The Incarnate Focus
Alan Hammond October 15, 2006
Because of the lack of fine spiritual substance in human beings, they have a sense of isolation from the greater design of life and there are gaps in awareness about virtually everything—particularly about how they fit into the Divine Design and how to function properly in it.
I remember when I was a youth in England, I considered spiritual things, as no doubt we all did, and read some philosophical treatises. I remember thinking, “I wonder where the wisest man in the world is? Wherever he is, he wouldn’t be in the public eye because he’d be wise enough to realize what a colossal distraction it is to be famous—constantly dealing with clamoring people!” Some years later I met Martin Exeter who was living in Canada. He became the tangible focus, leader and mentor in my life. There were many people who regarded him in this way. Sometimes people asked me, “Do you think Martin is the focus for the world?” I always replied, “I don’t know, but I know he is my focus.” And because of the quality of his character and living I was very confident that he was in alignment with his focus, whether that focus was incarnate or otherwise.
All living forms have within themselves, a point of control for the organism. This principle of focus and control relates to collective patterns of form also. In every hive of bees there is a queen. In the body of humanity there are presidents of countries and corporations. Control, government, always comes to focus in one person. This is also true for what we have called the Archangelic Body. That Body has a single human being as its focus. This focus provides the finest, or primary contact point between the undimensional levels of Being and the creative field in which human beings exist. In the fallen state people invariably have a great deal of trouble with the principle of focalization. This is because the individual ego is isolated and self-centered, feels insecure and therefore tends to resist direction by anyone else. However, there is some justification for this reluctance to follow leadership, because after all, in the body of mankind leaders are invariably simply larger egos seeking to impose their self-centered will on others. So the harmonious coordination in the body of mankind is totally disrupted and confused.
We are very familiar with the idea that there is an overall focus for the Archangelic Body—the idea that the body of mankind should be oriented in a point of deity. This idea is represented in virtually all the religions. By whatever name that focus of deity is known, it is felt there is such an One. In the western world and in Christianity particularly, the point of focus is known as the KING of Kings or the Lord of Love. This acknowledged point of focus is conceived to reside in the undimensional levels of Being. But let us consider our relationship to the incarnate point of focus, who we might say is the King’s representative on earth.
In simple terms, governmental radiation from the KING in the undimensional levels of being emerges into the dimensional levels, and those currents are brought to focus through the incarnate focus in the Body, and this focus of control is at the level where the creative action is to occur. I want to emphasize at this point that each human being still has his or her personal connection with the KING. After all, they are an aspect of His Being, and He of theirs. This is true also with respect to the incarnate focus. Our spirit is an aspect of his, and his is an aspect of ours. However we need to recognize that certain currents are coordinated through this particular incarnate focus. Now who, or where is this incarnate focus? To be the focus he must be, and is, the clearest, most conscious revelation of the true Tone of Being—wherever he is.
We are aware that there have been several major cycles in the process of the restoration of fallen man. There was the physical level approach, which was able to be participated in by the largest number of human beings because the consciousness of most human beings is focused at the physical level. Later the focus moved into the mental level of substance in the creative process. Because of this, considerably fewer human beings were able to consciously participate. In more recent days the focus of the creative process moved into the spiritual expression level of substance, and very few people had the quality of substance necessary to be able to consciously participate in the cycle. If this cycle was unsuccessful, then the focus of divine action would move into the undimensional levels, where hardly any human beings at the moment could participate. They would be completely unaware of this level of spiritual function. This is because, in the undimensional and spiritual expression levels of function, action is primarily vibrational and not in the outer levels of form.
Now back to our consideration of the current incarnate focus of the Body. Where is he? Well he is obviously visible since he is incarnate, but virtually no one can see him as the focus. We are not connected to him through some religious body, or through some particular nationality, or some particular language. It is not necessary for us to seek him out, to find him, nor is it necessary for anyone else to do so in order to get close to him so they can cooperate. His connections throughout the Archangelic Body are vibrational, rather like the principle of communication within the human body. It would be hopeless waiting for everybody to seek and find this incarnate focus. The very idea shows how impractical the human mind is, and also how ignorant it is about the true means of communication within the overall Body. And in any case, physical proximity does not necessarily mean spiritual proximity. We are linked to him, as others are, by reason of the quality of our spiritual expression, and thereby the quality of connective substance available.
There is no need for this point of focus to issue claims about his position. All the angels know his position in the design. In any case, the life currents are working through the design anyway, whether human beings recognize it or not. There are many advantages with the focus being invisible to the public. For one thing there is no overt opposition, which invariably arises when a focus of spiritual power is recognized as being present and exerting pressure on the fallen ego state. The currents of life are clarifying the Archangelic Body one way and another. We don’t have to try to “convert” other human beings, but should seek to intensify the quality of our own spiritual expression and let that be expressed into our worlds as he does.
