Part IV:
“In order to maintain your realization that you are a son of God and yet remain humble and conscious of your dependence on the Father, it is necessary that you always look upward, and if any comparison is to be made, let it be made between yourself and God and his angels. This will ever keep you humble, meek and faithful in your effort to become more and more like them. But if you begin to compare yourself with your fellow men, you at once turn your eye away from God. Your eye is no longer single and you see yourself superior to so many of your fellow men that you swell up with egoism, and the door is wide open for dark spirits to enter and to possess you, and your last state, will be worse than the first.
But by faithfulness to God and by constantly living up to the highest and the best that you know, and by seeking always the light of the Spirit to guide you in everything that you do, you become joined to and one with the Father, as God said by the prophet Hosea, “And it shall be at that day, saith Yahveh, that thou shalt call me my husband; and shalt call me no more my master.” (Hosea 2:16). Now you will know what God meant when he said by the prophet Isaiah:
“And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers; and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left.” (Isaiah 30:20-21).
You will be introduced by the Lord Christ to the Father, as he said, “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father who is in heaven.” Here will be vivid, the realization that you are introduced to the Father and to his angels, introduced into membership with that Eternal Brotherhood and are consciously a member thereof, and that you are no longer a member of this world, though a resident therein. Now you are ready to follow the Spirit wherever it leads.
As God is one, when the time will have arrived for the gathering of the first ripe fruit of the earth – for the birth of the man-child spoken of in the twelfth chapter of Revelation, which is to rule all nations as with a rod of iron – then will you be called out from the world and gathered into the place, appointed by the Father, together with the 144,000, who, like yourself, have been following the Lord wholly.
Having obtained absolute control over the body, over generation and death, when you are really introduced consciously as a member to the Eternal Brotherhood, God will say, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make an helpmeet for him”. And as the apostle said, “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord”. And, according to the Lord Christ, “They twain shall be one flesh.” Thus are brought together 288,000 individuals, but 144,000 souls, as the two become one, which Body constitutes the first ripe fruit, the holy city which came out of heaven from God, the new Jerusalem wherein dwelleth peace.
This Body will constitute the “Image of God”, and the righteousness of your soul’s desires and acts will constitute your likeness to God. Thus, there will be established on earth that Holy Body that has become indeed the Temple of God, in which Yahveh, the Formless Former of all things, will have established his throne; and through which he will take the kingdom and the dominion under the whole heaven.
Then the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God and of his anointed, the 144,000. Thus will be accomplished the purpose of God in the creation of the world: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.””
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 