Discourse VII

July 25, 1932 

SAINT GERMAIN

INVOCATION: Thou Mighty Infinite, Governing, Unconquerable "Presence," Thou Mighty God of the Universe, individualized in mankind, we recognize and accept Thy Mighty "Presence," Thy full Power and Activity in our minds and bodies. 

祈请：无限强大的、掌控一切的、不可战胜的“临在”，宇宙中强大的神，个体化于人类之中，我们承认并接受您那强大的“临在”，以及您在我们心智与身体中的全部力量与活动。

We command the outer self to conform in union with Thy Mighty Presence. We command all outer activity to be silent and obey Thy Mighty Behest. We give praise and thanks that Thou art the Only Intelligence ever acting, and that Thy Mighty Energy pours through these outer selves so that they are always self౼sustained౼that Thou art the Magic "Presence" causing Miracles to manifest and be sustained each day. We give praise and thanks that this is ever so, Eternally.

我们命令外在的自我与您强大的临在合而为一。我们命令所有外在的活动安静下来，服从祢强大的旨意。我们赞美并感恩，祢是唯一在行动的智慧，祢的强大能量通过这些外在的自我倾注，使它们永远自我维持——祢是神奇的“临在”，使奇迹每天显现并持续。我们赞美并感恩，这永远如此，直到永恒。 

THE DISCOURSE 

My Love and the Love of the Ascended Host flood your being with Joy, Peace, Confidence, and Perfect Operation in all things. I am deeply grateful for your lovely cooperation. 

我的爱与扬升之主的爱带着喜悦、平和、自信充满你的存在，以及一切事物的完美运作，我深深感激你美好的合作。

The seeming mysteries of Life are so simple and so easily applied once the True Foundation is established in the consciousness. I assure you no one can proceed far on the Pathway until there is a definite Anchorage in the consciousness. There must be no uncertainty. 

生命中那些看似神秘的事物，一旦在意识中建立了真正的基础，就变得如此简单且易于运用。我向你保证，在意识中没有明确的锚定之前，任何人都无法在道路上走得太远。必须毫无不确定性。

The dweller on the threshold: The simple, entire Truth of the situation is that the dweller on the threshold is an accumulation of the misdirected energy of the Solar Force, which is God's Energy. It is nothing in the world to be feared, but rather there is reason for rejoicing that at last the Truth is forthcoming, in order to dissipate so much fear and misconception of a thing that is very simple. Again, the so౼called beast of Biblical description, also understood and described otherwise, is but the misdirection of this Solar Energy౼that has been directed downward instead of upward. 

门槛的守护者：关于这种情况的简单且完整的真相是，门槛的守护者实际上是太阳能量（即神的能量）被错误引导的积累。这完全没有什么可怕的，反而应该感到欣喜，因为最终真相浮现，从而消除许多对这一简单事物的恐惧和误解。同样，《圣经》中所描述的所谓野兽，或以其他方式理解和描述的野兽，仅仅是这种太阳能量的错误引导——向下引导而不是向上引导的结果。

This will explain to you the very great importance of the control of the thought; for wherever the attention is directed, the energy is bound to go. Therefore, if you permit the thought or consciousness of anger, resentment, jealousy, or the dissipation of the energy through the thought of sex, you are but turning that Mighty Current downward. 

这将向你解释控制思想的重要性；因为无论注意力指向何处，能量必然随之而去。因此，如果你允许愤怒、怨恨、嫉妒的思想或因性欲念头而导致能量的消散，你只是在将那股强大的能量流向下引导。

Free Will: The Power of Free Will is mankind's great privilege of holding the attention of the consciousness fixed on the Divine "Presence" or Principle of Activity that at all times compels the upward flow of the Mighty Solar Energy. This shows you how simple the process is౼at the same time, the necessity of consciously keeping that Energy flowing upward. Therefore, the moment any thought enters the mind that is not in harmony with that idea, take the same attitude you would to a disobedient child who is too young to understand the Laws and say: 'I AM' Master of my own thought! 'I AM' Master and I direct the Energy where I wish it to go!" Anyone who will do this, will find that it will give them easy command and regulation of this Energy in a very short time. 

