Movement Toward Integration

Movement  Toward  Integration

Implosion

Alan Hammond   September 15, 1985

"Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth, that that Word might be made flesh. That summarizes my purpose and commission. Each one of you, and all who have shared in the creative process by which this flesh has been drawn together by reason of the power of the Word of Truth to constitute a spiritual body on earth, can share with me the same statement of willingness: Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth for which I am responsible, that this body may indeed be complete and available, with an open heart and mind, for the right use of the Supreme One. This commission is no less yours than it is mine. The Spirit of Truth has called it to your remembrance and is now calling it to your remembrance in this very moment." from  Tradition Transmuted  Martin Exeter  September 8, 1985

I expect most here are aware that this Sunday falls upon the Fifty-third anniversary of the birth of this ministry. [Sunday, September 16, 2018 is the Eighty-sixth anniversary] It's not a tradition that is very strongly kept but in the light of Martin's words that I just read, we could hardly have a more fitting statement of purpose for the presence of this ministry in form on earth, or a greater statement of purpose for us as individuals. We are here as angels in human form to restore the experience and the government of the Supreme One on earth, and to do this we recognize it has to begin in human consciousness and experience—our own specifically. What a wonderful aspect to our commission on earth in this matter of transmuting traditions. The word "transmutation" has several shades of meaning but the primary meaning is to change the nature of a substance to another, usually a base substance to a finer substance, and this would include therefore any forms which were composed of such substances.

Think of the traditions that we daily live in. I suppose there's the family tradition; that's a pretty solid tradition. Husbands and wives. Parents and children. We're on earth to transmute the quality of that experience from something which has, for one thing, become extremely self-centered—transmuting it into something exquisitely beautiful as a pattern of angelic association within the design of the whole, to play a very particular part in a much larger design. We're not in families merely to extract personal satisfaction, and to judge and condemn should that not be our experience in that pattern, but rather, by introducing the expression of the angelic spirit in manhood or womanhood. There is the relationship between man and woman—something of sublime potential. Usually married couples on earth don't think of matters sublime after awhile, and yet we're here to transmute whatever the base or mottled experience may have been, into something sublime. That is not to say what the forms of interaction might be, but the quality of one's own expression into such a pattern is part of our commission on earth. And in our relationship with children—a tradition. Is there not the opportunity for the children in our lives, especially those that were born to us, an opportunity to reveal as never before on earth, the truth of Being in human form so that children may have a glorious inspiration and example to emulate, not emulate in every detail of parental ambition for children, because true god parents revealing God to children don't have that kind of dogmatic “living through the children” consciousness—but an opportunity to allow children to awaken much sooner than we ever had opportunity, awaken to  the true quality of identity and spiritual purpose.

What wonderful commissions to transmute traditions we have right with us, and this applies to other kinds of relationships we know—traditional relationships men with men, women with women. It is traditional in the world for women to mistrust women and men to mistrust men. Oh we might say "Not in all things. I trust so-and-so to do a good job on my car"—which is quite a modest expectation. But how about fulfilling this aspect of the commission for oneself, to begin to transmute the relationships men with men, so that competition for example is no longer—well, put it this way, it's a sordid thought—it's a sordid thought, competition, which endeavors to push someone else down or reduce someone else's appearance. What a remarkable thing if men really trusted men and worked in love together to accomplish this great purpose for which we are incarnate, so that whenever anyone thought of you, they knew there would be a noble man who would never—you know for sure—he would never have been criticizing you behind your back, or anything of that nature. And with women the same. The traditional cattiness of women—mistrust, insecurity, backbiting—all those traditions need to be transmuted into the truth of love between women, something no doubt exquisitely fine, intense. What's the truth of that? These are the truths which we are here to give flesh to.

Traditional attitudes towards money. "Let me pile up as much as I can" is the tradition. We are here to transmute that grasping attitude, which at its base is an endeavor to get the money to buy the things which will produce what we think is heaven in our experience. We already know that heaven is created and experienced not by grabbing but by giving expression to the truth of our Being. This is what brings heaven, and in that spirit and in that character is our stewardship of material substance, resources—monetary resources, or physical resources, mental resources, our talents. What about transmuting all those talents we may have—artistic, intellectual—our unique talents—how about transmuting all of those out of the traditions, out of traditional uses of those talents which are usually for fame or self-satisfaction or monetary gain of some sort—reputation, status. How about transmuting all that tradition simply by thinking of one's expression in these fields as an opportunity to express the truth of love and the glory of life into the whole for the blessing of the whole, which such spirits certainly would be.

