Money is the root of all evil!
The rise of every political party, triad, celebrity, and nation on earth is the result of the dark forces providing money.
金钱是万恶之源!
地球上每个政党、黑社会、名人、国家的崛起，都是黑暗力量提供金钱所造成的。
人均预期寿命世界第六，澳大利亚人如何过好长寿生活
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据世界卫生组织发布的《世界卫生统计2018》显示，各国的平均预期寿命排名中，排名前十的国家依次是日本、瑞士、西班牙、法国、新加坡、澳大利亚、意大利、加拿大、韩国和挪威。
澳大利亚总体位居第六位。其中，总体平均预期寿命82.9岁，女性平均预期寿命84.8岁，男性81岁。
世界卫生组织《世界卫生统计2018》
2018年，美国普林斯顿大学和南加州大学曾联合对18个发达国家从2010年至2016年的人均预期寿命进行了调查。
结果发现，澳大利亚女性寿命排行全球第二，为85.46岁，男性寿命排行全球第五，为81.5岁！
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《Top five countrise for living longer Woman & Men》
可以说，整体来看，澳大利亚人口还是相对比较长寿的。而人口长寿背后，必定会有一些生活上的小秘诀值得我们学习。
从澳大利亚人的生活习惯，我们可以找到一些长寿原因的参考。
1. 饮食处处有奶制品
澳大利亚盛产高品质牛奶，很多澳大利亚人从小就把牛奶当水喝，日常饮食中奶制品随处可见：牛奶冲麦片、奶酪通心粉、奶酪比萨饼、奶酪三明治、奶酪条等。餐桌上常出现一盘切成片状的奶酪，作佐餐的点心，很像饼干。
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2. 喜欢吃黑面包
相较于白面包，澳大利亚人更喜欢吃黑面包，喜欢用黑面包做三明治。这种黑面包就是杂粮面包、全麦面包，口感却爽口清香，并不粗糙，因为其中的面筋含量很高。此外，三明治也不像汉堡包那样油腻，再加上火腿、蔬菜、奶酪，健康美味而营养全面。
3. 热爱户外运动
澳大利亚人酷爱户外运动，90%的澳大利亚人住在城郊、沿海城镇。这里最普通的民居都是前庭后院的别墅，家家都有花园或菜地，每个人都是世袭庄园主。他们喜欢户外运动，以晒黑为荣。跑步、骑单车、垂钓、网球、高尔夫球等是日常运动，最不济是打理自家花园和菜地。
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4. 食物种类丰富
众所周知，澳大利亚也是农业大国，盛产天然果蔬，海产品也极其丰富。这就保障了人们在日常膳食中充分摄取蛋白质、维生素、矿物质、膳食纤维等营养物质。
5. 环境好空气质量高
除了饮食和生活习惯，澳大利亚的环境也十分宜人。美国耶鲁大学发布的2018年全球环境绩效指数报告中，澳大利亚的空气质量是100分！这表明，在澳大利亚，绝大部分区域的PM2.5年平均值都在10微克/立方米以下。①
6. 医疗养老制度完善
根据美国联邦基金会（Commonwealth Fund）基于72项指标，针对11个高收入国家的医疗系统进行的评估，澳洲是仅次于英国排名第二的高医疗水平国家！
澳大利亚养老服务费用支付主要依靠保险。保险分两部分，一种是私立，需要自付或者由商业保险负担，选择这一部分的老年人各种服务都能享受到;另外一部分就是公立的养老服务，覆盖每个人，对于非常贫穷的家庭，老人所有的公立服务的费用政府全部买单，如果老人的收入更高一点，会支付部分的费用。
此外，澳大利亚作为全球养老服务体系最健全的国家之一，其中一个经验是，把养老院建在服务片区内。比如要服务这个区域，就在当地建起来，而不是像一些国家把设施建在城市边缘地区，这就会导致一些养老院出现住不满或者是住户过少的问题，澳大利亚倾向于就地建养老设施来辐射这个范围内所有的老年人。
另外，澳大利亚打造了堪称全球质量基准的医疗服务体系，并在医疗卫生支出、男/女期望寿命、结肠癌存活率、执业护士数等多个特定领域指标遥遥领先经济合作与发展组织国家平均值。 根据澳大利亚官方数据显示，在澳大利亚有2100家私立或非盈利的养老服务机构，70-85%的养老服务由澳大利亚政府承担。②此外，澳大利亚还构建了以居家护理、社区护理、介入护理为生态的整合式养老服务体系。
7. 成熟的医院和养老建筑设计
在一个长寿国家，怎么设计养老机构、医院，也是值得思考的。9月4日，在澳大利亚-中国医院及养老建筑设计的可持续创新应用与实践线上论坛上，澳大利亚贸易投资委员会商务领事暨大中华区医疗卫生行业负责人白天伟介绍了澳大利亚的医院和养老建筑设计在中国的实践。BAU（Brearley Architects & Urbanists） 、伍兹贝格、汤姆生艾德赛、普利斯设计集团、EPD也就各自的专长领域分享了如何将医院打造成一座有序的城市、医养综合体在澳大利亚与中国的实践经验、国外医院设计对中国的借鉴、为城市长者群体打造包容性生活环境、医院室内健康设计的发展趋势等。
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在医疗和养老服务领域，澳大利亚为符合标准的企业提供包括初级医疗、专科护理、养老及综合医疗保健在内的多项职业培训，以及包括设施设计、运营管理、战略管理、人才培养等在内的咨询服务。此外，澳大利亚也乐于在中澳自贸协定框架下展开医院、养老及康养设施投资及运营等方面的多项合作，帮助制定相关的标准和认证，提供数字医疗技术支持，并在临床研究等方面深化学术及商业领域的沟通和发展。
了解澳大利亚更多相关信息，可关注澳贸委官方微信“澳贸委Austrade”及官方微博“澳大利亚贸易投资委员会”。
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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第十四章 精神性别
Students of psychology who have followed the modern trend of thought along the lines of mental phenomena are struck by the persistence of the dual-mind idea which has manifested itself so strongly during the past ten or fifteen years, and which has given rise to a number of plausible theories regarding the nature and constitution of these "two minds."
心理学领域的学习者，沿着思想现象的线路，已经跟随现代的思考趋势，在二元-思想的观念上走了很远。这个观念在过去的十年或者十五年间有强势的显化，这个观念也给出若干，有关这些二元思想的本质和构造的值得称道的理论。
The late Thomson J. Hudson attained great popularity in 1893 by advancing his well-known theory of the "objective and subjective minds" which he held existed in every individual.
最近汤姆森-哈得逊，靠着他广为人知的客体和主体心理，在1893年引起公众注意，他认为这个现象存在在每个人身上。
Other writers have attracted almost equal attention by the theories regarding the "conscious and subconscious minds"; the "voluntary and involuntary minds"; "the active and passive minds," etc., etc.
