Neville 想象力的创造性运用 part 5
Chapter 5 Seeing God
第5章因为上帝
St. Augustine once said, “O, my God, let me see thee, and if to die is to see thee, then let me die that I may behold thy face. ”
Yet, when we fell God told us, “You cannot see my face and live. But I will cause my glory to pass by and when I pass by, you shall see my back, but my face you will not see.”
That God is your wonderful I AMness, your awareness who is forever claiming, “I AM that is who I AM.”
Imagination’s power is the only power.
It is your power to kill, to make alive, to wound and to heal.
It is your imagination which forms the light, makes the good, and creates the evil, and there is no other God.
Man is inclined to believe in two powers, one for good and the other for evil, but I tell you there is only one.
The “I” in man is he who kills and makes alive, who curses and creates.
Your consciousness of being is the only reality.
The self-definition of an absolute state is “I am divine.” And this absolute state is God.
It is your I AM which cannot be seen.
圣奥古斯丁曾说，“哦，我的上帝，让我见你，如果死就是见你，那么让我死，我可以看到你的脸。”
然而，当我们跌倒时，神告诉我们:“你们不能见我的面而活。但我要使我的荣耀经过，我经过的时候，你可以看见我的背，却不得见我的面。
上帝是你奇妙的自我意识，你的觉知，他永远在宣称，“我就是我，自有永有的存在。”
想象力是唯一的力量。
你有能力去杀戮，去创造，去伤害，去治愈。
是你的想象形成了光，制造了善，创造了恶，除此之外没有别的神。
人类总是倾向于相信两种力量，一种为善，另一种为恶，但我告诉你只有一种。
人的“我”是杀人和使人活着的人，是诅咒和创造的人。
你的存在意识是唯一的现实。
绝对状态的自我定义是“我是神圣的。”而这种绝对的状态就是神。
就是那个不能被看到的“我是”。
Matthew tells us, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.”
The word “pure” in the above statement comes from the Greek word “katharos” which also means, “clean; clear.”
To be pure, the mind must be cleared of all obstructions created by traditional wrong thinking.
The heart must be cleared of the belief in a secondary power. Only when this is done will you be blessed, for you will know the one and only God to be your true self.
There is no power outside of you. The same power in you that makes the good, creates the evil.
Start now to free yourself from the belief in two powers, for only then will you be pure in heart and see God.
The whole vast universe is nothing more than the response to the consciousness of men.
If you believe that the “I” in another is the cause of your displeasure and not your own “I,” then you have planted a tree in your mind which is obstructing your view and must be uprooted.
We are told, “No man shall imagine evil in his heart.” I am not speaking of a physical organ, but of the mind, the center or heart of the matter.
When your heart is pure, you become a member of the order of Melchizedek.
Read the story carefully and you will see that when Abraham slaughtered the kings (all of his negative and unlovely ideas), he returned to find Melchizedek, the symbol of the I AM, the being you really are.
马太福音告诉我们，“心思纯真的人有福了，因为他们必得见神。”
上面陈述中的“纯净”一词来自希腊语“卡塔罗斯”，意思也是“干净；清场。”
要想纯净，头脑必须清除所有由传统错误思维造成的障碍。
必须清除心中对次要力量的信仰。只有当这件事完成时，你才会得到祝福，因为你会知道唯一的上帝是你真正的自我意识。
在你意识之外没有力量。同样的意识力量在你身上创造了善，也创造了恶。
从现在开始，把你自己从对两种力量的信仰中解放出来，因为只有这样，你的心才会纯洁，才能见到上帝。
整个浩瀚的宇宙，无非是对人的意识的回应。
如果你相信另一个人的“我”是你不快乐的原因，而不是你自己的“我”，那么你就在你的头脑中种下了一棵意识之树，它挡住了你的视线，必须被连根拔起。
我们被告知，“没有人会在心里想象邪恶。”我说的不是身体器官，而是思想，是事物的中心或核心。
当你的心是纯洁的，你就会成为麦基洗德的一员。
仔细阅读这个故事，你会发现当亚伯拉罕屠杀其他国王时(他所有的负面和丑陋的想法)，他回来找麦基洗德，“我是”代表的象征，一直是你真实的存在。
Learn to discipline your mind, for only the disciplined mind can maintain the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
If, what you had imagined has not come into being, it is because you have not severed the ties that bind you to the level where you now stand.
You must break your mechanical reaction to life in order to change your life-track.
The only reason for this teaching is to encourage you and push you up the vertical line of the cross.
It is very important for you to learn to be uncritical of yourself, for if you are not, you will justify your behavior which will cause you to remain in your present state.
But if you will stop being critical, you will stop the negative thoughts that bind you to your present state and move out of it into another.
There are three ways to clear your mind of the trees of traditional wrong thinking and allow you to see God.
They are:
uncritical observation;
non-identification;
and sacrifice of the state you formerly believed yourself to be.
Man tries to see God by means of little pictures, but God can only be seen through belief in one power.
Through uncritical observation, you will encounter your particular state.
If you don’t like the role the state requires you to play as it unfolds, stop reacting to it.
Until you reach the point where you no longer react, you are not pure enough to see God.
When you see Him, you will know Him, as you will be like Him.