And so it goes. All these encased traditions in human consciousness; attitudes in human consciousness, which then create traditions of behavior externally. Our commission on earth is marvelous—to leave all that jaded junk behind. How boring it all gets!—trying to hack fulfilment while at the same time we are perpetuating human traditions in consciousness. But we are adequately aware, we're adequately awake or we wouldn't be in this Dome Chapel, and we're adequately aware to discern this new vista of creative opportunity which is with us now, to transmute all these traditional patterns of life through human form. Is there anything else worth doing? I don't think so.

Although we do, all of us, share a natural responsibility, of course, of extending the true Tone of life into the larger world beyond the Spiritual Body—there would really be no point in being on earth if we weren't to allow the experience of heaven which we are increasingly knowing to extend beyond ourselves and invite others to share of that same experience—but although this is a natural expression of our own Beings, all of us, individually and together, it might be worth noting that the primary area of creative work lies actually within the Spiritual Body. What is this? Not that we should become self-centered, or become isolationists—far from it. But there is a quality of substance which is generated by those who have had opportunity for spiritual education; there is a conscious understanding in such people's awareness which allows them to work together in a far more intimate way than is possible, usually, with anyone beyond the Spiritual Body.

We know very well there are wonderful people of integrity everywhere on the fact of the earth who aren't called emissaries. We also know, however—I'm sure you've had this experience; I know I have—that very often people who come, rehearsing all sorts of difficulties they're having in life, problems, difficulties with family, money, jobs, whatever, if they've had no basic spiritual education, you can't find a foundation to really help them get a clear footing to do something creative in their lives. They're full of excuses—they're full of rationalizations, false beliefs, wishful thinking, blamings, criticisms, arguments as to why they can't express right spirit.

Now even those of us who have had this spiritual training, we lapse into that kind of mish-mash too, but with those who have had the training you can at least point to the person and say, “Look, at least you know you're an angel theoretically. At least you know you should be expressing right spirit. At least you know theoretically it's got nothing to do with what anyone else is doing as to why you should not express right spirit, and so on.” And that basic conscious understanding is quite a foundation to begin to work together. There's a common understanding, there's a common aspiration, there's a commonly shared conscious purpose, and really, the deepest levels of interaction and relationship and function together can emerge much more easily out of a shared substance of consciousness like that, than with people who will go along so far with you and then they're off—they've got other priorities, they've got their families, or they've got patriotism, or their careers, or something which will at some point hold them out of the union in purpose and function.

And the greatest work really is introducing into the world in the finer substance—new patterns of heavenly experience, and that requires the purest substance, the most protected substance, the shared substance, the refined substance. The coarser substance further away from the core of the Spiritual Body tends to have the old tradition asserting itself all the time, interfering. But as we in the Spiritual Body begin to generate this pure and purer substance of spiritual expression, out of our relatedness, out of our relationships within the core, there begins to emerge new experiences of heaven in our conscious experience and expression. These new patterns of heavenly experience have to start somewhere in the body of mankind, and it will come through wherever collective substance is the purest. There are many individuals scattered throughout the body of mankind who are undoubtedly angelic in their expression to a large extent, but the limitations of their experience are governed by the fact that they are isolated. The fact that there are numerically more who are generating purer and finer substance allows for a far richer range of experience and expression because we are a collective Body, and there are things which numbers of people can create together which individuals alone cannot. So we have a core responsibility, not only to generate this refined substance of spiritual expression, but then to let spirit move through that refined substance producing new patterns of relatedness and activity which are heavenly in experience—and in effect releasing those essences into the larger body, which is our sole purpose for doing all this. Not just to acquire the heavenly experience for ourselves—if that's our real purpose it'll soon fizzle out. In the Spiritual Body there is expansion going on at the core. We know this from our personal experience.

