The laws of balance and counter-balance are in operation on the mental as well as on the physical planes, and an understanding of these laws enables one to seem to overthrow laws, whereas he is merely exerting a counterbalance.
平衡的法则和反向平衡的法则是在精神层面上运作的，如同在物理层面上，并且对这些法则的理解，表面上赋予一个人去推翻法则，事实上，他只是努力达到了一个反向平衡。
"Nothing escapes the Principle of Cause and Effect,but there are many Planes of Causation, and one may use the laws of the higher to overcome the laws of the lower."
--The Kybalion.
没有什么可以逃避开因果法则，但有许多因果的层级，一个人可以利用较高的法则，去克服较低的法则。
——Kybalion
By an understanding of the practice of Polarization, the Hermetists rise to a higher plane of Causation and thus counter-balance the laws of the lower planes of Causation.
通过理解极性实践，赫尔墨斯者们可以提升到因果关系的更高层面，反向平衡低层面的因果法则。
By rising above the plane of ordinary Causes they become themselves, in a degree, Causes instead of being merely Caused.
By being able to master their own moods and feelings, and by being able to neutralize Rhythm, as we have already explained, they are able to escape a great part of the operations of Cause and Effect on the ordinary plane.
靠着提升到普通的原因层面之上，他们改变自己到某个程度，在那里原因替代了结果。
靠着能够去掌控自己的心态和感受，并且靠着能够中立节律，正如我们已经说明的，他们能够躲避开在普通层面上因果运行的一大部分。
The masses of people are carried along, obedient to their environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; the effects of inherited tendencies; the suggestions of those about them; and other outward causes; which tend to move them about on the chess-board of life like mere pawns.
大众们是被动的，顺从着他们的环境、那比自己更强大的他人的意志和期望、遗传倾向的效果、他人对自己的暗示以及其它外在的原因。
这样，趋向在移动着他们，有如象棋盘上兵卒的生命。
By rising above these influencing causes, the advanced Hermetists seek a higher plane of mental action, and by dominating their moods, emotions, impulses and feelings, they create for themselves new characters, qualities and powers, by which they overcome their ordinary environment, and thus become practically players instead of mere Pawns.
靠着提升到这些影响原因之上，优秀的赫尔墨斯者们寻找较高层面的精神行动，靠着支配他们的心态，情绪，冲动，和感受，他们为自己创造新的人格特征、品质和力量，靠着这些，他们超越普通的环境，这样事实上他们变为了弈者，而非只是棋子。
Such people help to play the game of life understandingly, instead of being moved about this way and that way by stronger influences and powers and wills.
这些人会心地玩人生的游戏，而不是被更强的影响、力量和意志的所左右。
They use the Principle of Cause and Effect, instead of being used by it. Of course, even the highest are subject to the Principle as it manifests on the higher planes, but on the lower planes of activity, they are Masters instead of Slaves.
他们利用因果法则，而不是被因果法则所利用。当然，就是在最高层面也要服从显化在更高的层面上的法则，但在较低层面的活动中，他们是主人，而不是奴隶。
As The Kybalion says:
正如Kybalion所说：
"The wise ones serve on the higher, but rule on the lower.
智慧者是在更高层面运作，控制更低层面。
They obey the laws coming from above them, But on their own plane, and those below them they rule and give orders.
他们服从来自他们上面的法则。但他们支配并且给出指令，在他们自己的层面和之下的。
And, yet, in so doing, they form a part of the Principle,instead of opposing it.
这样做，他们组成了法则的一个部分，而不是对抗法则。
The wise man falls in with the Law,and by understanding its movements he operates it instead of being its blind slave.
智慧者遵从法则，靠着理解法则的运行来操作，而不是被法则驱动的盲目的奴隶。
Just as does the skilled swimmer turn this way and that way, going and coming as he will,instead of being as the log which is carried here and there
--so is the wise man as compared to the ordinary man
--and yet both swimmer and log; wise man and fool,are subject to Law. He who understands this is well on the road to Mastery."
--The Kybalion.
