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Unions of Days

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

15:10.163. Unions of Days—the Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers to the rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses.

15:13.6The ad­min­is­tra­tors of the mi­nor sec­tor gov­ern­ments are un­der the im­me­di­ate ju­ris­dic­tion of the ma­jor sec­tor rulers. The Re­cents of Days re­ceive all re­ports of ob­ser­va­tions and co-or­di­nate all rec­om­men­da­tions which come up to a super­uni­verse from the Unions of Days who are sta­tioned as Trin­ity ob­servers and ad­vis­ers on the head­quar­ters spheres of the lo­cal uni­verses and from the Faith­fuls of Days who are sim­i­larly at­tached to the coun­cils of the Most Highs at the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions. All such re­ports are trans­mit­ted to the Per­fec­tions of Days on the ma­jor sec­tors, sub­se­quently to be passed on to the courts of the An­cients of Days. Thus the Trin­ity regime ex­tends from the con­stel­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verses up to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. The lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters do not have Trin­ity rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

18:0.76. Unions of Days.

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.

18:7.3All 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.

21:1.4I do not know the ex­act num­ber of Cre­ator Sons in ex­is­tence, but I have good rea­sons for be­liev­ing that there are more than seven hun­dred thou­sand. Now, we know that there are ex­actly seven hun­dred thou­sand Unions of Days and no more are be­ing cre­ated. We also ob­serve that the or­dained plans of the pres­ent uni­verse age seem to in­di­cate that one Union of Days is to be sta­tioned in each lo­cal uni­verse as the coun­sel­ing am­bas­sador of the Trin­ity. We note fur­ther that the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of Cre­ator Sons al­ready ex­ceeds the sta­tion­ary num­ber of the Unions of Days. But con­cern­ing the des­tiny of the Mi­cha­els be­yond seven hun­dred thou­sand, we have never been in­formed.

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

23:2.184. Mes­sen­gers of the Lo­cal Uni­verses. In the ser­vices of a lo­cal uni­verse there is no limit upon the func­tion­ing of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. They are the faith­ful re­veal­ers of the mo­tives and in­tent of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, al­though they are un­der the full ju­ris­dic­tion of the reign­ing Mas­ter Son. And this is true of all mes­sen­gers op­er­at­ing in a lo­cal uni­verse, whether they are trav­el­ing out di­rectly from uni­verse head­quar­ters, or whether they are act­ing tem­porar­ily in li­ai­son with Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, or Plan­e­tary Princes. Be­fore the con­cen­tra­tion of all power in the hands of a Cre­ator Son at the time of his el­e­va­tion as sov­er­eign ruler of his uni­verse, these mes­sen­gers of the lo­cal uni­verses func­tion un­der the gen­eral di­rec­tion of the An­cients of Days and are im­me­di­ately re­spon­si­ble to their res­i­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tive, the Union of Days.

24:4.2As­so­ciate In­spec­tors work un­der the di­rect super­vi­sion of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, be­ing their per­sonal and pow­er­ful rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. An in­spec­tor is sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters sphere of each lo­cal cre­ation and is a close as­so­ciate of the res­i­dent Union of Days.

30:1.136. Unions of Days.

30:2.286. Unions of Days.

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.

37:4.3Any of these be­ings may be vol­un­tar­ily serv­ing in Neb­a­don and hence be tech­ni­cally out­side our ju­ris­dic­tion, but when func­tion­ing by as­sign­ment, such per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses are not wholly ex­empt from the reg­u­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of their so­journ, though they con­tinue to func­tion as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the higher uni­verses and to work in ac­cor­dance with the in­struc­tions which con­sti­tute their mis­sion in our realm. Their gen­eral head­quar­ters is sit­u­ated in the Sal­ving­ton sec­tor of the Union of Days, and they op­er­ate in Neb­a­don sub­ject to the over­super­vi­sion of this am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. When serv­ing in un­at­tached groups, these per­son­al­i­ties from the higher realms are usu­ally self-di­rect­ing, but when serv­ing on re­quest, they of­ten vol­un­tar­ily place them­selves wholly un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the super­vis­ing di­rec­tors of the realms of as­signed func­tion.

43:4.2This Faith­ful of Days is a Trin­ity Son of Par­a­dise and has been pres­ent on Eden­tia as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Im­manuel since the cre­ation of the head­quar­ters world. Ever the Faith­ful of Days stands at the right hand of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers to coun­sel them, but never does he prof­fer ad­vice un­less it is asked for. The high Sons of Par­a­dise never par­tic­i­pate in the con­duct of the af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse ex­cept upon the pe­ti­tion of the act­ing rulers of such do­mains. But all that a Union of Days is to a Cre­ator Son, a Faith­ful of Days is to the Most Highs of a con­stel­la­tion.

54:5.87. It is ev­i­dent that Im­manuel coun­seled Mi­chael to re­main aloof from the rebels and al­low re­bel­lion to pur­sue a nat­u­ral course of self-oblit­er­a­tion. And the wis­dom of the Union of Days is the time re­flec­tion of the united wis­dom of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

55:10.3The As­so­ciate In­spec­tor now mo­bi­lizes all As­signed Sen­tinels to con­sti­tute the sta­bi­liza­tion corps of the lo­cal uni­verse and asks the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek to share its super­vi­sion with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Union of Days.

120:0.7In this con­nec­tion it should be borne in mind that Mi­chael had elected to ex­e­cute this be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, sub­ject to the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. The Cre­ator Son re­quired in­struc­tions from no one in or­der to ef­fect this in­car­na­tion for the sole pur­pose of achiev­ing uni­verse sov­er­eignty, but he had em­barked upon a pro­gram of the rev­e­la­tion of the Su­preme which in­volved co-op­er­a­tive func­tion­ing with the di­verse wills of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Thus his sov­er­eignty, when fi­nally and per­son­ally ac­quired, would ac­tu­ally be all-in­clu­sive of the sev­en­fold will of De­ity as it cul­mi­nates in the Su­preme. He had, there­fore, six times pre­vi­ously been in­structed by the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the var­i­ous Par­a­dise De­i­ties and as­so­ci­a­tions thereof; and now he was in­structed by the Union of Days, am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don, act­ing on be­half of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

Onward

See also Immanuel

Cited alongside: Creator Sons, Faithfuls of Days, Immanuel, advice, Associate Inspectors, local universe Mother Spirits, local universes, Paradise Trinity