You know, Martin has been rather a father figure to virtually the whole ministry. And I know from my experience that when I touched this ministry I was young in years, and so were many of the body, and they came along, willing to move towards the Tone, to be united with the Tone, and they were in their teens, twenties, early thirties. But now the earthly cells of this Spiritual Body are maturing—under the intensified radiation from the angelic Being within, maturing is occurring in consciousness. You begin to have a maturing, collective organ within the larger body of mankind, which is capable of allowing the spirit of God to find form and release into the body of mankind in a more expanded way.

I know in my experience of my own external consciousness, how self-centered attitudes are receding, that identification in the true quality of Being is increasing—and that is being experienced in all of us, I'm sure. This has significance in the body of mankind in the world today. Critical days in which the world finds itself, because what we're finding in the world is an implosion, actually. Not an explosion, but an implosion. There is a movement towards integration. Now, human consciousness is not aware of this, but here is the second coming of Christ, as it has been put. Christ is just a name for the spirit of love. Love integrates, and the second coming of the Spirit of Love is intensely underway, causing an implosion in this world, particularly in the consciousness of the body of mankind. Just the shrinking of the world in the external geographical sense is causing an implosion, an integration in every other level and facet of human consciousness. There is, under the influence of this implosion, this integration occurring within human consciousness—it's not so evident with religion; it's probably more evident in things like science where one body of science was isolated from another body of science, and from another body of science, but in this process of integration and implosion, they're finding that one body of knowledge affects another body of knowledge and it's all melting into one vast—you get the idea! And it is becoming overwhelming to the human intellect because the human intellect cannot possibly encompass all that is in one body of knowledge, let alone trying to embody all the knowledge which begins to loom as all these areas are found to be inextricably interrelated and interacting. It is overwhelming to the human intellect. Politically this is happening, religiously this is happening, this implosion, and fundamentally it is the coming of the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Oneness—and Fire is the symbol of Love. And human consciousness will melt—it will melt one way or another. Much better to yield and let heaven and earth become one, which is the true process of implosion, unification, and unification is the restoration once again of the experience of the oneness of heaven and earth.

That's the unification that's taking place—the awareness of the union of heaven and earth, of Divine Being and human form, of God and man, of heaven and earth. This is being inextricably forced upon the body of mankind, and we have a conscious part to play in it all. Whereas human beings, finding this process going on, find fire produced because of friction, because they are wedded to their external traditions of thinking and behavior—friction is caused as they are pushed together; friction is caused; fire is caused; heat—we, on the other hand, have the opportunity of allowing the union of heaven and earth within our own consciousness because we ourselves are identified in the true spirit of Love, Truth and Life, and as we express that spirit we find heaven appears all around us. That is the true process of implosion, of union, and therefore we provide a focus for this process which is transpiring on earth now. This is our responsibility. What a thrilling position in the design on earth in which we now find ourselves. It's a conscious position of responsibility, to allow heaven and earth to become one—an emissary of divine light does not have a narrow-minded view of him- or herself. An emissary of divine light does not think he or she is superior to all the other unwashed masses cluttering the earth—it's not better or worse at all.

We're not at all concerned how many emissaries there are. "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" That used to be quite a question discussed by medieval theologians—"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" I know I have meditated upon this—"How many emissaries do we need to save the world?" It's the same kind of futile pastime. Really, all one is concerned with is one's own quality of spiritual expression, never mind even the person next to you. It is the quality of my own spiritual expression and stature for which I am responsible. The Spiritual Body is obviously responsible, like an organ, maybe a particular gland within the collective body of mankind, a gland responsible for generating a particular quality of substance necessary in the life processes in the whole body of mankind. The adrenals, for example, secrete minute amounts of substance over the course of a lifetime, and yet the effects of those minute drops of adrenaline are quite electric in one's own experience. Martin has likened the Spiritual Body to the pineal gland—and there are several unknown secretions coming from the pineal, and that's a good analogy, an analogy which allows us to see that we're not looking at what anybody else is doing. The spirit of God after all is animating all those people too, to whatever extent. Our responsibility is to generate the particular quality of substance appropriate through this collective Body and allow the spirit to use that substance as it will, which is a little bit above any of our intellects to fathom just how exactly it is used. So who cares, as long as I am fulfilling my part in the larger design! But that larger design is served by me primarily through what I bring to focus in this Spiritual Body, this spiritual gland, of which I am a more immediate part.

