Cosmic Identity
condensed excerpt from a.m. & p.m. services
Martin Exeter December 28, 1986
Solstice—Christmas Day—New Year's Day: Here are three events: one cosmic, the other two man-made. Human beings can do nothing about the cosmic event; it just is the way it is, like it or not; it can't be manipulated to suit human beings.
The planet upon which we dwell is included in the cosmic rhythms and purposes. Its existence as a planet is absolutely dependent upon the fact that it is a part of the solar system. The solar system's existence is consequent upon its inclusion in the galaxy; likewise with the galaxy, by reason of its inclusion in the larger universe. Here are the natural cosmic rhythms and purposes, beyond the comprehension of human minds. The planet has a cosmic identity because it is a part of the cosmic whole. Likewise with mankind on the surface of this planet, there is also a cosmic identity. This identity has been long lost to human awareness both individually and collectively. Substituted for this is a human identity, which is deemed to be valid. If we recognize the validity of the cosmic identity, then the human identity is invalid. There is a constant attempt on the part of human beings to validate their human identity.
We have a certain awareness of these things. We are all together with one accord in one heavenly place. I'm sure we are all very conscious of our natural unification at this heavenly level. If we consider the larger cosmic scheme of things, there is the appearance of separation. There are, according to the view of the human mind at least, vast distances involved. Distances vanish to the extent that there is the experience of being together at the heavenly level, the cosmic level. There is one universe, one whole, inclusive within the scope of which is a tremendous variety, from what are deemed to be the very large to what are deemed to be the very small. We have a certain awareness of its wholeness, that it is all one. Appearances of distance and vast space do not rightly deny the fact of oneness. There is no separation; there is one whole. The cosmic identity, the only valid one, has apparently been lost to human experience.
We assemble today in one heavenly place in order that the seeming state of separateness might recede insofar as our consciousness is concerned. The separateness, which is the inevitable state of the human identity, is experienced by people everywhere as they follow out their human purposes. Consequently the cosmic purposes and rhythms are ignored to a very high degree. About the only cosmic rhythms that are present in the consciousness of most human beings relate to the succession of the seasons of the year. No one can do anything about that. If there is any awareness of cosmic purposes or cosmic rhythms, then from the standpoint of the human identity the only meaning they have is the extent to which they can be used for human purposes. All this of course has removed human beings from the cosmic rhythms.
There is a constant endeavor to prove the validity of human identity. Looking at our own individual experience there is the constant tendency to insist upon the importance, the value, the meaning, of our human identity. If anything arises to challenge that, we leap immediately to its defense. What a waste of time; what a futile endeavor. It maintains an invalid state of separateness. The human experience is one of separation. We think of ourselves as separate individuals; and as groups of individuals are put together in various ways these groupings are separate from other groupings. The nations of the world are separate, apparently, from each other. Because of this separation there is conflict based in the endeavor to maintain the variety of human identities, either individual identities or collective identities, as though they had meaning in the cosmic scheme of things. Of course the cosmic scheme of things is not thought of as having any particular meaning insofar as human affairs are concerned. This is why human affairs have become, cosmically speaking, absolutely meaningless. They seem big and important, powerful and meaningful—in spite of all the conflict—to human identities.
The thought of losing the human identity is, generally speaking, a horror of great darkness. Virtually the whole of civilization revolves around death. This is the great “fact of life”! How ridiculous. Death is simply the absence of life. Death does not validate life. Life is. Death is simply the ultimate experience of separateness, and there is no existence in a state of separateness. Existence only relates to the universal whole. So mankind's unfortunate endeavor to be something all on his own, individually and collectively, takes him out of the cosmic scheme of things, removes him from the cosmic rhythms and purposes; and the end experience of that is nothing, because there isn't anything outside of those. Yet this futile human endeavor continues.
So we come apart, at a time such as this, in order to allow our involvements in this futile human state to recede in consciousness, that there may be present, as we have an awareness in this moment, a unification, a unification in oneness because we find ourselves in the same place, but not the same physical place. We are apart from each other, even sitting wherever we are; there is space in between, and this space in between is what is emphasized in the consciousness of the human identity. We are separate people. “I'm a separate person; I'm very important. My separation is very important.” This is the human view, isn't it?
There are those who try to make a unified state in the human experience while still maintaining the human identity. It's impossible. We have all kinds of systems which endeavor to do this. It's a waste of time. It doesn't work. None of the human endeavors work, because they are based in a lie, and the lie is this human identity. There is a cosmic identity, and each individual may participate in that cosmic identity. So far in this world human beings have opted for the human identity, and following out the shenanigans of this human identity, we have been brought, in the worldwide sense, to this pass—excluded from the cosmic whole. As long as life remains there is the possibility of discovering what inclusion in the cosmic whole would be, but that can never be discovered as long as there is a following out of human purposes in human identity. Because this has been so customary for millennia it seems impossible that there could be anything else.
