Wisdom and beatitude In speaking of God creating, redeeming, becoming incarnate, sending the Holy Spirit, beatifying the saints, and all the ‘great deeds of God’ revealed in the Scriptures, it is important to observe what Aquinas calls ‘the order of wisdom’. Divine being is infinite act and infinite wisdom, so that ‘in God his operation is his substance; thus, as his substance is eternal, so is his action. But it does not follow that an operational effect is eternal, but that the effect is according