正如熟练的游泳选手随意转来转去，向前向后，而不是象漂浮的木头般随波逐流
——这就是智慧者和普通人的差别
——然而游泳选手和木头，智慧的和愚笨的，都要服从法则。理解这点的，已经走上了大师之路。——Kybalion
In conclusion let us again call your attention to the Hermetic Axiom:
在结束处，让我们再来看一句赫尔墨斯格言：
"True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."--The Kybalion.
真的赫尔墨斯转化是精神的艺术。——Kybalion
In the above axiom, the Hermetists teach that the great work of influencing one's environment is accomplished by Mental Power.
在上面的格言里，赫尔墨斯者们教导的是，影响一个人的环境的伟大工作是由精神力量完成的。
The Universe being wholly mental, it follows that it may be ruled only by Mentality.
宇宙是完全精神的，它只遵循精神控制法则。
And in this truth is to be found an explanation of all the phenomena and manifestations of the various mental powers which are attracting so much attention and study in these earlier years of the Twentieth Century.
这个真理是基于在所有现象和不同精神力量的显化的阐释，这在二十世纪的初期，吸引了众多的注意和研究。
Back of and under the teachings of the various cults and schools, remains ever constant the Principle of the Mental Substance of the Universe.
在不同奥秘体系和学派教导的背后和根基上，永远保留着宇宙的精神实质的法则。
If the Universe be Mental in its substantial nature, then it follows that Mental Transmutation must change the conditions and phenomena of the Universe.
如果宇宙实质本性是精神的，那么其遵循这点：精神转化必须改变宇宙的状况和现象。
If the Universe is Mental, then Mind must be the highest power affecting its phenomena.
如果宇宙是精神的，那么思想必须是影响现象的最高力量。
If this be understood then all the so-called "miracles" and "wonder-workings" are seen plainly for what they are.
如果理解了这点，那么所有被称为奇迹和非凡作为的，对于他们，看起来就是很普通的了。
"THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental."--The Kybalion.
全能者是思想；宇宙是精神。——Kybalion
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第十五章 格言
"The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals-a vain and foolish thing.
Knowledge, like wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces."
--The Kybalion.
如果不和行动的表达相伴随，知识的拥有，只是如同贵重金属的储存一样——一个徒然和愚蠢的事情。
知识，如同财物，要被使用。去使用的这个法则是普遍性的，并且那些违反的，要承受他们对抗自然力量的痛苦。
——Kybalion
The Hermetic Teachings, while always having been kept securely locked up in the minds of the fortunate possessors thereof, for reasons which we have already stated, were never intended to be merely stored away and secreted.
赫尔墨斯教导，总是被安全地闭锁在有缘的拥有者们的思想里，这样做的原因，我们已经讲过了，但从来都不只是为了远远地储存和严加保密。
The Law of Use is dwelt upon in the Teachings, as you may see by reference to the above quotation from The Kybalion, which states it forcibly.
去使用的这个法则，就在教导里，正如你能从上面的Kybalion引语中看到的那样，从这里面强有力地表达出来。
Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor, or to the race.
知识，不去利用和表达，是无益的东西，不会给它的拥有者或者种族带来好处。
Beware of Mental Miserliness, and express into Action that which you have learned. Study the Axioms and Aphorisms, but practice them also.
要小心精神的吝啬，要实践那些你已经学到的。研习这些格言和谚语，并且也要实践它们。
We give below some of the more important Hermetic Axioms, from The Kybalion, with a few comments added to each.
下面我们给出，出自Kybalion的赫尔墨斯格言中一些比较重要的，对每一个加了一点注解。
Make these your own, and practice and use them, for they are not really your own until you have Used them.
要让这些成为你自己的，并且去实践和贯彻它们，因为直到你去利用它们，否则它们还不真正是属于你的。
"To change your mood or mental state--change your vibration."
--The Kybalion.
去改变你的心态和心理状态——改变了你的振动。
——Kybalion
One may change his mental vibrations by an effort of Will, in the direction of deliberately fixing the Attention upon a more desirable state.
靠着意志的努力，在有意识地把注意固定到一个更适宜的状态这个方向上，一个人可以改变他的心理振动。
Will directs the Attention, and Attention changes the Vibration. Cultivate the Art of Attention, by means of the Will, and you have solved the secret of the Mastery of Moods and Mental States.
