DISCOURSE XV

INVOCATION: Thou Mighty, Conquering Presence, the Majesty of "I AM" everywhere! We give praise and thanks for Thy Mighty Presence every- where. Thy All-Pervading Energy and Power ever stands at the door of our consciousness for use that We may consciously direct It to manifest Thy Wondrous Perfection. Forever we give praise and thanks to Thee for Thy Mighty Presence.

祈请：祢是全能、征服的临在，无所不在的“我是”的威严！我们对祢无所不在的强大临在表示赞美和感谢。祢无所不在的能量和力量永远站在我们意识的门口供我们使用，以便我们可以有意识地引导它来体现祢神奇的完美。我们永远赞美并感谢祢的强大临在。

I bring you Greetings from the Great Ascended Host, always giving Their Assistance, that you may manifest Perfection.

我向你们带来自伟大扬升之主的问候，他们总是给予你们帮助，以便你们可以表达/显化完美。

THE DISCOURSE

Out of the glorious fullness of God's Omnipresent Light and Substance comes the fullness of all things. The student who is strong enough-firm enough-to stand alone with his or her "Mighty I AM Presence," never dividing for a single hour the Presence and Power of God, will find himself or herself steadily rising into that Mighty Perfection, forever free from all sense or recognition of any limitation.

万物的丰盛与充盈都来自神无所不在的光和实质的辉煌丰盛。那些足够强大、坚定、能够独自与他或她的“强大的我是临在”站在一起，且从未将神的临在和力量分开哪怕一个小时的学生，将发现自己稳步提升到那强大的完美之中，永远不受任何感知和认知的限制。

The student is fortunate indeed who can hold himself or herself within this Mighty Presence undivided. For the benefit of some of the students who are so sincere, and yet are unknowingly allowing their attention to be withheld from that Undivided Presence, I wish to state certain facts with no intent to intrude upon the free will of the individual.

能够将自己完整地置身于这强大临在之中的学生确实是幸运的。为了部分学生的提升，对于一些真诚却不知不觉地让注意力从这个不可分割的临在中偏离的学生，我想陈述一些事实，并无意干涉个人的自由意志。

These records which I shall quote, We have within Our Possession, and they cover the past one hundred years. That of which I wish to speak today is the delusion of astrology.

我要引用的这些记录是我们所拥有的，它们涵盖了过去的一百年。 我今天要讲的是占星学的错觉。

No one living can give his attention to astrology and enter into the "Presence of the I AM" and remain there. Underlying the present use of astrology is the human desire and opportunity to justify and gratify the outer desires. Here let Me state an appalling fact which is within the records We have: there is no one thing or pliase of study which lias caused more fai1ure or more indirect murder than the present delusion of astrology.

没有任何活着的人可以将集中力放在占星学上并停留和加入“我是临在”之中。目前占星学使用的背后充满了人类的欲望及用来证明和满足外在的欲望的机会。在这里让我陈述一个令人震惊的事实，我们拥有这样的记录：没有一件事物或研究领域能比目前占星术的错觉造成更多的失败或更多的间接谋杀。

In your city of Chicago, within very recent years, was a splendid student of metaphysics who, consciously accepting the delusion of his horoscope, was driven to commit suicide.

最近几年，在你们所在的芝加哥市，有一位出色的玄学学生，他有意识地接受了他的星座的错觉，而被迫自杀。

The one thing humanity needs most, and students above all else, is the firm rock and Consciousness of the "Mighty I AM Presence" upon which to stand safely and free from the pitfalls of outer concoctions. It is not the negative statements of prospective death and the so-called ill-fated star force to be overcome that students need to know, but the "Unconquerable, All-pervading 'I AM Presence' "that is the only and all Life of their Beings to which their attention needs to be drawn-and held there with a firm grasp.

人类最需要的一件事，尤其是学生们，就是坚如磐石的“伟大我是临在”的意识，让人能够保持安全和不踏入外在杂念/幻象的陷阱。学生需要知道的不是关于未来死亡的负面信息和需要克服的命运多舛，而是“战无不胜的、无所不在的‘我是临在’”——这是他们存在的唯一与全部生命，他们的注意力需要被吸引到这点上，并牢牢把握住。

In the "I AM Presence" there is no height the student may not reach; but by allowing his attention to be held by astrology, numerology, and the many isms of today, there is no depth he may not reach.

