the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xvi (the image of God)

“Let us now sum up the dominant thought of this work: This Grand Body has evolved from the lowest form of life to the most highly developed men and women of our planet, these have increased, refined, and intensified their faculties manyfold; add to these highly developed mind-qualities, the mind-qualities gained by a perfect unity with the whole Body of mind; illuminate such a Body of mind by a perfect unity with the mind-currents of Yahveh Elohim, and you have man with the “dominion” over the whole earth, the finished creation, the image of the “God Man of the Heavens” – “The Image of God.”

This is a brief summing up of the history of the journey of the soul from God and its return to God – to his Image. Can you imagine the power of this Body upon our planet? Do you wonder that in the Revelation given to Saint John, it is said that they shall be “kings and priests unto God and reign on the earth”? This Body will be the God of the planet, even as Elohim is the God of the Solar System.

Herein is the fulfilment of the purpose declared in the beginning – to make man in the Divine Image; for the Image of Yahveh Elohim can be perfected upon the earth only through the organization, the fitting together of such a Body. And constituting that Body “Yahveh Elohim”, or giving it a right to the name “Yahveh”, means that every individual member in his (or her) consciousness has united himself to the God of the universe, in the same direct way that the members of that Eternal Brotherhood – that has existed in all worlds from all time – have united their lives with Yahveh the God of all systems of worlds; and they are conscious in and of him; in other words, conscious that they are merely a mind-center produced by Yahveh, through which he finds expression.

The next step in the developing of our race and planet, is to be the gathering and constructing of such a Body as we have pictured, and this Body will be but one mind-organ of the Infinite. But we are encroaching upon our chapter on “The Image and Likeness”, wherein this subject will be further discussed.”

Hiram Butler

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