.

11:9.9[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

12:9.7[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom act­ing by au­thor­ity of the An­cients of Days.]

13:4.8[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

14:6.42[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

20:10.5[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]

21:6.5[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]

26:11.9[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]

27:7.11[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]