在“我是临在”中，没有学生无法到达的高度；但是如果让他注意力被占星术、数字学以及当今许多主义所吸引，那么也没有他无法触及的深处。

The present use of astrology has no semblance of the use to which it was put centuries ago. Then it conveyed no negative statements of any kind. The great harm of the attention fixed upon it is that students accept the negative statements far more than they are willing to admit. The sinister negative force generated by mankind in the world always takes advantage of such things as this to get and hold the attention, especially of the student who is progressing, and thus keep it upon that which will pull him down instead of raising him up.

目前对占星术的使用与几个世纪前的用途完全不同。那时，它不传达任何形式的负面信息。关注占星术的巨大害处在于，学生接受负面信息的程度远超他们愿意承受的。人类在世界上产生的邪恶负面力量总是利用此类事物来吸引并保持注意力，特别是那些正在进步的学生，从而让他们关注那些会拖累他们而非提升他们的事物。

Where there is a horoscope that indicates the death of someone, various minds become fixed upon that idea, and actual indirect murder is committed-so subtle that individuals would be shocked to be reminded that they had any part in it; but I assure you, it is none the less the Truth, for all of their surprise.

当占星结果表明某个人将死亡时，各种思维会固定在这一想法上，实际间接谋杀就在如此微妙间发生，当人们被提醒自己参与其中时感到震惊；但我向你保证，尽管他们感到惊讶，这却是不争的事实。

Could the students of astrology see for one day from the Great Inner Standpoint the destructive force generated and used through the present use of astrology, they would tum from it as from a poisonous serpent waiting to strike death into their veins.

如果占星学的学生有一天能够从伟大的内在立场看到当前占星学的使用所产生和使用的破坏性力量，他们就会像从一条等待将死亡刺入他们的血管中的毒蛇一样摆脱它。

I say to you beloved students, in the name of your Light and progress, and of all progress, stand within your own "Mighty I AM Presence" and let not your attention be held or divided by any outer thing if you wish to avoid the wheel of birth and rebirth indefinitely.

我想对亲爱的学生们说，以你们的光和提升以及所有进步之名义，站在你们自己的“强大的我是存在”之内，如果你们想避免永无休止的生死轮回。

From the Great Love of My Heart-seeing and knowing from the Inner Standpoint as you do not and cannot possibly as yet-I urge you to avoid everything that savors of a negative expression or condition. Then you shall rise on the Wings of your "Mighty I AM Presence" into that Everlasting Freedom and Blessing of the Perfect, Eternal, Limitless Light.

从我内心的伟大的爱中，从内在的角度来看和了解，你还没有也不可能做到。 我敦促你避免一切带有消极的表达或状况的事物。 接着，你将乘着“强大的我是临在”的翅膀，进入那永恒的自由和完美、永恒、无限之光的祝福。

As I said, I do not wish in any manner to intrude upon your free will, but the Gates of Eternal Freedom are open before you, if you will but believe the Truth I have uttered, which will enable you to enter within these Gates and receive the Eternal Blessing of the Light waiting there to enfold you.

正如我说，我不以任何方式侵犯你的自由意志，但永恒自由的大门已经向你敞开，只要你相信我所说的真理，这将使你得以进入这些大门，并接受等待着包围你的光之永恒的祝福。

If there are conditions in your Life, home or environment that you wish to be rid of, command through the "I AM Presence" that they be dissolved and consumed before Its Mighty Light and Power.

如果你的生活、家庭或环境中存在你希望摆脱的状况，那么通过“我是临在”命令它们在其强大的光和力量面前被溶解和消耗。

Beloved Students who have come under this Radiation, with you We shall not touch upon this subject again. May the "I AM Presence" within you enable you to see the Light and Truth of which I have spoken. I have seen within you the Glorious Light that can be quickened into a Dazzling Radiance, enabling you to express Perfection. Hence, of My own volition have I offered My humble Assistance; but if the personality persists in allowing the attention to be held on anything but the "Mighty I AM Presence" -which I know is the Mightiest and Only Raising Presence and Solver of all problems-then My humble efforts must necessarily be in vain.