So how simple the truth finally is for each of us as individuals and for us collectively, because we surely wish to serve the vast Design of God. We would like to think that we are playing our part in the whole Cosmic Design, the One Design, but that requires that I am expressing my true self exactly where I am in that Design, which is in this Spiritual Body. And we may thank God for the particular and peculiar place in the Design in which we find ourselves where there is this much consciousness of what our role is—the Word made flesh. Do we not share thankfulness to the Lord for being in human form here and now that we may play our parts in His purposes on earth.

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Tradition  Transmuted

Martin Exeter   September 8, 1985

Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth, that that Word might be made flesh. That summarizes my purpose and commission. Each one of you, and all who have shared in the creative process by which this flesh has been drawn together by reason of the power of the Word of Truth to constitute a Spiritual Body on earth, can share with me the same statement of willingness: Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth for which I am responsible, that this Body may indeed be complete and available, with an open heart and mind, for the right use of the Supreme One. This commission is no less yours than it is mine. The Spirit of Truth has called it to your remembrance and is now calling it to your remembrance in this very moment. Here am I—send me into this Body, not to condemn it but to raise it up, to raise it up by the power of the spirit, that the Supreme One may have a Body through which to reveal the wonder, the beauty and the glory of Being on earth. All this is being called to remembrance by the Spirit of Truth.

There are many things in memory which must be forgotten. The forgetting process is the process of letting whatever is present in that memory be transmuted into the experience and expression of the Truth. Garbage is transmuted into a useful substance for the soil by very natural processes. We might call those processes miraculous, but they are also very natural. The truly natural is miraculous. This morning we were speaking about tradition. Tradition is to be transmuted, raised up into present experience. Some might say that, in utilizing a passage from the Old Testament, this was a very traditional thing to do. I am sure many sermons have been preached upon the verse which I read. How shall that tradition pass away, without letting the truth of it transmute the tradition into present living experience?

Here am I—send me. The Spirit of Truth calls to remembrance that statement of commission now accepted into the memory of human consciousness. The commission was accepted: we are here; but the fact of it has tended to be withheld and excluded from our own consciousness until the Spirit of Truth is permitted to call it to remembrance. It may be a somewhat faint memory to start with; it somehow rings a little bell in consciousness. But gradually, as we remain immersed in the heavenly atmosphere—because we eschew discord, for one thing—the memory becomes clearer, the Tone of the bell sounds loud and clear. Because that Tone sounds loud and clear the Word of Truth is known and spoken. Then because it is known and spoken the Word is made flesh. We have the evidence of that flesh in our own physical forms, and in our own experience of this spiritual body. Here is tradition being transmuted into present fact. As it is, there is no need for the tradition anymore; it is gone, because the Truth is here, known, and in expression. We all have the joyous privilege of sharing it.

We have been sent, certainly, not to condemn this Body which is taking form, nor to condemn the greater body of mankind which is included in our commission, but to raise it up. We have, in whatever measure, let our own flesh and consciousness be raised up to a certain level. We have proof of the effectiveness and the power of the Spirit of Truth in action. We have perhaps delayed the process by forgetting what we have been reminded of year after year: that we did not come on earth to condemn the body that should take form, but to raise it up. If we ourselves have been raised up to the extent that we have, then surely we should be most willing to let others be raised up also. We would never put a stumbling block which might prevent the process from working in others. We would not put a stumbling block to prevent the process from working in our own minds and hearts, through self-condemnation, but consciously, on earth, trust the creative power of the Spirit, which we were commissioned to bring, to do its work. Not by human efforts, not by anything that can be humanly devised, is this miraculous process brought to pass, but simply because there are those human hearts and minds, present in human form on earth, that are willing to let tradition pass because it is transmuted into present experience by the Spirit. Do we still have so much faith, humanly speaking, in the hopes and the efforts of human minds and hearts unaware of the Truth? Surely not. We have the commission, and the Spirit of Truth calls it to remembrance. It is being called to remembrance in the words that I am speaking now, called to remembrance in your consciousness and in my own. If I call it to remembrance in words, because of what it is that springs forth into expression in this moment, so also can you.