另一些作家靠着这样一些理论，也同样吸引了注意：关于意识和潜意识心理；自主和非自主心理；主动和被动心理，等等，等等。
The theories of the various writers differ from each other, but there remains the underlying principle of "the duality of mind."
不同作家的理论彼此不同，但里面都有一个潜在的思想的二元性的法则。
The student of the Hermetic Philosophy is tempted to smile when he reads and hears of these many "new theories" regarding the duality of mind, each school adhering tenaciously to its own pet theories, and each claiming to have "discovered the truth."
赫尔墨斯哲学的学生，当读到或者听到这些关于心理的二元性的新理论时，会忍不住发笑，那些学派都在顽强地坚持自己喜爱的理论，各自声称已经发现了真理。
The student turns back the pages of occult history, and away back in the dim beginnings of occult teachings he finds references to the ancient Hermetic doctrine of the Principle of Gender on the Mental Plane-the manifestation of Mental Gender.
当学生转回到奥秘历史的书卷中，回到奥秘学教导朦胧的开始，他发现涉及古老的赫尔墨斯心理的，在精神层面上的性别法则——精神性别的显化。
And examining further he finds that the ancient philosophy took cognizance of the phenomenon of the "dual mind," and accounted for it by the theory of Mental Gender.
进一步查验，他发现古代哲学有对二元思想现象的认识，用精神性别的理论予以讲述。
This idea of Mental Gender may be explained in a few words to students who are familiar with the modern theories just alluded to.
对于熟悉现代理论的学生，只需要很少的文字就能对他们解释精神性别这个概念，虽然这些现代理论只是隐约地和这个概念有联系。
The Masculine Principle of Mind corresponds to the so-called Objective Mind; Conscious Mind; Voluntary Mind; Active Mind, etc.
思想的雄性法则，相当于现在被称为的，客体思想；意识思想；主动思想；积极思想，等等。
And the Feminine Principle of Mind corresponds to the so-called Subjective Mind; Sub-conscious Mind; Involuntary Mind; Passive Mind, etc.
思想的雌性法则，相当于现在被称为的，主体思想；潜意识思想；非自主思想；被动思想，等等。
Of course the Hermetic Teachings do not agree with the many modern theories regarding the nature of the two phases of mind, nor does it admit many of the facts claimed for the two respective aspects--some of the said theories and claims being very far-fetched and incapable of standing the test of experiment and demonstration.
当然，赫尔墨斯教导并不赞同许多现代有关心理的两相位态本质的理论，也不接受许多声称有两个各自外表的说法——这些理论和声称中的一些走得太远——是为了吸引眼球，并且也无法被试验和范例来检验。
We point to the phases of agreement merely for the purpose of helping the student to assimilate his previously acquired knowledge with the teachings of the Hermetic Philosophy. Students of Hudson will notice the statement at the beginning of his second chapter of "The Law of Psychic Phenomena," that: "The mystic jargon of the Hermetic philosophers discloses the same general idea" i.e., the duality of mind.
我们指出这些赞同的方面，目的只是为了帮助学生，便于消化他之前从赫尔墨斯哲学的教导中获得的知识。哈得逊的学生会注意到他在第二章心灵现象的法则开始的陈述，赫尔墨斯哲学的奥秘行话揭示了同样的基本概念。，这里说的是思想的二元性。
If Dr. Hudson had taken the time and trouble to decipher a little of "the mystic jargon of the Hermetic Philosophy," he might have received much light upon the subject of "the dual mind"
--but then, perhaps, his most interesting work might not have been written. Let us now consider the Hermetic Teachings regarding Mental Gender.
如果哈得逊博士花点时间费神去破解一点赫尔墨斯哲学的奥秘行话，他就会获得对于思想的二元性这个主题的更多的认识
——但是，可能，也许，他最有兴趣的作品就不会写出来了。让我们现在就来思考关于心理性别的赫尔墨斯教导。
The Hermetic Teachers impart their instruction regarding this subject by bidding their students examine the report of their consciousness regarding their Self. The students are bidden to turn their attention inward upon the Self dwelling within each.
赫尔墨斯导师们给出有关这个主题的他们的指导，是要求学生，去查验有关他们自己的意识里的报告。学生们被要求朝内转回他的注意，到每个人内里的自我上面去。
Each student is led to see that his consciousness gives him first a report of the existence of his Self-the report is "I Am."
This at first seems to be the final words from the consciousness, but a little further examination discloses the fact that this "I Am" may be separated or split into two distinct parts, or aspects, which while working in unison and in conjunction, yet, nevertheless, may be separated in consciousness.
每个学生被引导去看他的意识给他的自我存在的第一份报告——这个报告是"I Am"。
首先这似乎是来自意识的最后的词汇，但再进一步的查验揭露出的事实是，这个"I Am"可能被割裂或者分离成两个明显的部分或者方面，还有，两者协调并且联合工作，然而，在意识上两者是可以分离的。
While at first there seems to be only an "I" existing, a more careful and closer examination reveals the fact that there exists an "I" and a "Me." These mental twins differ in their characteristics and nature, and an examination of their nature and the phenomena arising from the same will throw much light upon many of the problems of mental influence.
开始似乎只有一个I存在，更细致和更深入的查验揭示出的事实是，存在一个主体的I（显意识）和一个客体的Me（潜意识）。这个精神双胞胎在它们的特征和本性上是不同的，并且，一个对这个双胞胎本性的查验，以及从这个同样的东西中升出的现象，将会照亮在心理影响下的许多问题。
Let us begin with a consideration of the Me, which is usually mistaken for the I by the student, until he presses the inquiry a little further back into the recesses of consciousness.
让我们从考虑客体的Me开始，这通常被学生错认为主体的I，直到他的探查，进一步推进回入到意识的停息处。
A man thinks of his Self (in its aspect of Me) as being composed of certain feelings, tastes likes, dislikes, habits, peculiar ties, characteristics, etc.,
一个人思考他的自我（在客体Me的方面），是作为某种感觉的调解人，味觉的喜好，不喜欢，习俗，癖好，特点，等等，
all of which go to make up his personality, or the "Self" known to himself and others. He knows that these emotions and feelings change; are born and die away; are subject to the Principle of Rhythm, and the Principle of Polarity, which take him from one extreme of feeling to another.
所有这些造就了他的人格，或者他自己和别人认为的他的自我。他知道这些情绪和感觉的变化，出现和离去，是服从节律法则和极性法则的，这把他从感受的一个极端带到另一个。
He also thinks of the "Me" as being certain knowledge gathered together in his mind, and thus forming a part of himself. This is the "Me" of a man.
