Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 18
THE SUPREME TRINITY PERSONALITIES
1.Supreme Trinity Personalities are all created for specific service ... There are seven orders of the Supreme Trinity Personalities:
1. Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy.
2. Eternals of Days.
3. Ancients of Days.
4. Perfections of Days.
5. Recents of Days.
6. Unions of Days.
7. Faithfuls of Days.
All Trinity‑origin beings are created in Paradise perfection in all their divine attributes ... There is never any danger of default or risk of rebellion with Trinity-origin beings. They are of divinity essence, and they have never been known to depart from the divine and perfect path of personality conduct.
2.There are seven worlds in the innermost circuit of the Paradise satellites, and each of these exalted worlds is presided over by a corps of ten Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy ... I can reveal very little about the work of these high personalities on the seven sacred worlds of the Father, for they are truly the Secrets of Supremacy ... Since the work of these supreme directors has to do with the intimate and personal contact of the Deities with these seven basic groupings of universe beings when domiciled on these seven special worlds or while functioning throughout the grand universe, it is fitting that these very personal relations and extraordinary contacts should be held sacredly secret.
3.Each of the billion ‑worlds of Havona is directed by a Supreme Trinity Personality. These rulers are known as the Eternals of Days...The Eternals of Days are visible to all will creatures dwelling in their domains ... the resident Eternals of Days have developed their respective spheres entirely in accordance with their own personal ideas and ideals ... And you will each spend a longer or shorter time on each of these unique and thrilling spheres on your way inward through Havona to Paradise.
4.The Ancients of Days are all basically identical; they disclose the combined character and unified nature of the Trinity. They possess individuality and are in personality diverse, but they do not differ from each other as do the Seven Master Spirits ... The Ancients of Days were all trinitized at the same time. They represent the beginning of the personality records of the universe of universes, hence their name ‑ Ancients of Days ... These high beings always govern in groups of three ... The personal abodes of each trio of the Ancients of Days are located at the point of spiritual polarity on their headquarters sphere.
5.In power, scope of authority, and extent of jurisdiction the Ancients of Days are the most powerful and mighty of any of the direct rulers of the time‑space creations... but they have not experientially earned this right to rule and are therefore destined sometime to be superseded by the Supreme Being, an experiential sovereign, whose vicegerents they will undoubtedly become.
6.Three Perfections of Days are assigned to each major sector capital...These triune rulers of the major sectors are peculiarly perfect in the mastery of administrative details, hence their name ‑ Perfections of Days. In recording the names of these beings of the spiritual world, we are confronted with the problem of translating into your tongue, and very often it is exceedingly difficult to render a satisfactory translation. We dislike to use arbitrary designations which would be meaningless to you; hence we often find it difficult to choose a suitable name, one which will be clear to you and at the same time be somewhat representative of the original.
7.Although you are entered only upon the registry of the major sector of Splandon, which embraces the local universe of your origin, you will have to pass through every one of the ten major divisions of our superuniverse. You will see all thirty of the Orvonton Perfections of Days before you reach Uversa.
8. The Recents of Days are the youngest of the supreme directors of the superuniverse; in groups of three they preside over the affairs of the minor sectors ... Since 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 ... But at least one of these rulers always remains on duty at the headquarters of a minor sector... In ascending to Uversa, you will pass through only one group of minor sector training spheres.
9. The Unions of Days are a group of liaison personalities accredited by the Paradise Trinity to the dual rulers of the local universes... In a special manner these Trinity observers co‑ordinate the administrative activities of all branches of the universal government ... hence their name ‑ Unions of Days ... Since 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.
10. A 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.
11.All 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 ... They do not have a far‑flung system of intercommunication, being ordinarily self‑limited to an interassociation within the limits of a local universe.
12. The 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.
Discussion Questions
1. Human beings often have negative attitudes toward secrecy and mystery; how do we develop a positive attitude toward these universe realities?
2. Why do you think the worlds of Havona have only one Eternal of Days while the superuniverses have three Ancients of Days?
3. Why do you suppose that we are educated in all ten of the major divisions of our superuniverse but only in one of the divisions of the minor sector?
4. Human beings have a tendency to link symbols and reality. How can we guard against the dangers of distorting reality when given somewhat arbitrary symbols in the Urantia Synopsis of Papers that are beyond our experiential comprehension?
5. Why are there no Supreme Trinity advisors stationed on the System headquarters? Where could we organize a better advisory system in our contemporary society?
6. The Recents of Days are seldom together on the capitol sphere of the minor sector. Does this suggest there are numerous physical problems in the superuniverse?
7. Why do you think the Faithful of Days are self-limited in communication to the local universe?
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