“These quotations suffice to show, with the aid of the chapters in immediate connection with them, that there did live during the period of the patriarchs, even down to the time of the Judges, an order of mystics, called “Masters” by men, but who called themselves, an “Order of the Sons of God”, who were in the body, yet not of the people. They lived in obscurity and came forth only to deliver messages from Elohim.
We have, moreover, chosen quotations that in the past have been a mystery. The Christian world has erroneous ideas regarding these passages and regarding the angels of God. Many believe that the angels of God are uncreated beings, or of a separate creation, that they were never men in the body; whereas the quotations given prove the opposite, namely, that all of them are men who have come up by means of the experiences, through which we ourselves have passed, and have gone on and become one with Yahveh Elohim.
There is reference to another phase of the manifestation of this order of Melchizedek in the account of Enoch, who, “walked with Elohim and was not, for Elohim took him”; and again, in the story of Elijah, whose name – E-li-Yah, that is, Yahveh is my God, my power – was undoubtedly given him by the Brotherhood. The meaning of his name was fully verified in the history of the doings of Elijah, in the great power that he manifested over the forces of nature – power evidently greater than that manifested by those before him, or by those after him, with the exception of the Christ. And when Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind, his powers, or his mantle, fell upon Elisha.
You will see by carefully reading accounts in the Scriptures that there were men in the body and out of the body who demonstrated, by the wonders they performed, that they were members of that Eternal Brotherhood. When we say wonders, we do not mean miracles as miracles have been understood, for nothing is done that is not in accordance with the laws of nature; but when men have become God-men, they may lay hold upon superior laws and accelerate, or retard the working of laws already active in nature.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 