意志指引着注意，并且注意改变振动。依靠意志的方法，去培养注意的技巧，那样，你就解开了心态和心理状态掌控的奥秘。
"To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration,put into operation the principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity."
--The Kybalion.
去改变一个不良的心理振动速率，让极性法则运转，凝神在你要求抑制的相对极性上。靠着改变它的极性，消去不需要的。
——Kybalion
This is one of the most important of the Hermetic Formulas. It is based upon true scientific principles. We have shown you that a mental state and its opposite were merely the two poles of one thing, and that by Mental Transmutation the polarity might be reversed.
这是最重要的赫尔墨斯规则之一。它是建立在真实的科学法则之上的。我们已经向你展示了，一个心理状态以及和它相对的只是一个事物的两极，依靠心理的转化，极性能够被反转。
This Principle is known to modern psychologists, who apply it to the breaking up of undesirable habits by bidding their students concentrate upon the opposite quality.
这个法则，现代心理学家们已经知道了，他们利用这个法则来终止不良的习性，依靠指导他们的学生集中注意到相反的品质上面。
If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.
如果你是在恐惧中，不要浪费时间去尝试消去它。而是要，去培养勇敢的品质，恐惧就会消失。
Some writers have expressed this idea most forcibly by using the illustration of the dark room. You do not have to shovel out or sweep out the Darkness, but by merely opening the shutters and letting in the Light the Darkness has disappeared.
某些作家的作品靠着利用黑屋子的描写来强烈地表达这个观念。你不是去铲去，或者扫除黑暗。只是打开窗帘，让阳光进来，黑暗就消失了。
To kill out a Negative quality, concentrate upon the Positive Pole of that same quality, and the vibrations will gradually change from Negative to Positive, until finally you will become polarized on the Positive pole instead of the Negative.
去消除一个负面的品质，只要集中注意到同样品质的正面极性上，直到最终，你变得在正向极性上极化，而取代负向的。
The reverse is also true, as many have found out to their sorrow, when they have allowed themselves to vibrate too constantly on the Negative pole of things.
反过来也是真的，比如有些人允许他们在事物的负面极性上振动得太久，他们已经陷入到了他们的悲痛中。
By changing your polarity you may master your moods, change your mental states, remake your disposition, and build up character.
依靠改变你的极性，你能够控制你的心态，改变你的心理状态，重新安排你的控制，建立起人格品质。
Much of the Mental Mastery of the advanced Hermetics is due to this application of Polarity, which is one of the important aspects of Mental Transmutation.
优秀的赫尔墨斯者的许多心理掌控是由于这个极化的利用，这是精神转化的最重要的方面之一。
Remember the Hermetic Axiom (quoted previously), which says:
记住，这个赫尔墨斯格言是这样说的：
"Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted from state to state; degree to degree, condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration."
-The Kybalion.
思想（如同金属和元素）可以被转化：从一个状态到另一个状态；从一种程度到另一种程度；从一个条件到另一个条件；从一个极性到另一个极性；从一种振动到另一种振动。
——Kybalion
The mastery of Polarization is the mastery of the fundamental principles of Mental Transmutation or Mental Alchemy, for unless one acquires the art of changing his own polarity, he will be unable to affect his environment.
极化的掌控是精神转化或者精神炼金术的基本法则的掌控，因为除非一个人获得了他自己极性改变的技巧，否则他不能够去影响他的环境。
An understanding of this principle will enable one to change his own Polarity, as well as that of others, if he will but devote the time, care, study and practice necessary to master the art.
对于这个法则的理解，如果他希望，将赋予一个人改变它自己的极性，还有他人的极性，去奉献时间、关注、研习，以及实践，到控制技巧所需要的上面去。
The principle is true, but the results obtained depend upon the persistent patience and practice of the student.
这个法则是真的，但要获得结果，要靠学生的持久的忍耐和练习。
"Rhythm may be neutralized by an application of the Art of Polarization."
--The Kybalion.
节律能够依靠极性技巧的利用而被中和。
——Kybalion
As we have explained in previous chapters, the Hermetists hold that the Principle of Rhythm manifests on the Mental Plane as well as on the Physical Plane, and that the bewildering succession of moods, feelings, emotions, and other mental states, are due to the backward and forward swing of the mental pendulum, which carries us from one extreme of feeling to the other.
