圣哲曼系列4 - 扬升大师 Ascension Master Introduction - Discourse 19

Discourse XIX

September 5, 1932 

SAINT GERMAIN

INVOCATION: Thou Mighty Infinite "Presence," Thou Mighty Wisdom and Conveyor of Life, Thou Mighty Omnipresence of all Manifestation! We give praise and thanks for the Consciousness, the Realization, the Majesty of Thy Presence. We give praise and thanks that We are aware of Thy All — conquering Presence, that Thou art the Active, Manifesting Principle in all We know as Life, that Thou art the only Intelligence acting. All else is but the creation of man and is not of Thee.

祢，伟大无垠的 “临在”，祢是伟大的智慧与生命的传递者，祢是所有显化的伟大无处不在者！我们赞美并感谢能意识到祢的临在，能体会到、感受到您的威严。我们赞美并感谢，我们知晓祢那无往不胜的临在，祢是我们所知的生命中积极显化的法则，祢是唯一行动着的智慧。其他一切皆为人类的创造，并非源自于祢。

Thou Mighty Presence — O Silent Watcher — as Thou dost bless through Thy Wisdom all humanity, We recognize there are those who know Thee, sing to Thee, call to Thee in Thy Majestic Presence. Answer always those who call. Speak Wisdom, Thou Presence! Speak Wisdom, Thou Consuming Power, and answer all who call unto Thee!

祢，伟大的临在 —— 哦，寂静的守望者 —— 当祢通过祢的智慧祝福全人类时，我们知道有人认识祢、歌颂祢、在祢威严的临在中向祢呼求。请永远回应那些呼求者。说话吧，智慧的临在！说话吧，具有净化力量的临在，回应所有向祢呼求的人！

Peace and Blessing of the Mighty Host of the Silent Watcher and His Messengers, to thee and thine.

愿寂静守望者及其使者们的伟大圣团赐予祢及祢的亲眷平安与祝福。

THE DISCOURSE

Thought is interior speech; and as you converse with each other by words, so may you converse with, demand, and command the Inner "Presence" through thought. Thought can be made a dynamo by which you can charge the body, home, condition, or activity according to the consciousness or understanding you have of its power.

思想是内在的言语；正如你们通过话语相互交流一样，你们也可以通过思想与内在的 “临在” 交流、向其提出要求并发出指令。思想可以成为一台发电机，根据你对其力量的意识或理解，用它为身体、家庭、环境或活动充电。

This brings Me to one of the vital points for all Students, and that is to break the habit of thinking out loud. One has but to watch himself to see how often he is unconsciously expressing the thought out loud. This has to be positively overcome before certain Instruction and Information can be given. Why? Because this habit of the human is a lack of controlled energy; if the person is in the possession of secret Information, in an unguarded moment he will reveal It. I wish each one to take him or herself firmly in hand on this particular point. Do not even in the simplest things in your daily activity allow the thought to be expressed in words, as though talking to yourself.

这就引出了对所有学生来说至关重要的一点，那就是要改掉大声思考的习惯。人们只需观察自己，就会发现自己常常在不知不觉中把想法大声说出来。在接受某些教导和信息之前，必须要切实克服这个习惯。为什么呢？因为人类的这个习惯是缺乏对能量控制的表现；如果一个人掌握了秘密信息，在疏忽大意的时刻就会泄露出去。我希望每个人都能在这一点上严格要求自己。在日常活动中，哪怕是最微不足道的事情，也不要让想法以言语的形式表达出来，就好像在自言自语一样。

More Students have fallen down on this particular point than any other one thing. A few days of watchful care will entirely overcome such a habit. The outer is but a conglomeration of habits. In the Garment of the Student who has entered the conscious Path is placed a Cloak of Protection of Thought. In talking to oneself, the worded expression breaks through this Garment of Thought, and the Student wonders why he does not make more progress. It is because he has caused a leak in the Fountain of Wisdom. Thought is truly the Activity of the Soul of the God-man, the bringing into Activity that Mighty Presence of Energy which may be qualified by thought to any Height of Sustaining Power and Intelligence.

