Neville 想象力的创造性运用 part 3
Chapter 3 Desire
第3章欲望
As you are, so shall God appear to be to you.
The priest will see God as the head of all celestial and terrestrial records.
To a judge, he is the great judge forever meting out punishment.
To the Hottentot, God is the kind of chief he, himself, would like to be.
So, you see, men are forever creating God in their own image.
“God is God from the creation.
Truth alone is man’s salvation.
But the God that now you worship Soon shall be your God no more.
For the soul in its unfolding Evermore its thoughts remolding And it learns more truly in its progress Whom to love and how to adore.”
Through this teaching, you will learn to outgrow your concept of God, for God changes not, only your ideas of Him change.
你是什么样的人，上帝在你面前也会如此。
祭司会把上帝视为所有天上和地上记录的那个起源。
对法官来说，他永远是执行惩罚的伟大法官。
对霍屯督人（南部非洲的科伊桑人，万物有灵信仰，崇拜自然力和祖先，相信巫术）来说，上帝是他自己想成为的那种酋长。
所以，你看，人们永远按照自己的形象创造上帝。
（按照自己的意识塑造自己的形象）
“上帝是来自创造的上帝。
只有真理才是人类的救赎。
但你现在崇拜的上帝很快将不再是你的上帝。
因为灵魂在它的展开中，它的思想在不断地重塑，它在它的进步中更真实地学习到爱谁，如何崇拜。”
通过这个教导，你将学会超越你对上帝的概念，因为上帝不会改变，只有你对他的想法会改变。
Desire is your mainspring of action, for you cannot move without desire.
Ask yourself, “What wantest thou of me?” and then formulate your desire.
Feel its presence and you have granted yourself the desire’s fulfillment.
Human life is nothing more than the appeasement of hunger, and the infinite series of levels of awareness is the means to satisfy that hunger.
Health is a desire, a hunger which can be appeased when the idea is formulated in the mind that I am healthy.
The same is true for wealth, peace, harmony or fame, for all of these are states of awareness. Identify yourself with the state desired.
Persist in this identification and, because you and God are one consciousness, what you are conscious of, you outpicture.
The cross is the symbol of suffering.
There is no physical cross upon which a man was nailed, but a body of beliefs which a man wears.
“Except you deny yourself and lift up your cross and follow me, you are unworthy of me.”
Lift up your cross by raising your awareness, for your I AMness is the creator of your world.
欲望是你行动的主要动力，因为没有欲望你无法行动。
问问你自己，“你想要我做什么？”然后阐明你的愿望。
沉浸的感受它的存在，你就满足了自己的愿望。
人生只不过是一直在满足未满足的自己，而无限的意识层次就是满足的必要手段。
（有/无，富有/贫穷，结婚/未婚 种种不同未满足/满足的意识）
健康是一种渴望，是一种对当下未满足的平静安抚，当我在头脑中形成健康的想法时，我现在很健康的渴望就得到了满足，我的心不再躁动，我的现实体现了我的想法。
财富、和平、和谐或名声也是如此，因为所有这些都是觉知的状态。认同你想要的状态。
坚持这种认同，因为你和上帝是一个意识，你意识到什么是已经满足的，当下的你就如影随形。
十字架是苦难的象征。
没有一个人被钉在十字架上，而是因为这个人现在所秉持的信仰。
"除非你否认自己，背起你的十字架跟随我，否则你不配拥有我."
通过提高你的觉知举起你的十字架，因为你的“自我意识”是你世界的创造者。
As an individual, you move and live in time, but your true being is in eternity.
Think of the vertical line of the cross as the line of being upon which there are unnumbered levels of awareness.
Now, time cannot make you better or wiser.
In fact, time cannot do a thing towards changing your level of being, for change is all on the vertical line where you move to higher or lower levels of your own being.
Because change is imminent, we speak of it as infinite imminence; as nearer than near and sooner than now.
The man you would like to be is imminent.
He is nearer than near. The ideal you dream of being is sooner than now and is brought into being by a change in your reactions to life.
In the Book of Revelations, we are told, “I will give to every being according to his work.”
The only work you are called upon to do is work on yourself.
Start this work by observing your reactions to life.
Remember, your future is not being developed, it already is.
The time track is complete as well as all of the events you can encounter.
As you move up or down the level of your being, changes will occur in your life. You are now resting at a certain level.
‘Arise, take up your couch and walk,” by breaking the threads of life that bind you to the state you are now in. Break these threads by changing your thoughts, for only as you rise within, will you find a corresponding change without.