正如前面章节中所指出的，赫尔墨斯者们在精神层面的显化上把握着节律法则，如同在物理层面上一样，令人困惑的心态、感受、情绪，以及其它心理状态的兴替，是由于心理摆锤的前后摆动，把你从感受的一个极端带到另一个。
The Hermetists also teach that the Law of Neutralization enables one, to a great extent, to overcome the operation of Rhythm in consciousness.
赫尔墨斯者们也教导，中和法则能够使一个人，到达更大的范围，进而克服在意识上的节律的运作。
As we have explained, there is a Higher Plane of Consciousness, as well as the ordinary Lower Plane, and the Master by rising mentally to the Higher Plane causes the swing of the mental pendulum to manifest on the Lower Plane, and he, dwelling on his Higher Plane, escapes the consciousness of the swing backward.
正如我们已经解释的，在这里既有意识的较高层面，也有意识普通的较低层面，大师，依靠在精神上升到较高层面，导致精神摆锤的摆动显化在较低层面，而自己安居于较高层面，避开回摆的意识。
This is effected by polarizing on the Higher Self, and thus raising the mental vibrations of the Ego above those of the ordinary plane of consciousness.
这受到在更高的自我上极化的影响，因此提升自我的精神振动达到那些意识的普通层面之上。
It is akin to rising above a thing and allowing it to pass beneath you.
如同升到一个东西上面，让它从你下面通过一样。
The advanced Hermetist polarizes himself at the Positive Pole of his Being-the "I Am" pole rather than the pole of personality and by "refusing" and "denying" the operation of Rhythm, raises himself above its plane of consciousness, and standing firm in his Statement of Being he allows the pendulum to swing back on the Lower Plane without changing his Polarity.
优秀的赫尔墨斯者极化到自我到存在的正向极性上——全能者的极性，而不是靠着拒绝和否定节律的运作来极化到个人的极性。提升他自己到意识的层面之上，牢固地站立在他存在的状态里，他们允许摆锤在较低层面摆回，而不改变他的极性。
This is accomplished by all individuals who have attained any degree of self-mastery, whether they understand the law or not.
无论他们是否理解这个法则，达到的任何级别的自我掌控的所有人都能够完成这个过程。
Such persons simply "refuse" to allow themselves to be swung back by the pendulum of mood and emotion, and by steadfastly affirming the superiority they remain polarized on the Positive pole.
靠着坚定不移肯定他们在正向极性保持极化的优越性，这些人简单地拒绝容许他们自己被心态和情绪的摆锤带回。
The Master, of course, attains a far greater degree of proficiency, because he understands the law which he is overcoming by a higher law,
and by the use of his Will he attains a degree of Poise and Mental Steadfastness
almost impossible of belief on the part of those who allow themselves to be swung backward and forward by the mental pendulum of moods and feelings.
当然，大师达到了熟练的更高等级，因为他们理解这个法则，这样他通过更高法则的利用而达到超越，
并且靠着意志的利用，他达到了一个平衡的层面，以及思想的稳定，
这已经几乎不能够被那些允许自己，随着心态和感受的心理摆锤，前后摇摆带动的人们所相信。
Remember always, however, that you do not really destroy the Principle of Rhythm, for that is indestructible.
无论如何，总要记住，你不是真的摧毁节律法则，那是不能毁灭的。
You simply overcome one law by counter-balancing it with another and thus maintain an equilibrium.
你只是单纯地依靠另一个来平衡这个，而超越某个法则，这样保持住了平衡。
Just as a man has two parents, and four grandparents, and eight great-grandparents, and sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on until when, say, forty generations are calculated the numbers of ancestors run into many millions--so it is with the number of causes behind even the most trifling event or phenomena, such as the passage of a tiny speck of soot before your eye.
如同一个人有双亲，四个祖父辈，八个曾祖父辈，十六个曾曾祖父辈的亲人，如此，上推到四十代前，那是几百万的祖辈——同样，即使最微小的事物和现象背后的原因数目也是如此，哪怕是你眼前面的一粒灰尘。
It is not an easy matter to trace the bit of soot hack to the early period of the world's history when it formed a part of a massive tree-trunk, which was afterward converted into coal, and so on, until as the speck of soot it now passes before your vision on its way to other adventures.
