“In bringing before your minds this wonderful ultimate of the purpose of God in the creation of the world and of its inhabitants, man, the most that we can do is to call your attention to certain laws and forces already visible and active among men. This ultimate has had no physical standing in the world – it has existed only in the creative-thought, and therefore no language has yet been formed capable of portraying its realities. As we have briefly stated the methods by which man is to come into “The Image of God” and “The Likeness of God”, we shall now give a brief synopsis of the manner in which “The Image and the Likeness” are to be brought into form.
Through the regeneration, every member of that Great Body of the first ripe fruit of the earth, the 144,000, becomes exceedingly sensitive. In other words, all the life-currents and mind-powers become intensified, and the sense nature becomes so acute, that each member is conscious of every thought, feeling, and emotion of every other member. Even now we find that there are men and women who through evolutionary processes alone, have become so refined and intensified that they are able to know and to read the thoughts of others. Within the last few years, many mind-readers have been before the public and some of them have demonstrated to the satisfaction of investigators that they can read the thoughts of persons.
When men and women have lived the high and holy life taught by the Christ, which includes regeneration (for he lived a celibate life) conserving all the life generated by the body, then every function of their bodies will be increased and intensified, so that we may say that each individual will become twelve times greater in mind-power, and all the powers of the body, than he was before he began to live the regenerate life. They not only become stronger and wiser, but they become exceedingly sensitive and intense in their consciousness, and as they are governed by the spirit of love from God, they see in each other the child of God, and so they love each other as they love God, and as they love themselves.
The character of this oneness is best explained by illustration. For example: Imagine twelve such persons together in one room. Each one of the twelve has so far developed and is so perfectly in sympathy with the others, that he feels every feeling and knows every thought of the others. When these twelve are first brought together, the reciprocal action of the thoughts and feelings produces a condition very much like that produced when a number of persons are talking at once – a state of confusion. But let one begin to speak and get the interest and attention of the others so as to focalize the thought, and the minds of the whole body would think together as one.
Again, imagine this body of twelve to be a regenerate body, whose whole desire is to be centered in God, and whose members have been begotten from above. Because God’s spirit is the life of the body, the body must be one as God is one. Since each person necessarily expresses a function of some part of the Grand Man – as Aries, the head, Taurus, the neck, etcetera – and each seeks to express only the mind of God, he makes no effort to be that which he is not but supplies his own particular mind quality to the whole body. And whatever particular function is called into action; the body unites in giving power to that function to express itself. Its thought would be the aggregate thought of all the members, in precisely the same way as when one attempts to lift a heavy weight with the right hand, the will and every function of the physical body are called upon to supply their quota of energy for its accomplishment.
Who has not realized while talking to a number of persons that there were certain persons in the audience that gave special inspiration, that supplied a mind-power so marked, that the speaker could not but realize it? So, it would be in the bringing together of twelve persons in perfect harmony with the mind, the spirit of the Father. God’s spirit being the life of all, they would run together as so many drops of water, yet every individual would maintain his own consciousness, but his consciousness would be enlarged, and his realization would be increased to comprehend the consciousness and realization of the whole body. Each member’s capacity and brainpower would be twelve times as strong and capable in every department.
As man lives in his memories and realizes in his consciousness, his realizations constitute his limitations. But when he takes into his consciousness the consciousness of eleven others, his realizations have been augmented eleven-fold. This increase of consciousness on the part of one does not detract from the others, but on the contrary, they each extend their sphere of consciousness in the same ratio.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 