“No doubt the present theory – that the sun is an incandescent mass, because the solar rays on striking the earth generate heat – is destined soon to be superceded by one more worthy of the intelligence of our day. Professor Proctor says:
“We know that the sun is the sole source whence light and heat are plentifully supplied to the worlds that circle around him. The question immediately suggests itself: Whence does the sun derive those amazing stores from whence he is continually supplying his dependent worlds? We know that, were the sun a mass of burning matter, he would be consumed in a few thousand years. We know that were he simply a heated body, radiating heat and light continually into space, he would in like manner have exhausted all his energies in a few thousand years – a mere day in the history of his system. Whence, then, comes the enormous supply of force which he has afforded for millions on millions of years, and which also our reason tells us he will continue to afford while the worlds which circle around him have need of it, in other words, for countless ages yet to come?”
The recent discovery of radium has already suggested to many astronomers, that our sun and all the suns of the universe, may be luminous from another cause than fire – as fire is generally known – that there is a light that has the appearance of fire, like the burning bush that burned, but was not consumed, which Moses saw when he was commissioned to deliver Israel from bondage.
That which is called fire has been a mystery through all time, and is as much a mystery today as it was in the days of the fire worshipers, yea, more of a mystery today, for the child-race lived so near to nature that the thought formed in its brain was by virtue of the Universal Mind, and came nearer the truth, in many respects, than the mind that has shut itself against everything that cannot be demonstrated in the physical.
When our philosophers have fully accepted the fact that the so-called blazing suns are not blazing with consuming fire, but with an illuminating property which perhaps will always be beyond the power of the deepest research to fathom, then their theories will be reversed. Revelation says that “God is a consuming fire”, so that until they are able to comprehend something of God, they can never fully comprehend the cause of light.
We repeat, when philosophers are able to grasp this thought, they will find that in reasoning from analogy concerning nature’s methods, they will need make no leaps. Evolution is generally accepted as the universal law. It is certainly the law of all things that we know on earth. Gradual development seems to characterize everything that exists. It is said that “Every generation becomes weaker and wiser.” As mind develops in the man, the physical strength and avoirdupois lessen.
Everything points to the truth of the statement in Revelation that all growth – evolutionary processes – is carrying “the whole creation” onward and upward toward the likeness of its Cause, and if the first Cause of all things is Spirit, and the tendency of all things is toward Spirit, then it follows that the avoirdupois, the density of substance, must decrease, as not man only, but worlds go on in their process of refinement and spiritualization.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 