“When men have been born from above and their soul-powers developed to where they begin to live from God as did the Lord Christ, their minds will be illuminated and they will see that the Spirit of God is one, and that all who live from the Spirit of God must necessarily be one. This oneness is brought to light in Revelation, chapters 1, 7, 14, 21, and 22.
In order to bring this thought more clearly to mind, let us picture 144,000 persons, or 288,000 men and women, who have become so developed in soul consciousness that each individual feels the feelings of every other and of the Body in toto, and not only feels but is as vividly conscious of the thoughts of the individual members of the Body and of the Body in its entirety as he is of his own thoughts. Would not this be a condition that would virtually do away with the separate individuality of the members of the Body? Would it not – we ask you to consider the question – constitute all the members of that Body as perfectly one, as are the molecules that compose our own organism in their unity, forming the individual man? It would, most assuredly.
Now if this Body of 144,000 members is to be constituted of the most highly developed men and women of our planet, we should naturally look for the grandest aggregation of mind that the world has ever known. Moreover, we must consider each and every member of that Body as living the regenerate life, conserving and storing up within himself (or herself) all the vitality that is generated by the body through a normal sex action; thus, not only increasing his normal capacities many, many fold but through the fires of the Divine Life active within him, transmuting, refining, and intensifying the elements of his own body, increasing his sensitiveness, intensifying his sensibilities, and becoming more and more vividly conscious of his dependence upon every other member of the Body for the perfection of his own individual organism.
It is evident, therefore, that such a Body of people would be so drawn together by common sympathy, that each member would be satisfied and happy in the fact that he is able to be his own normal self, supplemented and completed by the normal action of every other individual. Thus, in the light of absolute truth, disagreement or in-harmony would be impossible in such a Body.
Now this is the Body brought to light in the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. But this is only the human side of it. The prophet seeing the ultimation of this, the Divine Purpose, exclaims, “Yahveh is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him”, (Habakkuk 2 verse 20). And the apostle particularized the same thought when he said, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
As we have had occasion to say in former chapters – and shall more fully elaborate in the chapters that are to follow – the methods of life which are to bring men and women to this ultimate, all tend to the one central object of uniting their consciousness to God, their Heavenly Father. Herein is found the perfection of the symbolism chosen by the Lord Jesus – the symbol of the vine – for as spiritual beings, men came out from God, and to attain this ultimate they must return to God, return to a conscious oneness with their Source. They must live from God as literally as the vine lives from, the earth, air, and sunlight.
And as the same sap that nourishes the vine, nourishes all its branches and its fruitage, so the Body as to its individual members – being united with the Christ, “the true vine”, and he with the Father – will be partakers of the same life, the same Spirit. The mind and will, the Spirit of God will be the mind of all the Body in the same direct way that a common life unites all the molecules of our individual bodies.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 