“In the organizing of the Body of the Christ, the bringing into existence Yahveh Elohim, as king and ruler of this planet, each individual in his preparation must have consecrated his life to God, promised absolute obedience to, and acquiescence in the knowledge and wisdom derived from the Spirit. He must have undergone a long course of training, wherein the newly begotten child of God grows to manhood and takes absolute possession of the physical body and becomes fully conscious of the mind of the Father, of Yahveh Elohim, the Great Body of perfected souls that created the world.
Being thus conscious of the mind of the Father, when the Father wills to build the house (see first chapter of Haggai), his Spirit will move within each individual and cause him to be conscious that it is the will of the Father, and therefore, it is the will of each to come out from the world, to gather together into one place, “the place prepared of God”, where the whole body will be led and instructed by the Spirit that each may be his natural, spiritual self.
Every individual will be perfectly free to express his own higher, spiritual nature, and then, as the interests of all are as one – that is, the expression of the mind and will of the Father – the whole Body of 144,000 souls (or 288,000 persons) will be as one individual, and the sphere of each individual will be so enlarged as to embrace the whole Body. As the Spirit said through the apostle, “For as the body is one and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.”
We shall now consider 144,000 regenerate persons built into one Body, through the expansion of a sphere of consciousness to include the entirety of the Body: Let 1 represent a person’s normal powers; 12 represent a person’s powers after living the regenerate life; 2 × 144,000 = 288,000, or the entire Body (men and women); then the powers of the entire Body will be represented by 288,000 × 12, equaling 3,456,000, or the powers of the Body will be represented by 3,456,000 times the powers of a normal individual. Can you imagine the power of such a Body? A Body in which when one member is called into action, the whole Body contributes all its powers to the execution of that action, in the same manner that our own body functions.
In this Great Body, as we have seen, whatever the Body wills, or rather whatever the Spirit of Yahveh, who has become the life of the Body wills, each member of the Body wills, and whatever the will determines upon and centers the activities of the Body in, the powers of the whole Body, so far as necessary, help to accomplish. You who know something about the psychic power of a person to control an audience, can have some idea of the power of this Body to control the world. Thus, it is made plain that God’s methods are purely natural. When the angel showed John in the Revelation that these are to be kings and priests unto God and to reign on the earth, we are not to understand that they are to attain to that calling by some supernatural leap through the direct interposition of God.
When God said, “Let us make man in our image and like us, and let them have dominion”, he set in motion laws, which in their ultimate would bring the condition into existence that we have been trying to present to your mind – a Body of men and women that has become the temple of the living God, the God of the universe. Through the normal working of the mind of that Body (normal because in unity with its Creator), it necessarily takes control, exercises dominion over the entire mind-currents, yea, and over all the laws and creative methods active in the planet earth. In the organization of this Body and its unity with the Spirit of God, we have a picture of the exact “Image and Likeness”, for this “Image and Likeness” is the ultimation of the divine purpose, purposed in the Mind that never fails.
The difference between this Body and that of the Elohim is in degree and not in form or function, or methods of organizing. Consequently, if you have difficulty to conceive how Elohim the God and Creator of the world can be a Great Body of men, separate individually and yet one, we think what has been said concerning the gathering, preparing and organizing of this Body of 144,000, makes it plain. We think it has been made plain that when Elohim said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”, that this was the ultimate of the race, and that this gathering and organizing of the Body are the fulfilment of that declaration.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 