When we bring our worlds to him, as we are doing in a meditation such as this (we can do it within our own consciousness anytime), together we are seeking to bring our creative fields to him, and the currents of life are subsequently intensified in our fields of responsibility. Now a consideration such as this may seem to be merely a concept, and at the moment we may not have any particular feeling relative to this incarnate focus, and that is quite alright. However, the process is still useful for our outer consciousnesses, providing them with some infilling of awareness, which may be useful in our future function.
The physical, mental and spiritual expression planes of substance are all spiritual, and there are some aspects of each level in all human beings and indeed in all living forms. There is nothing inferior about any of the levels of substance. There is certainly nothing inferior, for example, about the angels incarnate in human form who are more consciously functioning at the physical level. It just means that that is the level at which the outer form’s consciousness is primarily focused. Our primary level of responsibility lies at the spiritual expression and undimensional levels of Being. It could be said that we are not identified with the Archangelic Body, but with the Spirit of the Body. Now actually this is true of everyone. Identified in spirit, we know ourselves as an aspect of Being, “I Am.” My nature is Love, Truth and Life. As I say, this is true of everyone in reality, but most people are unconscious of this. Therefore, like the incarnate focus and as a part of the conscious spiritual focus, we don’t need to be anywhere in particular on earth. Nor do we need to be seen and recognized by other people. Our focus of responsibility is not at the level of administration in the Body, which relates to the physical and mental levels. Our primary responsibility is in the undimensional and spiritual expression levels of our Being. There is no need for us to seek out the incarnate focus, because we are already one with him as we are identified in the Tone. We are free to serve where we are, knowing the interconnectedness of the vibrational design.
The Supreme Focus once said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” In that same spirit we can relate to everyone and everything and know that we do it unto Him, to both the Supreme Focus and to the incarnate focus. Living and expressing this spirit towards everyone and everything, we are being true to the identity and spirit inherent in all form. Thus we can know complete meaning. Not only do we know oneness with our larger Self, we also serve the true spirit of every person and every living thing on the face of the earth. It is worth remembering that our every momentary action affects the well-being of the incarnate focus. We constantly help or hinder.
We have said that most people lack the fine substance by which they might perceive the incarnate focus, the Lord on earth. But the lack of substance also prevents people from seeing the Lord in other people also, or indeed seeing the spirit coming through all living form. Their consciousness tends to be preoccupied and distracted with the distortions of the outer levels, so they don’t see the reality inherent in all form. We often see and admire the spirit, indeed the Lord when it is expressed through other people and through nature all around us. We love their often heroic, beautiful expression of Life. However, they themselves are invariably unconscious of their own identity. And yet when they express such qualities of the beautiful, true character, they often think of those characteristics as themselves. So we can begin to provide a link for them, knowing that they are expressions of Life, the Creator—Love, Truth, and Life. Part of our job is to provide a focus of self-conscious spirit within the Body. This awareness of true identity is then known in the undimensional, spiritual expression, mental and physical levels of substance.
The incarnate focus is especially relevant to us because he shares with us the life experience in human form, and therefore knows the challenges we face in the level of human experience, and yet he maintains a clear focus of Being in the midst of this fallen state.
If this meditation has come to us, why is this? Perhaps it is because we may be of some unique value to him and have particular responsibilities in the re-creative cycle in which we find ourselves. Surely our message to him now and continuously is that we acknowledge the pleasure and privilege of being invited to draw vibrationally close to him, that we would offer our love and support by reason of our momentary service where we are in the design, that we are open to his vibrational direction in our lives so that we can be of the greatest service to him and to the Archangelic Body, and that we may with our finest expression, complement the great Archangelic Spirit wherever we encounter it.
During subsequent comment and conversation questions arose as to whether the incarnate point of focus remains the same one or whether that pattern shifts or changes, and whether this focus was always male.
Alan — I don’t think there is time or necessity just now to elaborate much beyond the essential principle outlined in this meditation, that there is always an incarnate focus on Earth. However, relative to the male-female question, obviously there is a female component to the subject. There is no doubt whatsoever that God is male and female. (“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”) Male and female have different roles—that’s why there are different sexes! Certain aspects of creative function focus in the male, and certain aspects focus in the female. I used the word “he” because the function I had in mind for this meditation relates primarily to a male responsibility—that of connecting into a larger context. Now as to whether the Supreme Point of Focus remains the same person. It always depends on many factors in the creative field. For example, a child of three would not be able to provide the same point of focus as a mature man or woman. One individual does not live very long. Immediately upon the incapacity or death of the form of the focus, then a change would occur, and so on. My point here is that at any time there is always a Supreme Incarnate Focus within the Body. There is no reason to try to look all over the Earth for this person. The essential process we have outlined moves easily from one person to the next, and is automatically operational. We always have an incarnate focus.
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