God+of+Action

Urantia Book [|Paper 8]:[|1. THE GOD OF ACTION]
8:1.1 In the eternity of the past, upon the [|personalization] of the Infinite Spirit the divine [|personality] [|cycle] becomes [|perfect] and complete. The God of Action is existent, and the vast stage of [|space] is set for the stupendous [|drama] of [|creation]—the [|universal] [|adventure]—the [|divine] [|panorama] of the eternal ages. 8:1.2 The first act of the Infinite Spirit is the inspection and recognition of his divine [|parents], the Father-Father and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, unqualifiedly identifies both of them. He is fully cognizant of their separate personalities and infinite [|attributes] as well as of their combined [|nature] and united [|function]. Next, voluntarily, with [|transcendent] willingness and [|inspiring] [|spontaneity], the Third Person of Deity, notwithstanding his [|equality] with the First and Second Persons, pledges eternal [|loyalty] to God [|the Father] and acknowledges everlasting dependence upon God [|the Son]. 8:1.3 [|Inherent] in the [|nature] of this transaction and in mutual recognition of the [|personality] independence of each and the executive union of all three, the [|cycle] of eternity is established. The [|Paradise Trinity] is existent. The stage of [|universal] [|space] is set for the manifold and never-ending [|panorama] of the [|creative] [|unfolding] of the [|purpose] of the [|Universal Father] through the [|personality] of the [|Eternal Son] and by the execution of the God of [|Action], the executive [|agency] for the [|reality] [|performances] of the Father-Son [|creator] [|partnership]. 8:1.4 The God of Action [|functions] and the dead vaults of space are astir. [|One billion perfect] [|spheres] flash into [|existence]. Prior to this hypothetical eternity [|moment] the space-[|energies] [|inherent] in [|Paradise] are existent and [|potentially] operative, but they have no [|actuality] of [|being]; neither can [|physical] [|gravity] be [|measured] except by the [|reaction] of material realities to its incessant pull. There is no material universe at this (assumed) eternally distant moment, but the very instant that one billion worlds materialize, there is in [|evidence] [|gravity] sufficient and adequate to hold them in the everlasting grasp of [|Paradise]. 8:1.5 There now flashes through the creation of the Gods the second form of energy, and this [|outflowing] [|spirit] is instantly grasped by the [|spiritual gravity] of the Eternal Son. Thus the twofold [|gravity]-[|embraced] universe is [|touched] with the energy of infinity and immersed in the spirit of [|divinity]. In this way is the soil of life prepared for the [|consciousness] of [|mind] made manifest in the associated [|intelligence] [|circuits] of the Infinite Spirit. 8:1.6 Upon these seeds of [|potential] [|existence], diffused throughout the [|central creation] of the Gods, the Father [|acts], and [|creature] [|personality] appears. Then does the presence of the Paradise Deities fill all organized space and begin effectively to draw all things and beings Paradiseward. 8:1.7 The Infinite Spirit eternalizes [|concurrently] with the birth of the [|Havona] worlds, this central universe being created by him and with him and in him in [|obedience] to the combined [|concepts] and united wills of the Father and the Son. The Third Person deitizes by this very act of conjoint creation, and he thus forever becomes the //Conjoint Creator//. 8:1.8 These are the grand and awful times of the [|creative] expansion of the Father and the Son by, and in, the [|action] of their conjoint associate and exclusive executive, the //Third Source and Center//. There exists no record of these stirring times. We have only the meager disclosures of the Infinite Spirit to substantiate these mighty transactions, and he merely verifies the [|fact] that the central universe and all that pertains thereto eternalized [|simultaneously] with his [|attainment] of [|personality] and conscious [|existence]. 8:1.9 In brief, the Infinite Spirit testifies that, since he is [|eternal], so also is the central universe eternal. And this is the traditional [|starting point] of the [|history] of the [|universe of universes]. Absolutely nothing is known, and no records are in [|existence], regarding any event or transaction prior to this stupendous eruption of creative [|energy] and [|administrative] [|wisdom] that crystallized the vast universe which exists, and so exquisitely [|functions], at the [|center] of [|all things]. Beyond this event lie the unsearchable transactions of eternity and the depths of infinity—[|absolute] [|mystery]. 8:1.10 And we thus portray the [|sequential] [|origin] of the //Third Source and Center// as an [|interpretative] [|condescension] to the time-bound and space-conditioned mind of [|mortal] [|creatures]. The mind of man must have a starting point for the [|visualization] of universe history, and I have been directed to provide this [|technique] of approach to the historic concept of eternity. In the material mind, consistency demands a First [|Cause]; therefore do we postulate the [|Universal Father] as the First Source and the [|Absolute] [|Center] of all [|creation], at the same time instructing all creature minds that the Son and the Spirit are coeternal with the Father in all [|phases] of [|universe history] and in all realms of creative activity. And we do this without in any sense being disregardful of the [|reality] and [|eternity] of the [|Isle of Paradise] and of the [|Unqualified, Universal, and Deity Absolutes]. 8:1.11 It is enough of a reach of the [|material] mind of the [|children] of time to conceive of [|the Father] in [|eternity]. We know that any child can best relate himself to reality by first mastering the [|relationships] of the child-[|parent] situation and then by enlarging this [|concept] to embrace the [|family] as a whole. Subsequently the growing mind of the child will be able to adjust to the concept of family relations, to [|relationships] of the [|community], the [|race], and the [|world], and then to those of the [|universe], the [|superuniverse], even the [|universe of universes].