“Man is the mind-center of the planet, and his body is one with the earth elements, joined to them by the mental currents that formed all things. Therefore, as the bodies of the race have become diseased through perversion, disease and disturbance have entered also into the very life-currents of the earth. And we may reasonably expect volcanic eruptions; earthquakes producing great destruction; fires becoming fiends, refusing to be quenched by ordinary methods; storms and cyclones. We may expect the earth to manifest the same conditions that our own bodies manifest when suffering from different phases of what we call disease; and if this should continue, the very condition of the planet will cause death – dissolution.
If the perversion of man’s nature diseases destroys the planet, the reverse must be also true; that is, divine order and harmony manifested in the individual are a saving power to the earth. Our Lord recognized this law when he said to his followers, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.” (Matthew 5:13.)
We are told in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, sent to John on Patmos, that there are to be 144,000 of the first ripe fruit of the earth, who are to be gathered and brought into perfect oneness and harmony with God, and to be made priests and kings unto God and reign on the earth. As the Spirit said to Obadiah, “And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Yahveh’s.”
History, Science, and Revelation point down to a time – the present time, or the near future – when, notwithstanding the fact that man has forgotten God, notwithstanding the diseased state of the planet, the upheavals and the destruction of life and property, which will almost depopulate the earth, there will be a saving power in a people.
And this people, by the power of unity with the mind of God, the Producer of all things, will hold the earth as a vital center, preserve its life, heal it of all disease, rejuvenate it, and repopulate it with a higher race of men. As Jesus was the great healer of all manner of disease, so this body of 144,000 will become the great healers, not only of the interior natures of the people, but of their physical bodies, and of the spirit of the life of the planet.
From the foregoing presentation of the ultimate toward which the life of the planet tends – that is, to bring into manifestation a Godlike manhood which is to dominate the earth – it becomes evident that a slow growth and unfoldment, evolution, has been the process of nature from the beginning of the world to the present time. If this were not true, the following and many similar questions which arise in the mind of the reasonable thinker, would remain unanswerable; namely:
If there is a God, why does he permit so much anxiety, labor, and sorrow to exist in the world? If there is to be a future existence, a paradise of joy and peace, why the necessity of these thousands of generations being doomed to sorrow and death? Why did not God in the beginning make man perfect, and place him in that paradise; and endow him with wisdom, knowledge and understanding, so that he could not fall and plunge the race into misery for all these centuries? Why was not this kingdom of righteousness, spoken of in the Revelation of Jesus Christ – commonly called The Apocalyptic Vision – ultimated in the beginning?
The only answer to such questions is that knowledge in its very nature is experience. Every father and mother know, that before their sons are fitted to go out to meet the world, they must have knowledge gained from experience. The Christ announced that knowledge of the truth was to be the savior (John 8:32); and knowledge can come into existence and form only through multifarious experiences in many lives.
The present exposition of the object and processes of evolution has been as condensed as possible – merely suggestive of the several lines of thought and investigation connected therewith. But, we think, it is sufficient to make clear the fact that the very spirit of the life of the planet has in it a purpose, an object; and all manifestation of life, all activity, has moved steadily toward the ultimating of that purpose; namely, to bring into existence a Godlike humanity – Emanuel, God with us, God manifest in the flesh – angel men, sons of God.
When we say, “angel men” or “sons of God”, the words are practically meaningless from the world’s present understanding of God and his angels. It is therefore necessary to take a general view of the scientific knowledge of the universe and of the revelation given to men of God and his angels, so that the reader will bear with me if I seem to diverge from the general thought of this work and to examine into the material universe, its cause, its scope and immensity, its origin and quality, into the nature of God, the soul of the universe, his manifestation in organic form, as well as the object of our existence and the ultimate toward which we with all nature are being led.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 