基督再临——基督第三人格（一）

?此段摘自《灵魂永生》第二十一章  宗教的意义

善与恶，神与魔，拯救与诅咒的概念，只不过象征了更深层的宗教价值观——如果你愿意，可称之为宇宙价值观，那是无法以人间用语来说明的。

这些概念成为我所说的宗教剧的主旋律。演员可能一再“回来”扮演不同的角色，因此在历史上的任一宗教剧里，那些演员可能已经在过去的历史场景中出现过，今日的先知就是过去的叛徒。

不过，这些心灵的“存有”是确实存在的。事实上，他们的实相不仅包含了自己本体身份的内核，也被世间观众所投射的思想情感所强化，毕竟这出戏是为这些观众而演的。

心灵或心理的认同在此极其重要，而这种认同就是全剧的核心所在。在某种意义上，你可以说人类认同自己创造的神明。然而，人并不了解自己的发明与创造能力有多么伟大。那么，若说人和神创造了彼此，你还更接近于真理；但前提是对你的定义要特别小心——因为，人和神到底区别何在呢？

神所具有的特性是人类与生俱来的，区别只在于这些特性被放大而带来了强大的活动。人相信神永生不死。其实人也一样，只是人们忘了这点，就只记得把这个特性赋予了神。因此，很显然，在这些世间的历史宗教剧之外——即那些看上去循环往复的人神故事之外，还有精神的实相存在。

剧中演员的背后，还有更强大的“存有”，他们已超越了“角色扮演”这回事。那么，这些戏剧本身——即那些遍传古今的各种宗教——其实只是影子，虽然是对人有帮助的影子。在善恶框架的背后，有着颇为深远的灵性价值观。因此，所有宗教在试图抓住“真相”的同时，一定在很大程度上害怕真相永不可得。

只有当“内我”安定下来、静心冥想时，才能偶尔瞥见一些无法具体表达的内在实相。这些价值观、直觉或洞见根据个人的理解不同而分别传达给每个人，因此关于它们的故事常会有不同的描述。

比如，一个宗教历史剧里的主角，在意识层面上也许明白这些信息是怎么来的，也许不明白。但在他看来他确实知道，因为一种教义起源的本质会以这个主角所能理解的说法解释给他。历史上的耶稣知道他自己是谁，但他也知道他是构成一个“存有”的三个人格之一。在很大程度上，他也共享另外两个人的记忆。

我曾多次提到的第三个人格，从你们的角度看尚未出现，虽然他的存在曾被预言为“基督再临”（马太福音第二十四节）。且说，这些预言是根据当时的主流文化而作出的，因此虽然舞台布置好了，但扭曲是可悲的，因为这位基督不会如预言所说在世界末日时到来。

他不会来奖励义人，并把恶人送入永远的末日。但是，他会展开一出新的宗教剧，而历史会保持一定的连续性。不过，像之前一样，“他是谁”不会广为流传，不会有全世界都俯首赞成的光荣宣言。他将回来重整基督教，那时的基督教已是一团乱麻，他将在世界迫切需要时建立一个新的思想体系。

到那时，所有宗教都已陷入严重危机。他将颠覆宗教组织，而非统合它们。他带来的讯息将是个人与“一切万有”的关系。他将清楚地阐述使每个人与自己的“存有”达到亲密接触状态的方法；“存有”在某种程度上是人与“一切万有”的中间人。

到2075年，所有这些都将完成。

你可以在此加注一下：预言家诺斯特拉达默斯把罗马天主教会的解散看作世界末日。他不能想象没有罗马天主教会的文明，因而你们在读他后来的许多预言时应该记住这一点。

基督的第三人格确实将作为一位伟大的通灵者而闻名，因为正是他将教导人类使用内在感官，唯有内在感官才能使真正的灵性成为可能。当转世的记忆浮到意识表面时，凶手与受害者将互换角色。通过发展这些能力，人们将深入认识并珍惜所有生命的神圣性。