亲爱的学生们，你们已经在这种圣光之下，我们将不再触及这个话题。愿你们内在的“我是临在”能帮助你们看见我所说的圣光与真理。我已在你们内在看见那光辉灿烂的光芒，它可以被激活成耀眼的光辉，是你们能够表达完美。因此，我自愿提供我谦卑的帮助；而我知道“我是临在”是最强大且唯一提升的存在和所有问题的解决者，但如果一个人坚持让注意力集中在除了“强大的我是临在”之外的任何事物之上，那么我谦卑/卑微的努力必然是徒劳。

I assure you, Dear Ones, you have reached a point where you must go up or down. With your determined attention and acknowledgment constantly held on the "Mighty I AM Presence," there is no condition, force or presence in earth or heaven that can prevent your wondrous, glorious attainment into Everlasting Freedom and Perfection.

我向你们保证，亲爱的，你们已经到了必须提升或下滑的地步。 当你始终坚定地专注并承认“强大的我是临在”时，在地球或天堂中没有任何条件、力量或存在可以阻止你实现永恒自由和完美的奇妙、光荣的成就。

If you have not That within you which causes you to feel and tells you of the Great Divine Love that enables Me to voice this Truth to you for your protection, then We must but wait such time as the Truth of It does appear within you.

伟大的神圣大爱使我能够向你传达这些真理来保护你，如果你的内在没有能够让你感受并告诉你伟大的神圣大爱的存在，那么我们只能够等待，直到这个真理在你内心显现。

When students and individuals have once learned of and acknowledged the "Mighty I AM Presence" and then allow their attention to longer be held by or upon outer things, whether it be consciously or unconsciously makes little difference; for they are deliberately turning their backs to the "Presence," which is the Source of their Being and the Life within them that enables them to move their bodies about. I declare with all the Love of My Being that: "I AM the Presence" enabling you to see and feel this Truth and stand by and within It-for the sake of your own wondrous progress.

当学生和个人一旦学习并了解了“强大的我是临在”之后，他们让自己的注意力继续被外在事物所吸引，不论是有意识还是无意识地，差别不大；因为实际上是他们背弃了“临在”，这“临在”是他们存在的源头，是使他们能够活动自如的内在生命的核心。我以我存在的全部的爱宣告：“为了你自身奇妙的提升，我是那个使你能够看见并感受到真理，并坚守在这真理之中的临在。”

Those who will hold steadfast enough to that Mighty Presence will find abundant proof coming into their experience of Its Limitless Power and Intelligence.

那些对强大临在保持足够坚定的人将在他们的体验中找到其无限力量和智慧的丰富证据。

Beloved Students! Many Hands of the Ascended Host are extended to you to give Their Assistance when you can hold your undivided attention on the Active Presence of God in you, and stand there unyielding to the pull of all outer appearance.

亲爱的学生们！当你能够全部注意力集中在你内在的神之临在上，并坚定地站在一起，不受外在表象所影响时，许多扬升存有都会想你伸出援手，提供他们的帮助。

"Truth is Mighty and does prevail." May you feel Its Majestic Presence at all times. It is a mistake on the part of the student to feel disappointment because a certain thing he has worked on does not manifest instantly, when as yet, he has not generated great enough power and activity to produce it that quickly. The attention must always be on the "I AM" only.

“真理是强大并且必胜的。”愿你们随时感受到它的神圣存在。学生若因某件他所努力的没有立即显化而感到失望的话，这将是个错误，因为到目前为止，他还没有产生足够的力量和活动来迅速实现它。注意力必须始终只集中在“我是”上。

Suppose I were to declare: " 'I AM' the Mighty 'I AM Presence' in Action," and then an hour later I allowed my attention to be fixed on a star in a so- called adverse aspect to Me, or an outer condition that indicates disaster of some kind. Do you not see how that would annul the Statement I had made which would liberate the Power of Freedom?

