Stationary Sons of the Trinity

10:6.1All law takes ori­gin in the First Source and Cen­ter; he is law. The ad­min­is­tra­tion of spir­i­tual law in­heres in the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. The rev­e­la­tion of law, the pro­mul­ga­tion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the di­vine statutes, is the func­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter. The ap­pli­ca­tion of law, jus­tice, falls within the prov­ince of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and is car­ried out by cer­tain Sons of the Trin­ity.

10:6.2Jus­tice is in­her­ent in the uni­ver­sal sov­er­eignty of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but good­ness, mercy, and truth are the uni­verse min­istry of the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties, whose De­ity union con­sti­tutes the Trin­ity. Jus­tice is not the at­ti­tude of the Fa­ther, the Son, or the Spirit. Jus­tice is the Trin­ity at­ti­tude of these per­son­al­i­ties of love, mercy, and min­istry. No one of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties fos­ters the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice. Jus­tice is never a per­sonal at­ti­tude; it is al­ways a plu­ral func­tion.

10:6.3Ev­i­dence, the ba­sis of fair­ness (jus­tice in har­mony with mercy), is sup­plied by the per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the con­joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son to all realms and to the minds of the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of all cre­ation.

10:6.4Judg­ment, the fi­nal ap­pli­ca­tion of jus­tice in ac­cor­dance with the ev­i­dence sub­mit­ted by the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit, is the work of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, be­ings par­tak­ing of the Trin­ity na­ture of the united Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

10:6.5This group of Trin­ity Sons em­braces the fol­low­ing per­son­al­i­ties:

10:6.61. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

10:6.72. Eter­nals of Days.

10:6.83. An­cients of Days.

10:6.94. Per­fec­tions of Days.

10:6.105. Re­cents of Days.

10:6.116. Unions of Days.

10:6.127. Faith­fuls of Days.

10:6.138. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

10:6.149. Di­vine Coun­selors.

10:6.1510. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

10:6.16We are the chil­dren of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties func­tion­ing as the Trin­ity, for I chance to be­long to the tenth or­der of this group, the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. These or­ders are not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the at­ti­tude of the Trin­ity in a uni­ver­sal sense; they rep­re­sent this col­lec­tive at­ti­tude of De­ity only in the do­mains of ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment—jus­tice. They were specif­i­cally de­signed by the Trin­ity for the pre­cise work to which they are as­signed, and they rep­re­sent the Trin­ity only in those func­tions for which they were per­son­al­ized.

10:6.17The An­cients of Days and their Trin­ity-ori­gin as­so­ciates mete out the just judg­ment of su­preme fair­ness to the seven super­uni­verses. In the cen­tral uni­verse such func­tions ex­ist in the­ory only; there fair­ness is self-ev­i­dent in per­fec­tion, and Ha­vona per­fec­tion pre­cludes all pos­si­bil­ity of dishar­mony.

10:6.18Jus­tice is the col­lec­tive thought of righ­teous­ness; mercy is its per­sonal ex­pres­sion. Mercy is the at­ti­tude of love; pre­ci­sion char­ac­ter­izes the op­er­a­tion of law; di­vine judg­ment is the soul of fair­ness, ever con­form­ing to the jus­tice of the Trin­ity, ever ful­fill­ing the di­vine love of God. When fully per­ceived and com­pletely un­der­stood, the righ­teous jus­tice of the Trin­ity and the mer­ci­ful love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther are co­in­ci­dent. But man has no such full un­der­stand­ing of di­vine jus­tice. Thus in the Trin­ity, as man would view it, the per­son­al­i­ties of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are ad­justed to co-or­di­nate min­istry of love and law in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses of time.

33:5.1The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties ends with the gov­ern­ment of the super­uni­verses. The lo­cal uni­verses are char­ac­ter­ized by dual super­vi­sion, the be­gin­ning of the fa­ther-mother con­cept. The uni­verse fa­ther is the Cre­ator Son; the uni­verse mother is the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit. Ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, how­ever, blessed with the pres­ence of cer­tain per­son­al­i­ties from the cen­tral uni­verse and Par­a­dise. At the head of this Par­a­dise group in Neb­a­don is the am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity—Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton—the Union of Days as­signed to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. In a cer­tain sense this high Trin­ity Son is also the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the court of the Cre­ator Son; hence his name, Im­manuel.