他也思考客体的Me，把它作为是在他的心理里的知识的堆积，并且因此构成他自己的一个部分。这是人的客体的Me。
But we have proceeded too hastily. The "Me" of many men may be said to consist largely of their consciousness of the body and their physical appetites, etc.
但是我们已经走得太快了。许多人的这个客体的Me，可以说大部分是由他们的身体意识和他们的生理喜好，等等，组成的。
Their consciousness being largely bound up with their bodily nature, they practically "live there." Some men even go so far as to regard their personal apparel as a part of their "Me" and actually seem to consider it a part of themselves.
他们的意识过于捆缚于他们的身体本性上，他们只是活着。有些人走得过于遥远，认为他们的服饰就是他们客体的Me的一部分，并且竟然认为就是他们的一部分。
A writer has humorously said that "men consist of three parts--soul, body and clothes."
一位作家这样幽默地说，人是由三部分组成——灵魂，身体，和衣服。
These "clothes conscious" people would lose their personality if divested of their clothing by savages upon the occasion of a shipwreck.
这种衣服意识的人，如果在海上遇险时，不得不剥去他们的衣服，那就是要失去他们自我的人格了。
But even many who are not so closely bound up with the idea of personal raiment stick closely to the consciousness of their bodies being their "Me" They cannot conceive of a Self independent of the body.
就是那些不是过于绑缚在个人物品观念上的，只是粘附在他们的身体意识上的，也是他们客体的Me。他们无法想象不依赖于身体的自我。
Their mind seems to them to be practically "a something belonging to" their body-which in many cases it is indeed.
对于他们，他们的心理似乎就是某些属于他们身体的东西——在许多案例里正是这样。
But as man rises in the scale of consciousness he is able to disentangle his "Me" from his idea of body, and is able to think of his body as "belonging to" the mental part of him.
但是，当人沿着意识的标度上升，他们能够从他的身体观念中解脱开他的客体的Me，能够去思考他的身体是从属于他的精神部分。
But even then he is very apt to identify the "Me" entirely with the mental states, feelings, etc., which he feels to exist within him.
仅仅是在那之后，他是非常倾向去辨识客体的Me，里面的心理状态、感受，等等，那些是他感觉存在在他里面的。
He is very apt to consider these internal states as identical with himself, instead of their being simply "things" produced by some part of his mentality, and existing within him--of him, and in him, but still not "himself."
他会是非常倾向于去考虑，作为和他自己的认同，这些内在的状态，而不是由他的某些心理部分产生的简单的东西，以及存在在他里面的——他的，和在他里面的，但仍然不是他自己。
He sees that he may change these internal states of feelings by all effort of will, and that he may produce a feeling or state of an exactly opposite nature, in the same way, and yet the same "Me" exists.
他明白依靠意志的全然努力能够改变这些内在的感受状态，并且依靠同样的方法，它能够造就一个完全相对习性的感受或者状态，并且还是同样客体的Me的存在。
And so after a while he is able to set aside these various mental states, emotions, feelings, habits, qualities, characteristics, and other personal mental belongings
这样，一个时期以后，他能够搁置这些各种各样的心理状态，情绪，感受，爱好，品性，特征，和其它个人精神资产。
--he is able to set them aside in the "not-me" collection of curiosities and encumbrances, as well as valuable possessions.
This requires much mental concentration and power of mental analysis on the part of the student.
But still the task is possible for the advanced student, and even those not so far advanced are able to see, in the imagination, how the process may be performed.
——他能够搁置那些非-Me的好奇和累赘物的收集，珍宝也是一样。
这要求学生相当的精神集中和精神分析的力量。但就是对于优秀的学生，只是一个任务。对不够优秀的学生，也能想象这个过程是如何执行的。
After this laying-aside process has been performed, the student will find himself in conscious possession of a "Self" which may be considered in its "I" and "Me" dual aspects.
在执行这个站队过程后，学生们会发现他自己是在一个自我的意识过程中，这个自我可以被从主体的Ｉ和客体的Me两方面来认识。
The "Me" will be felt to be a Something mental in which thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings, and other mental states may be produced.
客体的我会被感受为某些精神，其中有思想、观念、情感、感受和其它的精神状态，能够产生。
It may be considered as the "mental womb," as the ancients styled it-capable of generating mental offspring.
可以被看作能够产生精神后代的古老时尚的精神子宫。
It reports to the consciousness as a "Me" with latent powers of creation and generation of mental progeny of all sorts and kinds. Its powers of creative energy are felt to be enormous.
它是作为客体的Me向意识报告，带着创造和产生所有种类心理后代的潜能。它的创造能量的力量是如此巨大。
But still it seems to be conscious that it must receive some form of energy from either its "I" companion, or else from some other "I" ere it is able to bring into being its mental creations.
但是，他仍然似乎被意识到，它必须接收某种能量形式，或是从他的主体I的合作中，或是来自其他的主体I，它能够携带进入它的精神创造的存在。
This consciousness brings with it a realization of an enormous capacity for mental work and creative ability.
这个意识携带着一个对于精神工作和创造能力的可能的巨大能力的实现。
But the student soon finds that this is not all that he finds within his inner consciousness. He finds that there exists a mental Something which is able to Will that the "Me" act along certain creative lines, and which is also able to stand aside and witness the mental creation.
但是，学生马上发现这不是他在他的内在意识里发现的全部。
他发现存在着一个精神东西，能够指使客体的me，沿着某条创造路线行动，并且也能够站在一边观看精神创造。
This part of himself he is taught to call his "I." He is able to rest in its consciousness at will.
他自己的这个部分，被告知称为主体的I。他能够随意歇息在它的意识里。
He finds there not a consciousness of an ability to generate and actively create, in the sense of the gradual process attendant upon mental operations, but rather a sense and consciousness of an ability to project an energy from the "I" to the "Me"--a process of "willing" that the mental creation begin and proceed.
他发现，这不是一个有能力去创造和行动的意识，这是在逐步出现在心理运作的视角上看，但仍然有一个视角和能力的意识，从主体的我I（显意识）向客体的我Me（潜意识）投射能量——一个意志的过程，使精神创造开始，并且维持。
CHAPTER XIII GENDER
第十三章 性别
"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
The great Seventh Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Gender--embodies the truth that there is Gender manifested in everything--that the Masculine and Feminine principles are ever present and active in all phases of phenomena, on each and every plane of life.
伟大的赫尔墨斯第七法则——性别法则
——揭示的真理是，在任何之中都有性别的显化。雄性和雌性法则，是永远出现在和活动在，所有的现象阶段里，在生命的每一个层面上。
At this point we think it well to call your attention to the fact that Gender, in its Hermetic sense, and Sex in the ordinarily accepted use of the term, are not the same.
在这里，我们不是想要把你的注意吸引到性别这个事情上，在赫尔墨斯哲学的视角里，和被普遍使用的性这个词汇，是不一样的。
The word "Gender" is derived from the Latin root meaning "to beget; to procreate; to generate; to create; to produce."