假设我宣告了：“‘我是’在行动中的强大‘我是临在’”，然后一个小时后，我允许我注意力集中在一个被告知与我不利的星座信息上，或者一个表明某种灾难的外部状况上。难道你没看见这将会如何废除掉我所做的解放自由的力量的宣告吗？

Jesus said: "Ye cannot serve two masters." This means that you cannot divide the attention -for you must stop, look, and listen. I tell you, you cannot make steady progress if you give power to anything but your "Mighty I AM Presence." The unfortunate thing with so many students is that they do not hold long and steadily enough to the Mighty Truth of their Being to gain momentum and strength enough to stand against the pull of suggestion and outer appearance.

耶稣说：“你不能侍奉两个主人。”这说明着你不能分散注意力，因此你必须停下、看见、听到。我告诉你，如果你把力量处于除了你的“伟大我是临在”之外的任何东西上，你就无法取得稳定的提升。对很多学生来说，不幸的是，他们没有足够长时间和稳定地坚持自己存在的强大真理，从而获得足够的动力和力量来抵抗暗示和外在表象的诱惑。

The strange thing to Me is that when the students' attention has been once drawn to the All-Power of the "I AM Presence" -which is the Only Active Principle of Life they have, God in Action within and about them -they cannot or do not see that they are dividing the power when the attention is fixed on outer things, and but delaying the magnificent activity and accomplishment which the "I AM Presence" would otherwise bring forth. However, having gone through the mill, so to speak, We have Infinite Patience to wait until the beloved student can grasp his Scepter of Dominion of this "Mighty I AM Presence" and hold it.

对我而言，奇怪的是，当学生的注意力一旦被吸引到“我是临在”的全能上，它是他们所拥有的唯一的生命活动原则，在他们内在和周围都是神的行动，当注意力集中在外在事物时，他们不能或不愿意看见，他们就是在分散力量，延迟了“我是临在”本应带来的伟大活动和成就。然而，我们有无限的耐心等待心爱的学生在经历了磨难之后，能够抓住他的“强大的我是临在”的统治权杖并持有它。

I could bring you records of the most appalling things done through the suggestion of astrology. Crimes are committed every week of the year by the suggestions given out through it. The suggestion given sets the Law into action to accomplish it. When your attention is on a thing, the power within yourself goes instantly into it.

我可以为你们带来最令人震惊的记录，这些记录是通过占星术的建议而实施的最令人震惊的事情。每年每周都有罪行是由通过它传递出的建议所导致的。给出的建议使法律开始行动来实现它。当你的注意力集中在一件事上时，你内在的力量会立即投入其中。

If the astrologers do not stop holding the thought of death against ....... she will pass out. It is criminal! ....... is a child of God and is entitled to live here as long as is decreed. I shall do what I am permitted to protect ........ There are crimes so much worse than physical murder that there is no comparison- because they are committed deliberately by people who know better than to do them. There is one certain, unfailing Action of the Law, and that is that those who do these things must pay the penalty of a like experience.

如果占星家们不停止持有死亡的念头，她将会死去。这是犯罪行为！......是神的孩子，有权在此居住多长时间就是命定的。我将做我被允许保护的事情......有些罪行比人身谋杀更为严重，无法相提并论——因为它们是有意为之的，这些人知道不应该这样做。有一种确定、可靠的行动法则，那些做这些事情的人必须付出同样经历的惩罚。

To negative suggestions from others say: " 'I AM' the Presence,' annulling all this, so it cannot affect me, my home or world." It is the easiest thing in the world to consciously ipate something that is voiced in your presence. Simply say: " 'I AM' the only Presence acting here.''

对于他人的负面建议，可以说：“‘我是’临在，废除所有这些，因此它不能影响我、我的家园或世界。”有意识地否定在你面前发声的事情是世界上最容易的事情。只需说：“‘我是’在此运做的唯一临在。”

To anything you do not wish to continue say: "Through the Presence that 'I AM,' this thing shall cease, now and forever." Go after it like you were going to knock over a wall. When you really feel and mean a thing, you loose the power that does the thing. Try to realize the Limitless Power at your command.

