Recents of Days

18:5.1The Re­cents of Days are the young­est of the su­preme di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verses; in groups of three they pre­side over the af­fairs of the mi­nor sec­tors. In na­ture they are co-or­di­nate with the Per­fec­tions of Days, but in ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity they are sub­or­di­nate. There are just twenty-one thou­sand of these per­son­ally glo­ri­ous and di­vinely ef­fi­cient Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties. They were cre­ated si­mul­ta­ne­ously, and to­gether they passed through their Ha­vona train­ing un­der the Eter­nals of Days.

18:5.2The Re­cents of Days have a corps of as­so­ciates and as­sis­tants sim­i­lar to that of the Per­fec­tions of Days. In ad­di­tion they have as­signed to them enor­mous num­bers of the var­i­ous sub­or­di­nate or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings. In the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the mi­nor sec­tors they uti­lize large num­bers of the res­i­dent as­cend­ing mor­tals, the per­son­nel of the var­i­ous cour­tesy colonies, and the var­i­ous groups orig­i­nat­ing in the In­fi­nite Spirit.

18:5.3The gov­ern­ments of the mi­nor sec­tors are very largely, though not ex­clu­sively, con­cerned with the great phys­i­cal prob­lems of the super­uni­verses. The mi­nor sec­tor spheres are the head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. On these worlds as­cend­ing mor­tals carry on stud­ies and ex­per­i­ments hav­ing to do with an ex­am­i­na­tion of the ac­tiv­i­ties of the third or­der of the Su­preme Power Cen­ters and of all seven or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

18:5.4Since the regime of a mi­nor sec­tor is so ex­ten­sively con­cerned with phys­i­cal prob­lems, its three Re­cents of Days are sel­dom to­gether on the cap­i­tal sphere. Most of the time one is away in con­fer­ence with the Per­fec­tions of Days of the super­vis­ing ma­jor sec­tor or ab­sent while rep­re­sent­ing the An­cients of Days at the Par­a­dise con­claves of the high Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings. They al­ter­nate with the Per­fec­tions of Days in rep­re­sent­ing the An­cients of Days at the su­preme coun­cils on Par­a­dise. Mean­while, an­other Re­cent of Days may be away on a tour of in­spec­tion of the head­quar­ters worlds of the lo­cal uni­verses be­long­ing to his ju­ris­dic­tion. But at least one of these rulers al­ways re­mains on duty at the head­quar­ters of a mi­nor sec­tor.

18:5.5You will all some­time know the three Re­cents of Days in charge of Ensa, your mi­nor sec­tor, since you must pass through their hands on your way in­ward to the train­ing worlds of the ma­jor sec­tors. In as­cend­ing to Uversa, you will pass through only one group of mi­nor sec­tor train­ing spheres.

15:10.152. Re­cents of Days—the di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verse mi­nor sec­tors.

15:13.4The mi­nor sec­tor gov­ern­ments are pre­sided over by three Re­cents of Days. Their ad­min­is­tra­tion is con­cerned mainly with the phys­i­cal con­trol, uni­fi­ca­tion, sta­bi­liza­tion, and rou­tine co-or­di­na­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses. Each mi­nor sec­tor em­braces as many as one hun­dred lo­cal uni­verses, ten thou­sand con­stel­la­tions, one mil­lion sys­tems, or about one bil­lion in­hab­it­able worlds.

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.

30:1.125. Re­cents of Days.

30:2.275. Re­cents of Days.

18:0.65. Re­cents of Days.

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.