Volume III — DISCOURSE I

SAINT GERMAIN October 3, 1932

圣哲曼 10月3日，1932

INVOCATION: Thou Infinite, Mighty Presence, Thou All Pervading Principle of Life! We give praise and thanks for Thy Wondrous Activity through all outer presence. Out of Thy Mighty Essence comes all that is, and oh! that humanity might understand, Thou art ever and forever Self-sustained. Thou Mighty, Active Principle of Life, surge forth in the outer activity of mankind and manifest Thy Supreme Justice now in all places.

祈请： 祢这无限、强大的临在，祢这无所不在的生命之道！我们为祢透过一切外在临在所展现的奇妙活动献上赞美与感恩。一切的存在皆出自祢强大的本质，无论人类是否理解，祢永远是自我维系、自我支撑的。祢这强大、活跃的生命之道，请涌入人类的外在活动之中，此刻便在各处彰显祢崇高的公正。

Mighty Presence of Light — God in Action! govern the minds of mankind, holding them to Truth and Justice, and see that Thy Messengers are placed in all official positions. Let naught of the outer interfere, that none of humanity may accept any thought of deception.

行动中的伟大光之临在，神之临在！请治理人类的心智，引领他们走向真理与公正，并确保祢的使者被安置于一切公职之中。请让外在的一切干扰消散，使人类不再接受任何欺骗的念头。

Mighty Presence of God in Action, surge forth in the minds of all, expressing Thy Conquering Presence.

行动中的神之伟大临在，请在所有人的心智中涌现，表达祢那无可战胜的临在。

Greetings: I bring you Greetings from the Perfected Ones, who are watching closely over and ministering to all.

问候： 我向你传达来自那些完美存有的问候，他们正密切地注视、并服务着万物。

THE DISCOURSE

Life, in all Its Activities everywhere manifest, is God in Action; and it is only through lack of the understanding of applied thought and feeling that mankind is constantly interrupting the pure flow of that Perfect Essence of Life which would, without interference, naturally express Its Perfection everywhere.

生命，在其无处不在的活动展现中，就是行动中的神；唯有因为人类缺乏对自身思想与感受应用的理解，才不断地干扰那纯粹完美的生命本质之流 — — 若无此干扰，它原本会自然而然地在一切地方展现其完美。

The natural tendency of Life is Love, Peace, Beauty, Harmony, and Opulence, for Life cares not who uses It, but is constantly surging to pour more of Its Perfection into manifestation, always with that lifting process which is ever inherent within Itself.

生命的自然倾向是爱、和平、美、和谐与丰盛，因为生命并不在意谁使用它，它只是不断地涌现，将更多的完美倾注入显化之中，并始终带着那本就内在于它自身的提升作用。

“I AM”

「我是」

“I AM” is the Activity of “That Life.”

「我是」 是 「那生命」 的活动。

How strange it is that students with sincere interest do not seem to get the True Meaning of those two words.

真挚求学的学生竟无法领会这两个字的真正含义，这是多么奇怪的事。

When you say and feel “I AM,” you release the spring of Eternal, Everlasting Life to flow on Its way unmolested. In other words, you open wide the door to Its natural flow. When you say “I AM not,” you shut the door in the face of this Mighty Energy.

当你说出并感受「我是」时，你便释放了永恒、不朽生命的源泉，让它无阻碍地继续流动。换句话说，你为它自然的流动敞开了大门。当你说「我不是」时，你便在这强大的能量面前关上了门。

“I AM” is the Full Activity of God.

「我是」是神的完全活动。

Having placed before you so often the Truth of God in Action, I wish you to understand Its first expression in individualization. The first expression of every individual, everywhere in the Universe, either in spoken word, silent thought or feeling, is “I AM,” recognizing Its Own Conquering Divinity.

我如此频繁地向你阐明”行动中的神”这一真理，是希望你能理解它在个体化中的最初表达。宇宙中每一个个体，无论是透过言语、沉默的思想或感受，其最初的表达都是”我是” — — 认识到它自身那无可战胜的神性。

The student, endeavoring to understand and apply these mighty, yet simple Laws, must stand guard more strictly over his thought and expression — in word or otherwise; for every time you say “I AM not,” “I cannot,” “I have not,” you are, whether knowingly or unknowingly, throttling that “Great Presence” within you. This is just as tangible as if you placed your hands about the throat of an outer form, only with the outer form, your thought governing the hand, you can release it at any time; but when you make a declaration using the words “I AM not,” you set in motion Mighty, Limitless Energy that continues to act, unless it is recalled and the imperfection consumed and transmuted.