There is One Spirit—to be differentiated, it is true, but it all springs from that One Spirit—the focus of which is present because of this collective flesh Body which is taking form by reason of the Word. Indeed it is the Word made flesh, and it is adequate because of this, if the consciousnesses of those concerned are willing to let it be adequate. There has been a certain unwillingness in this regard, both with respect to the personal sense of inadequacy, which is there in human beings because the Truth has not been called to remembrance; and there is also the inadequacy that is supposed to exist in others, where one might say, “I cannot trust this Body because the members thereof are so inadequate.” That is a dangerous judgment to make, in the first place, “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” And we have considerable experience of this.

What is sown must be reaped, and when it is reaped let us not sow again the same tare seeds. What would the purpose be? Yet this is done continuously in human experience, but surely not in the experience of the consciousness of this Body. Undoubtedly there is some harvest around yet to be reaped by each of us individually and by all of us collectively. This is the traditional condition, humanly established, and so the traditions come home to roost. But we need not sow the same seeds which produced them in the first place, the seeds which were sown in separation from the Supreme One and from His Spirit.

We would sow these true seeds now, and always: no judgment—that clutters up the landscape. We are simply concerned with the Beauty of Truth, which allows for the experience of the Wonder of Love and the Glory of Life. Here am I—send me to reveal the unhindered Glory of Life. I no longer can allow my human consciousness to suppose that there is anything that can prevent it. Here am I—send me through this particular human form, through this particular mind and heart, to speak the Word of Truth, that the Word may be made flesh, the flesh of this Spiritual Body which has taken form and is continuing to take form in the midst of the flesh body of mankind.

The Father sent not his son through this Body into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through this flesh Body, might be raised up, the body of mankind might be raised up. We see this happening. We may observe the changes that are being wrought in the consciousness of many people. There are many more perhaps in whom there is no great evidence of constructive change, but there is change nevertheless. Some are raised up, some go down, but all this comes to pass just to the extent that there is this core Body revealing the Word made flesh. We would never condemn this Body. If we condemn this Body we certainly condemn the world, because what happens in this Body is what happens in the world.

If the Word is truly allowed to be made flesh—because we don’t buck it, we don’t object to it, we don’t judge it, we don’t condemn it, we let it be—then condemnation is not offered to the world, but the power of salvation, that all the traditions of men may be transmuted into the experience of the Word made flesh. This is the trust that we hold in our hands. Our concern as angels on earth is to let this Body of flesh be raised up. Our concern is with this Body. It is of supreme importance to us. We are concerned constantly with the welfare of this Body, to bless it—certainly not to curse it by our condemnation in judgment but to bless it with our Spirit, which we bring individually through our flesh bodies, minds and hearts, into every momentary experience. Here we are, awakened in consciousness to do this. Here we are again on earth—aware.

The Beauty of Truth is received into the expression of heart and mind in each moment of living, that this Body may prosper, that this body may be charged with the expression of our individual differentiation of this One Spirit constantly. Certainly we would never allow our hearts and minds to become parasitic, sucking the life-blood out of this Body, which is done when we forget why it is we are here—and we forget that because we deny the Spirit of Truth. Let us never deny or betray the Spirit of Truth. Betrayal is fatal. Denial may have a second chance, even a third and a fourth until seventy times seven, but don’t trade on that! for somewhere along the way the books are closed—that’s it. We would that when that happens we ourselves might be assured that we have fulfilled our task, that we did not fail.

So I am thankful that we are able, in our earthly hearts and minds, to comprehend what it is that has taken form in words this evening, and so be reminded of the Truth, of the Angelic Commission which is the fact for each one, however much or however little that may have been as yet the experienced fact. We rejoice as angels to abide in heaven and to conduct ourselves fittingly through the equipment that is available to us in the fulfillment of the commission and the purpose for which we are present in human form.

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Unification Through Focalization

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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