30.4 幻相背后的真相

(1968年 5月 31日)

你将攻击让你不满足的东西，因此你将看不到它是你自己捏造出来的。你总是与幻相斗争。因为它们背后的真相是如此可爱，如此的宁静又充满爱意的温柔，你一旦意识到这一点，你将完全忘记防卫，并冲向它的怀抱。真相永远无法被攻击。当你制造偶像时，你就已经知道这个道理。制造偶像就是为了让真相被遗忘。你只能攻击虚假的想法，而无法攻击真实的想法。所有偶像都是为了填补你认为自己与真相之间的差距，而制造的错误观念。你攻击它们，为了你认为它们所代表的东西。然而超越它们的真相不能受到攻击。

你制造的那些令人厌烦、不满意的神灵只是放大的儿童玩具。当一个玩具木箱突然打开，一个木头脑袋弹跳出来时，孩子被吓坏了；或者，当他开始抓紧一个柔软而沉默的羊毛熊时，熊突然发出吱吱声。他为箱子和熊制定的规则失败了，而且破坏了他对周围环境的控制。他很害怕，因为他认为规则可以保护他。现在他必须明白箱子和熊并没有欺骗他，也没有打破规则，也不意味着他的世界变得混乱和不安全。他弄错了。他误解了什么能让他安全，并以为平安已经离去。

并不存在的空隙中充满了无数形式的玩具。而且每个玩具似乎都违反了你为它设置的规则。它从来不是你想的那样。它必然看似打破你的安全规则，因为规则本就错了。但是你并没有受到威胁。你可以嘲笑弹跳和吱吱作响的玩具，就像明白了玩具对他没有任何威胁的孩子一样。不过，当孩子喜欢和玩具一起玩时，他仍然认为它们将遵守自己为享乐而制定的规则。因此，玩具似乎仍然可以打破一些规则而吓坏他。但是，他受玩具摆布了吗？它们会对他构成威胁吗？

实相遵守上主的律法，而不是你设定的规则。是祂的律法保证你的安全。所有你定义自我的幻相不遵守任何律法。根据你设定的规则，它们似乎舞动片刻，但随后倒下，再也无法立起。它们不过是玩具。我的孩子们，不要为他们伤心。它们的舞蹈从没有为你带来喜悦，但它们也无法恐吓你。即使它们遵从你的规则，也无法让你心安。不必珍惜也不必攻击它们，只需将它们视为儿童的玩具，没有自身的意义。看透其中一个，就可以看透所有。看穿它们的虚幻，它们将不再困扰你。

外表会骗人因为它们只是外表，而不是实相。不要执着它们的任何形象。它们只不过挡住了实相。它们带来了恐惧，因为它们隐藏了真相。不要去攻击你自己制造的东西，这会让你上当。因此一旦攻击，你就证明自己被骗了。攻击的力量会让幻相成真。然而，幻相什么都不是。如果没有任何实际影响力，谁会感到恐惧呢？它只是一个幻觉，让事物看起来和它一样。平静的看着玩具，明白它们是为徒劳的欲望而舞动的偶像。不要崇拜它们，因为它们不存在。但这一点了解在攻击时已被遗忘。

上主之子不需要防备自己的梦。他的偶像根本威胁不了他。他唯一的错误是认为它们是真实的。幻相的力量能做什么？外表只能欺骗想要被欺骗的头脑。你可以做一个简单的选择，使你永远超越欺骗。你不必担心这将如何实现，因为你无法理解。但是你会明白，当你做了这个非常简单的决定时，巨大的改变已经迅速实现；那决定就是：你不再想要你认为偶像可以给你的任何东西。如此，上主之子宣布他脱离了偶像。然后自由了。

救赎确实是一个矛盾！它除了是一个幸福的梦想，还能是什么？因为你被要求去原谅没有人做过的一切；去忽略不存在的东西；不要把虚幻视为现实。你只是被要求行你所愿，不再去寻找你不想要的东西。你被要求放下所有不是你真我的梦想，不再寻求用无聊的欲望替代上主的旨意。分离的幻梦此时开始退散和消失。没有你制造的恐怖玩具，你开始意识到空隙并不存在。

对你的要求仅此而已。值得确幸的是，救赎的要求很小，不多。在实相中它什么也不要求。即使在幻相中，它只要求用宽恕代替恐惧。这是美梦的唯一规则。当清空了恐惧的玩具，空隙的不真实性就显而易见。梦是徒劳的。上主之子并不需要它们。它们没有给他任何他想要的东西。他的意志让他从幻相中解脱，回复了他的真实状态。除了将他的真我还给他，上主的救赎计划还会是什么？

