耶穌正傳——第八章
CHAPTER 8
第八章
Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The devil. Love - the savior of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the dark.
以利戶授課。生命的一體性。人有兩個我。魔鬼。愛是人類的救主。光明的大衛。黑暗的歌利亞。
AGAIN Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said,
1、以利戶又在聖樹林向學生授課，他說，
2) No man lives unto himself;for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing.
2、沒有人是憑自己而活，因為每個生命都與其他生命相連。
3) Blest are the pure in heart;for they will love and not demand love in return.
3、心中聖潔的人是有福的，因為他們必展現愛，卻不求愛的回報。
4) They will not do to other men what they would not have other men do unto them.
4、己所不欲者，他們不施於人。
5) There are two selfs;the higher and the lower self.
5、人有兩個我，一個高我，一個低我。
6) The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God.
6、高我是披著魂的人之靈，是照神的形像被造的。
7) The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.
7、低我，肉慾之我，是高我的投射，被肉體的污濁之氣給扭曲了。
8) The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away;the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
8、低我是幻相，是可朽的，高我是人內在之神，是不朽的。
9) The higher self is the embodiment of truth;the lower self is truth reversed, and so is falsehood manifest.
9、高我是真理的化身，低我是真理的顛倒，是虛幻的表現。
10) The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right;the lower self is what the higher self is not.
10、高我是公義、憐憫、仁愛、正直，低我是高我所不是。
11) The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms;the higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life.
11、低我孕育仇恨、毀謗、淫蕩、兇殺、偷盜等一切有害之事，高我是美德與和諧生活之母。
12) The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace;it offers pleasure, joy and satisfying gains;but gives unrest and misery and death.
12、低我滿懷希望，卻少得福樂、平安，它給人快樂和可喜的利益，卻帶來不安、痛苦、死亡。
13) It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell;their cores are full of bitterness and gall.
13、它給人悅目芳香的蘋果，裡面卻盡是苦澀。
14) If you would ask me what to study I would say, your selfs;and when you well had studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, your selfs.
14、你若問我當學什麼，我會說，當認識你自己。你若學得好，再來問我當學什麼，我還會說，當認識你自己。
15) He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away;and he who knows his higher self, knows God;knows well the things that cannot pass away.
15、了解低我的人，了解世界的虛幻，了解可朽之物。認識高我的人，認識神，認識不朽之物。
16) Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own;he has been ransomed from the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self.
16、證得聖潔與大愛的人是至為有福的，他脫離了低我的險惡，證得了他的高我。
17) Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world;and they have gods that are but demons in disguise;all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust;
17、人們從邪惡尋求拯救，把邪惡當成生活在地獄的怪物。他們的神不過是魔鬼，雖有能力，卻充滿嫉妒、仇恨、慾望，
18) Whose favors must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind.
18、得獻上珍貴的果實，甚至飛鳥、牲畜、人類的生命，才能討得它的喜悅。
19) And yet these gods possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathize, no power to save.
19、事實上，這些神無耳可聞，無眼可觀，無心可憐，無力可救。
20) This evil is myth;these gods are made of air, and clothed with shadows of a thought.
20、該邪惡只是一個迷思，這些神全是虛妄，以思維的無明為掩飾。
21) The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must look within;his name is self.
21、人唯一需要逃脫的魔鬼是我，低我。人要尋找魔鬼，就當向內尋找，它的名是我。
22) If man would find his savior he must look within;and when the demon self has been dethroned the savior, Love, will be exulted to the throne of power.
22、人要尋找救主，也當向內尋找，當魔鬼，亦即我，被廢除了，那救主，亦即愛，必被提上權能的寶座。
23) The David of the light is Purity, who slays the strong Goliath of the dark, and seats the savior, Love, upon the throne.
23、光明的大衛象徵聖潔，他斬殺了那強大的黑暗的歌利亞，讓救主，亦即愛，坐上了寶座。