对于任何你不希望继续的事情，可以说：“通过‘我是‘的临在，这件事立即停止，从现在直到永远。”接着像你要推倒一面墙一样的行动。当你真正感受并认真对待一件事情时，你会释放完成这件事的力量。在下令的时候尝试去意识到你掌握着无限的力量。

In the feeling is both sight and hearing, because we can both hear and see without using the faculties of sight and hearing.

在感觉中既有视觉又有听觉，因为我们可以在不使用视觉和听觉能力的情况下同时听到和看到事物。

When one becomes instantly angry, he punctures other spheres of that quality and the accumulation rides in. Jealousy is the wide-open channel upon which every other destructive activity rides in. When things are done consciously, they have much more power. When the energy is released, it acts, because the individual has set it into motion- and it makes no difference whether he be king or chimney sweep.

当一个人生气的当下，他贯穿具有这种品质的其他领域，然后累积就会随之而来。嫉妒是其他所有破坏性活动赖以滋生的管道。当有意识地做事时，他们就会拥有更大的力量。当能量被释放时，它就会起作用，因为个人已经将其启动，无论他是国王还是扫烟囱的人都没有区别。

When the feelings are excited, they are accepting that instant. You can sit and listen to destructive conversation unaffected, so long as you control the feeling at the solar plexus. There cannot a thing enter your world-unless it be invited.

当感觉被激动的时候，他们就是在接受那一瞬间。只要你可以控制太阳神经丛的感觉，你就可以坐下来听不受影响的破坏性谈话。任何事情都无法进入你的世界，除非它被邀请。

No good ever came of gambling. ....... at one time had a most wonderful power and influence about her. She began to play the market, and not only lost the power, but her money as well. Is it not better to stand with your "I AM Presence" than with a gambling channel? Anything that gets your attention is a subtle activity of the outer to pull you away from your Freedom.

赌博从来没有带来好处。……曾经拥有一种非常美妙的力量和影响力。她开始参与股市，不仅失去了力量，还是去了钱财。与你的我是临在站在一起不是赌博的频道更好吗？任何吸引你注意力的东西都是外在的微妙活动，会将你从你的自由中拉走。

For financial Freedom: " 'I AM' the riches of God flowing into my hands and use that nothing can stop." Say often: "The 'Presence I AM' governs every existing channel in manifestation. It governs all."

要财富自由可以宣告：“没有任何事物能阻止，‘我是’神的财富流入我的手中和使用。”经常说：“‘我是临在’统治着每一个现有的显化渠道。它统治着一切。”

A student's experience: The student had heard and seen an explosion of Light while the physical body was asleep. If she had consciously said when she heard the explosion: "I draw into my mind and body the Strength of the Light Explosion," she would have received its benefit. The Light was the liberating of certain Powers for her use. In such experiences, the important thing for the student to do is to be alert, and in every manifestation, be conscious of the indrawing of Its Power. Rejoice that it is the Mighty Power of the "I AM Presence" acting, giving Its Strength and Power to you.

一位学生的经历：学生的物质身体睡觉时听到并看到了一次光的爆炸。如果她在听到爆炸声时有意识地说：“我将光爆炸的力量吸入我的心智和身体中”，她就会得到它的好处。 圣光释放了某些力量供她使用。在这样的经历中，学生要做的重要事情是保持警惕，并且在每一次显化中意识到它的力量的吸引。庆幸的是，强大的“我是临在”的行动，将他的力量和能量赋予你。

Command the outer memory to retain and bring into the outer consciousness everything you desire to know. When you use the "I AM Presence," you have set the Law into action, and It cannot fail.

命令外在记忆保留并将你希望了解的一切带入外在意识。当你使用“我是临在”时，你就已经启动了法则，并且它不会失败。

God does not act except through the consciousness of individuals, else He would not have them here. God can only act in the physical world through His Individualizations, and even all nature is governed by Individual Intelligence-the ground, the plants, and all.

除非透过个人的意识，否则神不会采取行动，神也不会在他这里。神只能透过他在物质世界中的个体来行动，甚至所有自然界也受到个体只会的统治，如土地，植物和一切。

There is omnipresent all the force and energy needed for a given purpose when loosed by the "I AM Presence." Thus, through the use of the "I AM Presence," you can release Power of which as yet you have no conception.

