“We have seen in preceding chapters that the physicists have searched diligently into the character and nature of matter from a physical standpoint; but in their last analysis, viz., their investigations into the molecule, atom, ion, and electron, and their deductions that, after all, the smallest particles of matter may be only “centers of force”, they have invaded the realm of the metaphysical. At this point the physicist stops to look around him for a base, a substantial foundation, to which he may unite his forces with the metaphysician’s in pursuit of causation.
If we assume the task to find that base, that center, and herein present it, it will necessitate investigations into that broad field of thought that has been denominated “Revelation”, as well as investigations into nature. We have assumed the existence of God, of an Intelligent, Creative Mind-Power that is able to cause to be, and, as we shall see in following chapters, to bring into existence, mind-centers to be the expression of its own nature, or in other words, mind-centers through which this Universal Mind expresses itself.
Theology has gathered around the word “Revelation” so much debris that it is necessary first to clear away the rubbish in order to get at the real meaning. Revelation, in its essence, means simply an angel-hand placing in a dark and dangerous passage, a bright light. From this we assume that there is an angel, an intelligent being, who would cause us to know that which is necessary to be known, in order that we may avoid pitfalls and dangerous errors, and that our mind may grow into the Divine Likeness, into the likeness of its Source.
If we were passing through a dark and dangerous passage, and a hand placed there a light, should we, like the moth, be so absorbed in the existence of the light, that we stumble and fall and perhaps destroy ourselves? No, as intelligent beings understanding the use of light, instead of looking at the lamp, we look around us and examine our pathway, and the light reveals to us the condition that surrounds us. This, then, is an illustration of what Revelation is, and all revelation from the beginning of the world down to the present time is nothing more, nothing less, than a light in a dark place. One of the greatest lights that has ever been set in this dark world, is the revelation of the meaning of the great name of God.
Modern usage gives a mere word-sound to represent an object, but in divine order, a name expresses quality. In the meaning of the great name of God, is the light that illuminates that dark passage between the material world and the world of metaphysics; or, the world of mind.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 