“The “fall”, we are informed, was carnal generation, or the spiritual man, descending into and becoming party to the generation of the flesh. Christ taught of two ways, the way of generation and the way of regeneration. Generation was the old order of life, wherein were found labor, sorrow, experience (experimentation) and final death; then reincarnation, a repetition of the experience whereby knowledge and development were obtained – and again, death. This has been the law and the order of life from the beginning of our history, down to the present time.
But we have reason to believe that there is a people now, in the world, who have so far matured; and through the evolutionary processes of nature, have gotten so near the finished work that they are able to grasp the knowledge and to apply the methods whereby they may become like God. In this people is found the Christ-Spirit. They are now ready to take the “Third Step”, namely, Man’s re-birth, or the birth of the spirit-child. These are they who have received the word that Jesus sent forth to be preached to the world – it “has fallen into good ground ready to bring forth a hundred-fold.” They have been partakers of the flesh and blood of Christ, and they are now ready for the finishing work, ready to become one of the first begotten from above, the real sons and daughters of God.
In all cases where the spirit has become so strong that the whole desire and effort of the life of the person is toward a life of righteousness, and the mind has become awakened to an earnest desire to know the truth that he may live in harmony with it, a desire so strong, that it has become paramount, over-ruling all other desires; then will take place the rebirth, then will be sent into the person the spiritual child – the son of God – a child begotten of divine love and divine mind, begotten by the action of these two forces in the spiritual soul of those who have become Yahveh Elohim.
When this newly begotten child enters the organism, the person is many times unconscious of the change. Sometimes, however, he is conscious that a new life from an unknown and invisible source has entered into him, and when it comes, it thrills the whole being, passing through all the veins as a living, loving fire. It produces in the person a feeling that he belongs to, and is linked with the heavens in a way that he has not been before.”
Hiram Butler