“The next important thought is Our Relation To Yahveh, the Formless Former and Cause of all things, the Life animating all life, the Substance originating all substance, “in whom we live and move and have our being.” As we have said, in Yahveh, is all that is; and as the Lord Christ said, “All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.” In our prayer to Yahveh, it is necessary to realize first that Yahveh is the Will of the Universe, and this being true, there is no power of any name or nature, or form of manifestation, that is not the manifestation of Yahveh, the Will that produced all things.
In considering the thought of prayer to Yahveh, the Omnipresent, the Source and Fountain from which all things flow, there is much that each person must learn from himself; there is only a little that can be put into words, but that little is enough to guide the mind in the right direction; the natural intuition and the spiritual leading must fill in the deficiency which words cannot express.
When the great general truth of the existence and manifestation of Yahveh, (1) in the form of the perfected souls, the Elohim, and (2) in the creation of all things, is understood, then we can begin to ascend the ladder that was prepared for us by the Christ and prophetic revelation – ascend, until we reach the realm where all is light, all is perfect knowledge, perfect at least so far as the individual is capable of utilizing it in the sphere in which he lives.
When we speak of perfection in the line of knowledge, we rejoice to be able to say that there is no such thing as perfection in knowledge; that is, there is no limit beyond which we cannot go, for in God’s infinite wisdom, progression is as infinite as Yahveh, the God of the universe. But we can deal only with the mentality that we have, the consciousness that we have and the Source of this consciousness.
The church has never understood this thought, because they have had but a vague idea of the Christ, his mission, and who he really is, but now that we have brought to your attention the fact that he was the incarnation of one of the Elohim, asking in his name has an expansive meaning. What is his name? The angel said, “Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.”
Then, in asking anything in his name, we must have a correct idea of what it is to be saved from sin, and that idea cannot be obtained without the conception which we have heretofore brought to light, namely, the purpose of God in the creation of man – that we may be kings and priests unto God and reign as such on the earth; or, in the language of the prayer that the Christ taught, “Let thy (the Father’s) kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven.” This then is the expression of his name, and it was the object of his coming into the world – to open the door that we may attain the object for which we were created.
When the mind comes into harmony with that object, and the life is dedicated to God – our hopes, desires, ambitions and all that we are, are centered in that object – then we shall be caused to know Yahveh Elohim, the God of the solar system. When the time comes that we shall know the Elohim, we have reached “that day” referred to by the Christ, “In that day, ye shall ask me nothing.” Therefore, it follows that when we pray, while directly we do not ask Elohim, we really are allying our consciousness to them while reaching out to Yahveh, the God of the Universe, to inspire, gather in such qualities, powers and substance as we really need to lift us upon a higher plane.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 