在这一点上跌倒的学生比在其他任何事情上都要多。只要几天的留意和克制，就能完全改掉这个习惯。外在世界不过是各种习惯的集合。进入有意识修行之路的学生的 “外衣” 上，被赋予了一层思想的保护罩。当一个人自言自语时，言语表达就会冲破这层思想的 “外衣”，而学生却不明白自己为什么进步缓慢。这是因为他在智慧的源泉上造成了一个漏洞。思想确实是神之人灵魂的活动，是将那强大的能量临在带入活动之中，而这能量可以通过思想被提升到任何具有支撑力量和智慧的高度。

It is said that man may not add one cubit to his height by thought. But I say to you that man, by thought, may liberate within himself the Mighty God Power to make his form a giant in strength or stature. The stature of the human form is to a large degree governed by racial thought—the mass thought being that a certain height is the limit of attainment. Yet within a few years in spite of the racial thought, by the increased Power of the Inner Christ Activity, you will find the stature of men increased to the height of six feet four inches and women to that of five feet ten, with symmetry of form in keeping with the height.

有人说，人无法通过思想让自己长高哪怕一肘尺。但我要告诉你们，人可以通过思想释放内在的强大神力，使自己的身体在力量或身高上成为巨人。人类身体的身高在很大程度上受种族思想的支配 —— 大众普遍认为某个身高就是极限。然而，在未来几年里，尽管存在种族思想的影响，但由于内在基督活动力量的增强，你们会发现男性的身高增长到六英尺四英寸，女性增长到五英尺十英寸，而且身材比例会与身高相协调。

Again, let Me call your attention to the Mighty Truth that thought is the wedge of God's Energy released into action. By this, you can see how important it is to become consciously master of your own thought. In this mastery lies, full dominion. In conjunction with the mastery of thought must come mastery of the outer activity; for unless we compel the outer to live in harmony with our idealistic thought, it will pull the thought from its Height and degrade it. Why is this so? Because of long centuries of the building of habit. There is nothing hard or difficult about this; it but requires firm attention. If there are weeds in your garden, you give sufficient attention to them till they are pulled out. So it is with the outer activity. You have but to pluck out the weeds, and leave it clear for the Inner Presence and Essence of God.

再次提醒你们注意这个伟大的真理：思想是神释放到行动中的能量楔子。由此，你们可以明白，有意识地掌控自己的思想是多么重要。掌控思想就意味着拥有完全的支配权。在掌控思想的同时，还必须掌控外在的行为；因为除非我们迫使外在行为与我们理想化的思想和谐一致，否则外在行为会将思想从高处拉下来，使其堕落。为什么会这样呢？这是由于长期形成的习惯。这并非什么难事，只需要坚定的关注。如果你的花园里有杂草，你会给予足够的关注，直到把它们拔掉。外在行为也是如此。你只需拔掉杂草，为神的内在临在和本质腾出空间。

Let us go a step farther, which may seem a little more subtle and yet is quite as easy, for it is necessary to recognize your thought as the molder of form. If living in the racial thought has permitted or caused the form to express age or infirmity—an inferior expression of that Mighty Energy, then We know that it has the Power to build the form into Beauty and Symmetry, and to build the perfect brain activity for expressing the Highest Intelligence.

让我们更进一步，这一点可能更微妙，但同样容易理解，那就是要认识到你的思想是塑造形式的力量。如果受种族思想的影响，身体表现出衰老或虚弱 —— 这是对那强大能量的一种低级表现，那么我们知道思想有力量将身体塑造得美丽匀称，并构建完美的大脑活动以表达最高的智慧。

It is vitally important for Students to recognize the difference between intellectuality and intelligence. They must understand that the great intellectual development which some acquire and are often so proud of, is but what they have gathered or accumulated from without, and it does not have a firm foundation. However, the opposite of this is God's Mighty Intelligence, which they receive from within. It is the Fountain of Eternal Truth and has at all times an unshakable Foundation. The brain or intellect is but the vehicle that this Mighty Inner Intelligence uses. It may be taught through conscious action to express only this Inner Intelligence. As individuals of Free Will, We choose which shall act for us—the gatherings of the outer intellect or the Mighty Intelligence in Its full Capacity.

