“If, in addition to what we have just said concerning worlds and universes, we accept the probability that universes with their peopled worlds have been in existence from all eternity and are destined to continue to all eternity, and that these people are progressing, just as man is progressing at the present time on our planet, growing in mind, becoming more and more refined and attenuated and spiritualized, what manner of men must exist within the limits of these universes at the present time?
With our meager capacity for thought, if we should imagine for a moment that our sun was once a world like ours, born from a parent and inhabited with a people that have been in the process of evolutionary development all these hundreds of billions of years, would we be capable of grasping the greatness, the grandeur, and the glory of such beings? Would not one of these beings on our sun transcend even our highest imagination of God?
Think of men who have lived and grown and are still living, growing, and maturing on the parent-sun of our sun; again, upon its parent, and so on to infinity, and yet, all these are sons of God! With this thought in mind, can you for one moment think of this Almighty God, this wondrous God of the whole universe, and of all universes, as having been once confined, limited, within the personality of a single man? Even the man Jesus, with all his divinity, his grandeur, glory, and power. Reason recoils from such a thought.
He was the son of God: yes, in a higher and a holier sense than the church has understood; He said, “I came out from God.” Have we not all come out from God? Is God not the Life, the Fountain, from which all life is organized? Is not God the Potentiality that causes the manifestation of law in the universe and in all universes? We ask these questions and allow the reader to answer them.
Again, we ask the learned of our day who attribute all this manifestation to unthinking force moving in line with “natural law”: Can you conceive the Cause of all these wondrous systems of worlds, the Producer of all the inhabitants of all these numberless universes to be without intelligence? If so, whence came the intelligence, small as it is, that you yourself possess? If you believe yourself to possess intelligence and deprive your Source of the same conscious intelligence, are you not unreasonable? Certainly, you are. You would bring something out of nothing.
Yes, the intelligence that you possess is but the merest shadow, the merest point of mind, and its source a thinking, knowing, loving intelligence, nourishing all those millions of systems of worlds and universes and their inhabitants, and organizing centers which are mind-organs, to carry forward the work of creating man in his image and likeness.
And after all the research and with all the accumulation of facts regarding the heavens, since the remote time of Job, to our own wonderful, present century, we are still able only to exclaim with him, “Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him; the thunder of his power who can understand?””
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 