The Third Ray of Consciousness: Identity

What’s in an identity? It’s what you identify with. How you describe who you are to yourself and to others. Nowadays, our identity can be stolen electronically. This means that who we are, as defined by the government and financial institutions, is essentially just our name and identification numbers, and that with this information, someone else can pretend to be us. But our legal identity is only a small fraction of who we are.

Your identity changes as a function of who you are relating to. This is because we play different roles in relation to different people. Are you the same person when you are with your family as you are with your friends? In your family, you can be a mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter and any number of combinations. You probably represent something different to each family member as well. Do you become a whole different person when you go to work? You can be the boss, the employee, a co-worker, a volunteer and the list goes on. What is your role in your intimate relationship? Are you married, single, separated, divorced, living together, a husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend?

Identity is the Third Ray of Consciousness and it is a factor of who you think you are. The fact that identity involves thought makes it of the mind. This is the place where our ego comes into the picture and our identity/ego is energetically supported by the Thought Energetic Intelligences (both Upper and Lower). Our identity is a construction of the mind which is completely fabricated and of arbitrarily assigned importance. This level of awareness evolves as we learn where we fit in as we relate to others. In this Ray of Consciousness, we define ourselves.

The gift in this ray is that it is totally wide open to interpretation. You can be whomever you please and whatever it is that serves you in the moment. If the ray is shining clearly through you and being expressed in brilliance, you can enjoy the freedom of simply being and expressing the pure essence of who you are, directly from your soul, without needing to change in every interaction with every role you play. You are happy to not identify with anything and do not need any external proof of your importance. You simply know that you are magnificent and that in being your unique expression of that, you are exactly what every person and situation needs.

Experiencing life with this level of consciousness certainly is something we need to learn and grow into. We definitely need to first develop the ego and a sense of self-worth before we can move beyond it. Figuring out who you are, where you fit in and why you have value is a critical step in your evolution of consciousness, before you can develop “no attachment” to your “self”. If you skip that step, you miss out on the appreciation and gratitude for being free of the “self”. And how would you relate to all the other people in your life? That’s why being consciously evolved is easier all alone on a mountain top. There is not the level of difficulty added by other people and the subsequent situations, interactions and circumstances that inevitably arise.

Because of the way our pasts affect us and the impact it has on how we relate to others, our identity is shaped by the First and Second Rays of Consciousness. We learn that who we are is a function of our successes and failures and of our ability to build relationships with others. For this reason, an increase in awareness in any prior Ray of Consciousness has a ripple effect through the subsequent rays. Changing how you trust and connect to others in the second ray will impact who you think you are, because it redefines you in relation to others. Changing the way you remember your past in the first ray will also affect your identity by shifting your relationship to others, thereby impacting your sense of self.

When you consider your identity, aka your sense of self or your ego, think about how you make yourself important or valuable. Reflect on what events or circumstances from your past make you think it is necessary to prove this value or importance to others. Also observe how your interactions with different people in your life affect who you are. Are you changing who you are being for each role you play? See how this ray is unfolding in you. After all is said and done, it can be really nice to have nothing to prove!