有几个在那之前诞生的人，会以不同的方式重新唤起人们的期望。有一个已经诞生在印度加尔各答附近的一个小省份里，但终其一生他的传教活动似乎都比较地方性。

另一位将诞生在非洲，是一个黑人，他的主要工作将在印度尼西亚完成。用你们的话来说，期望早已种下，并将为几位新的先知所滋养，直到基督的第三人格真正出现。

他将带领人类揭开世代以来宗教所依赖的象征背后的意义。它将强调个人的灵性体验，灵魂的开扩性，并教导人类去认识自身实相的多维面貌。

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

These ideas become the driving themes of these religious dramas of which I have spoken. The actors may “return,” time and time again, in different roles. In any given historic religious drama, therefore, the actors may have already appeared on the historic scene in your past, the prophet of today being the traitor of the past drama.

These psychic entities are real, however. It is quite true to say that their reality consists not only of the core of their own identity, but also is reinforced by those projected thoughts and feelings of the earthly audience for whom the drama is enacted.

Psychic or psychological identification is of great import here and is indeed at the heart of all such dramas. In one sense, you can say that man identifies with the gods he has himself created. Man does not understand the magnificent quality of his own inventiveness and creative power, however. Then, say that gods and men create each other, and you come even closer to the truth: but only if you are very careful in your definitions—for how, exactly, do gods and men differ?

The attributes of the gods are those inherent within man himself, magnified, brought into powerful activity. Men believe that the gods live forever. Men live forever, but having forgotten this, they remember only to endow their gods with this characteristic. Obviously, then, beyond these earthly historic religious dramas, the seemingly recurring tales of gods and men, there are spiritual realities.

Behind the actors in the dramas, there are more powerful entities who are quite beyond role-playing. The plays themselves, then, the religions that sweep across the ages — these are merely shadows, though helpful ones. Behind the frame of good and evil is a far deeper spiritual value. All religions, therefore, while trying to catch “truth” must to some large degree fear its ever eluding them.

The inner self alone, at rest, in meditation, can at times glimpse portions of these inner realities that cannot be physically expressed. These values, intuitions, or insights are given each to each according to his understanding, and so the stories told about them will often vary.

For example, the main character in a religious historical drama may or may not consciously be aware of the ways in which such information is given to him. And yet it may seem to him that he does know, for the nature of a dogma’s origin will be explained in terms that this main character can understand. The historical Jesus knew who he was, but he also knew that he was one of three personalities composing one entity. To a large extent he shared in the memory of the other two.

The third personality, mentioned many times by me, has not in your terms yet appeared, although his existence has been prophesied as the “Second Coming” （Matthew 24）. Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.

He will not come to reward the righteous and send evildoers to eternal doom. He will, however, begin a new religious drama. A certain historical continuity will be maintained. As happened once before, however, he will not be generally known for who he is. There will be no glorious proclamation to which the whole world will bow. He will return to straighten out Christianity, which will be in a shambles at the time of his arrival, and to set up a new system of thought when the world is sorely in need of one.

By that time, all religions will be in severe crisis. He will undermine religious organizations — not unite them. His message will be that of the individual in relation to All That Is. He will clearly state methods by which each individual can attain a state of intimate contact with his own entity; the entity to some extent being man’s mediator with All That Is.

By 2075, all of this will be already accomplished.

You may make a note here that Nostradamus saw the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church as the end of the world. He could not imagine civilization without it, hence many of his later predictions should be read with this in mind.

The third personality of Christ will indeed be known as a great psychic, for it is he who will teach humanity to use those inner senses that alone make true spirituality possible. Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness. Through the development of these abilities, the sacredness of all life will be intimately recognized and appreciated.

Now there will be several born before that time who in various ways will re-arouse man’s expectations. One such man has already been born in India, in a small province near Calcutta, but his ministry will seem to remain comparatively local for his lifetime.

Another will be born in Africa, a black man whose main work will be done in Indonesia. The expectations were set long ago in your terms, and will be fed by new prophets until the third personality of Christ does indeed emerge.

He will lead man behind the symbolism upon which religion has relied for so many centuries. He will emphasize individual spiritual experience, the expansiveness of soul, and teach man to recognize the multitudinous aspects of his own reality.