T 30 E. The Truth Behind Illusions (*N 2058 12:193)

T 30 E 1.         You WILL attack what does not satisfy, and thus you will not see you made it up. You ALWAYS fight illusions. For the truth behind them is so lovely and so still in loving gentleness, were you AWARE of it, you would forget defensiveness entirely, and rush to its embrace. The truth could never BE attacked. And this you knew when you made idols. They were made that this might be forgotten. You attack but FALSE ideas, and NEVER truthful ones. All idols ARE the false ideas you made to fill the gap you think arose between yourself and what is true. And you attack them for the things you think they REPRESENT. What lies BEYOND them cannot BE attacked.

T 30 E 2.         The wearying, dissatisfying gods you made are blown-up children’s toys. A child IS frightened when a wooden head springs up as a closed box is opened suddenly. Or when a soft and silent wooly bear begins to squeak as he takes hold of it. The rules he made for boxes and for bears have failed him, and have broken his control of what surrounds him. And he is afraid because he thought the rules PROTECTED him. Now must he learn the boxes and the bears did NOT deceive him, broke no rules, nor mean his world is made chaotic and unsafe. HE WAS MISTAKEN. He misunderstood what MADE him safe, and thought that it had left.

T 30 E 3.         The gap that is not there is filled with toys in countless forms. And each one seems to break the rules you set for it. It never WAS the thing you thought. It MUST appear to break your rules for safety, since the RULES are wrong. But YOU are not endangered. You can laugh at popping heads and squeaking toys, as does the child who learns they are no threat to him. But while he likes to play with them, he still perceives them as obeying rules he made for his enjoyment. So there still are rules which they can seem to break, and frighten him. Yet IS he at the mercy of his toys? And CAN they represent a threat to him? T(1028) -842

T 30 E 4.         Reality observes the laws of God, and NOT the rules you set. It is His laws which GUARANTEE your safety. All illusions that you believe about yourself obey NO laws. They seem to dance a little while, according to the rules you set for them. But then they fall, and cannot rise again. They are but toys, my children. Do not grieve for them. Their dancing never brought you joy, but neither were they things to frighten you, nor make you safe if they obeyed your rules. They must be neither cherished NOR attacked, but merely looked upon as children’s toys, without a SINGLE meaning of their own. See ONE in them, and you will see them all. See NONE in them, and they will touch you not.

T 30 E 5.         Appearances deceive BECAUSE they are appearances, and not reality. Dwell not on them in ANY form. They but OBSCURE reality. And they bring fear BECAUSE they hide the truth. Do not attack what you have made to LET you be deceived. For thus you prove that you HAVE BEEN deceived. Attack HAS power to make illusions real. Yet what it makes is nothing. Who could be made fearful by a power that can have no REAL effects at all? What could it BE but an illusion, making things appear like to itself? Look calmly at its toys, and understand that they are idols which but dance to vain desires. Give them not your worship, for they are not there. But this is EQUALLY forgotten in attack.

T 30 E 6.         God’s Son needs NO defense against his dreams. His idols do not threaten him at all. His ONE mistake is that he thinks them real. What can the power of illusions DO? Appearances can but deceive the mind that WANTS to be deceived. And you can make a simple choice that will forever place you far BEYOND deception.[983] You need not concern yourself with HOW this will be done, for this you CANNOT understand. But you WILL understand that mighty changes have been quickly brought about, when you decide one very simple thing; you do not WANT whatever you believe an idol gives. For thus the Son of God declares that he is free of idols. And thus IS he free. T(1029) -843

T 30 E 7.         Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be EXCEPT a happy dream? For you are asked but to forgive all things that no-one ever did; to overlook what is not there; and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God. Here does the dream of separation start to fade and disappear. For here the gap that is not there begins to be perceived without the toys of terror that you made.

T 30 E 8.         No more than this is asked. Be glad indeed salvation asks so little, NOT so much. It asks for NOTHING in reality. And even in illusions it but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the ONLY rule for happy dreams. The gap is emptied of the toys of fear, and then its unreality is plain. Dreams are for nothing. And the Son of God CAN have no need of them. They offer him no single thing that he could ever want. He is DELIVERED from illusions by his will, and but restored to what he IS. What could God’s plan for his salvation BE, except a means to give him to Himself? T(1030) -844[984]