“我是临在”为目的所释出的所需的所有力量和能量是无所不在的。 因此，通过使用“我是存在”，你可以释放你尚未领悟的力量。

During the war when Foch said: "They shall not pass," he loosed the Power by which that Decree was fulfilled. He had been in prayer for more than an hour, and when he came out he was so charged with God's Energy that as he uttered the command, it became the Governing Presence in the atmospheric condition about him, and God acted. The words "They shall not pass" form a Decree. It is dynamic, powerful, real, and looses tremendous power. There is only One Power that acts. Give It full Freedom.

在战争期间，当福煦将军说：“他们不会通过”时，他就释放了使这一法令得以实现的力量。他释放了使这祈祷得以实现的力量。他祈祷了一小时多，当他出来时，他充满了神的能量，以至于当他说出命令时，祂就成为他周围大气条件中的统治临在，此时神就采取了行动。“他们不得通过”这句话构成了一项法令。 祂是动态的、强大的、真实的，并且释放出巨大的力量。 只有一种力量在行动。 给予祂充分的自由。

Stand with IT and let IT act. Stand in IT and by IT. There is no other power to act. This makes steady progress, like a glacier coming down the mountain. You are steadily moving forward and gaining a momentum against which nothing else can stand. It is an Infallible Momentum, Power, and Means of achievement of all good things. There is no permanent dominion except in this way.

与祂 (IT)站在一起，让祂采取行动。 立足于祂并依靠祂。 没有其他力量可以采取行动。 这样做可以稳定提升，就像冰川从山上缓缓而下。你正在稳步前进，并获得了其他任何东西都无法抵挡的动力。 它是实现一切美好事物的可靠动力、力量和手段。 除此以外，没有永久的统治。

For cleanliness, use frequently: " 'I AM the Presence' here, keeping my clothes and home perfectly spotless." After a time the force becomes so powerful that it instantly consumes or repels anything not wanted. The more you consciously act upon a thing, the more concentrated it becomes.

对于整洁，可以经常宣告：“‘我是临在’在此，保持我的衣物和家园保持完美无瑕。”随着时间的推移，这种力量变得非常强大，以至于可以立即消除或排斥任何不需要的东西。你越是有意识地对某事采取行动，它就变的越集中。

When you say: "The Presence that 'I AM,' charge this ....... with ......., " you can charge the water so powerfully that it boils with the power of the energy there. Do not let anything question in your mind as to whether your command worked or not.

当你说：“‘我是临在’，将……充满……，”你可以使水被充得非常强大，以至于它里面充斥着强大的能量。不要对你的命令是否有效产生任何疑问。

Whenever commanding, say: "I know it is acting with Full Power."

每当下令时，都要说：“我知道它正在全力行动。”

Know-what the "I AM" means! Know-what It is to you!

知道“我是”意味着什么！知道它对你来说意味着什么！
Know-what It can do!

知道它能做什么！
Get this and hold fast with unyielding determination.

明白这一点，并坚定不移地持守下去。
Within these students there is the strength and power to do this, and if they will stand with this "Mighty I AM Presence," great Assistance can and will be given.

这些学生内心拥有力量和能量去做到这一点，如果他们能与这个“强大的‘我是’临在”站在一起，他们就会得到巨大的协助。

BENEDICTION: Mighty All-Pervading Intelligence! We invoke Thy Mighty Wisdom, governing our every activity. We invoke Thy Mighty Light illumining each one in the fullness of Its Dazzling Presence. We invoke Thy Mighty Love to enfold all in Its Mantle of Peace. We invoke Thy Mighty Power, that Love, Wisdom, and Power may act in Perfect Unity, that It perfects all things upon which our attention has become fixed.

祝福：全能无所不在的智慧！我们呼请祢的强大智慧，统治我们的每一项活动。我们祈请祢的强大圣光，以其耀眼完整的临在照亮每个人。我们祈请祢伟大的爱，将所有人都包裹在和平的披风中。我们祈请祢强大的力量，让爱、智慧和力量完美合一，是我们所关注的一切事物变得完美。