学生若要努力理解并应用这强大却简单的法则，就必须更严格地守护自己的思想与言语表达；因为每当你说「我不是」「我不能」「我没有」时，你都在有意或无意地扼制你内在那”伟大的临在”。这就如同你用双手扼住一个外在形体的喉咙一样真实 — — 只不过对外在形体而言，你的思想掌控着你的手，你可以随时停止；但当你以「我不是」这样的话语作出宣告时，你便启动了强大、无限的能量，使其持续运作，除非你将其收回，并将那不完美消融、转化。

This shows you the enormous power you have to qualify this Mighty Energy of God, and I tell you Beloved Students, dynamite is less dangerous, for that would but liberate you from the body; while these thoughts sent forth ignorantly and ungoverned bind you upon the wheel of reembodiment indefinitely.

这显示出你拥有何等巨大的力量，去定性神这强大的能量；我告诉你，亲爱的学生们，炸药的危险性还比不上这一点，因为炸药顶多只是将你从肉身中释放出来；而那些无知地、不受掌控地发出的思想，却将你无限期地束缚在轮回转世之轮上。

Thus you can see how important it is for you to know what you are doing when you thoughtlessly use wrong expressions; because you are using the Most Divine Principle of Activity in the Universe — ”I AM.”

由此你可以看出，当你不经思考地使用错误的表达时，认清自己究竟在做什么是多么重要；因为你正在使用宇宙中最神圣的行动原理 — — 「我是」。

Do not misunderstand me — this is no idle, foreign, or Oriental expression, but the Highest Principle of Life used and expressed throughout every civilization that has ever existed — for the first expression every Self-conscious form of Life gives is “I AM.” It is only afterwards, in its contact with outer, wrongly qualified activity, that it begins to accept anything less than “I AM.”

请不要误会我的意思 — — 这绝非空谈，也不只是异国或东方的说法，而是贯穿一切曾经存在过的文明的最高生命原理；因为每一个有自我意识的生命形式，最初的表达都是「我是」。只是后来，在与外在、被错误定性的活动接触之后，它才开始接受低于”我是”的事物。

Now Dear Students, do you not see that when you say “I AM sick,” you are just reversing this Principle of Life, which is naturally all Perfection; thus requalifying it by your willful ignorance with something which it never naturally possessed?

那么，亲爱的学生们，你们难道看不出，当你说「我病了」时，你正是在反转这本来全然完美的生命原理；你正以自己刻意的无知，将它重新定性为它本来从未拥有过的东西吗？

Through long centuries of willful misunderstanding, humanity has charged the very atmosphere about them with falsehood and unreality, for I need not say to you that when you say “I AM sick,” it is an abject falsehood in respect to your Divinity, which cannot be sick.

经过漫长世纪以来固执的误解，人类已用谎言与虚妄充满了自己周遭的整个氛围；因为我无需多言，当你说「我病了」时，这对于你那永不可能生病的神性而言，正是一句卑劣的谎言。

Does this sound harsh to you?

这听起来对你而言会觉得严苛吗？

Then I say, think it over, and you will see what a blessing and release it can be to you.

那么我说，好好想一想，你便会明白这能为你带来怎样的祝福与解脱。

I say to you, Dear Students, in the Name of God, stop using these wrong expressions of your Godhead, of your Divinity, for it is impossible for you to have Freedom as long as you continue to do it. I cannot speak of this to you too often: that when you really recognize and accept the Mighty Presence of God in you, there are positively no adverse conditions.

我以神之名告诉你们，亲爱的学生们，停止使用这些对你神性、对你神圣本质的错误表达，因为只要你继续这样做，你便不可能获得自由。我无法过于频繁地向你强调这一点：当你真正认识并接受你内在那神之强大临在时，绝对不会有任何不利的状况。

STOP! I say to you, giving power to the outer conditions, persons, places or things, and in the Name of God, every time you find yourself starting to say “I AM sick,” “I AM broke,” “I AM not feeling well,” instantly reverse this fatal condition to your progress, and declare silently with all the intensity of your being — ”I AM” — which is all health, opulence, Perfection, happiness, peace, and the power to recognize Perfection in yourself and everywhere else.

