“As the fulness of times has come and the souls of men have ripened and matured, the period when men are to come into the image and the likeness of God is at hand, and in order to bring about this image and likeness, an advance in knowledge is necessary. To be told “plainly of the Father” and of his son – of the object of his coming and the methods by which we may come into unity, oneness, harmony with him – is an absolute prerequisite. It is also just as necessary to expunge the errors from our thought and to realize that we have a loving, merciful, and kind Father, who is our Father by virtue of creation, by virtue of regeneration, and by virtue of having been begotten from above, so that it is possible for us to enter that bosom of love and to become partakers of that mind, wisdom, knowledge, and power.
Being partakers of him, of his great nature, our souls are fed with immortal food, and by that food they grow, unfold. And the consciousness of God the Father, daily becomes more vivid, the realization more perfect, which enables the soul to look up as a little child into the face of its loving mother or father, and to say, “Our Father.” If this work enables you to do this with a more vivid realization, it will have accomplished much.
To leave the thought here, however, may leave an open door for some dear souls to be misled for a time, for, from the picture that we have presented, as the mind takes hold of the great truth that God’s angels are not a separate creation, but as the apostle Paul declared, are “souls of just men made perfect”, some may imagine in some vague way that these souls occupy certain spaces, one above another, as if in suspension in the heavens, from the abode of the Elohim to the earth, but the facts are: Spirit consciousness is consciousness of him who is the “Fulness that filleth all things”, for Yahveh is Spirit and inter-pervades all space.
To the soul that is awakened to a spiritual consciousness, there is no sense of distance; that is to say, time and space are virtually obliterated, and the soul is conscious only of the presence of the center of that quality that it has come in touch with; so that if we should attempt to locate spirit-heavens, it would be only relative to the sphere of consciousness of the soul, and would have no relation to distance or to locality.
Yahveh, the God of the Universe, embodies all qualities that exist, and the beginning of spirit-consciousness is an awakening to certain qualities. The higher the soul, the more comprehensive its ability to grasp the multifarious qualities existing in Divinity, and the lower the soul in degree of unfoldment, the more restricted is its comprehension, of various qualities.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 