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[|Ancients of Days]


[|Books and music titled Ancient of Days] == Urantia Text [|Paper 18]:[|3. THE ANCIENTS OF DAYS] ==

18:3.1 When [|mortals] of [|time] [|graduate] from the [|training] worlds surrounding the [|headquarters] of a [|local universe] and are advanced to the [|educational] spheres of their [|superuniverse], they have progressed in spiritual [|development] to that point where they are able to [|recognize] and [|communicate] with the high spiritual rulers and directors of these advanced realms, including the [|Ancients of Days].

18:3.2 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]. They provide the [|uniform] directorship of the otherwise differing [|seven superuniverses], each of which is a distinct, segregated, and [|unique] [|creation]. The Seven Master Spirits are unlike in [|nature] and [|attributes], but the Ancients of Days, the personal rulers of the [|superuniverses], are all [|uniform] and superperfect offspring of the [|Paradise Trinity].

18:3.3 The [|Seven Master Spirits] on high determine the [|nature] of their respective [|superuniverses], but the [|Ancients of Days] dictate the [|administration] of these same superuniverses. They superimpose administrative [|uniformity] on [|creative] [|diversity] and insure the [|harmony] of the [|whole] in the face of the underlying creational [|differences] of the seven segmental groupings of the [|grand universe].

18:3.4 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. When you reach [|Paradise] and search the [|written] [|records] of the beginning of [|things], you will find that the first entry appearing in the [|personality] section is the recital of the trinitization of these twenty-one [|Ancients of Days].

18:3.5 These high [|beings] always govern in [|groups] of [|three]. There are many [|phases] of activity in which they [|work] as [|individuals], still others in which any two can function, but in the higher [|spheres] of their [|administration] they must act jointly. They never [|personally] leave their residential worlds, but then they do not have to, for these worlds are the [|superuniverse] [|focal points] of the far-flung [|reflectivity] [|system].

18:3.6 The [|personal] [|abodes] of each trio of the Ancients of Days are located at the point of [|spiritual] [|polarity] on their headquarters sphere. Such a sphere is divided into seventy [|administrative] [|sectors] and has seventy divisional capitals in which the Ancients of Days reside from time to time.

18:3.7 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]. In all the vast [|universe of universes] they alone are invested with the high powers of final [|executive] [|judgment] concerning the [|eternal] [|extinction] of [|will] [|creatures]. And all three Ancients of Days must participate in the final decrees of the [|supreme tribunal] of a [|superuniverse].

18:3.8 Aside from [|the Deities] and their [|Paradise] associates, the Ancients of Days are the most [|perfect], most [|versatile], and the most [|divinely] endowed rulers in all [|time-space] [|existence]. Apparently they are the supreme rulers of the [|superuniverses]; 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.

18:3.9 [|The Supreme Being] is achieving the [|sovereignty] of the [|seven superuniverses] by experiential [|service] just as a [|Creator Son] experientially earns the [|sovereignty] of his [|local universe]. But during the present age of the unfinished [|evolution] of [|the Supreme], the Ancients of Days provide the [|co-ordinated] and [|perfect] [|administrative] [|overcontrol] of the evolving [|universes] of [|time and space]. And the [|wisdom] of [|originality] and the [|initiative] of [|individuality] characterize all the decrees and rulings of the [|Ancients of Days].

[|Books and music titled Ancient of Days]

"Great is your blessedness, inasmuch as ye have forsaken your homes and wandered the land for the love of your Lord, the Almighty, the Ancient of Days, until ye entered the Land of Mystery at a time when the fire of oppression was ablaze and the croaking of the raven of discord had been raised. Ye are My partners in My tribulations, for ye were present with Us during the darksome night in which the hearts of those who testify to the unity of God were agitated. Ye entered this land for the sake of Our love, and departed therefrom through Our command. By the righteousness of God! Because of you the earth itself glorieth over heaven. How excellent is this most sublime, this glorious and exalted bounty! Ye have been deprived of your nest, O birds of eternity, for the sake of your Lord, the Unconstrained, but your true abode is beneath the wings of the grace of the All-Merciful. Blessed are they that understand." -Baha'u'llah, [of Days&action=highlight#gr15|The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, Pages 141-159: gr15]