停下来！我告诉你，不要再将力量赋予外在的状况、人物、地点或事物；以神之名，每当你发现自己开始说「我病了」「我破产了」「我感觉不太好」时，立刻反转这阻碍你进步的致命状况，并以你存在的全部强度默默宣告 — — 「我是」 — — 那便是一切的健康、丰盛、完美、快乐、平静，以及在你自身与一切之处认出完美的力量。

When you think of the expression “I AM,” it means that you know you have God in Action expressing in your Life. Do not let these false expressions continue to govern and limit you. Continually remind yourself: “I live, move, and have my Being and all outer expression in the full opulence of God, made manifest every moment.”

当你思索「我是」这个表达时，这意味着你知道神正在你的生命中行动并表达自己。不要让这些虚假的表达继续支配并限制你。持续地提醒自己：「我活着、行动、存在，我的一切外在表达，都在神完全的丰盛之中，于每一刻被彰显出来。」

In thus reminding yourself of this Invincible, Unconquerable Presence, you keep the door open for Its pure, Invincible Essence and Intelligence to weave into your outer expression that wondrous Perfection.

如此提醒自己这无可战胜、不可征服的临在，你便为它纯净、无可战胜的本质与智能敞开了大门，让它将那奇妙的完美编织进你的外在表达之中。

I plead with you, Dear Ones everywhere, do not continue to use these wrong expressions thinking that in some hocuspocus way you may slide past reaping the result. IT SIMPLY CANNOT BE DONE.

我恳求你们，各处亲爱的人们，不要再继续使用这些错误的表达，以为可以用某种障眼法逃避其结果。这绝对不可能做到。

Many of you know that they use the branding iron on the Western Frontier as a recognition of ownership by the ranchmen. So great is my desire to have you recognize and hold fast to the active Presence of God in you, that I almost long for a branding iron to brand those words –”I AM”– into your consciousness for constant use; that you could not be drawn off the recognition, acceptance, and use of that Mighty, Glorious Presence of God, which you are.

你们许多人都知道，西部边境的牧场主人会用烙铁在牲畜身上烙印，以标示所有权。我多么渴望你能认出并坚守你内在那神之活跃的临在，以至于我几乎希望能用一支烙铁，将「我是」这几个字烙入你的意识之中，让你持续使用；好让你永远无法被引离对这强大、荣耀的神之临在 — — 也就是你自己 — — 的认识、接受与运用。

I trust that all who may hear or read these words will feel the Power and the Mighty Conviction of this Truth that goes with them leaping into action wherever expressed.

我相信所有听到或读到这些话语的人，都会感受到这真理中蕴含的力量与强大的确信，并使其在被表达出的任何地方立即投入行动。

If at any time anything less than Perfection attempts to make an appearance in your experience, declare vehemently that it is not true, and that you accept only God, which is Perfection in your Life, everywhere manifest. As long as you give way to accepting false appearances, you will have them expressed in your Life and experience. It is not, Dear Student, a matter of belief on your part whether you accept these Truths or not, but they are the Law, proven through long centuries of experience, and are placed before you for your Freedom.

若在任何时候，任何低于完美之事试图在你的经历中出现，请激烈地宣告它并非真实，并声明你只接受神 — — 那便是你生命中无处不在、彰显出来的完美。只要你一直接受虚假的表象，它们便会在你的生命与经历中持续显现。亲爱的学生，这不是关乎你是否相信这些真理的问题，它们是法则，已经过漫长世纪的经验所证实，并为了你的自由而摆在你面前。

Awaken to the fact that your thought and feeling in the past have built created the inharmony of your world today. Arise! I say, Arise! and walk with the Father the “I AM”–that you may be free from these limitations. There is only. one thing in this Universe that can surround you with limitation, and that is accepting the outer appearance instead of the Mighty, Active Presence of God in you.

请觉醒，认清你过去的思想与感受，正是造就了你今日世界中不和谐的原因。起来！我说，起来！与父 — — 「我是」 — — 同行，好让你能从这些限制中获得自由。在这个宇宙中，只有一件事能使你被限制所环绕，那就是接受外在的表象，而非接受你内在那神之强大、活跃的临在。

The Western World likes to fool itself with the idea that it refuses to accept the ancient and Eastern idea of sorcery in other words, the misuse of the Spiritual Powers. The worst kind of sorcery is being used in the political fields today that has ever been known in the history of mankind through the use of mental power wrongly qualified.