性别这个词来自拉丁语词根，意思是招引、生殖、产生、创造、结出果实。
A moment's consideration will show you that the word has a much broader and more general meaning than the term "Sex," the latter referring to the physical distinctions between male and female living things.
思考一下会显示出这个词具有比性这个词更广泛和更普遍的意义。性所涉及的是男人和女人，活的机体的生理特征。
Sex is merely a manifestation of Gender on a certain plane of the Great Physical Plane--the plane of organic life.
性也是大物理层面的某个具体层面上的性别显化——机体组织生命体的层面。
We wish to impress this distinction upon your minds, for the reason that certain writers, who have acquired a smattering of the Hermetic Philosophy, have sought to identify this Seventh Hermetic Principle with wild and fanciful, and often reprehensible, theories and teachings regarding Sex.
我们希望把这个差别刻印到你们的心理上，因为有些作者，学了点肤浅的赫尔墨斯哲学，已经开始用狂热和想象去寻求给七个赫尔墨斯法则贴标签，总是认为是有关性的理论和教导，这样的说法是应该受到责备的。
The office of Gender is solely that of creating, producing, generating, etc., and its manifestations are visible on every plane of phenomena.
性别的职责只是创造、生产、繁殖等等，并且它的显化，在每个现象层面都是可见的。
It is somewhat difficult to produce proofs of this along scientific lines, for the reason that science has not as yet recognized this Principle as of universal application.
沿着科学的路线，还难于产生这方面的证据，原因是科学还不能认识到这个法则是寰宇普适的。
But still some proofs are forthcoming from scientific sources. In the first place, we find a distinct manifestation of the Principle of Gender among the corpuscles, ions, or electrons, which constitute the basis of Matter as science now knows the latter, and which by forming certain combinations form the Atom, which until lately was regarded as final and indivisible.
但是，从科学的来源，也还是有些证据姗姗到来。在首要的位置，我们发现在粒子、离子、电子，之中的性别法则的明显显化，粒子、离子、电子是组成物质的基础，正如科学晚近所知道的，它们的结合构成原子，不久前还认为原子是最终极的和不可分的。（*再一次注意，这是1908年。）
The latest word of science is that the atom is composed of a multitude of corpuscles, electrons, or ions (the various names being applied by different authorities) revolving around each other and vibrating at a high degree and intensity.
科学上到目前的讲法是，原子是由若干的粒子，电子，或者离子（不同的权威所用的名称不同）彼此围绕旋转，并且在一个很高等级和强度上振动。
But the accompanying statement is made that the formation of the atom is really due to the clustering of negative corpuscles around a positive one---the positive corpuscles seeming to exert a certain influence upon the negative corpuscles, causing the latter to assume certain combinations and thus "create" or "generate" an atom.
但是伴随的陈述是这样的，原子的构成是负类粒子围绕正类的——正粒子看起来尽力影响负粒子，因此负粒子与之结合，这样创造或者产生原子。
This is in line with the most ancient Hermetic Teachings, which have always identified the Masculine principle of Gender with the "Positive," and the Feminine with the "Negative" Poles of Electricity (so called).
这是和最古老的赫尔墨斯教导站在一条线上的，赫尔墨斯教导总是把性别法则的雄性法则定为正极，雌性法则定为电子的负极（只是如此称谓）。
Now a word at this point regarding this identification.
在这里有一个词需要说明一下。
The public mind has formed an entirely erroneous impression regarding the qualities of the so-called "Negative" pole of electrified or magnetized Matter.
对于电性物质和磁性物质的，被称为负极的品质，在大众的思想上已经形成了完全错误的印象。
The terms Positive and Negative are very wrongly applied to this phenomenon by science. The word Positive means something real and strong, as compared with a Negative unreality or weakness. Nothing is further from the real facts of electrical phenomenon.
正和负这个词对于这个现象，在科学上是被非常错误地使用的。正一词当和负相比时，被用在真实和强大的意义上，而负被用在不真实和弱小上。
没有什么比电性现象的真正事实更能说明这个问题的了。
The so-called Negative pole of the battery is really the pole in and by which the generation or production of new forms and energies is manifested. There is nothing "negative" about it.
被称为的电池的负极只是一个极，从这里有新的形式出现，有能量表达。关于这个没有什么是负的。
The best scientific authorities now use the word "Cathode" in place of "Negative," the word Cathode coming from the Greek root meaning "descent; the path of generation, etc,"
现在最高的科学权威，使用雌性极（cathode）这个词来替换负（negative），雌性极一词来自希腊语词根，意思是家系；世代的轨迹，等等。
From the Cathode pole emerge the swarm of electrons or corpuscles; from the same pole emerge those wonderful "rays" which have revolutionized scientific conceptions during the past decade.
来自雌性极极性现出电子或者微粒涌动；从同样的极性，现出那些奇妙的射线（rays），它们在过去的十年里革新了科学的观念。
The Cathode pole is the Mother of all of the strange phenomena which have rendered useless the old textbooks, and which have caused many long accepted theories to be relegated to the scrap-pile of scientific speculation.
雌性极是奇异现象之母，这些想象在旧的教科书中被无益地提供出来，这些已经导致一些长期被接受的理论的废弃，置放到科学思考的废品堆中。
The Cathode, or Negative Pole, is the Mother Principle of Electrical Phenomena, and of the finest forms of matter as yet known to science.
雌性极，或者负极，是科学上所知的物质的最优美形式，这个电性现象的母性法则。
So you see we are justified in refusing to use the term "Negative" in our consideration of the subject, and in insisting upon substituting the word "Feminine" for the old term.
所以你看，我们在我们考虑的主题上拒绝使用负这个词应该是合适的，并且强调用雌性替换旧的词汇。
The facts of the case bear us out in this, without taking the Hermetic Teachings into consideration.
在这里的思考上，并不涉及赫尔墨斯教导，这个事物本身的事实，在这里就已经给了我们证明。
And so we shall use the word "Feminine" in the place of "Negative" in speaking of that pole of activity.
这样，后面在说到活动的极性的时候，我们会用雌性这个词在原本负的这个地方。
The latest scientific teachings are that the creative corpuscles or electrons are Feminine
(science says "they are composed of negative electricity"-we say they are composed of Feminine energy).
最近的科学教导说，创造性微粒或者电子是雌性的
（科学说它们由负电子组成。——我们说它们由雌性能量组成。）
A Feminine corpuscle becomes detached from, or rather leaves, a Masculine corpuscle, and starts on a new career.
一个雌性微粒变得分离，或者说是离开一个雄性粒子，开始一个新的组合。
It actively seeks a union with a Masculine corpuscle, being urged thereto by the natural impulse to create new forms of Matter or Energy.
