The Urantia Book-- Part I. The Central and Superuniverses
PAPER 3: Section 1.
God's Everywhereness
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.