Unification Through Focalization
Martin Cecil January 15, 1978
There is one most vital factor, central factor, making possible the restoration of human beings to the true state of man. I am sure that you are all aware of what that is. It is a Focal Point of Orientation, true spiritual orientation, for mankind. Without that there is nothing. Is this not focalization? We noted how resistant the attitude tends to be toward focalization, or the idea of it in human minds. There is a desire for unity, in the consciousness of human beings in general. How can a nation be unified? How can the nations be unified? There is an organization entitled The United Nations, but where are the united nations? There is no such state of affairs. Human beings with common sense would realize that unless the group, the nation, the nations of the world, all people, have a commonly accepted point of orientation there is no possibility of unification, and yet that seems to most to be impossible of achievement. Where could there be found a suitable point of orientation that would be acceptable to everybody?
There are many points of orientation in the world, various types of leadership: political, religious, scientific, social, what have you. Those who provide leadership in this regard are particularly anxious to promote their own ideologies. You can find many examples, particularly in the political field, but it works in other fields too. One must at least color the truth in order to sell the package. Usually of course downright lies are included. There are those who feel that they will be benefited by accepting a particular ideology; there are others who think they won't, so these others will resist and there will consequently be a clash. For any particular pattern of ideology that you may find there is always a contrary one. Obviously, then, everybody is not going to swallow the same bait, but human beings generally speaking are quite anxious to swallow some sort of bait. How could there possibly be any unification as long as there is conflict? And yet how earnestly people work toward trying to produce unity. There is only one way. There must be a commonly accepted point of orientation, but that point of orientation must be the true one.
Most people might say, “Well what would that be?” Those who are religiously inclined might say, “Well it would be God.” But that means different things to different people; they have their religious ideologies which are in conflict with each other. Everybody is supposed to be accepting God in that field. Why the conflict then? We recognize that they are not accepting God. They are accepting their views with respect to God, and most people feel that their beliefs in this regard, their tenets of faith, are more precious than almost anything, certainly more precious than the truth. Nevertheless there is only one way by which the unified state of man may be restored, and that is because there is a true point of orientation.
Such points of orientation have been available to mankind on a number of occasions in the past. In more recent history we may recognize the One called Jesus as having brought this point of orientation to the children of men. The orientation relates to spirit, the creative spirit of God, the spirit of the living Christ. In this instance of incarnation it may be said that it was His spirit providing the actual focus insofar as this world is concerned. When He came on earth and His facilities of expression were willing to allow His expression to appear, He provided a focus point for the one spirit which any others would necessarily have to do in representation only, because it was His spirit—He was the focus of it. He brought it into the world, revealed the quality and nature of it, and was very shortly rejected. We have recognized this and we see that He came and did whatever was possible to do, so there is no point in Him coming again. But there still is the necessity of providing the essential point of orientation which He Himself offered when He was here. He is not going to offer that again on earth and be rejected again—I am sure none of us would wish it so—but we recognize that we may have some responsibility in this matter ourselves.
In order for this point of orientation to be present, a reality in manifestation, someone must make evident that same spirit. When He Himself was on earth He found scarcely anyone who would stay with Him in an understanding way while He carried through in what then had to be done. We are aware of one of the disciples in the person of John, and some of the women. Because He was rejected it seemed likely that John would be rejected but not in quite the same way; and this is what happened. Because of these rejections, while the door was opened by the Master there were many other factors in the larger sphere of things which had to work out to a point where a specific refocalization could occur.
In every generation there has been present one who provided a point of orientation.
However this point of orientation could not offer what was necessary for the restoration to take place. For the most part whoever it was remained unrecognized—unrecognized even by the human consciousness of that particular one. Obviously something was provided which maintained a continuity down through the generations but it was only when all things came together again in the larger field that there could be initiated a refocalization of this same spirit to make possible the creative cycle of restoration. This occurred, as we recognize, in the person of Uranda, who offered a point of orientation of that one spirit for the children of men. The creative cycle then, being initiated, would be provided with what was necessary for its continued unfoldment.
In more recent years I have had the responsibility of providing a representative point of focus for that same spirit. However what is necessary in this creative cycle requires much more, obviously, than one person. That one person may provide a point of orientation for others, and presumably this is what has happened. So in varying degrees there are a number of other people who have accepted the point of orientation of this spirit. However the whole point is not exactly that. It is the acceptance of the spirit which is present at the point of orientation, so that that spirit may be experienced by others. This has been described as the holy spirit coming upon you—coming forth through your human consciousness. This makes possible an expanded, differentiated focus of spirit, the same spirit but made evident through many who have the experience of being a part of the One. On this basis the world is provided with its point of orientation. The point of orientation is, and always was, the spirit of God. That spirit finds expression through individual human beings, through their consciousness, and thereby the point of focalized orientation is expanded—it comes closer to people.
If it were just a matter of one person he would very shortly become somewhat remote. He would very shortly become an object of imagination. Because the One who incarnated as Jesus has become very remote, at the same time He became an object of imagination. So the essential factor for the restoration to occur is a point of orientation for the whole of mankind. This point of orientation includes many individual emissaries. Here is provided what is necessary for the unification of the body of mankind. The unification takes place on the basis of those who willingly orient to this point. Because a focalization of spirit is being provided there will be the impact of that spirit in the consciousness of mankind. Those who compose mankind will be affected by the impact of spirit. Some will yield in response; some will resist; and others, for the moment, may be indifferent. It is getting more difficult in the world to remain indifferent. So there is something happening here which is providing the basis for the unification of mankind; but not all those who presently are part of mankind will necessarily experience the unification.