它积极地寻求与一个雄性粒子的结合，强烈地出于本能驱动去创造一个新形式的物质或者能量。
One writer goes so far as to use the term "it at once seeks, of its own volition, a union," etc.
有一个作家甚至于这样说：它立刻以自己的意志去寻求结合。
This detachment and uniting form the basis of the greater part of the activities of the chemical world.
这个分离和结合，构成了很大部分化学世界活动的基础。
When the Feminine corpuscle unites with a Masculine corpuscle, a certain process is begun.
当雌性粒子和一个雄性粒子结合，开始了一个确定的过程。
The Feminine particles vibrate rapidly under the influence of the Masculine energy, and circle rapidly around the latter. The result is the birth of a new atom.
在雄性能量的影响下，雌性粒子快速地振动，并且快速地围绕雄性个体旋转。结果就是一个新的原子的诞生。
This new atom is really composed of a union of the Masculine and Feminine electrons, or corpuscles, but when the union is formed the atom is a separate thing, having certain properties, but no longer manifesting the property of free electricity. The process of detachment or separation of the Feminine electrons is called "ionization."
这个新的原子，是由雄性和雌性的电子或者微粒，结合而成。但在构成的原子里却是独立的，有自己的特性，但不再显化自由电子的特性。雌性电子的分离或者分开的过程，称为离子化。
These electrons, or corpuscles, are the most active workers in Nature's field.
这些电子或者微粒，是自然场中最活跃的工作者。
Arising from their unions, or combinations, manifest the varied phenomena of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, attraction, repulsion, chemical affinity and the reverse, and similar phenomena.
从它们的结合体，或者合成物，显化着光、热、电、磁、吸引、排斥、化学亲和力，以及相反的，还有类似的现象。
And all this arises from the operation of the Principle of Gender on the plane of Energy.
并且所有这些活动，起源于，在能量层面上的性别法则的运作。
The part of the Masculine principle seems to be that of directing a certain inherent energy toward the Feminine principle, and thus starting into activity the creative processes.
雄性法则的部分，好像是在某种内在能量的引导下朝向雌性法则，这样开始进入创造性过程的行动。
But the Feminine principle is the one always doing the active creative work-and this is so on all planes. And yet, each principle is incapable of operative energy without the assistance of the other.
但是，雌性法则总是这个创造性工作的进行活动的一方——这是在所有的层面上。还有，每一个法则，如果没有另一个的帮助，是不可能进行能量运转的。
In some of the forms of life, the two principles are combined in one organism.
在一些生命形式中，两个法则组合在一个生物体里。
For that matter, everything in the organic world manifests both genders--there is always the Masculine present in the Feminine form, and the Feminine form.
就这个问题而言，在有机世界里的每一个都显示着两种性别——总有雄性显化在雌性构成里，雌性显化在雄性结构里。
The Hermetic Teachings include much regarding the operation of the two principles of Gender in the production and manifestation of various forms of energy, etc.,
赫尔墨斯教导包含了很多关于不同形式的能量的生产和显化中性别的两个法则的运作的内容。
but we do not deem it expedient to go into detail regarding the same at this point, because we are unable to back up the same with scientific proof, for the reason that science has not as yet progressed thus far.
但是我们不认为在这里去讨论那些细节是有益的，因为我们不能给出这些的在科学上的证据，这个原因是，科学还没有发展到那么深远。
But the example we have given you of the phenomena of the electrons or corpuscles will show you that science is on the right path, and will also give you a general idea of the underlying principles.
但是，我们给你的这个电子或者粒子现象的例子，能够告诉你，科学是走在正确的道路上，并且也会给你潜在法则的一般的观念。
Some leading scientific investigators have announced their belief that in the formation of crystals there was to be found something that corresponded to "sex-activity" which is another straw showing the direction the scientific winds are blowing.
某些领先的科学研究者已经宣告，他们相信在水晶的构成里已经发现了某些是和性-活动有关的，这是让我们感受到科学的风向的另一根麦秆。
And each year will bring other facts to corroborate the correctness of the Hermetic Principle of Gender.
每一年，都有一些材料出现，来确证赫尔墨斯性别法则的正确性。
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？
CHAPTER XII CAUSATION
第十二章 因果
"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
The great Sixth Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Cause and Effect--embodies the truth that Law pervades the Universe; that nothing happens by Chance;
伟大的赫尔墨斯第六法则
——因果法则
——揭示的真理是：法则遍及宇宙；没有什么是偶然发生的。
that Chance is merely a term indicating cause existing but not recognized or perceived; that phenomena is continuous, without break or exception.
偶然只是一个描述词汇，表示的是，存在的原因是无法认识，或者无法觉察；现象是连续的，不会断裂或者出现例外。
The Principle of Cause and Effect underlies all scientific thought, ancient and modern, and was enunciated by the Hermetic Teachers in the earliest days.
因果法则是所有科学心理的基础，不论古代还是现代，在最初的时期里就被赫尔墨斯教导明确阐述了。
While many and varied disputes between the many schools of thought have since arisen, these disputes have been principally upon the details of the operations of the Principle, and still more often upon the meaning of certain words.
当各种不同的争论在众多心理学派之间出现时，这些争论主要集中在法则运作的细节上，也经常与某些词汇的意义有关联。
The underlying Principle of Cause and Effect has been accepted as correct by practically all the thinkers of the world worthy of the name.
隐藏的因果法则已经被这个世界所有真正的思想者作为正确的而实际接受了。
To think otherwise would be to take the phenomena of the universe from the domain of Law and Order, and to relegate it; to the control of the imaginary something which men have called "Chance."
去思考另一方面，那会把宇宙的现象从法则和有序的领域，带入到想象的控制中，一个人们称为偶然的境域。
A little consideration will show anyone that there is in reality no such thing as pure chance. Webster defines the word "Chance" as follows: "A supposed agent or mode of activity other than a force, law or purpose;
做一点思考就会对任何人显明，实际上没有什么纯粹的偶然这种事情。韦伯字典定义偶然为，力量、法则、目的之外的，一个假设的活动动因或者方式；
the operation or activity of such agent; the supposed effect of such an agent; a happening; fortuity; casualty, etc."
这种动因的运作或者活动，这种动因的假设效果，一个碰巧；意外；意外事物，等等。
But a little consideration will show you that there can be no such agent as "Chance," in the sense of something outside of Law-something outside of Cause and Effect.
但思考一下，你就会知道没有那种在法则之外——在因果法则之外，这种偶然的动因。
How could there be a something acting in the phenomenal universe, independent of the laws, order, and continuity of the latter? Such a something would be entirely independent of the orderly trend of the universe, and therefore superior to it.
事物如何可以独立于宇宙的法则、秩序和连续性，而在现象的宇宙中行动？这样一个事物需要完全独立于宇宙的有序趋势，凌驾在宇宙之上。
We can imagine nothing outside of THE ALL being outside of the Law, and that only because THE ALL is the LAW in itself.