西方世界喜欢自我安慰地以为，自己拒绝接受古代与东方关于巫术 — — 换句话说，灵性力量的误用 — — 的观念。然而在政治领域中，今日所运用的，正是人类历史上前所未见、透过被错误定性的精神力量所施展的最恶劣的一种巫术。

If this same tremendous mental force were used in just the reverse way, to know that there is only God in Action in every individual filling official places, the sender of that quality or Truth would not only be free himself, but the political world would be filled with Freedom and Justice. Then we would experience a natural world, a world of God in Action–everywhere present.

倘若这同样巨大的精神力量被反向运用，认识到每一个占据公职之人内在皆只有行动中的神，那么这份品质或真理的发出者，不仅自己将获得自由，整个政治世界也将充满自由与公正。那时我们便能体验一个自然的世界，一个神在行动中无处不在显现的世界。

It is today as it was at one time in Egypt. Those who misuse the mental power are binding themselves to the rack of inharmony, embodiment after embodiment.

今日的情形，正如古埃及曾经历的那个时代。那些误用精神力量的人，正在生生世世中将自己束缚于不和谐的刑架之上。

Take the stand: “I do not take on conditions from anybody or anything about me but God Good, and ‘I AM’ always God–commanded.” You need to acquire the habit of stilling yourself. Sit down three or four times a day and simply still the outer self. This will let the energy be supplied. Learn to command and control the energy in your body. If you want the energy still be still. If you want the energy active–be active. You must stand up, face a thing, and rise above it. There is no other way.

请采取这样的立场：「除了良善的神之外，我不接受任何人、任何事物加诸于我身上的状况；「我是」永远是神的命令。」你需要养成让自己静下来的习惯。每天坐下三、四次，单纯地让外在的自我安静下来。这将使能量得以供给。学会指挥并掌控你身体中的能量。若你想要能量静止 — — 就让自己静止。若你想要能量活跃 — — 就让自己活跃。你必须挺身而立，正面迎对一件事，并超越它。除此之外，别无他法。

The student should watch in every way for habits and break them up. He should not have to be told but must look within himself and uproot whatever is not Perfect. This brings a freedom not possible in any other way.

学生应当全面地观察自己的习惯，并将其打破。他不该等待被告知，而必须向内审视自己，并根除一切不完美之处。唯有如此，才能带来一种以其他任何方式都无法获得的自由。

The holding on of old habits is just like wearing old, worn out garments. The student must not wait for someone else to think these things out for him. He must do it himself. It is not possible for anyone to do it but himself.

固守旧有的习惯，就如同穿着破旧的衣物一般。学生不能等待他人替自己思考这些事，他必须亲自完成。除了他自己，没有人能够代为完成。

In this Work and under this Radiation, everything that is latent in the individual is being brought forth to be consumed. Watch that the attention does not become fixed on the thing you do not want.

在这项工作与这份光辉之下，个体内部一切潜藏的事物都正在被带到表面，以便被消融。要留意，不要让注意力固定在你不想要的事物上。

It is perfectly ridiculous to keep recalling things which have not worked out. If you have built your limitations for centuries and can, by this attention and selfeffort, free yourself in a few years, isn’t it worth it? Is it not marvelous?

不断地回想那些未能成功的事，是十分荒谬的。如果你花了数个世纪建立起自己的种种限制，却能透过这样的专注与自我努力，在短短几年内获得自由，这难道不值得吗？这难道不是奇迹吗？

A humorous sense of getting away from a thing is sometimes the quickest and most powerful way of doing it, for a buoyant, joyous feeling releases the energy that many times enables a very wonderful manifestation to take place.

带着幽默感去摆脱一件事，有时是最快、也最有力的方法，因为那种轻快、喜悦的感受，能释放出常常使奇妙的显化得以发生的能量。

If one will buckle down to brass tacks and call on the Law of Forgiveness, he can then consume all past creations in the Consuming Flame and be free. You must be conscious that the Flame is the Active Presence of God doing the consuming.

若一个人能切实地着手处理，并呼求宽恕的法则，他便能在那消融之火焰中清除一切过去的造物，获得自由。你必须意识到，那火焰正是神之活跃的临在，正在执行这消融的工作。

The Freedom of God is here in action.

