Trinity ambassadors

18:6.1The Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Days” do not func­tion in an ad­min­is­tra­tive ca­pac­ity be­low the level of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. In the evolv­ing lo­cal uni­verses they act only as coun­selors and ad­vis­ers. The Unions of Days are a group of li­ai­son per­son­al­i­ties ac­cred­ited by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to the dual rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses. Each or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited lo­cal uni­verse has as­signed to it one of these Par­a­dise coun­selors, who acts as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Trin­ity, and in some re­spects, of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, to the lo­cal cre­ation.

18:6.2There are seven hun­dred thou­sand of these be­ings in ex­is­tence, though they have not all been com­mis­sioned. The re­serve corps of the Unions of Days func­tions on Par­a­dise as the Su­preme Coun­cil of Uni­verse Ad­just­ments.

18:6.3In a spe­cial man­ner these Trin­ity ob­servers co-or­di­nate the ad­min­is­tra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties of all branches of the uni­ver­sal gov­ern­ment, from those of the lo­cal uni­verses up through the sec­tor gov­ern­ments to those of the super­uni­verse, hence their name—Unions of Days. They make a three­fold re­port to their su­pe­ri­ors: They re­port per­ti­nent data of a phys­i­cal and semi-in­tel­lec­tual na­ture to the Re­cents of Days of their mi­nor sec­tor; they re­port in­tel­lec­tual and quasi-spir­i­tual hap­pen­ings to the Per­fec­tions of Days of their ma­jor sec­tor; they re­port spir­i­tual and semi­par­a­disi­a­cal mat­ters to the An­cients of Days at the cap­i­tal of their super­uni­verse.

18:6.4Since they are Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings, all of the Par­a­dise cir­cuits are avail­able to them for in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and thus are they al­ways in touch with each other and with all other re­quired per­son­al­i­ties up to the su­preme coun­cils of Par­a­dise.

18:6.5A Union of Days is not or­gan­i­cally con­nected with the gov­ern­ment of the lo­cal uni­verse of his as­sign­ment. Aside from his du­ties as an ob­server, he acts only at the re­quest of the lo­cal au­thor­i­ties. He is an ex of­fi­cio mem­ber of all pri­mary coun­cils and all im­por­tant con­claves of the lo­cal cre­ation, but he does not par­tic­i­pate in the tech­ni­cal con­sid­er­a­tion of ad­min­is­tra­tive prob­lems.

18:6.6When a lo­cal uni­verse is set­tled in light and life, its glo­ri­fied be­ings as­so­ciate freely with the Union of Days, who then func­tions in an en­larged ca­pac­ity in such a realm of evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion. But he is still pri­mar­ily a Trin­ity am­bas­sador and Par­a­dise coun­selor.

18:6.7A lo­cal uni­verse is di­rectly ruled by a di­vine Son of dual De­ity ori­gin, but he has con­stantly by his side a Par­a­dise brother, a Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­ity. In the event of the tem­po­rary ab­sence of a Cre­ator Son from the head­quar­ters of his lo­cal uni­verse, the act­ing rulers are largely guided in their ma­jor de­ci­sions by the coun­sel of their Union of Days.

18:7.1These high Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties are the Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers to the rulers of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions in each lo­cal uni­verse. There are sev­enty mil­lion Faith­fuls of Days, and like the Unions of Days, not all are in ser­vice. Their Par­a­dise re­serve corps is the Ad­vi­sory Com­mis­sion of In­teruni­verse Ethics and Self-gov­ern­ment. Faith­fuls of Days ro­tate in ser­vice in ac­cor­dance with the rul­ings of the su­preme coun­cil of their re­serve corps.

18:7.2All that a Union of Days is to a Cre­ator Son of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Faith­fuls of Days are to the Vo­ron­da­dek Sons who rule the con­stel­la­tions of that lo­cal cre­ation. They are su­premely de­voted and di­vinely faith­ful to the wel­fare of their con­stel­la­tions of as­sign­ment, hence the name—Faith­fuls of Days. They act only as coun­selors; never do they par­tic­i­pate in ad­min­is­tra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties ex­cept upon the in­vi­ta­tion of the con­stel­la­tion au­thor­i­ties. Nei­ther are they di­rectly con­cerned in the ed­u­ca­tional min­istry to the pil­grims of as­cen­sion on the ar­chi­tec­tural train­ing spheres sur­round­ing a con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters. All such un­der­tak­ings are un­der the super­vi­sion of the Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

18:7.3All Faith­fuls of Days func­tion­ing in the con­stel­la­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse are un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of, and re­port di­rectly to, the Union of Days. They do not have a far-flung sys­tem of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, be­ing or­di­nar­ily self-lim­ited to an in­teras­so­ci­a­tion within the lim­its of a lo­cal uni­verse. Any Faith­ful of Days on duty in Neb­a­don can and does com­mu­ni­cate with all oth­ers of his or­der on duty in this lo­cal uni­verse.

18:7.4Like the Union of Days on a uni­verse head­quar­ters, the Faith­fuls of Days main­tain their per­sonal res­i­dences on the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tals sep­a­rate from those of the ad­min­is­tra­tive di­rec­tors of such realms. Their abodes are in­deed mod­est in com­par­i­son with the homes of the Vo­ron­da­dek rulers of the con­stel­la­tions.

18:7.5The Faith­fuls of Days are the last link in the long ad­min­is­tra­tive-ad­vi­sory chain which reaches from the sa­cred spheres of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther near the cen­ter of all things to the pri­mary di­vi­sions of the lo­cal uni­verses. The Trin­ity-ori­gin regime stops with the con­stel­la­tions; no such Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers are per­ma­nently sit­u­ated on their com­po­nent sys­tems or on the in­hab­ited worlds. These lat­ter ad­min­is­tra­tive units are wholly un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of be­ings na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses.

18:7.6[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]

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.