In any creative cycle there is both integration and disintegration. But everything that is to occur in this creative way is simply consequent upon the fact that there is present on earth this essential focus of orientation. You amongst others are responsible for maintaining this. In view of the fact that the only way by which the unification of mankind can occur is as there is such a focus of orientation, then it may be seen that focalization is the key. It is the key insofar as mankind is concerned, but there is no focus of orientation unless that key is operative in that focus of orientation. If there is a rejection of focalization within the body of those who are charged with providing that focus of orientation, then that is the impulse that is released with respect to others: reject focalization. Well of course that would not be providing a true point of orientation, would it? The point of orientation comes because there is a recognition of the essential requirement of focalization. Without it, there is nothing to provide the means by which the consciousness of mankind could be unified. There must be a point of orientation which is accepted.
Presumably most of those who are associated with this ministry have accepted me as representing that point of orientation, but it isn't an acceptance of me as a person; it's an acceptance of the spirit which I represent. If I represent it truly then it's a fact that you can't separate me from that spirit; but it is always the spirit that is of vital importance. The spirit is revealed through form and that is the only valuable form. So there is the necessity of this acceptance of focalization, not just from the standpoint of me as one person but from the standpoint of what develops through all those who are participating in providing the focus of orientation. In order to permit the development of such a focalization, expanded and differentiated, there must be ways and means of bringing spirit to focus, close to those concerned. There are those who do this close to you and you bring it to focus for others with whom there is a certain closeness also.
Here we see how the differentiated focus of orientation for mankind expands into the consciousness of mankind. There must be representation of spirit at every level for every aspect that properly is present in the body of mankind. This requires a number of people. I'm not at the moment suggesting the actual number of people required. Some have the concept of one hundred and forty-four thousand, but even that might mean something not quite the way it is seen by the human intellect. However, the spirit needs to be differentiated in expanding expression for there to be an adequate focus of orientation for mankind. You amongst others are responsible for this.
I emphasize this matter of focalization because it is the core of everything.
It is also true that there are other aspects of rejection which are present in the ego consciousness of human beings and these need to be handled correctly too, but the first order of business is to handle correctly association with various points of focalization. If one does not handle correctly one's relationship with points of focalization with whom one is associated closely one will not be able to handle one's own focus of orientation for others. If there is rejection of focalization because it doesn't conform with one's own view of the way it should be, it doesn't satisfy one's own state of awareness, one will be encouraging those who otherwise might be yielding in response to focalization to question this necessity.
It is when a person becomes conscious of focalization that the rejection process tends to begin. As long as a person is not conscious of the necessity of focalization he is inclined to go along. We may be very thankful that the vast majority of people who are beginning to yield in response know very little about focalization. They do not yet see, insofar as the majority is concerned, what the point of focus is, where the point of orientation is. We may be thankful that it is so, because as soon as they begin to become conscious of what it is and where it is then they proceed to reject it. They proceed to reject it and are encouraged in this procedure if there are those who should be sharing in this point of expanded orientation who are yet resisting focalization.
I'm sure you can see that if this point of focalization is to have the power to stand regardless of what comes, there must be unification. We are able to stand when we are united, but we are only united on the basis of the pattern of focalization, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it, whether they like it or not—it makes no difference. We need to learn to handle the situation exactly the way it is. As we do this delightedly then the unification may occur. We don't make it occur. The unification occurs by reason of the working of spirit, because the spirit is unified; and if we are oriented in the spirit the way it works—not the way we'd like it to work or the way we think it ought to work or the way that would be most pleasing to us, but in the way that it is actually working—then we experience the reality of unification brought about by the working of the spirit.
When the Master Himself was on earth He spoke of His gospel, the gospel of the kingdom: “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” What was He saying here? Well first of all presumably there is a King in the Kingdom; otherwise there wouldn't be a Kingdom—in other words the point of focus, the point of orientation, is there. But the authority and the rulership of such a King could not be solely handled by Him. What the Master was saying was that control is at hand. Control—and the control becomes apparent on the basis of focalization. It isn't an imposed control; it's a control that's delightedly accepted. If it isn't that, then the experience of what is referred to as the Kingdom of Heaven will not be known.
We accept the point of orientation in one spirit, so that this one spirit becomes one's own and informs everything which finds expression in one's living. When it does that you will handle every situation that arises in that one spirit. You won't require the situation to be some certain way. You'll simply handle it the way it is but in that one spirit. As we all begin to learn to do this we stop judging each other, we stop trying to make each other conform to some human concept; we allow things to be the way they are, bringing to bear this creative expression of spirit into that situation. On this basis there begins to be unification of the focalized point of orientation for the body of mankind, and when there is unification in that focus of orientation there will be the influence of unification beyond—but if it isn't present within, it won't be beyond.
So I call this to your remembrance. Let us acknowledge the necessity for this expanded, differentiated focus to provide orientation for the consciousness of mankind, but we need to be very sure that it is a point of true orientation. It will only be that to the extent that we are a part of this whole, because we have learned to function in relationship to the facts as they are present in this whole. The situation with which we are faced is the only one we have, and it didn't appear by chance. It's there for a reason. The reason is mostly that you should learn to handle it wisely. Did you ever find situations repeating themselves in your experience? Why? Well, you maybe didn't handle it wisely the first time.
Let us acknowledge the reason why we are here: to represent this one spirit and thereby provide a point of firm, strong orientation on earth to which all people may look. All people may not look, but unless the point of orientation is there, there would be nothing for anyone. So we are here to provide this, to keep it fresh, new and strong, by reason of our own constant behavior, the evidence of our ability to be emissaries of the Word, carrying the spirit of truth into the world. This is our responsibility and the responsibility of many more than those who are here present this evening. Let us share all together in this essential factor in manifestation on earth.
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