Chapter 3 Desire

第3章欲望

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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.

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“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.”

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Through this teaching, you will learn to outgrow your concept of God, for God changes not, only your ideas of Him change.

你是什么樣的人，上帝在你面前也會(huì)如此。

祭司會(huì)把上帝視為所有天上和地上記錄的那個(gè)起源。

對(duì)法官來(lái)說(shuō)，他永遠(yuǎn)是執(zhí)行懲罰的偉大法官。

對(duì)霍屯督人（南部非洲的科伊桑人，萬(wàn)物有靈信仰，崇拜自然力和祖先，相信巫術(shù)）來(lái)說(shuō)，上帝是他自己想成為的那種酋長(zhǎng)。

所以，你看，人們永遠(yuǎn)按照自己的形象創(chuàng)造上帝。

（按照自己的意識(shí)塑造自己的形象）

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“上帝是來(lái)自創(chuàng)造的上帝。

只有真理才是人類的救贖。

但你現(xiàn)在崇拜的上帝很快將不再是你的上帝。

因?yàn)殪`魂在它的展開(kāi)中，它的思想在不斷地重塑，它在它的進(jìn)步中更真實(shí)地學(xué)習(xí)到愛(ài)誰(shuí)，如何崇拜。”

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通過(guò)這個(gè)教導(dǎo)，你將學(xué)會(huì)超越你對(duì)上帝的概念，因?yàn)樯系鄄粫?huì)改變，只有你對(duì)他的想法會(huì)改變。

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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.

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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.

欲望是你行動(dòng)的主要?jiǎng)恿?，因?yàn)闆](méi)有欲望你無(wú)法行動(dòng)。

問(wèn)問(wèn)你自己，“你想要我做什么？”然后闡明你的愿望。

沉浸的感受它的存在，你就滿足了自己的愿望。

人生只不過(guò)是一直在滿足未滿足的自己，而無(wú)限的意識(shí)層次就是滿足的必要手段。

（有/無(wú)，富有/貧窮，結(jié)婚/未婚 種種不同未滿足/滿足的意識(shí)）

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健康是一種渴望，是一種對(duì)當(dāng)下未滿足的平靜安撫，當(dāng)我在頭腦中形成健康的想法時(shí)，我現(xiàn)在很健康的渴望就得到了滿足，我的心不再躁動(dòng)，我的現(xiàn)實(shí)體現(xiàn)了我的想法。

財(cái)富、和平、和諧或名聲也是如此，因?yàn)樗羞@些都是覺(jué)知的狀態(tài)。認(rèn)同你想要的狀態(tài)。

堅(jiān)持這種認(rèn)同，因?yàn)槟愫蜕系凼且粋€(gè)意識(shí)，你意識(shí)到什么是已經(jīng)滿足的，當(dāng)下的你就如影隨形。

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十字架是苦難的象征。

沒(méi)有一個(gè)人被釘在十字架上，而是因?yàn)檫@個(gè)人現(xiàn)在所秉持的信仰。

"除非你否認(rèn)自己，背起你的十字架跟隨我，否則你不配擁有我."

通過(guò)提高你的覺(jué)知舉起你的十字架，因?yàn)槟愕摹白晕乙庾R(shí)”是你世界的創(chuàng)造者。

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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.

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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.

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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.

作為一個(gè)個(gè)體，你在時(shí)間中運(yùn)動(dòng)和生活，但你真正的存在是永恒的。

把十字架的垂直線想象成存在的線，在這條線上有無(wú)數(shù)層次的覺(jué)知。

現(xiàn)在，時(shí)間不能讓你變得更好或更聰明。

事實(shí)上，時(shí)間一直不能改變你的存在水平，除非你的意識(shí)在更高或更低的存在水平移動(dòng)的垂直線上改變。

因?yàn)樽兓偸请S當(dāng)下意識(shí)的選擇而轉(zhuǎn)變，我們稱之為無(wú)限變化；越來(lái)越近，越來(lái)越快。

你想成為的那個(gè)人就在眼前的選擇里。

這個(gè)變化近在咫尺。你夢(mèng)想中的理想比現(xiàn)在更快實(shí)現(xiàn)，它是由你對(duì)生活反應(yīng)的改變而帶來(lái)的。（猶如故事時(shí)間線，不同的選擇帶來(lái)不同結(jié)果1，結(jié)果2，結(jié)果3. 或者成為平行世界。）