33:5.2Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, num­ber 611,121 of the sixth or­der of Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, is a be­ing of sub­lime dig­nity and of such su­perb con­de­scen­sion that he re­fuses the wor­ship and ado­ra­tion of all liv­ing crea­tures. He bears the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the only per­son­al­ity in all Neb­a­don who has never ac­knowl­edged sub­or­di­na­tion to his brother Mi­chael. He func­tions as ad­viser to the Sov­er­eign Son but gives coun­sel only on re­quest. In the ab­sence of the Cre­ator Son he might pre­side over any high uni­verse coun­cil but would not oth­er­wise par­tic­i­pate in the ex­ec­u­tive af­fairs of the uni­verse ex­cept as re­quested.

33:5.3This am­bas­sador of Par­a­dise to Neb­a­don is not sub­ject to the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment. Nei­ther does he ex­er­cise au­thor­i­ta­tive ju­ris­dic­tion in the ex­ec­u­tive af­fairs of an evolv­ing lo­cal uni­verse ex­cept in the super­vi­sion of his li­ai­son breth­ren, the Faith­fuls of Days, serv­ing on the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions.

33:5.4The Faith­fuls of Days, like the Union of Days, never prof­fer ad­vice or of­fer as­sis­tance to the con­stel­la­tion rulers un­less it is asked for. These Par­a­dise am­bas­sadors to the con­stel­la­tions rep­re­sent the fi­nal per­sonal pres­ence of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity func­tion­ing in ad­vi­sory roles in the lo­cal uni­verses. Con­stel­la­tions are more closely re­lated to the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion than lo­cal sys­tems, which are ad­min­is­tered ex­clu­sively by per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verse.

19:4.8Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, to­gether with the seven or­ders of Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, con­sti­tute those ten groups which have been some­times des­ig­nated Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. To­gether they com­prise the grand corps of Trin­ity ad­min­is­tra­tors, rulers, ex­ec­u­tives, ad­vis­ers, coun­selors, and judges. Their num­bers slightly ex­ceed thirty-seven bil­lion. Two bil­lion and sev­enty are sta­tioned in the cen­tral uni­verse and just over five bil­lion in each super­uni­verse.

19:1.2While the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity are of com­pleted num­bers, the Teacher Sons are con­stantly in­creas­ing. What the fi­nal num­ber of Teacher Sons will be I do not know. I can, how­ever, state that, at the last pe­ri­odic re­port to Uversa, the Par­a­dise rec­ords in­di­cated 21,001,624,821 of these Sons in ser­vice.

30:1.7B. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity.

30:1.81. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

30:1.92. Eter­nals of Days.

30:1.103. An­cients of Days.

30:1.114. Per­fec­tions of Days.

30:1.125. Re­cents of Days.

30:1.136. Unions of Days.

30:1.147. Faith­fuls of Days.

30:1.158. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

30:1.169. Di­vine Coun­selors.

30:1.1710. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

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.

19:3.1These Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings are the coun­sel of De­ity to the realms of the seven super­uni­verses. They are not re­flec­tive of the di­vine coun­sel of the Trin­ity; they are that coun­sel. There are twenty-one bil­lion Coun­selors in ser­vice, and three bil­lion are as­signed to each super­uni­verse.

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.

19:3.3We act as in­di­vid­u­als, as I do in in­dit­ing this state­ment, but we also func­tion as a trio when­ever the oc­ca­sion re­quires. When we act in an ex­ec­u­tive ca­pac­ity, al­ways there are as­so­ci­ated to­gether a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor, and from one to seven Di­vine Coun­selors.

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.

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.

19:4.2One Cen­sor is com­mis­sioned on each of the bil­lion worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse, be­ing at­tached to the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion of the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days. Nei­ther Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom nor Di­vine Coun­selors are thus per­ma­nently at­tached to the Ha­vona ad­min­is­tra­tions, nor do we al­to­gether un­der­stand why Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are sta­tioned in the cen­tral uni­verse. Their pres­ent ac­tiv­i­ties hardly ac­count for their as­sign­ment in Ha­vona, and we there­fore sus­pect that they are there in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the needs of some fu­ture uni­verse age in which the Ha­vona pop­u­la­tion may par­tially change.

