Perfect-Act Doctrine
The doctrine that an act can be called perfect only when it encloses within itself all other acts together; that the Divine Will alone encloses this perfect act — “while It does one act only, from this single act, all possible imaginable acts which exist in Heaven and on earth, are released” — and that isolated acts which do not embrace all acts together are “meager acts, which give of human will,” the spring-metaphor naming the DW’s single act as the source from which seas, rivers, fire, light, heaven, stars, flowers, mountains, and earth all simultaneously gush. (E)
Anchors: Colossians 2:9-10; Wisdom 7:27; Romans 11:36; Sirach 24:30-31; 1 Corinthians 13:7 — Appearances: 6. Full Registry entry.