“All nature, wherever the mind turns, is in action, and the higher the realm the more intense is the action. Love is the action of life, or life in motion, and “God is love”, and God’s love links him with all his creation. There can be no evolution without involution – that which is involved, is that which evolves, develops, and grows. Therefore, it is in the Divine Purpose to “bring many sons unto God”; and these sons are begotten of the Holy Spirit in those who have gained the attainment to be justly called Yahveh Elohim.
Yahveh Elohim by the prophet said, “For thy Maker is thy husband; Yahveh of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.” (Isaiah 54:5.) Read also Jeremiah 3:14, and Ezekiel 23. In these references the declaration is unequivocal that God’s chosen people are regarded as his wife. You will notice in the experience given that it was the man’s brain that was impregnated by the woman, and that the man brought forth the spirit-child. God declared himself to be the husband of his physical Israel – not of woman, but of man and woman.
We are told in another place that “God is love.” The expression of the feminine as we know her on earth is love, and the expression of the masculine as we know him on earth is mind, but the indication from revelation is that this order is reversed in the heavens. There seem to be shadows of the condition in the heavens flitting over the inner consciousness of the world of humanity at the present time, causing those called “advanced thinkers” to talk about woman being superior to man – that she must lead man into the higher life. These are merely inverted shadows that flit over the consciousness of those who are without knowledge; they assume that the physical organism of the woman, with the mind arising therefrom, is to be master and leader, but the divine order is expressed in the quotation: “Thy Maker is thy husband; Yahveh of hosts is his name.”
God recognizes the individual as neither man nor woman, but the statement is emphatic that the man and the woman are one, whose consciousness becomes to the Spirit, an individualized consciousness. And the development and refinement of the body enable the body, in turn, to know the mind of the Spirit, and to be conscious of all that of which the Spirit is conscious.
We have said that the action of life – the unity of love and wisdom – results in the production of organic forms, and that by the intensity of divine love and the order of supreme wisdom or mind, children are born of the Spirit. But in order that they may have experience, development, growth and unfoldment, it is necessary that they have an earthly experience. Earth is intended as a schoolroom of the Spirit, and those who attain a divine degree of purity and holiness become the wife, the temple of this spirit, or Godchild.
This spirit-child begotten of the Holy Spirit, born in the heavens, descends into the organism of man or woman and grows, gaining knowledge, both spiritual and intellectual; and in its growth, it passes on from plane to plane of consciousness, carrying with it all that constitutes the consciousness of the man or the woman in whom it dwells; whose consciousness becomes to the indwelling spirit-child, an added consciousness.
Mere surface thought may suggest to the reader that “being born from above” leaves the individual man and woman out of the scheme of salvation and saves something that they are not; but we have carefully striven to impress upon the mind that we, as the plant, die daily, and live in the memories. The advent of this God-child does not destroy the memories, but rather creates an added consciousness in the individual, and makes that consciousness immortal.
Now, let us draw a conclusion from the foregoing: In God’s love and wisdom creation proceeds, and in the process of creating sons of God, the spirit-child is conceived and born from the life of those in the heavens; and when man has so developed that the spirit-life that was in the Christ has possession and control of the will, impelling him to live the regenerate life, when the strong animal man is bound and the life of the man is consecrated and passive to the life of God – then the man is made a receptacle and fit temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, this spiritual child that enters in and grows and increases, from the experiences of an earth-life. The consciousness and life of the individual become one with the consciousness and life of the spirit-child and of its Father, and thus, man becomes the son of God – becomes Yahveh Elohim.
It is apparent, therefore, that the earthly life of man is a necessity to God as well as an opportunity to man, because it is a schoolroom for the sons of God, begotten in the heavens and matured upon the earth. For knowledge is gained from experience, and the experiences of the spiritual son of God, must be gently conducted from the low state of human existence, up to a consciousness of Yahveh Elohim; and a oneness with him.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 