对学生来说，认识到理智与智慧的区别至关重要。他们必须明白，有些人获得并常常引以为傲的伟大理智发展，只不过是他们从外部收集或积累的东西，并没有坚实的基础。然而，与之相反的是神的伟大智慧，这是他们从内在获得的。它是永恒真理的源泉，始终有着不可动摇的基础。大脑或理智只是这强大内在智慧使用的工具。通过有意识的行动，可以训练大脑只表达这种内在智慧。作为拥有自由意志的个体，我们选择让哪一个为我们行动 —— 是外在理智的积累，还是充分发挥能力的伟大智慧。

The outer or human has a peculiar subtle faculty—borrowed, of course—of using every opportunity to cause a leak in the great Reservoir of Divine Energy. For instance, mankind are condemned for the loss of energy through gratification of the sex pleasure; but I say to you, one may lose it just as easily without the outer gratification, where the thought is allowed to dwell upon the idea. It has been said that thought is the cause of all outer activity. I say to you, "Bewarel"—for a picture of the lower desire may be placed before an individual, and the picture will cause the thought to act. This shows the necessity of the control of the vision as well as the thought. The vision is one activity of the attention. 

外在的或人性的一面有一种奇特而微妙的能力 —— 当然，这是借来的 —— 利用每一个机会在神之能量的巨大宝库中制造漏洞。例如，人类因满足性快感而被指责消耗能量；但我要告诉你们，即使没有外在的满足，如果思想停留在这个想法上，也同样容易消耗能量。有人说思想是一切外在活动的根源。我要警告你们 —— 因为一个低级欲望的画面可能呈现在一个人面前，而这个画面会促使思想行动起来。这表明了控制视觉和思想同样必要。视觉是注意力的一种活动。

Important: In the coming marvelous period we are just entering, there will not be permitted a single negative picture of any kind, which would be in any way suggestive to call forth the lower activity of thought. This is why We have urged so earnestly that no matter how negative a thought or appearance may be, to instantly take the thought, "There is only the Mighty Inner 'Presence' and Intelligence of God there operating. "

重要提示：在我们刚刚进入的这个奇妙的新时代，任何负面的画面都将不被允许出现，因为它们可能会以任何方式引发思想的低级活动。这就是为什么我们如此热切地敦促大家，无论一个想法或表象多么负面，都要立即想到：“那里只有神强大的内在‘临在’和智慧在运作。”

Whenever you are drowsy and wish to be awake and alert say, "God is here in action! I will be alert!" When one has had sufficient sleep, one should take a firm stand and dismiss all drowsiness. Say to such a feeling, " 'I AM' alert and God is here in action!"

每当你感到困倦，想要保持清醒和警觉时，就说：“神在这里行动！我要保持警觉！” 当一个人已经得到充足的睡眠时，就应该坚定立场，驱散所有困倦。对这种感觉说：“我很警觉，神在这里行动！”

The Inner Vision has the Power of projecting Itself to any distance. Thus you can be consciously present in two places at the same time. The brain is but the vehicle of the Inner Intelligence, provided so that you can have this experience. When mankind misused this Free Will, they drew themselves down into their dense physical bodies. One can be conscious at the center of a place and at the periphery also. This is how We in the Ascended State can use two, three, or four Bodies at one time and cause Them to act according to the necessity of the Divine Operation, and not necessarily at one given point. They may even be at four different points of the compass. In the Arisen State there is but Omnipresence, when One gets to this Height of Consciousness.

内在视觉有能力将自身投射到任何距离之外。因此，你可以同时在两个地方有意识地存在。大脑只是内在智慧的工具，它让你能够有这样的体验。当人类滥用自由意志时，他们使自己陷入了沉重的物质身体之中。一个人可以在一个地方的中心和边缘同时保持意识清醒。这就是我们在扬升状态下能够同时使用两个、三个或四个身体，并根据神之运作的需要让它们行动的方式，而且不一定要在同一个特定的点上。它们甚至可以位于罗盘上的四个不同点。在扬升状态下，当一个人达到这种意识高度时，就只有无处不在了。

Even a seeming state of growth may be set aside when it is seen by the Great Intelligence that, by so doing, the individual can be a valuable Messenger. Therefore, do not let a conviction form in your mind of previous supposed rules of activity—occult activity. There will be certain individuals, known only to the Silent Watcher, whose entire previous creation and activity may be set aside to become an unhampered Messenger. The time will come when, if the outer attempts to intrude itself, certain Radiation will go forth from certain individuals and compel others to see their wrong activities. This again is illustrated in The Magic Presence.