要追踪这个小灰粒到星球历史的较早期阶段绝非容易的事，那时候它是大树的一部分，从树桩转化为煤，如此等等，直到它成为一粒煤灰来到你的眼前，继续它的下面的经历。
And a mighty chain of events, causes and effects, brought it to its present condition, and the later is but one of the chain of events which will go to produce other events hundreds of years from now. One of the series of events arising from the tiny bit of soot was the writing of these lines, which caused the typesetter to perform certain work; the proofreader to do likewise;
一个事物如此巨大的链，原因们和结果们，把这个灰尘带到现在的状态，此后它依然是在事情的链条中，进入此后数百年的其它事物中。从这个些微的灰尘，升起的一个事物系列中的，一个就是写出的这几行文字。排版工人进行了工作，校对员也做了贡献。
and which will arouse certain thoughts in your mind, and that of others, which in turn will affect others, and so on, and on, and on, beyond the ability of man to think further-and all from the passage of a tiny bit of soot, all of which shows the relativity and association of things, and the further fact that "there is no great; there is no small, in the mind that causeth all."
这些文字会在你的心理中产生某些想法，这些想法可能又会影响其他人，如此下去，下去，再下去，远到超越人的想象能力——所有这都来自一粒灰尘，所有这些都显化着事情的关系和联系，进一步的事实是，在导致一切的思想中，没有什么伟大，没有什么渺小。
Stop to think a moment.
If a certain man had not met a certain maid, away back in the dim period of the Stone Age--you who are now reading these lines would not now be here. And if, perhaps, the same couple had failed to meet, we who now write these lines would not now be here.
让我们停下来想一下。
如果远在石器时代的晦暗的日子里，一个人如果没有遇到某个女人——你这位现在正在读这些文字的就不会在这里。如果，这样的一对没有相遇，我们写这些文字的现在不会在这里。
And the very act of writing, on our part, and the act of reading, on yours, will affect not only the respective lives of yourself and ourselves, but will also have a direct, or indirect, affect upon many other people now living and who will live in the ages to come.
我们的写作行动，你的阅读行动，不仅会影响到你的和我们的特别的生命，也会直接或者间接地影响许多其他的人，现在的和以后世代会来到的。
Every thought we think, every act we perform, has its direct and indirect results which fit into the great chain of Cause and Effect.
我们思考的每一个心理，我们显化的每一个行动，都有它直接和间接的效果，汇合到巨大的因果链条之中。
We do not wish to enter into a consideration of Free Will, or Determinism, in this work, for various reasons.
出于多种原因，在这个工作中，我们不希望涉入到自由意志和决定论中去。
Among the many reasons, is the principal one that neither side of the controversy is entirely right-in fact, both sides are partially right, according to the Hermetic Teachings. The Principle of Polarity shows that both are but Half-Truths the opposing poles of Truth.
在这些原因中，最主要的是对立的双方没有一个是绝对正确的——事实上，按照赫尔墨斯教导，两方面都有部分的正确。极性法则显示了，两个方面都只是部分的真理，真理的相对的两个极性。
The Teachings are that a man may be both Free and yet bound by Necessity, depending upon the meaning of the terms, and the height of Truth from which the matter is examined.
教导是说，人既需要自由又要束缚，靠着对事物的检验，得到内里的认识，并且从这里达到之上的真理层面。
The ancient writers express the matter thus: "The further the creation is from the Centre, the more it is bound; the nearer the Centre it reaches, the nearer Free is it."
古老的作者这样来表达这个意思，创造物离中心越远，束缚就越多。离中心越近，离自由就越近。
The majority of people are more or less the slaves of heredity, environment, etc., and manifest very little Freedom.
大部分的人或多或少是遗传、环境，等等，的奴隶，只显化出很少的自由。
They are swayed by the opinions, customs and thoughts of the outside world, and also by their emotions, feelings, moods, etc.
他们随着外部世界的议论、习俗和心理摆动着，还有他们自己的情绪、感受、心态，等等。
They manifest no Mastery, worthy of the name.
