“The difference between the manifestation of the angels of God that are sent to his people, and the manifestation of the spirits of darkness that come to the spiritualistic medium is very marked. The spirits of darkness demand absolute obedience, they demand the surrender of your highest intellect, of your mental conclusions; they demand absolute obedience regardless of your own ideas of morality and right; they also make themselves known and many times claim to be a beloved relative that has passed over; whoever you love most they will personify. They try to make you believe that they are the angels of God sent to guide you, but they are lying spirits.
Remember, God’s angels cannot be called upon to do this or that for you. Your mind must be centered on God, on the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, Yahveh Elohim, and as your mind is centered on God – the highest that you can imagine – if you want help, you do not call upon the angel that is sent to guide you, but you call upon God; and as the angel is God’s messenger, if you have confidence in God and you are doing all in your power, then it is the angel’s office to add sufficient power to you to enable you to accomplish. In other words, in place of coming to you as a personality, God’s angel will even prevent you from seeing him or from knowing of his presence, but many times he will draw so near to you that he will simply unite his consciousness, his mental power to yours, and for the moment you know as he knows, you feel as he feels, you perceive the situation as clearly as he perceives it.
Mark you, the angel does not tell you that thus and so is true – only the dark spirits tell you such things. The angel of God causes you to know for yourself, then he leaves you and you feel as if you had been dropped from a high pinnacle; but you have the knowledge that he has imparted to you, and it is for you, yourself, to use that knowledge to do and to accomplish and to discriminate between right and wrong, good and evil, truth and error. You will then realize that good is that which aids you to work in accordance with the Divine Purpose, and evil is that which hinders you from working in accordance with that purpose.
The standards of good and evil that have been set up in the world by men must be carefully examined, and perhaps, some of them laid aside; for, as we have shown in the first part of this work, we are judged according to our beliefs and our own soul condemns or justifies us in the proportion that we act in accordance with our beliefs. Therefore at this point, it will be necessary for you to put your whole mind on God and to desire wisdom that will enable you to discriminate between good and evil, and in order that the Spirit may reveal to you what is good and what is evil.
Here is a delicate point. It is only through great devotion, through earnest prayer, and a careful life that you will be enabled to set the right standards and to remove the errors. Your soul must be free from established beliefs, beliefs that were established during the dark period of man’s existence, for the angel of the Lord has now been sent to you to lead you out from the old order into the new. That which was moral and just and righteous under the old order of life has now passed away; the standards of righteousness have advanced to higher planes. However, the standards established by the Lord Christ in that noted Sermon on the Mount are not changed; not one of the standards of the Lord Christ’s life is changed. Only the standards that you and your predecessors have set up will be torn down, and they are now being torn down.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 