“Yes, everything has life. All life is motion, and it is the life in the body that keeps the body intact, supports it, and maintains it; and if we examine carefully this life, not only in our body, but in everything that is, we find even the smallest insect and plant acting according to the law of mind, evidencing that it thinks or that thought is active in it. If this be true, then can we help concluding that all is mind? Then we justify the Scriptural declaration that, God by mind, by a word, created the world.
In examining our own minds, we find we have reasons for action, but however powerful the thoughts or reasons may be, unless we will to act, we remain motionless. Then the will to act seems to be another quality in us, which quality, when called into action by the other faculties of the mind, tenses the muscles, and causes motion. We will to act. This again brings us to the revelation of the name of the Infinite, Yahveh, the “I will be what I will to be”, or the will of the universe.
Since we are dependent upon our own will for the power to act, then is not action – no matter in what form it may be found – the result of the power of will? Again, according to the strength of a man’s will, is the strength of his body. Let a man become angry, see how the red blood obeys the mandates of his will. Men have often been heard to say, “When I am angry, I am stronger than under any other circumstances.” What is anger? It is the excitement of the will. In the ordinary individual the will may be excited to such an extent that it actually controls the intellect, and when this power is sufficiently excited to take control of the reasoning powers, then we say the individual has lost his reason, or he is mad.
It is the function of all willpower to obey the intellect; in other words, to be a servant. But when the understanding is set aside by the will, then evil is manifest. Since these things are true, is there any evil in the world except that resulting from the will, dominating the intellect? We believe not.
Let us return to the potentiality of the will. We have seen that the strength of man depends upon the strength of will, and if Yahveh is the Will of the universe, then He, or It, is the strength of all that is. We know that when the mind leaves the body, the body rapidly disintegrates, that so long as the will and all the faculties of the mind are kept active, the body is healthy, strong, and vigorous.
What is it that holds together the atoms or centers of force in the body of man, in the mighty cable, in the great beam, in the keen edge of the sword? As we look at these objects and examine them with our senses, we cannot but believe that they are dense, hard, and solid. Since they are not, what is it that appears dense, hard, and solid in this seething, moving mass? Is it not the same power that enables you to reach out your arm and lay hold of a weight of twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred pounds and lift it by bending your arm? You will, and the arm moves and lifts ponderable objects; then it is the will that moves the arm, is it not?
Since God is the creator of all things, the Power of the universe, and his name is Yahveh, “I will be what I will to be”, and since all is life and that life is served by the will, then the strength of your arm, of that piece of steel, of that beam, of that mighty cable, is the strength of the will of the Infinite. It is the manifestation of the Will – Yahveh. From the solution of the infinitely small, may we not arrive at the solution of the infinitely great? In the limitless universe, the same Will holds all worlds, suns, and systems in their place.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 