“We are not left to speculate as to what Christ meant when he said, “I am the son of God”, “I and my Father are one”, “God is my Father”; varied expressions, all agreeing with his injunction to the early church, “Call no man your father on the earth, for one is your Father which is in heaven.” The early church claimed that they were the sons of God, as in fact do the church of the present day; notwithstanding they have ceased to believe it.
At the moment of his death on the cross, Jesus made it known more fully who was his Father when he said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani”, which is being interpreted, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” The word “Eloi” is the possessive form of “Eloah”, whose plural is “Elohim”. Jesus said, “The Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works”, and again, “I can do nothing of myself”, and when Eloah left the physical body, which, up to that time he had occupied as a temple, the body immediately bowed its head and died.
That in calling on the Elohim he used the singular form of the name, indicates the fact that the body had learned that it was the temple of one of the Elohim and that it had been the power of the Elohim manifesting itself to the world through his body. It was the wisdom of one of these wonderful Masters – wonderful to our comprehension – that caused to be recorded in the teachings of the Christ, the most practical, the most minute and exact methods by which a man may become a member of that Eternal Order; may become Yahveh Elohim, as were those whom we have been considering.
It was because of this, in part, that Jesus so emphatically declared, “I am the door”, “he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep; to him the porter (door keeper) openeth.” Now these words of the Christ, “I am the door”, direct our attention to the use of a door as the means by which admittance is gained into an enclosure. At another time Jesus declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life”, which was equivalent to saying, “I am the door.” Again he said, “If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.”
All these declarations – of which the last may be considered the more explanatory – center in the one thought that he was, and is, the door. To abide in him is to follow his example to continue to do as he did; and if his words abide in you, you believe his words, you “believe on him.” If, therefore, you believe his words, and they abide in your life; that is, if you live in keeping with their requirements, with the directions that he gave, and follow the methods that he taught, then you attain oneness with him; then you are admitted, by virtue of a perfect life, in through the door or gate, into the city of the Living God, into membership in that Eternal Brotherhood, the Brotherhood of all the ages; and as the angel said to John, “They go no more out forever.”
Thus we are led to the conclusion that in the person of Jesus the Christ, was the incarnation of Eloah, one of the Elohim, for the purpose to which he referred in the words, “For this purpose came I into the world.” The example that we should notice and follow, is his faithfulness in keeping his thought on the accomplishing of that purpose, announced in the words that we have so often quoted: “Let us make man in our image after our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26)”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 