But when we stand on the surface of this planet and look around us, particularly into the night sky, we become aware that there is a vast whole that moves in its own natural rhythms and for its own natural purposes. Man is not excluded from this. He has undertaken to exclude himself, and the results are evident. There is no existence outside of that whole. Man comes into the whole with the opportunity of participating in it, with cosmic identity. He doesn't do that. Human identity is maintained from generation to generation, and each generation passes away. This is not the true design. This is the way that human identity sees things.
So we come apart that we may experience the fact of the true cosmic identity, which is a unified one. The unified identity is not in external form; it is present in internal experience. The very fact of life itself is an internal experience. Life springs forth from the focus which spreads life throughout the whole. Life is then differentiated in its manifestation—but life itself is one. We share that life to the extent that we are willing to allow the human identity to pass away. That looks like death to the human identity—because it is! The human identity needs to pass away. It will anyhow sooner or later. Why do we have to wait for some future time when that experience is forced on us? And then, where did the human identity go? It vanished. It was invalid, that's why, unreal.
The experience of cosmic identity has been lost because human beings fell asleep. They exist at a subconscious level where they don't belong, and they experience all sorts of traumatic dreams in that unconscious condition. We are aware that in our experience of dreaming, in the ordinary course of events, the way to dispel the dream is to wake up. It isn't a matter of staying in the dream and trying to work out all the ramifications of the dream. How would we ever do that? Yet that's what human beings try to do. It's impossible. There is no answer, no solution in the dream state. Wake up! That is the point. The waking up is to cosmic identity. That seems very strange insofar as human identity is concerned.
Cosmic identity is described by the words I am. The fact is I am—cosmic identity, one identity differentiated in manifold ways, but all springing out of that one identity. Human beings try to have little separate identities for themselves. “Look at me, I'm very important. I achieve great things. I did this, I did that.” And all we have is conflict in consequence; it must be so. We come apart in an hour such as this to relinquish any attempt to validate our human identity, and with an open willingness to experience cosmic identity. We all find ourselves moving with the same cosmic flow. We are here together, sharing the movement of the creative process. That's more easily done in a setting such as this. It must be done in every setting everywhere. When it is, it is found to be very valid. The cosmic state is the valid state. We are surrounded by it, we are hemmed in on every side by it. Why not accept it? Yielding to the movement of the cosmic rhythms that are present we begin to discover that they are present. We had no room for them before because we were so busy about our human affairs, so busy in our human identity. So we come apart, open, yielded, to receive a new awareness as being a part of an immense cosmic whole. There is our meaning.
So we share these moments, letting a certain quietness come, a stillness, a consciousness of being in accord, a consciousness of all being together in one place, no matter what the geographical position may be. Identity is. I am. And this may be accepted in its natural character and rhythms into expression in momentary living. And so the affairs of the human identity in which we all play a certain part may be permeated by the cosmic rhythms and the cosmic purposes. What effect does that have? It raises up what is capable of being raised up, it dissolves what is not capable of being raised up. We have been aware of these two aspects of the creative process: integration and disintegration. The effect of the creative process emerges in this way. We are concerned with that emergence within the range of human affairs. To be in the range of human affairs it must emerge through human beings. Nothing gets into human affairs without coming through human beings. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/body-of-love.html]
As cosmic identity and alignment, attunement, with cosmic rhythms and purposes is restored, then whatever we do in our daily living will be permeated by this cosmic expression, the expression of the creative process, but brought to focus now through human beings. This is the purpose of man: to bring this to focus, to let the planet and all things related to the planet be brought specifically and directly into the focus of the creative process by reason of man. This is the only reason for the continued existence of man. And he has continued to exist, in anticipation that there would be those who would make themselves available to the experience of the creative process in cosmic identity. Finally this whole matter is being brought to issue, as is rather plainly evident for any sensible observer. Thus far and no further, for human identity. Either yield and accept the reality of identity, which is cosmic in nature, or bow out permanently. Well there must be a certain bowing out in any case—the bowing out of human identity.
I rejoice that there are those who begin to share a willingness to relinquish human identity and all its expectations, all its intentions, all its ambitions, so as to make space for the living experience of cosmic identity—that's the natural state. All is one. There is the state of wholeness. That is what is meant by the word holy. That is the true state. It is the existent state everywhere in the universe except in this little pinpoint, because of the intransigence of human beings. So, relinquishing our intransigence, we willingly yield our human identity to be dissolved, and we find that when there is that willingness something else begins to come into the picture, something that was totally excluded before. We find that there is a cosmic identity, individually and all together. It is one identity, differentiated in natural and harmonious ways. The natural flow of the creative process brings oneness, harmony, it might be called peace.
