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此段摘自《灵魂永生》第十七章  
可能性，善恶的本质，以及宗教象征

基督教教义论及的“基督升天”，显然指的是向上直升到天堂，而灵魂的发展也常常以方向性来讨论。一般认为，进步就是上升，而恐怖的宗教惩罚——地狱——被看作在所有之“下”。

因此，用基督教的说法，发展被认为只是以单线方向进行的。比如说，很少有人想到发展还有水平方向的。通俗的进化观念广泛传播了这个理论：人从猿猴沿着单线方向逐步进化而来。（幽默地：）基督其实也可以从侧面消失嘛。

其实“发展”这两个字所包含的内在天地早就被描述过了，它总是以当时人们所能理解的方式说出，且与他们的基本假设一致。“发展”向四面八方展开。灵魂并不是沿着一连串的梯子向上爬，每一道梯子代表更新、更高的发展点。

相反的，灵魂站在自己的中心，同时往所有方向探索、扩展它的能力，它所涉入的每一个创造性课题都是非常合理的。可能的实相系统向你们揭示了灵魂的本质，并将在很大程度上改变目前流行的宗教观念。正因为如此，善恶的本质成为非常重要的要点。

一方面，简单地说——这种说法你们目前尚不能理解——恶并不存在。可是你显然正在面对看似十分邪恶的事情。人们常说，有神就有魔，或者，有善就有恶。这就像是说：因为一个苹果有上一半，就一定有下一半一样，其实，两者不都是苹果的一部分吗？

让我们回到我们的基本理论：你通过情感、思想和精神活动创造实相。其中有些精神活动被具体化为物质形式，其他的则在可能性实相系统中得以实现。似乎在任何时刻你都面临无穷的选择，而有些选择多少比其他的更好些。

你务必要明白，每一个精神性行动都是你要负责的一个实相。而这就是你在这个特定的实相系统里存在的目的。比如说，只要你相信有魔鬼，你就将造出一个魔鬼来，而这个魔鬼无论对你，还是对继续创造他的人来说，都是足够真实的。

由于被众人赋予了能量，魔鬼会有自己的某种意识，但这个伪魔鬼，对那些不相信他存在的人以及不用信念赋予他能量的人，既没有力量也没有实相。也就是说，魔鬼是最高级的幻象。如前所述，那些相信有地狱并通过信念把自己发配到地狱的人，真的会体验到它，但肯定不会有“永无出期”这回事，因为没有灵魂会永远无知。

有这种信念的人其实对意识的本质、灵魂和“一切万有”缺乏一种必要而深刻的信任。他们没有把心念专注于他们所认为的良善力量，却恐惧地专注于他们所认为的邪恶力量。

因此，出于恐惧和限制，他们创造了这个幻象。魔鬼的概念只是某些恐惧的集体投射——“集体”是因为它由许多人所制造，但它毕竟有限，因为总有人不信邪。

有些非常古老的宗教了解魔鬼这概念的幻象性质，但即使在古埃及时代，更简单更扭曲的概念就已变得盛行起来，特别是在老百姓当中。从某种意义上说，那时候如果没有魔鬼的概念，人们就无法了解神的概念。

例如就以暴风雨来说，暴风雨是极富创造性的自然事件，虽然它也会造成破坏。早期的人只看到破坏。而有些人直觉地体会到任何效果都是创造性的，不管它们的表象如何，但很少人能说服他的同胞。

光明与黑暗的对比带给我们同样的画面。善被看作是光明，因为人类在白天感觉比较安全。因此邪恶便被扔给了夜晚。但是，在大量的扭曲之中、教条之下永远隐藏着“每种效果基本上都是一种创造”的暗示。

那么，并没有什么魔鬼在等着把任何人带走，除非你们自己创造了它们，即便如此，力量也是存在于你们身上而不在伪魔鬼身上。“耶稣被钉十字架”以及随后的戏剧在你们当时的实相世界里是有意义的。它从内在实相世界升起，并进入具体的物质世界，你们最深的直觉和洞见也都源自内在世界。

因此，人类让这些事件发生，因为它最能将“灵魂不可灭”这个深刻的无形知识传达到物质世界。这出特定的戏剧对于其他具有不同基本假设的实相系统是没有意义的。

Christian dogma speaks of the ascension of Christ, implying of course a vertical ascent into the heavens, and the development of the soul is often discussed in terms of direction. To progress is supposedly to ascend, while the honor of religious punishment, hell, is seen at the bottom of all things.

Development is therefore considered in a one-line direction only, in Christian terms. Seldom, for example, is it thought of in horizontal terms. The idea of evolution in its popular meaning promulgated this theory, as through gradual progression in a one-line direction, man emerged horn the ape. （Humorously）： Christ could just as well have disappeared sideways.

The inner reality of the message was told in terms that man at the time could understand, in line with his root assumptions. Development unfolds in all directions. The soul is not ascending a series of stairs, each one representing a new and higher point of development.

Instead, the soul stands at the center of itself, exploring, extending its capacities in all directions at once, involved in issues of creativity, each one highly legitimate. The probable system of reality opens up the nature of the soul to you. It should change current religion’s ideas considerably. For this reason, the nature of good and evil is a highly important point.

On the one hand, quite simply and in a way that you cannot presently understand, evil does not exist. However, you are obviously confronted with what seem to be quite evil effects. Now it has been said often that there is a god, so there must be a devil - or if there is good, there must be evil. This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom - but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. 

We go back to our fundamentals: You create reality through your feelings, thoughts, and mental actions. Some of these are physically materialized, others are actualized in probable systems. You are presented with an endless series of choices, it seems, at any point, some more or less favorable than others.

You must understand that each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible. That is what you are in this particular system of reality for. As long as you believe in a devil, for example, you will create one that is real enough for you, and for the others who continue to create him.

Because of the energy he is given by others, he will have a certain consciousness of his own, but such a mock devil has no power or reality to those who do not believe in his existence, and who do not give him energy through their belief. He is, in other words, a superlative hallucination As mentioned earlier, those who believe in a hell and assign themselves to it through their belief can indeed experience one, but certainly in nothing like eternal terms. No soul is forever ignorant.

Now- those who have such beliefs actually lack a necessary deep trust in the nature of consciousness, of the soul, and of All That Is. They concentrate upon not what they think of as the power of good, but fearfully upon what they think of as the power of evil.

The hallucination is created, therefore, out of fear and of restriction. The devil idea is merely the mass projection of certain fears - mass in that it is produced by many people, but also limited in that there have always been those who rejected this principle.

Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. In some ways, men in those times could not understand the concept of a god without the concept of a devil.

Storms, for example, are highly creative natural events, though they can also cause destruction. Early man could see only the destruction. Some intuitively understood that any effects are creative, despite their appearances, but few could convince their fellow men.

The light-and-darkness contrast presents us with the same kind of picture. The good was seen as light, for men felt safer in the day. The evil was therefore assigned to nightfall. Within the mass of distortions, however, hidden beneath the dogma there was always a hint of the basic creativity of every effect.

There are, then, no devils waiting to carry anyone off, unless you create them yourself, in which case the power resides in you and not in the mock devils. The Crucifixion and attendant drama made sense within your reality at the time. It arose into the world of physical actuality out of the inner reality from which your deepest intuitions and insights also spring.

The race brought forth the events, then, that would best convey in physical terms this deeper nonphysical knowledge of the indestructibility of the soul. This particular drama would not have made sense to other systems with different root assumptions than your own.

编译：   /Laujenny婷    美编：周周

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