“As we move about, the Spirit passes through us as if we were not, and there is nothing in man to give him even a consciousness of the existence of Spirit. Consequently, some of the brightest minds of the day are denying the existence of God and Spirit and of everything beyond their own conscious life. Because of this law that like can touch like only, it was necessary that God should send to earth one who had gained the right to be called Yahveh Elohim – one of the masters that had passed beyond the need of a physical body – to take on the flesh of man. Paul said, “he took on him the seed of Abraham; Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren.”
Having been clothed upon with flesh, but being a master in his real essence and substance, he knew God, Spirit. He knew the Holy Spirit from past experience. He was begotten of that Holy Spirit. He was a son of God and God’s Spirit was the substance of his being. He was able, therefore, absolutely to control the physical body, to inspire the Spirit of the Father, the Holy Spirit, and passing it through the brain-organs, he clothed the Spirit with the substance of the physical mind.
In order to make the Spirit of God accessible to the vital currents and mentality of man, it became essential that a spiritual being clothe himself with a body of flesh, and by the power of the Spirit within him, transmute the flesh and fit it to become the clothing of the spiritual germ. As a seed clothes the vital germ and fits it to be planted in the earth, so Christ fitted the spiritual substance to be planted in his people.
Man could never have known the things of God unless there had been such a mediator, such a nature, to stand immediately between the Spirit, God, and the brain-power of the race, so that man should be enabled to partake of the things of God and to materialize them, so to speak, into his fleshly substance; thus giving them clothing like those things that the human mind is accustomed to handling.
Certain experiences in modern life suggest this law; for instance, a person who is spiritually minded falls asleep, and during the sleep state he dreams concerning spiritual things. The dream interests him intensely and it is so clear and so well defined that when he awakens, he thinks he shall be able to recall it all to mind, but he finds that he cannot recall any of the particulars, the powers of recollection cannot touch them. He feels the influence of the dream and seems to have drawn in a certain substance, but yet the mind cannot touch it. What does this mean?
It means simply that the soul-consciousness has become almost, but not quite, able to control the physical consciousness. When the physical is dormant, the soul can think from the soul-world, but when the physical comes into activity, the qualities of the substance of which these thoughts are formed are too subtile for the action of the brain, and therefore they cannot be called into the brain. They cannot obey the call of the desire-mind.
Jesus came a member of that world of immortality, a world where the inhabitants live from the substance of the Spirit. “He took on him the seed of Abraham”; he lived in that fleshly body, he thought in it, controlled it, and thus qualitated it by the power of the Spirit. He made for that Spirit a covering of the transmuted substance of flesh and blood, thus clothing the Spirit of God – making it a seed. We plant a kernel of wheat, composed apparently of very material substance, and it springs forth and grows. The material substance dies and disintegrates; but the life that is in it, that subtile, invisible, intangible something, gathers to itself like qualities and makes for itself a new body.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 