即使是看似成长的状态，当伟大的智慧认为这样做能使个体成为有价值的使者时，也可能被搁置一旁。因此，不要让你心中形成关于以前所谓的神秘活动规则的固定观念。会有一些特定的人，只有寂静守望者知道他们，他们之前的所有创造和活动可能会被搁置，以便成为不受束缚的使者。当外在试图干涉时，某些人会发出特定的照耀，迫使其他人看到自己的错误行为。这在《神奇临在》中再次得到了例证。

Note: It may be possible for the Armageddon to be averted by the cataclysmic activity. That is governed by Those far beyond Us.

注释：哈米吉多顿之战（Armageddon）有可能因大灾难活动而避免。这由比我们更高级的存有掌控。

Silent Watcher: The Cosmic Silent Watcher may act only under the Cosmic Demand.

寂静守望者：宇宙寂静守望者只有在宇宙的需求下才会行动。

Sleep: It is necessary for you to have a certain amount of rest. As you get into the Higher State, you may find that there may be days or weeks while cer- tain activity goes on—for a Messenger is sustained always during any special Activity. The "Presence," during any special Activity, is always Self-sustaining. Sleep is a complete relaxation of the vehicle. Until the atomic structure is unclothed of its density, this seems necessary so that the outer may receive the Inner Presence and Inner Radiance continuously. 

睡眠：你们需要一定量的休息。当你进入更高的状态时，在某些活动进行期间，你可能会发现有几天或几周的时间…… 因为在任何特殊活动期间，使者总是能得到维持。在任何特殊活动期间，“临在” 总是自我维持的。睡眠是身体这个工具的完全放松。在原子结构摆脱其密度之前，这似乎是必要的，以便外在能够持续接收到内在的临在和光芒。

The conscious use of the realization of the Self-sustained Activity, is the unclothing action of the atomic structure. It is very important no matter what the requirement—that is, whenever the Inner Activity is expected to operate—to be strongly and clearly aware that It is always Self-sustained. If we can become fully aware that we are already in the state or condition we wish, we will then have taken the shortcut to the accomplishment. This is the re- markable Power in Vision, to feel ourselves in the state or condition we wish to manifest.

有意识地利用自我维持活动的意识，是原子结构摆脱密度的过程。无论有什么要求，这一点都非常重要 —— 也就是说，每当期望内在活动运作时，要强烈而清晰地意识到它始终是自我维持的。如果我们能完全意识到自己已经处于我们期望的状态或条件中，那么我们就找到了实现目标的捷径。这就是视觉的非凡力量，让我们感受到自己处于想要显化的状态或条件中。

A question about the Violet Ray: "What is the specific Activity of the Violet Ray?"

关于紫罗兰之光的问题：“紫罗兰之光的具体活动是什么？”

Saint Germain: Use It in Its full color, which is Its normal Activity. Each Ray, having Its own dominant, natural Activity, still contains each of the Activities of all the other Rays within Itself.

圣哲曼：以其完整的颜色使用它，这是它的正常活动。每一道光线都有其主导的自然活动，但它自身也包含了所有其他光线的活动。

The first activity of anything is to become con- scious that we have the ability, through the Inner "Presence," to do what we desire to do. Without having the consciousness of being consciously able to do a thing, there is no outlet for it to act. To be conscious of a thing, gives it an outlet; and through this it can act.

任何事情的首要步骤是意识到，通过内在的 “临在”，我们有能力去做我们想做的事情。如果没有意识到自己有能力有意识地去做一件事，那么这件事就没有行动的出口。意识到一件事，就为它提供了一个出口；通过这个出口，它才能发挥作用。

We may use the Gold, Rose, and Blue Rays as a Cleansing Process after the Consuming Activity of the Violet. In consuming the thought and feeling, when you command as the Christ, the Flame takes on whatever color is needed to balance the Activity. The Inner Intent is the Intelligent God acting, and is the True Motive or Inner Activity.

