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Cosmic consciousness is Martinus’s term for the fully developed form of consciousness in which the living being experiences the spiritual or cosmic world in permanent awake day-consciousness. He distinguishes this permanent cosmic sight from the temporary cosmic glimpses that precede the Great Birth. ^[1] It is associated with the completion of human evolution and conscious coexistence with the Godhead. ^[2]

Meaning and development

Martinus describes cosmic consciousness as the same as a human being’s “completely developed mentality”. In this state, the individual understands the world plan and lives in harmony with the creative process as an expression of love and well-being. ^[3]

In his account of his own experience, Martinus contrasts limited local consciousness with a perspective in which eternity is the fixed point and time and space appear as movements. The beginning and conclusion of a life course can then be viewed together. He relates this liberation from local consciousness to the ability to carry out cosmic analyses. ^[4]

The first terrestrial indications are connected with intuition. In an advanced artist, writer or researcher, intuition may bring spiritual memory material into consciousness during inspiration. For a researcher, it can appear as fleeting glimpses or “snatches of absolute knowledge”; Martinus calls these glimpses the beginning of “cosmic sight”. ^[5] These glimpses are not yet permanent or fully controllable knowledge: before the Great Birth, intuition appears intermittently and outside the individual’s control of the will. ^[6]

Intuition also has creative and recognitive functions. Martinus describes it as giving artists ready-made material for new ideas and enabling the individual to use spiritual memory material in recognition and creation. These results can have a greater range than material available through intelligence alone. ^[7] ^[8] ^[9]

Cosmic consciousness in the spiral cycle

Martinus presents cosmic consciousness as a circuit that moves from latency towards culmination and then returns towards latency. The rising and falling stages between these points constitute the living being’s experience of life in the spiral cycle. ^[10]

He compares this circuit with a cosmic day and year. Its light period extends through the culmination of the divine world and the kingdom of bliss; the physical kingdoms represent the darker and declining part of the cycle. Terrestrial humanity is placed in the winter and midnight zone, described as the childhood stage of cosmic consciousness. ^[11]

The same cycle principle is applied to the Earth as a living being. Martinus describes the Earth’s abnormal condition as a rhythm or season that will be succeeded by another rhythm, and presents its crisis as an introduction to the Great Birth. ^[12] ^[13]

Basic energies and religious instinct

The six basic energies are instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory. Martinus associates these energies with the plant kingdom, animal kingdom, human kingdom, kingdom of wisdom, divine world and kingdom of bliss respectively. In combination with the Mother energy, they form the planes of existence and the basic forms of experience. ^[14]

In a more detailed analysis, Martinus says that the six energies operate together in the living being’s experience and creation. Their combined functions constitute consciousness and creative activity, while temporary organs or bodies connect these functions with the superconsciousness. ^[15]

Martinus explains religious instinct as a remnant of an earlier cosmic consciousness. Primitive human beings and animals perceive Providence instinctively, without an intellectual, awake day-conscious analysis of the cosmic world. ^[16] In primitive and civilised human beings, religiousness and belief in a Godhead or Providence are connected with this earlier condition. This differs from the direct, awake day-conscious experience attributed to beings beyond the Great Birth. ^[17]

In terrestrial humanity, the earlier cosmic consciousness reaches a latent stage. Martinus connects this decline with the growing tendency to interpret existence materialistically and to deny a living originator behind nature. He presents this mental darkness as a necessary phase in the spiral cycle rather than as the final condition of the being. ^[18]

The loss and recovery of cosmic awareness

Martinus describes terrestrial humanity as lacking day-consciousness on the cosmic plane. In this condition, people may see themselves as temporary combinations of matter and know little of their spiritual nature. Primitive humanity retains more of the earlier cosmic relationship through instinct, while civilised humanity increasingly loses that instinctive sense as materialism develops. ^[19] ^[20]

Martinus describes the developing stage as one in which intuition and spiritual memory appear only momentarily, while permanent intuition marks the Great Birth and the beginning of cosmic consciousness. The transition is thus described through a contrast between unconscious instinctive religiousness, temporary cosmic glimpses and permanent day-conscious experience. ^[21] ^[22] ^[23] ^[24]

The human path

Martinus describes the path towards permanent cosmic consciousness as involving the overcoming of the remaining animal nature. ^[25] He connects this development with humanitarianism, understanding and the refusal to retaliate against beings who act in ignorance. ^[26]

Forgiveness has a specific place in this process. Martinus states that the road to cosmic consciousness goes through training in forgiveness: understanding the causes behind another being’s actions makes it possible to release hatred and vengeance, including towards those one regards as enemies. ^[27]

Permanent cosmic consciousness

A cosmically conscious being has a permanent awake experience of the mental, spiritual and cosmic world and is spiritually sovereign. Martinus describes such a being as living in conscious coexistence with the Godhead and in harmony with its consciousness. Completely evolved beings with this condition can appear as world redeemers for beings at earlier stages of evolution. ^[28]

Martinus identifies the step of consciousness expressed in loving one’s neighbour with the Holy Spirit and with cosmic consciousness. ^[29] He also describes completely evolved beings as having total Christ consciousness, while presenting spiritual sovereignty and unity with the Godhead as the goal of evolution. ^[30]

References

[1] Livets Bog 1, section 206

[2] The Eternal World Picture 2, section 23.2

[3] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 1.15 (*)

[4] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 2.1 (*)

[5] Livets Bog 1, section 202

[6] Livets Bog 1, section 206

[7] Livets Bog 1, section 200

[8] Livets Bog 1, section 201

[9] Livets Bog 1, section 205

[10] Livets Bog 2, section 461

[11] Livets Bog 2, section 461

[12] Livets Bog 3, section 667

[13] Livets Bog 3, section 668

[14] Livets Bog 1, section 261

[15] The Eternal World Picture 1, section 11.17

[16] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 1.3 (*)

[17] Livets Bog 2, section 451

[18] Livets Bog 2, section 452

[19] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 2.11 (*)

[20] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 2.12 (*)

[21] Livets Bog 1, section 203

[22] Livets Bog 1, section 204

[23] Livets Bog 1, section 206

[24] Meditation, section 2.6 (*)

[25] The Eternal World Picture 2, section 23.2

[26] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 1.14 (*)

[27] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 1.15 (*)

[28] The Eternal World Picture 2, section 23.2

[29] Kosmisk bevidsthed, section 1.14 (*)

[30] The Eternal World Picture 2, section 23.2

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	~~== Introduction ==~~

	'''Cosmic consciousness''' is Martinus’s term for the fully developed form of consciousness in which the living being experiences the spiritual or cosmic world in permanent awake [[day-consciousness]]. He distinguishes this permanent cosmic sight from the temporary [[cosmic glimpses]] that precede the [[Great Birth]].{{ref\|LB1\|206}} It is associated with the completion of human evolution and conscious coexistence with the [[Godhead]].{{ref\|TEWP 2\|23.2}}		'''Cosmic consciousness''' is Martinus’s term for the fully developed form of consciousness in which the living being experiences the spiritual or cosmic world in permanent awake [[day-consciousness]]. He distinguishes this permanent cosmic sight from the temporary [[cosmic glimpses]] that precede the [[Great Birth]].{{ref\|LB1\|206}} It is associated with the completion of human evolution and conscious coexistence with the [[Godhead]].{{ref\|TEWP 2\|23.2}}