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在《啟示錄》中，我們被告知：“我要照各人所行的賜給他?！?/p>

你被要求做的唯一工作就是在你自己身上工作。

從觀察你對(duì)生活的當(dāng)下反應(yīng)開(kāi)始這項(xiàng)工作。

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記住，不論你的未來(lái)沒(méi)有被開(kāi)發(fā)還是已經(jīng)被開(kāi)發(fā)了。

所有的時(shí)間軌跡都是完整的，你可以選擇遭遇所有的事件。（N叔的平行世界理論，懷疑他已經(jīng)劇透了某些秘密）

當(dāng)你向上或向下移動(dòng)（意識(shí)選擇）時(shí)，你的生活會(huì)發(fā)生變化。還是說(shuō)現(xiàn)在的你在某個(gè)層面上休息。（參考平面國(guó)，當(dāng)平面世界的自己第一次看到立體世界的畫(huà)面被震撼到的感覺(jué)）

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站起來(lái)，離開(kāi)你的躺椅，走出去，”打破束縛現(xiàn)在的生活束縛。通過(guò)改變你的想法來(lái)打破這些線，因?yàn)橹挥挟?dāng)你內(nèi)在上升時(shí)，你才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)外在的相應(yīng)改變。（我的環(huán)境是一個(gè)隨機(jī)選擇，還是一個(gè)固定選擇。都是由我決定）

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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.

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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.

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This word is sharper than any two-edged sword, for it is capable of piercing the soul and spirit.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

你有沒(méi)有想過(guò)，如果你有一雙純潔的眼睛，看不到罪惡，那會(huì)是什么樣子？

如果你是溫柔的？

所有的愛(ài)？

所有的慷慨？

瞄準(zhǔn)那些感覺(jué)，然后觀察你和它們的關(guān)系。正是在這里，在生活的風(fēng)暴中，你運(yùn)用這個(gè)法則。

如果你認(rèn)同自己處于一種滿是抱怨，憎恨的環(huán)境里，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己一直深陷其中。不過(guò)可喜的是你可以通過(guò)改變你對(duì)生活的自動(dòng)、機(jī)械的反應(yīng)，放下自己現(xiàn)在遭遇的所謂困境，擁抱自己全新的選擇。

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這個(gè)消息帶來(lái)的不是和平，而是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)變猶如真理之劍劃破抱怨世界的天空。

這是要使一個(gè)人與他的兄弟、父親、母親以及家里所有人的舊有意識(shí)發(fā)生爭(zhēng)執(zhí)，因?yàn)槲业淖晕乙庾R(shí)就是轉(zhuǎn)變一切的真理，而這真理就是上帝的話。

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這個(gè)意識(shí)轉(zhuǎn)變的真理之劍比任何兩刃的劍都要鋒利，因?yàn)樗艽檀╈`魂和精神。

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我并不是建議你與那些還有固定觀念意識(shí)的親戚作對(duì)，而是建議你與支配你當(dāng)下行為的心理觀念以及支配你對(duì)生活的行動(dòng)和反應(yīng)的舊有主導(dǎo)情緒作對(duì)。

如果，此時(shí)此刻你的感情還沒(méi)有所轉(zhuǎn)變，那就去引導(dǎo)它們轉(zhuǎn)變，因?yàn)樗鼈兪悄愕男睦砟赣H。

通過(guò)在舊有的意識(shí)里放入新的感覺(jué)來(lái)完成的。你不能改變你的想法，除非你改變你的感覺(jué)，所有的感覺(jué)都來(lái)自想法。