自由意志：自由意志的力量是人类的一项伟大特权，使意识的注意力能够专注于神圣的“临在”或活动原则，这种原则始终促使强大的太阳能量向上流动。这表明了这一过程的简单性，同时也说明了有意识地保持能量向上流动的必要性。因此，当任何与这一理念不和谐的想法进入头脑时，应像对待一个尚未理解法则的顽皮孩子那样采取态度，并说：“‘我就是’我自己思想的主人！‘我就是’主人，我引导能量流向我想要的方向！”任何人如果这样做，很快就会发现自己能够轻松地掌控和调节这股能量。

For the home: No matter what the seeming provocation is, shut out resentment, criticism, condemnation, or anything else that is not in harmony with that Law. 

关于家庭：无论看起来有什么样的挑衅，都要排除怨恨、批评、谴责或任何与该法则不和谐的事物。

Remember this forever: You never deal with persons. The truth is that you are always dealing with a force which you must control before you go much farther. Without this control you cannot go beyond a certain point, because in an unguarded moment you would loose forces that would impair your further progress in this embodiment. 

永远记住这一点：你从未真正与人打交道。事实上，你始终在处理一种力量，你必须在继续深入之前掌控它。如果无法掌控这一力量，你将无法超越某个界限，因为在一个疏忽的时刻，你可能释放出会损害你在此生进一步进展的力量。

Each one should train himself to always hold himself within his own Magic Circle of the Flame of Divine Love, which he has to build around himself consciously. Speak to each other within this Circle; for no matter where you are, the Magic Circle is there. Whenever anyone fixes the attention on that Mighty Presence of God, he is making a Magic Circle, wherein are performed mighty seeming Miracles. This Magic Circle is ever widening and extending, according to the sincerity and intensity with which the attention is held upon that Mighty "Presence." 

每个人都应该训练自己始终将自己保持在由神圣之爱之火焰构建的魔法圆圈内，并需要有意识地在自身周围建立这一圆圈。在这个圆圈内彼此交谈；因为无论你身在何处，魔法圆圈都在那里。每当有人将注意力固定在那强大的神之临在上时，他就创造了一个魔法圆圈，在其中显现出看似强大的奇迹。这个魔法圆圈会随着对那强大“临在”的专注程度的真诚与强烈而不断扩大和延伸。

At first, I assure you, it does require sincere, earnest guard; but if you should slip once in a while, do not let it bother you in any sense. Come right back with still greater unyielding sincerity and intensity. The mistake of a great many Students is that if they are off guard once in a while, they become discouraged౼which is childish and foolish. It is of very great value in disciplining ourselves to always remember that every time something occurs which would make us desire to strike back physically or in speech or thought౼or cause us to do it౼to take this attitude: "This is but a force to be handled, and these personalities are but an opportunity for me to learn how to control this energy." This takes away the resistance that starts the activity of the discord which seeks to intrude. As you keep up the conscious guard, you will be surprised how the Magic Circle around you will expand until everyone who contacts you, will love and worship you. Such is the Magic Power of Love and Harmony. 

起初，我向你保证，这确实需要真诚而认真的守护；但如果偶尔失误，也不要以任何方式让这困扰你。要立即以更大的坚定真诚和强烈的决心回到正确的状态。许多学生的错误在于，当他们偶尔放松警惕时，会感到气馁——这是幼稚且愚蠢的。在自我约束中，记住这一点非常重要：每当发生某件事，让我们想要在身体、言语或思想上进行反击——或者导致我们这样做时——要采取这样的态度：“这只是一股需要被掌控的力量，而这些人格只是让我学习如何控制这能量的机会。” 这样就消除了启动不和谐活动的抵抗力，而这些不和谐试图侵入你的内心。随着你持续保持有意识的守护，你会惊讶地发现，你周围的魔法圆圈会不断扩大，直到接触你的人都会爱你、崇敬你。这就是爱与和谐的魔法力量。

Some of these things may seem simple, but unifying them is the One Great Law. As you begin to think of the Magic Circle, you begin to see and feel It around you; and the more you do this, the more rapidly It builds and expands. 