我们能够想象，没有什么是在全能者的法则之外的，也只有全能者是它自身的法则。
There is no room in the universe for a something outside of and independent of Law.
在宇宙中，对于那些在法则之外和不依赖法则的，无处容身。
The existence of such a Something would render all Natural Laws ineffective, and would plunge the universe into chaotic disorder and lawlessness.
这种事情的存在会使所有的自然法则无效，并且把宇宙投入到混乱无序和无法则的状态。
A careful examination will show that what we call "Chance" is merely an expression relating to obscure causes; causes that we cannot perceive; causes that we cannot understand.
细心的查验会显示，我们称为的偶然只是一个对不明原因的表达；我们还没有觉察到的原因；我们还不理解的原因。
The word Chance is derived from a word Meaning "to fall" (as the falling of dice), the idea being that the fall of the dice (and many other happenings) are merely a "happening" unrelated to any cause.
偶然这个词来自意味着掉落下来（如同色子掉落下来）这个词，那个近似的概念是色子的掉落，只是一个和任何原因无关的发生。
And this is the sense in which the term is generally employed.
这个词比较普遍地在这种情况下使用。
But when the matter is closely examined, it is seen that there is no chance whatsoever about the fall of the dice.
但是对于这个问题做进一步的考察，就能看到色子的掉落并非偶然。
Each time a die falls, and displays a certain number, it obeys a law as infallible as that which governs the revolution of the planets around the sun.
一次色子掉落，现出一个确定的数字，它遵守着一个法则，是和确定了地球围绕太阳的旋转的法则一样的。
Back of the fall of the die are causes, or chains of causes, running back further than the mind can follow.
在色子掉下的背后，是有原因和原因链的，比心理能够追踪的延伸到更远。
The position of the die in the box; the amount of muscular energy expended in the throw; the condition of the table, etc., etc.,
色子在盒子里的位置；在抛掷时肌肉力量的运用；桌子的具体状况，等等，
all are causes, the effect of which may be seen. But back of these seen causes there are chains of unseen preceding causes, all of which had a bearing upon the number of the die which fell uppermost.
所有都是原因，结果能够看到。只是在这些可看到的原因背后，有不可见的原因链条，所有都和要出现的色子上的数字有某种关系。
If a die be cast a great number of times, it will be found that the numbers shown will be about equal, that is, there will be an equal number of one-spot, two-spot, etc., coming uppermost.
如果色子被掷出的次数够多，会发现每个数字的出现频率近乎相等；那就是，一个点，两个点，等等，出现是平均的。
Toss a penny in the air, and it may come down either "heads" or "tails"; but make a sufficient number of tosses, and the heads and tails will about even up. This is the operation of the law of average.
抛一个硬币，落下来可以是正面或者反面；抛的次数足够多，正面或者反面的出现是相等的。这是均数法则的运作。
But both the average and the single toss come under the Law of Cause and Effect, and if we were able to examine into the preceding causes, it would be clearly seen that it was simply impossible for the die to fall other than it did, under the same circumstances and at the same time. Given the same causes, the same results will follow. There is always a "cause" and a "because" to every event. Nothing ever "happens" without a cause, or rather a chain of causes.
但是均数和单一抛掷这两者都是在因果法则之下，如果我们能够查验之前的原因，在同样的条件下和在同样的时间里，很清楚，色子的不落下，这个现象是完全不可能的。给予同样的原因，会产生同样的结果。对每一个事物，总是有一个原因和一个因为。永远没有什么的发生，可以没有原因或者原因链。
Some confusion has arisen in the minds of persons considering this Principle, from the fact that they were unable to explain how one thing could cause another thing--that is, be the "creator" of the second thing.
As a matter of fact, no "thing" ever causes or "creates" another "thing."
在考虑这个法则时，心理上会出现一些混淆，这来自于他们不能解释一个事物怎样导致了另一个——那是，第二个事物的创造者。
事实是，没有事物曾经导致或者创造另一个事物。
Cause and Effect deals merely with "events."
原因和结果只是在和事情打交道。
An "event" is "that which comes, arrives or happens, as a result or consequent of some preceding event."
一个事情是到来，来到，或者发生，只是作为某些先前事物的结果或者后续。
No event "creates" another event, but is merely a preceding link in the great orderly chain of events flowing from the creative energy of THE ALL.
没有事物创造另一个事物，只是从全能者的创造性能量而来的，在一个巨大有序的事情链条的流动中，与之前事情连接的一个事物的出现。
There is a continuity between all events precedent, consequent and subsequent. There is a relation existing between everything that has gone before, and everything that follows.
在所有事情之间都有连续性，先前的，随后的，再后的。在任何事情之间有相关的存在，一个走了，一个跟着就来。
A stone is dislodged from a mountain side and crashes through a roof of a cottage in the valley below. At first sight we regard this as a chance effect,
but when we examine the matter we find a great chain of causes behind it.
一块石头从山边滚落，打烂了下面山谷里一座茅屋的屋顶。开始，我们会认为这是一个偶然的结果，但是，当我们查验这个事情，我们发现在它后面有一个巨大的原因链。
In the first place there was the rain which softened the earth supporting the stone and which allowed it to fall; then back of that was the influence of the sun, other rains, etc.,
先是雨水松动了地表对石头的支撑，使它能够跌落；在它后面是太阳的影响，还有雨，等等，
which gradually disintegrated the piece of rock from a larger piece;
从较大的石头不断裂碎出小石块；
then there were the causes which led to the formation of the mountain, and its upheaval by convulsions of nature, and so on ad infinitum. Then we might follow up the causes behind the rain, etc.
那么这里有山的构造方面的原因，自然的震荡造成了它的变化，无限的如此种种。这样我们能够探究在雨后面的原因，等等。
Then we might consider the existence of the roof In short, we would soon find ourselves involved in a mesh of cause and effect, from which we would soon strive to extricate ourselves.
然后我们能够考虑茅屋顶的存在。简要地说，我们很快发现我们自己陷在一个原因和结果的网里，我们要马上把我们自己从里面解脱出来。
And so it has ever been with the majority of persons
--tides of feeling have ever risen and fallen with them, but they have never suspected the cause or reason of the mental phenomena.
大部分人永远都是这样
——感受的潮汐在他们里面起起落落，但他们从来没有考虑这个精神现象的来源或者原因。
An understanding of the workings of this Principle will give one the key to the Mastery of these rhythmic swings of feeling, and will enable him to know himself better and to avoid being carried away by these inflows and outflows.
对于这个法则运作的理解，会给予他掌控这些节律摆动感受的钥匙，给予他更好地了解自己，避免被这些流入流出的摆动所带动。
The Will is superior to the conscious manifestation of this Principle, although the Principle itself can never be destroyed.
