“We think, form conclusions, and when the conclusions are reached, we express them in words and acts. When we say that we express them, we mean that there goes out from us the thought-form. In like manner, when, in connection with the other creative words, the Elohim said, “Let us make man”, the thought was formed in the mind and sent out into space. The substance of his own great nature appeared luminous and bright – as the body of an angel – which scientists call “cosmic gas.” As this cosmic gas was a thought of Divinity, its mind-power became what is known as the laws of nature, and, in the aeons of time, formed our earth, and has carried forward evolutionary development of individual organisms, step by step, to the present time.
Here we are met by two apparent discrepancies: First, that Spirit is invisible to man; second, that planets are born from their parent suns. Both of these objections resolve themselves into one, and in reply it may be said that, if God created the world and what is in it from himself, and if God is Spirit, then all that is, must be a condition of Spirit. Man, the product of that Creative Mind, is able to recognize through the five senses that only which is upon a plane similar to his own. Therefore, as the Spirit appears to us in the creation of worlds, it first manifests itself as light, and also as heat, because of the intensity of its vibration. Thus, it is in this form that the word of God appears in the very beginnings of material substance.
In regard to the second objection – that God cannot be the creator of worlds if they are born from their parent suns – it may be further suggested that, if God is the Producer of all things, the Life and Substance of all substance, the Soul of all souls, then wherever God works there is form and function. Worlds and suns are in form, and their inhabitants that have become the embodiment of Spirit, the Elohim, are his function. God works in man and woman in the creation of offspring; and should we deny that he is working in the creation of worlds through their parent suns?
The purpose in the creation of the planet, as announced in the account of Genesis, was to make man in his image and like God. If, therefore, this was the purpose in the thought – the word, which became the creative law in all nature – then it is obvious that all things must move together toward the accomplishing of the one definite object. Even the old philosopher, Plato, saw the image of the thought of Divinity, as a man stretched in the heavens. And today it is a demonstrated fact that the tendency of all creation, of all growth and development, is toward man. This being so, we see man, the most perfect manifestation of creative law, a conscious, thinking, voluntary existence.
The religionist says that man is a special creation. Science says that man is the product of the creative laws of the earth. Both are right, for although we read in the revelation that God said, “Let us make man”, and that he made man, yet this was in connection with, and a part of the creative words from which the worlds were made. (See Genesis 1.)
Man is a special creation because he is the special purpose and the result of all creative law. The apostle said, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body”, (Romans 8:22-23). Yes, truly, the whole creation travaileth, and this travail of nature is to bring forth man.
The spirit of life in the grass today will be the man that will walk the planet in the far-off tomorrow. But the fact is not changed – man was created by the thought of God, and so was the world, and the two are conjoined as one. There is within man an instinctive recognition of his Source and destiny. The tendencies of his unbiased nature are toward God and his likeness. It has been closely observed and well said that, from his incipient stages of development, man has been a religious being. A race of savages scarcely has been found so low in development that they have not had some form of religious worship or recognition of God, the Source of their being.
At the present time, however, as a result of his selfishness, self-gratification, and intellectual egotism, man has so completely turned his back upon God and divine law, that he has begun to repel the very fountain from which he derives his life. The effects of this discordant condition of man and his repellent attitude toward the Source of his life are obvious. He, being the ultimate of planetary law, is in position to dominate all nature, for the declared purpose was, “Let them have dominion over all the earth.”
From a physical standpoint, the dominion of man over the earth is even now being recognized, but the materialistic tendencies of the race have prevented a recognition of the fact that, the passions, emotions, desires, together with the loves and hates of the people, are a controlling principle producing its effect throughout creative manifestation.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 