有些事情看似简单，但将它们统一起来的却是一个伟大的法则。当你开始想着魔法圆圈时，你就会开始看见并感受到它围绕着你；而你越多地这样做，它就会越快地建立和扩展。

Negative old habits: The strange thing is that, from old habit, people allow the attention to enter into the negative conditions; and the first thing they know they are in trouble. In such conditions the Conscious Demand should be, "Here! thou outer activity! Be silent before the God in me!" The only activity to be concerned with, is the governing and qualifying of the energy in the outer activity. 

消极的旧习惯：奇怪的是，人们因为旧习惯而允许注意力进入消极的状态；而他们很快就会发现自己陷入了困境。在这种情况下，必须有一个清晰的意识要求：“住手！外在的活动！在我内在的神面前沉默！” 唯一需要关注的活动，就是对外在能量的掌控和赋予它正向的品质。

When you do anything for the protection of another, there must be some permanent uplift directed to the individual, or it is not permissible for you to do it. Without this, it is a useless direction of energy; and then we do not have the right to use the energy even for the protection. The return of the energy to our own Magnificent Flame. of Almighty God is much more rapid than the downward direction of it, and the ratio is about ten to one. 

当你为保护他人做任何事情时，必须有某种永久的提升引导到那个人身上，否则你无权这样做。没有这一前提的话，这种能量的运用就是徒劳的；因此，即使是为了保护，也无权使用能量。将能量回归到我们内在全能之神的宏伟圣火的速度，比能量向下的方向要快得多，其比例大约是十比一。

The intelligent Beings of the four Elements: Mortals little realize how the intelligent Beings of the four Elements are used for their benefit; indeed most individuals and many Students are inclined to deny Their very existence. Everything that is visible to the outer senses is but a passing picture of the outer creation. Back of the outer creation and within this Great God Energy is the Mighty Reality, which is always visible to the Inner Sight. If Students would say to this Mighty "Presence," "God! let me see with Thine Eyes౼my Inner Sight," and follow this by, ''I give thanks I do see now and forever"౼this would many times enable the individual to quickly enter into the Inner Sight, depending on his or her own Inner Attunement. There has not been and will not be anything given in this Instruction but that which will produce absolutely definite results, if applied with an unwavering consciousness. 

四大元素中智慧生命体：凡人很少意识到四大元素中的智慧生命体是如何被用来造福他们的；事实上，大多数人以及许多学生都倾向于否认它们的存在。一切可被外感官感知的东西不过是外在创造的转瞬画面。在外在创造的背后、在这伟大神的能量之中，存在着宏大的实相，这始终可被内在视野所见。如果学生们对这强大的“临在”说：“神啊！让我以你的眼睛——我的内在视野来观看吧。”并随之宣称：“我感恩，我现在并永远都能看见。”——这通常能帮助个人迅速进入内在视野，这取决于他或她自身的内在协调。只要以坚定不移的意识去运用，这个教导中所提供的一切无一例外都能产生绝对明确的结果。

When Students reach a point where they can be used, it is said that, "Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." Sometimes We feel as joyous as little children when We see one reaching out to the Light who can be attuned and used. When individuals reach to the Light with great longing and intensity of desire, it isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the Ascended Masters' Desire for Students to be able to receive so they can be used. We need the Student so much who is attuned, so he or she can be used. There is so much need for Students who can be consciously used in any way by the Great Ones. 