他们很少显化出大师的样式，那和这个名字相配的行动。
They indignantly repudiate this assertion, saying, "Why, I certainly am free to act and do as I please--I do just what I want to do,"
他们激愤地做这样的断言，难道我不是按自己的喜好自由地在行动吗？我做的正是我想要做的。
but they fail to explain whence arise the "want to" and "as I please." What makes them "want to" do one thing in preference to another; what makes them "please" to do this, and not do that? Is there no "because" to their "pleasing" and "Wanting"?
他们却无法说明想要做的和自己喜好的来自何处。是什么让他们想要做这个，而不是别的？是什么让他们喜好做这个，而不是那个？难道对于他们的喜好和想要就没有原因了吗？
The Master can change these "pleases" and "wants" into others at the opposite end of the mental pole. He is able to "Will to will," instead of to will because some feeling, mood, emotion, or environmental suggestion arouses a tendency or desire within him so to do.
大师可以改变这些喜好和想要，去到心理极性的相对一端。他能够有意志地去做，而不是被在内里升起的一些感受、心态、情绪的驱动或者欲求，还有周围的暗示，而去做。
The majority of people are carried along like the falling stone, obedient to environment, outside influences and internal moods, desires, etc., not to speak of the desires and wills of others stronger than themselves, heredity, environment, and suggestion, carrying them along without resistance on their part, or the exercise of the Will.
大多数人，有如落下的石头，服从着环境，外在的影响和内在的心态、欲望，等等，更不要说那些强过他们自己的人的欲望和意志、环境、暗示，把他们推动着，他们无法抵抗，或者有自身意志的练习。
Moved like the pawns on the checkerboard of life, they play their parts and are laid aside after the game is over.
生命如同象棋棋盘上的兵卒一般被挪动，他们扮演着他们的角色，当棋局结束就被搁置一旁。
But the Masters, knowing the rules of the game, rise above the plane of material life, and placing themselves in touch with the higher powers of their nature, dominate their own moods, characters, qualities, and polarity, as well as the environment surrounding them and thus become Movers in the game, instead of Pawns-Causes instead of Effects.
但是大师们，知道游戏的规则，上升到物质生命的层面之上，让自己接触他们本性中更高的能量，支配他们自己的心态、特质、品性，和极性，对围绕他们的环境也是如此，这样，他们成为游戏中的博弈者，而非棋盘上的兵卒——用原因取代结果。
The Masters do not escape the Causation of the higher planes, but fall in with the higher laws, and thus master circumstances on the lower plane.
大师们不能逃避更高层面的原因，而是变得与更高的法则相和谐，这样控制了在较低层面上的环境。
They thus form a conscious part of the Law, instead of being mere blind instruments. While they Serve on the Higher Planes, they Rule on the Material Plane.
他们这样构成了法则的意识部分，而不是它的盲目的工具。当他们服务于更高层面，他们就控制了物质层面。
But, on higher and on lower, the Law is always in operation. There is no such thing as Chance. The blind goddess has been abolished by Reason.
但是，在较高的层面和在较低的层面上，法则总是运作着。没有偶然这种事情。盲目的女神已经被理性废除了。
We are able to see now, with eyes made clear by knowledge, that everything is governed by Universal Law-that the infinite number of laws are but manifestations of the One Great Law-the LAW which is THE ALL.
我们现在能够看到，知识使我们的眼睛明亮起来，万物都是由宇宙法则管理的——无限的法则只是显化着的一的伟大法则——这个法则就是全能者。
It is true indeed that not a sparrow drops unnoticed by the Mind of THE AL--that even the hairs on our head are numbered
这是真的，在全能者的思想里没有一只麻雀的掉落会不被注意到——就是你头上的头发也是被数算过的——正如《圣经》经文所说的。
--as the scriptures have said There is nothing outside of Law; nothing that happens contrary to it. And yet, do not make the mistake of supposing that Man is but a blind automaton-far from that.
没有什么是在法则之外的，没有什么是违反法则发生的。也不要错误地假设，人只是一个盲目的自动机器——远不是这样。
The Hermetic Teachings are that Man may use Law to overcome laws, and that the higher will always prevail against the lower, until at last he has reached the stage in which he seeks refuge in the LAW itself, and laughs the phenomenal laws to scorn. Are you able to grasp the inner meaning of this?