作为一个个体，你在时间中运动和生活，但你真正的存在是永恒的。
把十字架的垂直线想象成存在的线，在这条线上有无数层次的觉知。
现在，时间不能让你变得更好或更聪明。
事实上，时间一直不能改变你的存在水平，除非你的意识在更高或更低的存在水平移动的垂直线上改变。
因为变化总是随当下意识的选择而转变，我们称之为无限变化；越来越近，越来越快。
你想成为的那个人就在眼前的选择里。
这个变化近在咫尺。你梦想中的理想比现在更快实现，它是由你对生活反应的改变而带来的。（犹如故事时间线，不同的选择带来不同结果1，结果2，结果3. 或者成为平行世界。）
在《启示录》中，我们被告知：“我要照各人所行的赐给他。”
你被要求做的唯一工作就是在你自己身上工作。
从观察你对生活的当下反应开始这项工作。
记住，不论你的未来没有被开发还是已经被开发了。
所有的时间轨迹都是完整的，你可以选择遭遇所有的事件。（N叔的平行世界理论，怀疑他已经剧透了某些秘密）
当你向上或向下移动（意识选择）时，你的生活会发生变化。还是说现在的你在某个层面上休息。（参考平面国，当平面世界的自己第一次看到立体世界的画面被震撼到的感觉）
站起来，离开你的躺椅，走出去，”打破束缚现在的生活束缚。通过改变你的想法来打破这些线，因为只有当你内在上升时，你才会发现外在的相应改变。（我的环境是一个随机选择，还是一个固定选择。都是由我决定）
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were of too pure eyes to behold iniquity?
If you were all tenderness?
All love?
All generosity?
Aim for those feelings and then watch your relationship to them. It is here, in the midst of the storms of life, that you work this law.
If you identify yourself with an unlovely state, you will find yourself sinking into it. But you can lift up your cross by breaking your automatic, mechanical reactions to life and sacrificing your present level of being.
This message comes, not to bring peace, but a sword.
It comes to set a man at variance against his brother, father, mother and all the members of his household, for I bring the sword of truth which is the word of God.
This word is sharper than any two-edged sword, for it is capable of piercing the soul and spirit.
I am not suggesting that you turn against your earthly relatives, but that you turn against the psychological ideas that govern your behavior and the dominant mood which governs your actions and reactions to life.
If, at this moment your feelings are not noble, turn against them, for they are your psychological mother.
This is done by putting new feeling in their place. You cannot change your thinking until you change your feeling, and all feelings come from ideas.
A man’s enemies are those of his own household which is everything he accepts as true.
This sword can pierce, even to the severing of soul and spirit. Your Father (your I AM) is Spirit, and when you worship Him, you must do so in spirit and in truth. Be still and say to yourself, with feeling “I AM He.”
All that you consent to, all that you believe and accept as true (be it wise or foolish) forms the clothing you wear. But you can be reclothed and ascend to a higher level of being when you take up your cross and follow your imagination.
你有没有想过，如果你有一双纯洁的眼睛，看不到罪恶，那会是什么样子？
如果你是温柔的？
所有的爱？
所有的慷慨？
瞄准那些感觉，然后观察你和它们的关系。正是在这里，在生活的风暴中，你运用这个法则。
如果你认同自己处于一种满是抱怨，憎恨的环境里，你会发现自己一直深陷其中。不过可喜的是你可以通过改变你对生活的自动、机械的反应，放下自己现在遭遇的所谓困境，拥抱自己全新的选择。
这个消息带来的不是和平，而是一个转变犹如真理之剑划破抱怨世界的天空。
这是要使一个人与他的兄弟、父亲、母亲以及家里所有人的旧有意识发生争执，因为我的自我意识就是转变一切的真理，而这真理就是上帝的话。
这个意识转变的真理之剑比任何两刃的剑都要锋利，因为它能刺穿灵魂和精神。
我并不是建议你与那些还有固定观念意识的亲戚作对，而是建议你与支配你当下行为的心理观念以及支配你对生活的行动和反应的旧有主导情绪作对。
如果，此时此刻你的感情还没有所转变，那就去引导它们转变，因为它们是你的心理母亲。
通过在旧有的意识里放入新的感觉来完成的。你不能改变你的想法，除非你改变你的感觉，所有的感觉都来自想法。
新意识的固有敌人往往来自于自己家庭环境所灌输的旧有意识。
这把真理之剑可以刺穿，甚至切断灵魂和精神。你的父(自我意识)是灵，当你敬拜他时，你必须在灵和真理中这样做。对自己说，感觉“我就是他”
你同意的一切，你相信并接受为真理的一切(不管是明智的还是愚蠢的)构成了你穿的衣服。但是当你拿起你的十字架并跟随自己重新定义的想想时，你就是一个身披全新信念外套并提升到全新意识层面的存在。
Most of us are aimless.