学会训练你的头脑，因为只有训练过的头脑才能保持愿望实现的感觉。
如果你所想象的没有实现，那是因为你没有切断将你束缚在你现在意识的纽带。
为了改变你的生活轨迹，你必须打破你对现在生活的机械反应。
这种教导的唯一原因是鼓励你，把你推上十字架的垂直线。
对你来说，学会包容自己是非常重要的，因为如果你学会包容自己，不再挑剔自己为啥做不好，当下就会停止那些束缚你的消极想法，摆脱旧有意识的轮回，并离开它进入另一个状态。
这里有三种方法可以清除你头脑中的传统错误思维，让你看到自我意识。
它们分别是:
不加批判的自我观察；
允许别人和自己不一样；允许自己和别人不一样；
时刻保持自己全新的状态，而不是固执己见。
人类总是试图通过自身限制的角度来理解自己看到的上帝，可事实上只有通过自我意识的信仰才能看到上帝。
通过不加批判的观察，你会面对自身特定的状态。
如果你不喜欢现在所扮演的角色状态，请停下对这个状态的抱怨。
如果你还做不到无视，甚至抱怨你的现状，那么自己的意识还是停在固有的模式里。
因为当你知道了自我意识的重要性，你会毫不犹豫地爱上并接受那种改变后的新意识。
Where “I AM” is always what “I AM”.
Establish one “I” within yourself, not a number of “I’s.”
The “I” roots out all secondary causes and clears the mind of the power to enslave.
Your belief in powers external to you is a tree which must be rooted out of your mind.
Begin now to use this technique and you will realize your every dream.
But first you must have a dream, a desire for something, as desire is your springboard of action.
Define your objective.
If it were fulfilled now, where would you be physically?
What would the world look like?
Would your wife, husband, mother, father, or friends see you differently?
Feel their presence: see the joy expressed on their faces, and hear their congratulations.
Repeat this act until you have the feeling of accomplishment.
Then, having assumed the feeling of completion, remain faithful to it, for your assumption contains within itself all of the plans and power necessary for externalization.
You need do nothing on the outside, for by your assumption, your mind is being rearranged, and what it confirms, it externalizes.
Your desire may be for an improvement in your financial position, your social circle, or a deeper understanding of the mystery.
The desire is up to you, but when put into practice, this technique will never fail you.
“我是”始终是“我是”。
在自己身上建立一个“我”（自我意识），而不是许多“我”
“我”根除了所有的次要原因（限制），清除了头脑中奴役的力量。
你对外在力量的信仰是一棵树（旧有框架），必须从你的头脑中铲除。
现在开始使用这个技巧，你会实现你的每一个梦想。
但首先你必须有一个梦想，对某样东西的渴望，因为渴望是你行动的跳板。
定义你的目标。
如果现在实现了，你会在哪里？
世界会是什么样子？
你的妻子、丈夫、母亲、父亲或朋友会对你有不同的看法吗？
感受他们的存在:看到他们脸上表达的喜悦，听到他们的祝贺。
重复这个动作，直到你有成就感（满足感）。
然后，假设完成的感觉，持续保持对新意识的信赖，因为你的假设本身包含了外在鲜花所必需的所有计划和力量。
你不需要在外部做任何事情，因为通过你的假设，你的意识正在被重新定义，当自己沉浸在这个假设里，接下来就会看到外部的鲜花。
你的愿望可以是改善你的财务状况，你的社交圈，或者对神秘事物有更深的理解。
愿望由你决定，但当付诸实践时，这种意识上的技术永远不会让你失望。
The kingdom of heaven, with its many states (some lovely and some not so lovely) is within you.
The state capable of wounding or healing, killing or making alive, is within you.
They are all psychological states, completely furnished and ready to externalize themselves in your world.
And, if having entered a particular mansion (state), you do not care to remain there, you may leave it by the same technique it was entered – through the act of assumption.
It is so easy to feel sorry for yourself and so very difficult to give up this feeling.
But you cannot enter another state until you do.
No one can uproot the weeds of self-pity or the trees of so-called second causes for you.
You must uproot them yourself.
God put Adam in the garden to tend and keep it.
As Adam you fell asleep, but when you awake, you are Christ, the power and the wisdom of God.
Start now to observe your reactions to life and do not allow yourself to become identified with any unlovely state.
Sacrifice your little hurts, your grievances, and belief in secondary causes.
Then you will be blessed, for you will be pure in heart and see God.
Awake!
Test yourself and you will discover that the fault you see in the other exists in you.
Turn to self, and you will find the Christ in you who is your hope of glory.
天国有许多状态(有些很有趣，有些很无趣)一直在自己的内心里面。
不论是能够伤人或疗愈、杀人或使人活着的状态就在你的内心里。
它们都是心理状态，当自己完全意识到已经拥有时，准备好在自己的世界里鲜花这些结果出来。
当然，如果你已经进入了一个特定的状态，假如你想离开，你同样可以用进入时同样的技巧离开它——通过假设的行为。
为自己感到难过很容易，而放弃这种感觉却非常困难。
但在此之前你不能进入另一种状态，直到你自身意识到自己有能力做到。
没有人能为你连根拔起内心这些自怜的杂草或所谓其他困境。
你只有依靠自己把它们连根拔起。
上帝把亚当放在花园里照料它。
作为亚当，你睡着了，但当你醒来时，你就是基督，是上帝的力量和智慧。
现在就开始观察你对生活的反应，不要让自己认同任何这些让自己有困扰情绪的状态。
无视那些困扰，委屈，和对次要原因的信念。
然后你会得到祝福，因为你会有一颗纯洁的心，并且看见自我意识的重要性。
现在醒来吧！
测试你自己，你会发现你在别人身上看到的缺点也存在于你身上。
转向自我，你会在你内心深处找到意识的力量，他是你荣耀的希望。
