P44:4, 3:1.1
The ability of the Universal Father to be everywhere present, and at the same
time, constitutes his omnipresence. God alone can be in two places, in numberless
places, at the same time. God is simultaneously present "in heaven above
and on the earth beneath"; as the Psalmist exclaimed: "Whither shall
I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence?"
P44:5, 3:1.2
"`I am a God at hand as well as afar off,' says the Lord. `Do not I fill
heaven and earth?'" The Universal Father is all the time present in all
parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is "the fullness
of him who fills all and in all," and "who works all in all,"
and further, the concept of his personality is such that "the heaven
(universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes) cannot contain him."
It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all
of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause
can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God
is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into
being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is
revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass
the entirety of the infinity of God.
P45:1, 3:1.3
The Father's presence unceasingly
patrols the master universe. "His going
forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it; and
there is nothing hidden from the light thereof."
P45:2, 3:1.4
The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. "We
know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This
gift from the Paradise Father is man's inseparable companion." "He
is the ever-present and all-pervading God." "The spirit of the everlasting
Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child." "Man goes
forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart."
"The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks
from within us." "The Father lives in the child. God is always with
us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny."
P45:3, 3:1.5
Truly of the human race has it been said, "You are of God" because
"he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him." Even in wrongdoing
you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs
go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration.
P45:4, 3:1.6
The omnipresence of God is in reality a part of his infinite nature; space
constitutes no barrier to Deity. God is, in perfection and without limitation,
discernibly present only on Paradise and in the central universe. He is not
thus observably present in the creations encircling Havona, for God has limited
his direct and actual presence in recognition of the sovereignty and the divine
prerogatives of the co-ordinate creators and rulers of the universes of time
and space. Hence must the concept of the divine presence allow for a wide
range of both mode and channel of manifestation embracing the presence circuits
of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Isle of Paradise. Nor is
it always possible to distinguish between the presence of the Universal Father
and the actions of his eternal co-ordinates and agencies, so perfectly do
they fulfill all the infinite requirements of his unchanging purpose. But
not so with the personality circuit and the Adjusters; here God acts uniquely,
directly, and exclusively.
P45:5, 3:1.7
The Universal Controller is potentially present in the gravity circuits of
the Isle of Paradise in all parts of the universe at all times and in the
same degree, in accordance with the mass, in response to the physical demands
for this presence, and because of the inherent nature of all creation which
causes all things to adhere and consist in him. Likewise is the First Source
and Center potentially present in the Unqualified Absolute, the repository
of the uncreated universes of the eternal future. God thus potentially pervades
the physical universes of the past, present, and future. He is the primordial
foundation of the coherence of the so-called material creation. This nonspiritual
Deity potential becomes actual here and there throughout the level of physical
existences by the inexplicable intrusion of some one of his exclusive agencies
upon the stage of universe action.
P45:6, 3:1.8
The mind presence of God is correlated with the absolute mind of the Conjoint
Actor, the Infinite Spirit, but in the finite creations it is better discerned
in the everywhere functioning of the cosmic mind of the Paradise Master Spirits.
Just as the First Source and Center is potentially present in the mind circuits
of the Conjoint Actor, so is he potentially present in the tensions of the
Universal Absolute. But mind of the human order is a bestowal of the Daughters
of the Conjoint Actor, the Divine Ministers of the evolving universes.
P46:1, 3:1.9
The everywhere-present spirit of the Universal Father is co-ordinated with
the function of the universal spirit presence of the Eternal Son and the everlasting
divine potential of the Deity Absolute. But neither the spiritual activity
of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons nor the mind bestowals of the Infinite
Spirit seem to exclude the direct action of the Thought Adjusters, the indwelling
fragments of God, in the hearts of his creature children.
P46:2, 3:1.10
Concerning God's presence in a planet, system, constellation, or a universe,
the degree of such presence in any creational unit is a measure of the degree
of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being: It is determined by the en
masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe
organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore
it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases
of God's precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have
plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are in a certain sense quarantined,
or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation.
And all this, as it operates on Urantia, is a spiritually defensive reaction
of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as possible, from
suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong,
wicked, and rebellious minority.
P46:3, 3:1.11
While the Father
parentally encircuits all his sons -- all personalities --
his influence in them is limited by the remoteness of their origin from the
Second and the Third Persons of Deity and augmented as their destiny attainment
nears such levels. The fact of God's presence in creature minds is
determined by whether or not they are indwelt by Father fragments, such as
the Mystery Monitors, but his effective presence is determined by the
degree of co-operation accorded these indwelling Adjusters by the minds of
their sojourn.
P46:4, 3:1.12
The fluctuations of the Father's presence are not due to the
changeableness
of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because he has been slighted;
his affections are not
alienated because of the creature's wrongdoing. Rather,
having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning himself), his children,
in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations
of the Father's divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father
has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is
no respecter of persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of
time he confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God
the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes.