“We have concluded, from our understanding of scientific research, that there is order in everything, from the microscopic to the telescopic, and that that order follows a definite law. Therefore, we may with very little difficulty discover in man the constitution of the whole body of humanity, he being composed of organs like, yet dissimilar to, the members of all organized life; “a microcosm of the macrocosm”; so that each individual is a mind-center, a mind-organ. And when scientists conclude that the atom, or electron, may be but a center of force, shall we not add – may be a world in itself, a mind-center? But here we enter the realm of speculation – through the door of analogy, however.
In a preceding chapter we touched on the thought that Yahveh, the God of the universe, or of all universes, is Spirit, and is the all-pervading formless Former of all things. We shall now consider his image, which is seen in the unity of all organized life. Every organized form, all organized substance, from the most material to the most ethereal, is organized by thought and bears the likeness to its progenitor that the son bears to his father, and is not only the image and likeness of its father, but is the embodiment and expression of its father, being of the father’s life and mind and possessing his attributes, so far as the form is able to receive them. Thus, all manifest nature becomes the body of the Infinite, becomes a mind-center to express the thoughts of the thinking Intelligence that pervades and inter-pervades all space, all worlds, and systems of worlds.
If we accept as a fact – and how can we do otherwise – that all manifestations of life are mind-organs of the Infinite, then we find a vast field of interesting thought concerning the purpose of God in the creation of man in his image and likeness. From the foregoing, we infer that the whole universe is working together under one controlling Will, working toward one general and well-defined object.
And therefore, when God said, “Let us make man in our image and like us”, it was, as it were, the Infinite Source of all formative law finding intelligent expression in a mind-center which was capable of thinking, knowing, and sending forth thought-forming power of such character and potency, as to form a world and cause that world to bring forth intelligent beings who were to become its absolute rulers. But man, in order to possess this dominion, must have not only the image, but the likeness, of his Creator.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 