神的自由，此刻正在行动之中。

When you have a feeling to do a certain constructive thing, go ahead, stick to it and do it, if the heavens fall. Whether the manifestation comes now or not should not enter into your consciousness at all.

当你有了想去做某件建设性事情的感受时，就向前去做，坚持到底，即便天塌下来也不放弃。至于显化是否此刻发生，根本不应进入你的意识之中。

Even when students only know a thing intellectually, they should not allow the mind to keep recalling wrong conditions when they know what this activity does to their success. It is unbelievable that people will not conquer this enemy in their consciousness. No student can ever gain the victory until he stops turning back to the old, negative conditions he is trying to get rid of.

即便学生只是在理智层面知晓某件事，当他们明白这种习惯会对自己的成功造成什么影响时，也不该让心智持续回想那些错误的状况。人们竟无法在自己的意识中征服这个敌人，实在令人难以置信。任何学生只要不停止一再回头看向他正试图摆脱的旧有、消极状况，就永远无法获得胜利。

The whole work of a teacher is to get some means and explanation over to the student of the activity of acceptance. What the mind accepts is that which the individual agrees with through his attention, by letting the two become one. When the mind accepts and agrees with a thing or condition, the individual decrees it into his world. Whatever you let the attention rest upon, you are agreeing with and accepting, because through the attention you have let the mind become one with it.

老师全部的工作，就是设法将「接受」这一活动的某种方法与解释，传达给学生。心智所接受的，正是个体透过专注力所认同的东西，让二者合而为一。当心智接受并认同某件事或某种状况时，个体便将其谕令入自己的世界之中。无论你让注意力停留在何处，你都是在认同并接受它，因为透过专注，你已让心智与之合一。

If an individual were to see a rattlesnake coiled, would he walk right up to be struck? Certainly not! Yet this is what students are doing when they let their attention turn back to their troubles. Such habits are only past momentum given a specific quality.

倘若一个人看见一条盘绕的响尾蛇，他还会径直走上前去被咬吗？当然不会！然而，这正是学生们让自己的注意力回头转向他们的困扰时所做的事。这样的习惯，只不过是过去的惯性被赋予了某种特定的特质而已。

There are only two activities in Life, and if you will not let the Inner govern according to Its plan of Perfection, then the outer must.

生命中只有两种活动；如果你不让内在依照它自身完美的计划来主导，那么外在就会主导。

When a constructive picture is flashed to your mind, it is a reality. When you recall it as a mental picture and hold it again, it calls forth the reality.

当一幅建设性的画面闪现于你的心智时，它便是一种实相。当你将它当作一幅心智图像回想并再次持守它时，它便召唤出那份实相。

One can become so aware of his own God Presence that at any time he can see and feel Its Radiance pouring out to him.

一个人可以变得对自己内在的神之临在如此清醒，以至于在任何时刻，他都能看见并感受到它的光辉向他倾注而出。

For things it does not want, the outer has all the confidence in the world. It is up to the student to compel it to have the same confidence for the Perfection of God that it has for the imperfection of the senses.

对于它不想要的事物，外在世界拥有世上一切的信心。如今，需要学生去迫使它对神的完美，怀有它对感官不完美一向所怀的那种同等信心。

The student must always rely on himself. He must always think, “What can I do to intensify this activity from the hints given?”

学生必须始终依靠自己。他必须经常这样想：「我能做些什么，才能从这些已给出的提示中，强化这项活动？」

BENEDICTION: Mighty Perfected Ones! As we receive Thy Magic Circle of Protection, as we receive and are enfolded in Thy Mighty Opulent Presence, O Master Within! we accept fully that Opulence made manifest in our outer experience and use. We give praise and thanks for Thy Wisdom in Its use. We give praise and thanks that we have the full strength to accept only Thy Mighty Active Presence at all times, and to refuse acceptance to anything unlike Thee.

祝福： 强大、完美的存有们！当我们接受祢神奇的保护之圈，当我们接受并被环抱于祢强大、丰盛的临在之中，哦，内在的大师！我们完全接受那已彰显于我们外在经验与运用之中的丰盛。我们为祢运用智慧而献上赞美与感恩。我们也为我们自己献上赞美与感恩，因我们时时拥有完全的力量，只接受祢强大、活跃的临在，并拒绝接受一切与祢不相似的事物。