We may escape its effects, but the Principle operates, nevertheless. The pendulum ever swings, although we may escape being carried along with it.
意志胜过法则的有意识显化，尽管这个法则自身从来不会被消除。
我们可以避开它的影响，但这个法则依然总是在运作着。虽然我们能够不随摆锤舞动，但它永远在摆动着。
There are other features of the operation of this Principle of Rhythm of which we wish to speak at this point. There comes into its operations that which is known as the Law of Compensation.
这个节律法则的运作还有其它特征，在这里，我们也需要说一下。这里有被知晓的补偿法则的运作。补偿一词的定义或者意思里，
One of the definitions or meanings of the word "Compensate" is, "to counterbalance" which is the sense in which the Hermetists use the term.
有一方面是弥补，这就是赫尔墨斯者们使用这个词汇的角度。
It is this Law of Compensation to which the Kybalion refers when it says: "The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
这个补偿法则，Kybalion提到时说，向右摆动的计量，就是向左摆动的计量；节律的补偿。
The Law of Compensation is that the swing in one direction determines the swing in the opposite direction, or to the opposite pole-the one balances, or counterbalances, the other.
补偿法则是这样的，在一个方向上的摆动，决定了在相反方向上的摆动，或者说是到相对的极性的摆动——一个平衡，或者弥补另一个。
On the Physical Plane we see many examples of this Law.
在物理层面上，我们可以看到这个法则的许多例子。
The pendulum of the clock swings a certain distance to the right, and then an equal distance to the left. The seasons balance each other in the same way.
钟摆向右摆动到某个距离，那么向左也会达到相同的距离。同样，季节们也彼此补偿。
The tides follow the same Law. And the same Law is manifested in all the phenomena of Rhythm. T
潮汐遵循同样的法则。这同一个法则显化在所有节律现象里。
he pendulum, with a short swing in one direction, has but a short swing in the other; while the long swing to the right invariably means the long swing to the left.
钟摆在一个方向上有一个短距离的摆动，在另一个方向上也会有个短距离的摆动；在右边有个长距离的摆动，不可避免地在左边也有个长距离的摆动。
An object hurled upward to a certain height has an equal distance to traverse on its return.
一个物体被向上抛出多高，就会落回多少。
The force with which a projectile is sent upward a mile is reproduced when the projectile returns to the earth on its return journey.
This Law is constant on the Physical Plane, as reference to the standard authorities will show you.
推动物体向前一英里需要的力量，让它返回也需要这么多。这个法则在物理层面是恒定的，正如把持标准的权威们告诉你的一样。
But the Hermetists carry it still further. They teach that a man's mental states are subject to the same Law. The man who enjoys keenly, is subject to keen suffering; while he who feels but little pain is capable of feeling but little joy. The pig suffers but little mentally, and enjoys but little--he is compensated.
但是，赫尔墨斯者们把这带到更远。他们教导说，人的精神状态服从同样的法则。一个人容易感受快乐，也就容易感受痛苦；那些不易感受疼痛的，也就不容易得到喜乐。猪没有什么心理上的痛苦，也就没什么快乐——它得到了补偿。
And on the other hand, there are other animals who enjoy keenly, but whose nervous organism and temperament cause them to suffer exquisite degrees of pain and so it is with Man.
另一方面，有些动物容易快乐，但它们的神经系统和气质使得它们容易感受痛苦，对于人也是一样。
There are temperaments which permit of but low degrees of enjoyment, and equally low degrees of suffering; while there are others which permit the most intense enjoyment, but also the most intense suffering.
有些素质限定了难以快乐，也就相等程度地难以痛苦；另一些人限定了强烈的喜乐，也必然是强烈的痛苦。
The rule is that the capacity for pain and pleasure, in each individual, are balanced. The Law of Compensation is in full operation here.
这个法则是，痛苦和喜乐的能力，在每一个人身上，是平衡的。补偿法则在这里充分运作着。
But the Hermetists go still further in this matter. They teach that before one is able to enjoy a certain degree of pleasure, he must have swung as far, proportionately, toward the other pole of feeling.
但是，赫尔墨斯者们在这个问题上仍然是走得更远。他们教导说，在某个人能够感受一定程度的快乐之前，他一定是已经朝感受的另一个极性做了相等程度的摆动。
They hold, however, that the Negative is precedent to the Positive in this matter, that is to say that in experiencing a certain degree of pleasure it does not follow that he will have to "pay up for it" with a corresponding degree of pain;
无论如何，他们在这个问题上把握住了，负向的是正向的前导，也就是说，经验了某种程度的快乐，他并不一定要有一个痛苦的程度进行补偿来全部偿还；
on the contrary, the pleasure is the Rhythmic swing, according to the Law of Compensation, for a degree of pain previously experienced either in the present life, or in a previous incarnation. This throws a new light on the Problem of Pain.
相反的，快乐是节律的摆动，按照补偿法则，之前有一个痛苦的程度被经历到，或者是在此生的生活上，或是在前世的投生中。这在痛苦的问题上照射了一缕新的亮光。
The Hermetists regard the chain of lives as continuous, and as forming a part of one life of the individual, so that in consequence the rhythmic swing is understood in this way, while it would be without meaning unless the truth of reincarnation is admitted.
赫尔墨斯者们认为生命链是连续的，并且是构成个体的完整生命的一个部分，这样把这推导到节律摆动的理解上，除非转世的事实得到承认，否则就无法有什么意义了。
But the Hermetists claim that the Master or advanced student is able, to a great degree, to escape the swing toward Pain, by the process of Neutralization before mentioned.
但是赫尔墨斯者们声明，大师或者优秀的学生能够达到一个很高的程度，在痛苦出现之前，靠着中立的过程，去避开朝向痛苦的摆动。
By rising on to the higher plane of the Ego, much of the experience that comes to those dwelling on the lower plane is avoided and escaped.
依靠提升到自我较高的层面上，那些是在较低层面的许多经验，可以被消除和避免。
The Law of Compensation plays an important part in the lives of men and women. It will be noticed that one generally "pays the price" of anything he possesses or lacks.
补偿法则在人类生命中扮演了一个重要的角色。要注意到，一个人对任何的拥有和失去，总是要付代价。
If he has one thing, he lacks another--the balance is struck. No one can "keep his penny and have the bit of cake" at the same time Everything has its pleasant and unpleasant sides.
他得到了某个，他失去另一个——维持着平衡。没有人在同一个时间，能够不花钱又吃到蛋糕。每一个事物有它快乐和不快乐的方面。
The things that one gains are always paid for by the things that one loses. The rich possess much that the poor lack, while the poor often possess things that are beyond the reach of the rich.