赫尔墨斯教导这样说，人能够利用法则去克服法则，较高的总是胜过较低的，直到最后他抵达这个站点，在那里他寻找在这个法则自身里的庇护，并且讥笑现象法则们的不屑。你能不能抓住在这里面的内在意义呢？
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect
VI.因果法则
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause;
everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name
for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation,
but nothing escapes the Law."--The Kybalion.
凡因都有果；凡果都有因；每一件事情的发生都遵循法则；运气只是法则的一个名称，而不是它本身得到承认。有许多层面的果，但任何事物都逃脱不了法则。
——Kybalion
This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an Effect from every Cause.
这个法则包含这样的真理，即每一种结果都有一个原因；一种结果来源于各种原因。
It explains that: "Everything Happens according to Law"; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance;
它表明：每一件事情的发生都遵循法则；从来没有一件事情只是单纯的发生；没有运气这样的事情；
that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.
尽管有各种层次的原因和结果，但总是更高层次的统御更低层次的，始终没有任何事情逃脱得了法则。
The Hermetists understand the art and methods of rising above the ordinary plane of Cause and Effect, to a certain degree, and by mentally rising to a higher plane they become Causers instead of Effects.
赫尔墨斯主义者懂得升华而超越于普通层面因果的艺术和方法，从而达到某个特定的层级，并且通过精神的升华达到更高的层级，以致他们自身成为主动的原因者而非被动的结果。
The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves;
一般大众是被带动的，他们屈服于环境；其他人的意志和愿望比他们的更强大；
heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life.
遗传，建议，还有其他外部的原因，使得他们像生活棋盘上的兵卒那样来回变动。
But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.
但是，大师们，升高到上级层面，控制他们的情绪、性格、品质和力量，也控制他们周围的环境，这些大师成为主动者，而不是兵卒。
They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment.
他们主动去玩生活的棋局，而不是被他人的意志和环境所玩弄和驱动。
They USE the Principle instead of being its tools. The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane.
他们运用法则而不是成为它的工具。大师们遵循更高层面的因果律，他们主动去控制他们自己的因与果。
In this statement there is condensed a wealth of Hermetic knowledge--let him read who can.
这里有一个表述是赫尔墨斯知识财富的浓缩——让他明白谁有能力。
7. The Principle of Gender
VII.性别法则
"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine
and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all
planes."--The Kybalion.
性别存在于一切事物中；每一种事物都有它的雄性和雌性的法则；性别显化于所有层面。
——Kybalion
This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything--the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work.
这个法则包含这样的真理，即每一种事物中都显化出性别——雄性和雌性的法则一直都在发生作用。
This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes.
不仅在物理层面，而且在精神，甚至在灵魂层面，这都是千真万确的。
On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same.
在物质层面，这个法则显化为性，在更高的层面，它以更高的形式来显化，但这个法则永远是相同的。
No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle.
没有这个法则，就不可能创造任何物理的、精神的或者灵魂的存在体。
An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men.
对这个法则的理解将会使许多困惑人们心理的课题变得豁然开朗。
The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation.
性别法则永远在产生、重生和创造方面运作。
Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her.
每一种事物、每一个人都包含有这两种要素或法则，或者这个伟大的法则在它、他或她里面。
Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle.
每一个雄性体具有雌性成分，每一个雌性体也有雄性成分。
If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life.
如果你要掌握精神和灵魂的创造、产生和重生的哲学，你就一定要理解和研究这个神秘的法则。它隐含着许多生活秘密的解决之道。
We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender.
我们提醒你，这个法则无关那些在各种花哨的名义下传教的，以及滥用这个伟大的固有法则的许多低级、卑劣和淫秽的理论、教条和实践。
Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles.
这些败坏的、臭名昭著的古代生殖崇拜主义的重演会导致心理、肉体和灵魂的毁灭，而赫尔墨斯哲学一直发出警告声明，反对这些导致贪淫放纵和歪曲自然法则的低劣的教导。
If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them--Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines.
如果你寻找这样的教导，你就去其他地方寻找它们——赫尔墨斯主义没有任何这类污秽的内容给你。
To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base.
想要纯洁，一切都会纯洁；想要卑劣，一切都会卑劣。
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