19:4.3One bil­lion Cen­sors are as­signed to each of the seven super­uni­verses. Both in an in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­ity and in as­so­ci­a­tion with Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and Di­vine Coun­selors, they op­er­ate through­out all di­vi­sions of the seven super­uni­verses. Thus the Cen­sors act on all lev­els of the grand uni­verse, from the per­fect worlds of Ha­vona to the coun­cils of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and they are an or­ganic part of all dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

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.”

19:4.5The Cen­sors are uni­verse to­tal­ing per­son­al­i­ties. When a thou­sand wit­nesses have given tes­ti­mony—or a mil­lion—when the voice of wis­dom has spo­ken and the coun­sel of di­vin­ity has re­corded, when the tes­ti­mony of as­cen­dant per­fec­tion has been added, then the Cen­sor func­tions, and there is im­me­di­ately re­vealed an unerring and di­vine to­tal­ing of all that has tran­spired; and such a dis­clo­sure rep­re­sents the di­vine con­clu­sion, the sum and sub­stance of a fi­nal and per­fect de­ci­sion. There­fore, when a Cen­sor has spo­ken, no one else may speak, for the Cen­sor has de­picted the true and un­mis­tak­able to­tal of all that has gone be­fore. When he speaks, there is no ap­peal.

19:4.6Most fully do I un­der­stand the op­er­a­tion of the mind of a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, but I cer­tainly do not fully com­pre­hend the work­ing of the ad­ju­di­cat­ing mind of a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor. It ap­pears to me that the Cen­sors for­mu­late new mean­ings and orig­i­nate new val­ues from the as­so­ci­a­tion of the facts, truths, and find­ings pre­sented to them in the course of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion of uni­verse af­fairs. It seems prob­a­ble that the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are able to bring forth orig­i­nal in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the com­bi­na­tion of per­fect Cre­ator in­sight and the per­fected crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. This as­so­ci­a­tion of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion and uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence un­doubt­edly even­tu­ates a new value in ul­ti­mates.

19:4.7But this is not the end of our dif­fi­cul­ties re­gard­ing the work­ing of the minds of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. Hav­ing made due al­lowances for all that we know or con­jec­ture about the func­tion­ing of a Cen­sor in any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion, we find that we are still un­able to pre­dict de­ci­sions or to fore­cast ver­dicts. We very ac­cu­rately de­ter­mine the prob­a­ble re­sult of the as­so­ci­a­tion of Cre­ator at­ti­tude and crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, but such con­clu­sions are not al­ways ac­cu­rate fore­casts of Cen­sor dis­clo­sures. It seems likely that the Cen­sors are in some man­ner in li­ai­son with the De­ity Ab­so­lute; we are oth­er­wise un­able to ex­plain many of their de­ci­sions and rul­ings.

19:4.9It is very dif­fi­cult to por­tray the func­tional lim­its of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. It would be in­cor­rect to state that their acts are fi­nite lim­ited, for there are trans­ac­tions of super­uni­verse rec­ord which in­di­cate oth­er­wise. They act on any level of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion or ad­ju­di­ca­tion that may be re­quired by time-space con­di­tions and that per­tains to the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse.

10:0.2The Par­a­dise Trin­ity ef­fec­tively pro­vides for the full ex­pres­sion and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal na­ture of De­ity. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity like­wise af­ford a full and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of di­vine jus­tice. The Trin­ity is De­ity unity, and this unity rests eter­nally upon the ab­so­lute foun­da­tions of the di­vine one­ness of the three orig­i­nal and co-or­di­nate and co­ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

22:4.5In ad­di­tion to these ex­pe­ri­en­tial qual­i­fi­ca­tions, the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment have been trin­i­tized in the di­vine em­brace of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Con­se­quently they func­tion as the co-or­di­nate as­so­ciates of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, for the Trin­ity em­brace does seem to pre­cip­i­tate out of the stream of fu­ture time many of the un­re­al­ized po­ten­tials of crea­ture be­ings. But this is true con­cern­ing only that which per­tains to the pres­ent uni­verse age.