在紫罗兰之光的净化活动之后，我们可以使用金色、玫瑰色和蓝色之光作为净化过程。当你以基督的身份发出指令，净化思想和情感时，火焰会呈现出平衡活动所需的任何颜色。内在意图是智慧的神在行动，是真正的动机或内在活动。

The atmospheric condition when an Arisen Master appears: A few hundred years ago, when an Arisen Master manifested, He many times came with a rumble or hissing sound, from the intensification of the atmospheric condition into which He came. In the Presence of an Arisen Master is an Intense Force. To a large extent, this has been governed in later years; the atmospheric condition of the Earth is much more pliable to the charging by a Great Presence than it was even three hundred years ago, because the vibrations of the Earth itself have been raised, making it more susceptible to the Inner Activity. The great, sudden impact of the great Transcendent Force on the atmospheric structure caused a concussion, rumbling, or a hissing sound, or flashes of Light.

扬升大师显现时的大气状况：几百年前，当一位扬升大师显现时，由于他进入的大气状况被强化，他常常伴随着隆隆声或嘶嘶声出现。扬升大师的临在中蕴含着强大的力量。在后来的岁月里，这在很大程度上得到了控制；如今地球的大气状况比三百年前更容易被伟大的临在充电，因为地球自身的振动已经提高，使其更容易接受内在活动的影响。伟大的超凡力量对大气结构的巨大突然冲击会引起震动、隆隆声或嘶嘶声，或者产生闪光。

The cause of a cyclone is the impact of the hot and cold atmospheres upon each other. This impact causes a whirling vortex to ensue, and the duration of the cyclone is in accordance with the force of the impact. The impact of one force upon the other starts a whirling action; for there is more or less an activity of passing each other, and this sets up the whirling motion. In the /association of any two elements or different rates of vibration, the natural activity in each is to get away from the other.

飓风的成因是冷热大气相互撞击。这种撞击会引发一个旋转的漩涡，飓风的持续时间取决于撞击的力量。一种力量对另一种力量的撞击会引发旋转运动；因为两种力量或多或少都有相互穿越的活动，这就产生了旋转。在任何两种元素或不同振动频率的结合中，它们各自的自然活动都是相互远离。

There are storms caused by vicious intelligences, and that intelligence acts within the storm. [In the story She by Rider Haggard, there is an illustration of this.] The Great Law has seen fit to check this activity. In past ages, tremendous things of this kind were done, which were no myth. Any storm can produce freakish things.

有些风暴是由邪恶的智能体引起的，这个智能体在风暴中发挥作用。（在赖德・哈格德（Rider Haggard）的小说《她》（She）中有这样的例子。）伟大的法则认为有必要抑制这种活动。在过去的时代，发生过许多这样的大事，它们并非虚构。任何风暴都可能产生奇特的现象。

Question: "Where are You going from here?"

问题：“您从这里要去哪里？”

Saint Germain: I am going to Washington from here.

圣哲曼：我从这里去华盛顿。

In South America on the great heights of the Andes where the railroad goes by, is another gigantic figure of Jesus, high up in the mountains. I assure you that whenever the slightest attention is given by an individual to such things, there is always Response—whether the person be aware of it or not.

在南美洲安第斯山脉的高处，铁路经过的地方，有另一座巨大的耶稣像。我向你们保证，无论何时，只要个人对这类事物给予哪怕最轻微的关注，总会有回应 —— 无论这个人是否意识到。

BENEDICTION: Thou Mighty Silent Watcher, We give praise and thanks for Thy Radiant Presence pouring into mankind, that Thou hast found pleasure in contacting those conscious of Thee, and that Thou hast looked upon this Center with Thy Benevolent Majesty.  We give praise and thanks for Thy Omnipresent, Acting Power.

祝福：您，伟大的寂静守望者，我们赞美并感谢您那照耀人类的光芒四射的临在，感谢您乐于与那些意识到您的人接触，感谢您以仁慈的威严注视着这个中心。我们赞美并感谢您无所不在、发挥作用的力量。