“There is a marked difference between the organisms of the lower races and the organisms of the higher; and we know too that there is a marked difference in the light that shines from the face of one of a highly intellectual organism – especially when the mind is clear and active and everything in the body is at its best – and in the light from the face of a lower type. A natural light shines forth from a highly spiritualized face, a light that is not imaginary but real, a light that anybody that is in the habit of observing can see even from a distance.
Some years ago, I called on a friend who, on my arrival, was not at home, but soon after, he came in and stepped from the hall into the back parlor. I was sitting in the front parlor by the window, and as he looked in while taking off his overcoat, I said to his wife: “What is the matter with Mr. B?” She inquired why I asked, and I replied, “His face is so dark.” She then informed me that he had been out on business in which there was much trouble and anxiety. All this had cast over his face a shadow, a darkness so marked that it could be seen the length of the room. Probably all who are observant have noticed that a condition of anxiety or disappointment throws a shadow over the face, making the countenance actually shadowy and dark.
If then, in ordinary life, a state of mind illuminates or darkens the countenance, and many readers will bear witness to this statement, is not this fact at least a suggestion that the more highly developed the soul, the greater the luminosity that emanates from the body? We are told many times in sacred history that celestial visitants were shining as the light, in some cases so bright that they could not be looked upon.
Development means the increasing and the intensifying of the life energy, which beyond a certain point reaches luminosity. The fact that development and spiritualization are always accompanied by illumination has been accepted by all spiritually developed men, and by those who know something of mature souls that have passed into the spirit-world; and from the evidence that we have been able to gather, we have come to the conclusion that as worlds age and develop, they, as well as their inhabitants become more spiritualized and luminous.
We reason that there can be nothing born, nothing come into manifestation without a parent, let it be plant, animal, or man. In continuing the analogy, we are forced to the conclusion that there is a parental source for every world, and if worlds have a parentage, then we necessarily reject the “Nebular Hypothesis”, so far as it relates to the formation of worlds independent of the sun around which they revolve. If worlds form from nebulæ in space without any parental agency, then we conclude that life may be born on our planet without the agency of parentage; in fact, we are left open to accept almost any theory. It is not so unreasonable to suppose that a mother could bring forth a child without a father as to believe that a world can be formed without a father or a mother.
On the other hand, it is evident that worlds are ruled by the same law that governs individuals, that our sun has brought forth and thrown into space a system of worlds, and that some of these worlds have begun to have a family of their own. It is not known if the younger planets – that is, Venus and Mercury – have moons. But Earth has one child, the moon; Mars has two; Jupiter, seven; and Saturn, ten. So, we conclude that as worlds are born from their parent-suns are less in size, denser, and more opaque, and need the more direct rays of their parent-sun for growth and maturity. But as ages roll on, these worlds grow and become more self-existent, more refined and luminous, and organize for themselves a family of worlds, shedding their light upon their children’s life.
Thus is carried forward the work of birth and development in all systems of suns and worlds, and if it is a law that the progress of every world is from density and opacity to refinement and luminosity, then the astronomical observations that many of the suns floating in space are less dense than our sun, and that the outermost planets of our solar system are less dense than the inner planets, are undoubtedly correct and substantiate our conclusion.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 