新意識(shí)的固有敵人往往來(lái)自于自己家庭環(huán)境所灌輸?shù)呐f有意識(shí)。

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這把真理之劍可以刺穿，甚至切斷靈魂和精神。你的父(自我意識(shí))是靈，當(dāng)你敬拜他時(shí)，你必須在靈和真理中這樣做。對(duì)自己說(shuō)，感覺(jué)“我就是他”

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你同意的一切，你相信并接受為真理的一切(不管是明智的還是愚蠢的)構(gòu)成了你穿的衣服。但是當(dāng)你拿起你的十字架并跟隨自己重新定義的想想時(shí)，你就是一個(gè)身披全新信念外套并提升到全新意識(shí)層面的存在。

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

我們大多數(shù)人都是漫無(wú)目的的。

我們總是想要比現(xiàn)在更多的東西。

我們希望別人改變，但我們不想做能帶來(lái)改變的事情，因?yàn)槲覀儾幌敫淖冏约骸?/p>

在啟示錄中，約翰告訴我們:“我要照各人所行的賜給他?！?/p>

這份禮物不是根據(jù)別人的工作給予的，而是根據(jù)你對(duì)自己所做的工作給予的，那份工作就是不加批判地觀察你對(duì)生活的反應(yīng)，因?yàn)樗鼈儼涯闶`在一定的水平上。

把你自己與不愉快的想法分開(kāi)，把自己和目標(biāo)聯(lián)系起來(lái)，從而上升到擁有目標(biāo)的水平高度，因?yàn)槟愕睦硐刖驮谀闼镜哪菞l垂直線上。

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圣經(jīng)告訴我們“尋找，你就會(huì)找到:當(dāng)你找到他，你就會(huì)像他一樣?！?/p>

我告訴你，除非你已經(jīng)擁有了欲望，否則你永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)找到滿足的欲望！

那些去尋找愛(ài)情的人只會(huì)表現(xiàn)出他們的無(wú)愛(ài)，因?yàn)槟阌肋h(yuǎn)不必尋找自己的樣子！

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我是瑪麗，你也是瑪麗，因?yàn)槲覀冇肋h(yuǎn)在想象自己是何種存在。

人類生活的全部就是對(duì)欲望的滿足，而欲望一旦被認(rèn)為滿足了，就會(huì)表現(xiàn)出來(lái)。

如果你沒(méi)有足夠的渴望去超越你目前的意識(shí)水平，你就不會(huì)構(gòu)想出任何更偉大的東西。

只要你愛(ài)著你所處的狀態(tài)，你就不能也不會(huì)從它上升。

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生活沒(méi)有滿足狀態(tài)的垂直線，就沒(méi)有意義。

古人把這個(gè)無(wú)窮無(wú)盡序列的意識(shí)輪回，叫做雅格布天梯

（圣經(jīng)中創(chuàng)世紀(jì)二八章11-19節(jié)中，雅各布做夢(mèng)見(jiàn)到從天堂來(lái)的天梯。后人便把這夢(mèng)想中的梯子，稱之為雅各布天梯。

還有一種說(shuō)法。希臘神話中，一個(gè)名叫雅各布的人做夢(mèng)沿著登天的梯子攀爬從而得至圣火。意思是人生的走向如同一張張的幻燈片，不同的幻燈片意味著不同選擇的結(jié)果）

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你不能建造這個(gè)梯子，而是通過(guò)自我意識(shí)的選擇爬上去。

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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.

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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.

當(dāng)你想到另一個(gè)人時(shí)，你看到的只是你對(duì)他的看法（自己頭腦里的定義）。

你覺(jué)得他善良，他就是善良。

如果你認(rèn)為他是愚蠢的，他是愚蠢的，因?yàn)樗诎缪菽愀鶕?jù)你的意見(jiàn)分配給他的角色。

所以，如果你想讓他改變，你就必須改變你對(duì)自己的看法，因?yàn)椤八敝皇悄愕目捶ā?/p>

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你在意識(shí)里如何定義自己，那你就是那個(gè)定義；

因此，強(qiáng)烈的感受到達(dá)終點(diǎn)的感覺(jué)，你就是那個(gè)終點(diǎn)。愿你所有的夢(mèng)想都是高尚的。