“We have seen in former chapters that the Elohim consist of mature souls that have come into the form of the heavenly temple, an organized Body of perfected souls which most assuredly consists of both men and women; for, as the apostle says, “neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.” “God is Love”, which is a constructive force, and we are told that “Elohim is a consuming fire” – fire is action, activity. Without activity there is death, and the creative, or constructive function, is the activity of the life (love) forces.
We find that when the creative or sex function dies, death soon comes to the body, for through the sex all life on the planet originated and is perpetuated; and that principle in the heavens answering to the sex – from which sex in the form it is known on the earth has been derived – has been the fountain and source from which all creation has sprung. Therefore, we are forced to conclude that there is even in the heavens, and in the heaven of heavens, a love-passion that is pure spirit, active between the positive and negative forces, between the two spiritual entities from which men and women have derived their existence. If this is true, then, in the activities of that love, a spirit-child is formed; and being pure spirit, it is yet without experience, it must learn wisdom, gain knowledge and develop power – in short, it must grow as any child, until it has reached not only the image of its father and mother, but has attained to their likeness.
It is impossible for us to explain further the order of the heavens, from which is derived the rebirth, unless we give that which has been given to us. We knew a man who was living the regenerate life, controlling the creative forces in himself, turning these forces toward the brain for spiritual and intellectual use. One evening at a social gathering, he made the acquaintance of a lady whom he had never seen before and who was living the regenerate life, for, through inherent tendencies she had an abhorrence of the sex relations and had conserved all the life generated in the body, and was in her real organism, a regenerate woman.
During the evening the subject of phrenology was discussed, and, this man having had some experience in reading character from the form of the head, he was asked to place his hands on this lady’s head and give a delineation of character. On doing so, he found that her head was as a flame of fire. Soon after, he realized that there had entered into him a new life-force, which rushed through his body like a cyclone. When he retired at night, this life concentrated in the brain, and by the power of this life he could see the interior of his own brain, and he saw there a flame of white light. The muscles of the brain were in travail as a woman in childbirth, and he saw taking shape in the brain, by the working of the muscles, a diminutive human form, being shaped from the head down to the feet, and when the feet were formed, the little spirit-form took flight, and his whole being rested. In his own language, he was impregnated by the life emanations from this woman’s head, and he brought forth a child, a spirit-form, through the action of his brain.
This is at least an illustration of the order of the regeneration or love-life in the heavens. In the heavens, spirit and mind are all there are. Mind is the thought-former; spirit or life is the cause of the thought-forming and is the substance out of which the thought is formed. Thus, in the heavens, spirit-children are begotten of love and mind, life and use. In the heavens, function is servant and not master; therefore, the function for animal production does not exist in the spiritual production, for, keep in mind, that God by a word, a thought formed in the mind and sent out by the will, created all things.
It may be quite a shock to the idealism of some of our readers to think that even in heaven, spiritual children are born; but they are conceived in mind and born from the life of the Spirit through the brain. Should there not be a use for that divine love that is perfect; and is there not a use, a purpose, a cause for the creation of man and for his being given an existence on the earth? Creation sprang from the unity and activity of Divine Love and Wisdom. There is no activity without use, and no use without accomplishment.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 