We want more than we presently have.
We want the other fellow to change, but we don’t want to do the one thing that will bring the change about, for we don’t want to change self.
In Revelations, John tells us, “I will give to everyone according to his work.”
The gift is not given according to the work of another, but according to the work you do on yourself, and that work is to uncritically observe your reactions to life, as they bind you to a certain level.
Disassociate yourself from your unpleasant thoughts and associate yourself with your aim, thereby rising to its level, for your ideal is on that vertical line you stand upon.
Scripture tells us to “Seek and you shall find: and when you find him, you will be like him.”
I tell you, you will never find your fulfilled desire until you are the desire!
Those who go searching for love only make manifest their lovelessness, for you never have to search for what you are!
I am Mary and you are Mary too, for we are forever conceiving of ourselves.
The whole of human life is the appeasement of desire, and desire, conceived as fulfilled, will externalize itself。
If you are not hungry enough to transcend your present level of consciousness, you will not conceive of anything greater.
As long as you are in love with the state you are in, you cannot and will not rise from it.
Without the vertical line of states, life would have no meaning.
The ancients called this infinite series, Jacob’s ladder.
You do not build this ladder, rather you climb it through self-discovery.
我们大多数人都是漫无目的的。
我们总是想要比现在更多的东西。
我们希望别人改变，但我们不想做能带来改变的事情，因为我们不想改变自己。
在启示录中，约翰告诉我们:“我要照各人所行的赐给他。”
这份礼物不是根据别人的工作给予的，而是根据你对自己所做的工作给予的，那份工作就是不加批判地观察你对生活的反应，因为它们把你束缚在一定的水平上。
把你自己与不愉快的想法分开，把自己和目标联系起来，从而上升到拥有目标的水平高度，因为你的理想就在你所站的那条垂直线上。
圣经告诉我们“寻找，你就会找到:当你找到他，你就会像他一样。”
我告诉你，除非你已经拥有了欲望，否则你永远不会找到满足的欲望！
那些去寻找爱情的人只会表现出他们的无爱，因为你永远不必寻找自己的样子！
我是玛丽，你也是玛丽，因为我们永远在想象自己是何种存在。
人类生活的全部就是对欲望的满足，而欲望一旦被认为满足了，就会表现出来。
如果你没有足够的渴望去超越你目前的意识水平，你就不会构想出任何更伟大的东西。
只要你爱着你所处的状态，你就不能也不会从它上升。
生活没有满足状态的垂直线，就没有意义。
古人把这个无穷无尽序列的意识轮回，叫做雅格布天梯
（圣经中创世纪二八章11-19节中，雅各布做梦见到从天堂来的天梯。后人便把这梦想中的梯子，称之为雅各布天梯。
还有一种说法。希腊神话中，一个名叫雅各布的人做梦沿着登天的梯子攀爬从而得至圣火。意思是人生的走向如同一张张的幻灯片，不同的幻灯片意味着不同选择的结果）
你不能建造这个梯子，而是通过自我意识的选择爬上去。
When you think of another, you are seeing only your opinion of him.
If you think he is kind, he is kind.
If you think he is stupid, he is stupid as he is playing the part you have assigned him because of your opinion.
Therefore, if your desire is for him to change, you must change your opinion of yourself, for “he” is only your opinion pushed out.
Where you are psychologically is what you are;
therefore, only associate with the feeling that leads you to the fulfillment of your dreams. And may all of your dreams be noble ones.
当你想到另一个人时，你看到的只是你对他的看法（自己头脑里的定义）。
你觉得他善良，他就是善良。
如果你认为他是愚蠢的，他是愚蠢的，因为他在扮演你根据你的意见分配给他的角色。
所以，如果你想让他改变，你就必须改变你对自己的看法，因为“他”只是你的看法。
你在意识里如何定义自己，那你就是那个定义；
因此，强烈的感受到达终点的感觉，你就是那个终点。愿你所有的梦想都是高尚的。
