“In the preceding chapter, we considered the great name “Yahveh”, “I will be what I will to be”, from its historic point of view. We will now endeavor to consider it in its manifestation, in and in its relation to mind exhibited in the human organism; and also, in its great general manifestation throughout the known and the unknown universe. It is manifested in the human organism as will. In the wilt of man resides his only power, and may we not ask, Is there any known power in the whole universe that is not will-power? What means this wondrous activity in everything; in the small and in the great, in the telescopic and in the microscopic, in what is infinitely beyond the microscopic as well as what is infinitely beyond the telescopic? We quote the following from Camille Flammarion:
“Thus stars, suns, planets, worlds, comets, shooting stars, aerolites – all the bodies that compose this vast universe – in a word are resting, not on solid bases, as seemed to be demanded by the primitive and childish conceptions of our ancestors, but on the invisible and immaterial forces which rule and direct their motions. These millions and millions of heavenly bodies are endowed with their respective motions for the sake of stability, and are mutually supported by each other across the gulf that separates them. In fact, the entire cortege is moving, flying, falling, rolling, rushing through space, but at such relative distances that all appear to be at rest. . .
“Now the constitution of the sidereal universe is formed on the same model as that of bodies which we designate as material. All bodies, organic or inorganic, man, animal, plant, stone, iron, bronze, are composed of molecules that are perpetually in motion and never touch. These molecules are themselves composed of atoms which do not touch. Each of these atoms is infinitely small and invisible, not only to the eye, not only to the microscope, but even to the thought, since it is possible that these atoms may be nothing more than centers of force.
“The calculation has been made that in the head of a pin there are no less than eight sextillions of atoms; or eight thousand times a thousand million multiplied by a thousand million; and that in a cubic centimeter of air there is a sextillion of molecules. All these atoms, all these molecules, are in motion under the influence of directing forces, and, relatively to their dimensions, are separated from each other by wide distances. We may even believe that there is in principle but one description of atoms, and that it is the number of primitive atoms, essentially simple and homogeneous, their manner of arrangement and their motion which determine the diversity of molecules; a molecule of gold or iron differing from a molecule of sulphur, of oxygen, of hydrogen, etc., only in the number, the disposition and the motion of the primitive atoms of which it is composed; each molecule being a system, a microcosm.
“Whatever idea we may adopt, however, of the essential constitution of bodies, the truth that is recognized today and cannot henceforth be contested, is that the motionless point that our imagination has been seeking has no existence anywhere. Archimedes may vainly clamor for a place to stand so that he may move the world. Worlds, like atoms, repose on the invisible, on immaterial force; everything is in motion, solicited by the force of attraction, and as if in search of that motionless point which flies from us as we pursue it and which has no existence; since in the infinite, the center is everywhere and nowhere. The so-called positivists, who declare with so much assurance that ‘Matter alone reigns with its properties’, and who smile with disdain upon the researches of thinking men, should first tell us what they mean by that famous word ‘matter’. If they did not stop at the surface of things, if they had any idea that appearances may serve as a cloak for intangible realities, they would doubtless be a little more modest.
“As for ourselves, who seek the truth with no preconceived ideas and unbiased in favor of any system, it seems to us that the essence of matter remains to us as mysterious as the essence of force, the visible universe being something entirely different from the form under which it presents itself to our senses. In fact, this visible universe is composed of invisible atoms; it rests in apparently void space and the forces which guide and direct it are themselves immaterial and invisible. It would be a less daring speculation to affirm that matter has no existence, that all is dynamism, than to pretend to declare the existence of a universe that is exclusively material. As to the material support of the world, it is a sufficiently piquant remark to make that it disappeared at exactly the same time that the science of mechanics gained its victories proclaiming the triumph of the invisible. The highest effort of our intelligence has for its last resting place, for its supreme reality, the Infinite!””
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 