There already exists a clear focused orientation point. The unwillingness of human beings generally to relinquish their own determinations has prevented the already existent clear focused orientation point from coming into form on this planet. The only way it can come into form on this planet is through human beings. We ourselves have some awareness of the reality of that clear focused orientation point, to the extent that we ourselves, as individuals, have given form to it. It is present, awaiting the facility for its manifestation in human form on earth. Our whole concern over many years has been to let this clear focused orientation point be known as a reality because, for oneself as an individual, it is accommodated and revealed. Here once again is the emergence of the reason for human existence—a cosmic reason.
Scarcely anyone has exhibited any real willingness to relinquish the human state of identity in favor of cosmic identity, the true identity of man. We would all have to admit that there has been a great reluctance to dare to relinquish our firmly held human habits, which bring with them a self-centered agenda. All of us are inclined still to maintain a human identity which inevitably must pass away. There has been some awakening to a recognition of the potential of cosmic identity, which is inseparable from the whole cosmic creation—one identity, revealed and demonstrated in the working of the cosmic whole—the identity described by the words I am. If we find our lives in human identity we lose the experience of our lives in cosmic identity. If there is a willingness to lose our lives in human identity, then the availability of cosmic identity immediately becomes apparent.
Did you ever examine yourself with respect to these things? Human beings try desperately to stay alive in human identity. The thought was to preserve the human identity, improving it the while—maybe not much improvement this lifetime, but better luck next time! All these fancies have been produced, and the attempt has been made to give them validity in human consciousness, because what an awful thought if human identity simply vanishes. But all the evidence points to the fact that it does simply vanish. However, whether human beings come or go, the universe continues on, regardless. And the universal whole is in place—coordinated. It operates the way it was designed to operate. Why it was designed that way and what the operation is is really an unknown quantity insofar as human identity is concerned. There is wholeness. There is one universe. We see most clearly that our own planet has a cosmic identity, because it is a part of the solar system, which is a part of the galaxy, which is a part of the universe.
Man was taken out of the earth—his physical form was, and is—which provides a potential form for cosmic identity. It isn't just a local form. It is composed of the dust of the earth. And the earth, the planet, is a part of the cosmos and has identity because of that. It wouldn't exist as a planet without that identity. Neither would we exist at all without at least the potential of the experience of the cosmic identity. Where there is a willingness to lose that human identity existence, the cosmic identity of life may be found. You can't have it both ways—it is one or the other.
The true identity allows for that focus point of orientation, clear and true, to be experienced. And it is when that is known, and the expression of life is accordingly, that the light shines and a tone is sounded in an immediate sense within the hearing of the body of mankind, to cause the flesh substance of mankind to stand up if it will in the design established by this Cosmic Tone which relates to man. When the tone sounds there is that substance sufficiently free, sufficiently uncrystallized, to begin to stand up in a new formation. This is something that is happening on earth at this time, and we ourselves find our own flesh moved in this way. The flesh is moved, the mind is moved, the heart is moved. They are all together; they are not separate entities. So something is standing up because the tone sounds, and because something is standing up the experience of cosmic identity becomes natural.
The more rigidity, the less the ability for anything to stand up. How resilient are we actually? We inhibit the experience of resiliency by maintaining our own human identity, by insisting upon that. He that finds his life in this world shall lose it. He that loses the life of his human identity, for the sake of cosmic identity, for the sake of the creative process which allows man to stand up again, male and female, finds the reality of life. Life is only known in cosmic identity, and cosmic identity cannot be known if human identity is insisted upon.
Being present wherever we are present, if we are present in cosmic identity, then the light shines, the tone sounds in the circumstance where we are. That is the important thing, that is what carries weight. Because this occurs the creative process is in action and what is necessary to happen will happen. The happening may be disintegration, part of it at least. There is a lot of disintegration to occur—but at the same time as there is disintegration and freed-up substance, something else takes form. We let it happen. The creative process is one of letting—remember? We let it happen. We don't judge it. We let it be what it is. It will prove itself out. If we stay clear and focused, the point of orientation will be present and all things will work together to perfection.
If you find life to be creative, bringing to pass all that needs to happen, and you are content with that, then it will be because you are present in cosmic identity. In cosmic identity you are assured. One may choose to be assured, certain that the creative process works the way it works and it is quite all right. Or on the other hand, in human identity one can choose to be unassured, fearful, doubtful, uncertain, all these things. If that is our experience then obviously we have human identity and we are always wanting someone to assure us, to help us, to condole with us, to raise us up. That is the attitude of human identity, and if we assume such an identity it is indication of the fact that we prefer human identity. But coming again to the strength, the assurance, the absoluteness which characterizes cosmic identity—after all, it's rather large, isn't it; the whole universe is operating—if we identify ourselves there, then the creative process operates freely because of our presence. All we have to do is accept cosmic identity into our own experience, and if we are experiencing that, we are not experiencing human identity. Simple. Let us let that experience become all we know, and that is freedom indeed.
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