当学生们达到可以被运用的程度时，便会有人说：“除非你们变得像小孩子一样，否则你们无法进入天国。”有时候，当我们看到有人向光明伸出手，达到可被调谐和运用的状态时，我们感到像小孩子般的欣喜。当个人以强烈的渴望和高度的热忱追寻光明时，这种追求与扬升大师们渴望学生能够接受并被运用的愿望相比，简直微不足道。我们非常需要能够被调谐的学生，以便他们可以被运用。伟大的存有们急需那些能够以任何方式被有意识地使用的学生，这一需求是如此迫切。

Beloved Mighty Oromasis: Oromasis, the Prince of Fiery Beings, plays a tremendous part in the Life of the individual when he or she comes to a point of this understanding. He is a Prince of the Salamanders who has become Immortalized. You will be amazed and almost dumbfounded when you learn what actually takes place. In the first place, there must be the connection between the Fire Element and the mortals, because the Fire Element does not become Immortalized except by contact with the mortal. 

至爱的强大奥罗玛西斯：奥罗玛西斯，火焰生灵之王子，在个人达到这一理解的阶段时，在其生命中扮演着极其重要的角色。他是火元素的萨拉曼德族的一位王子，已经获得永生。当你了解实际发生的情况时，你会感到惊讶甚至震撼。首先，火元素和凡人之间必须存在联系，因为火元素只有通过与凡人的接触，才能获得永生。

Creation by the Ascended Masters: On the Higher or Spiritual Planes of Activity, all Creation takes place by thought. The thought draws to itself the Universal Substance, producing any desired form according to the quality of the desire or thought. The Ascended Host, in projecting into form the Invisible Substance, do qualify it with whatever Quality They wish to use. If it is to resemble the quality of a jewel, They may produce it in a table: this table can be like one jewel or have a combination of the elements of one or all jewels. However, They do not project things for a bargain counter. The quality of the tables would be in harmony with what the people were accustomed to. When the attention is once given an impulse, it draws from the outer that which is nearest reality. 

扬升大师的创造：在更高的或灵性层面的活动中，所有创造都是通过思想完成的。思想吸引宇宙的物质，根据渴望或思想的品质，形成任何想要的形态。扬升大师在将无形的物质投射为形态时，会赋予它任何他们希望的特质。例如，如果希望其具有宝石的品质，他们可以创造出一张桌子。这张桌子可以像一块宝石，或者结合一种或多种宝石的元素。然而，他们不会为了追求廉价而投射事物。桌子的品质会与人们的习惯和需求相一致。  一旦注意力被赋予某种动力，它会从外界吸取最接近现实的元素，将其转化为形态。

The sex activity: The outer sex activity is a perverted interpretation of an original Perfection and Purity. 

性活动：外在的性活动是对原本完美与纯洁的扭曲解释。

Very important for contemplation: When you become quiet and get deep, deep into the Silence, say, "Great Self, speak to me." The mind cannot conceive of anything that is not possible of accomplishment. 

非常重要的沉思：当你安静下来，深入、深入到寂静中时，说：“伟大的自我，请对我说话。” 心无法想象任何无法实现的事物。

BENEDICTION: Mighty Radiant, Evolving "Presence" of this Center of Divine Radiation! Draw Thy Magic Circle about this home and all its activities. Pour forth Thy Radiant Love, Light, and Activity౼drawing into Its Use, Abundance of Thy Wealth; and give Peace, Joy, Harmony, and Perfection through Its Use and Ministrations. Hold each one within his own individual Magic Circle as he moves in the outer world, giving forth Thy Mighty Everlasting, Self౼sustaining Strength, Courage, and Consciousness of Thy Directing Presence. Let each one feel himself a Mighty Magnet drawing an Abundance of Wealth for everything he needs, wishes, and desires; and know that the Outpouring is flowing in Its Greatest Abundance. 

祈福：伟大的光辉、进化中的“临在”，这神圣辐射中心的力量啊！为这个家及其所有活动画上你的魔法圈。倾注你的光辉之爱、光明与能量，使之充满你的财富的丰盛，并通过其用途与服侍，带来和平、喜悦、和谐与完美。愿每个人在外部世界中行动时，都被保持在自己独特的魔法圈内，赋予他们你那永恒、自我支撑的力量、勇气以及对你引导临在的意识。让每个人感到自己是一个强大的磁石，吸引着为满足其一切需求、愿望与欲望所需的丰盛财富；并知道，这种倾注正以最大程度的丰盛流淌着。