一个人的获得，总是由另一个的失去来支付。富人拥有很多穷人所没有的，而穷人拥有的却是富人的财富买不到的东西。
The millionaire may have the inclination toward feasting, and the wealth wherewith to secure all the dainties and luxuries of the table, while he lacks the appetite to enjoy the same;
he envies the appetite and digestion of the laborer who lacks the wealth and inclinations of the millionaire, and who gets more pleasure from his plain food than the millionaire could obtain even if his appetite were not jaded, nor his digestion ruined, for the wants, habits and inclinations differ.
百万富翁倾心于盛宴和财富，维持桌面上的华丽和美味，但同时却失去了享受它们的胃口。他妒忌劳动者的胃口和消化能力，而劳动者却缺少财富，向往成为百万富翁，可他们从他们普通的食物中得到了比百万富翁得到的更多的快乐，即使百万富翁的胃口很好，消化能力也没有衰退，但是希望、习惯和爱好却是不同的。
And so it is through life.
The Law of Compensation is ever in operation, striving to balance and counter-balance, and always succeeding in time, even though several lives may be required for the return swing of the Pendulum of Rhythm.
这些贯穿着生命。补偿法则永远运转着，努力朝向平衡和反向的平衡，总是在时间中持续着，要完成节律摆锤的回摆，甚至可能需要几次生命的过程。
CHAPTER XI RHYTHM
第十一章 节律
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests
in everything; the measure of the swing to the right,
is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm
compensates"--The Kybalion.
一切事物都在流动，有出有进；一切事物都有它的潮汐；一切事物都升起又回落；钟摆现象发生在每一事物中；右摆的幅度就是左摆的幅度；节律互相补偿着。
——Kybalion
The great Fifth Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Rhythm-embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion; a to-and-from movement; a flow and inflow; a swing forward and backward; a pendulum-like movement; a tide-like ebb and flow; a high-tide and a low- tide;
between the two-poles manifest on the physical, mental or spiritual planes.
The Principle of rhythm is closely connected with the Principle of Polarity described in the preceding chapter.
Rhythm manifests between the two poles established by the Principle of Polarity.
伟大帮赫尔墨斯的第五法则
——节律法则
——揭示的真理是，显化在物理、精神和灵魂的层面上，在两个极性之间，在每一个事物中，都显化一个可测量的运动、一个往复的运动、一个流入和流出、向前和向后的飘动、一个钟摆般的运动、一个潮汐般的涨落、一个大潮和一个小潮。
节律法则与前一章讲述的极性法则有紧密的关系。
节律通过极性法则在两个极性之间显化着。
This does not mean, however, that the pendulum of Rhythm swings to the extreme poles, for this rarely happens; in fact, it is difficult to establish the extreme polar opposites in the majority of cases. But the swing is ever "toward" first one pole and then the other.
无论如何，这不是意味着节律的摆锤摆动到极端点，这是极少发生的；事实上，在众多案例里，确定极端的端点是困难的。摆动总是从一个极性再到另一个极性。
There is always an action and reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking; manifested in all of the airs and phenomena of the Universe.
在宇宙的所有事物和现象中，总是有一个行动和一个回返的行动；一个前进和一个倒退；一个上升和一个下降。
Suns, worlds, men, animals, plants, minerals, forces, energy, mind and matter, yes, even Spirit, manifests this Principle.
恒星们，社会们，人类，动物，植物，矿物，力量，能量，思想，物质，还有，甚至灵魂，都显化着这个法则。
The Principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life history of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man.
这个法则显化在社会的创立和毁灭之中；在民族的兴起和没落之中；在所有事物的生命历史中；最后在人类的精神状态之中。
Beginning with the manifestations of Spirit
--of THE ALL
--it will be noticed that there is ever the Outpouring and the Indrawing; the "Outbreathing and Inbreathing of Brahm," as the Brahmans word it.
由精神的显化开始
——全能者
——要注意这里的持续的流出和吸入；婆罗门说的梵天的呼与吸。
Universes are created; reach their extreme low point of materiality; and then begin in their upward swing.
Suns spring into being, and then their height of power being reached, the process of retrogression begins,
and after aeons they become dead masses of matter, awaiting another impulse which starts again their inner energies into activity and a new solar life cycle is begun.
宇宙的被创造，达到它们物质性的极端低点，然后开始它们向上的摆动。
恒星跃入存在，它们力量的高点一旦达到，衰退的过程就开始了，
在亿万年后，它们成为死寂的物质，等待另一次的推动把它们的内在能量带入活跃，并且开始一轮新的生命循环。
And thus it is with all the worlds; they are born, grow and die; only to be reborn. And thus it is with all the things of shape and form; they swing from action to reaction; from birth to death; from activity to inactivity--and then back again.
这个过程伴随着所有的世界；它们诞生，成长，死亡，只是要去再生。这是伴随着所有形状和形式的所有事物的；它们摆动，从行动到反应；从出生到死亡；从活跃到不活跃
——然后的再回转过来。
Thus it is with all living things; they are born, grow, and die--and then are reborn. So it is with all great movements, philosophies, creeds, fashions, governments, nations, and all else-birth, growth, maturity, decadence, death-and then new-birth. The swing of the pendulum is ever in evidence.
这也在所有生命事物中；他们出生，成长，和死亡——然后是再生。这也同样伴随着所有伟大的运动，哲学，信仰，时尚，政府，国家，和其它所有的——诞生，成长，成熟，衰落，死亡——然后是再生。摆锤的摇摆永远是显而易见的。
Night follows day; and day night. The pendulum swings from Summer to Winter, and then back again.
夜以继日，日以继夜。摆锤从夏摆到冬，然后又返回来。
The corpuscles, atoms, molecules, and all masses of matter, swing around the circle of their nature.
粒子，原子，分子，和所有的海量物质，围绕它们本性的循环摆动。
There is no such thing as absolute rest, or cessation from movement, and all movement partakes of rhythm.
The principle is of universal application.
在运动上没有绝对停滞或是静止的事物，所有的运动伴随着节律法则，这个法则是寰宇适宜的。
It may be applied to any question, or phenomena of any of the many planes of life.
它可以被用在生命的许多层面的任何问题和任何现象上。
It may be applied to all phases of human activity.
它可以被用到人类活动的任何阶段中。
There is always the Rhythmic swing from one pole to the other.
总是有个节律的摆动，从这个极性到另一个极性。
The Universal Pendulum is ever in motion. The Tides of Life flow in and out, according to Law.
宇宙的钟摆永远处在运动之中。生命的潮汐也遵循法则涨落。
The Principle of rhythm is well understood by modern science, and is considered a universal law as applied to material things.
节律法则已经很好地被现代科学所掌握，被认为是应用在物质事物上的宇宙法则。
But the Hermetists carry the principle much further, and know that its manifestations and influence extend to the mental activities of Man,
and that it accounts for the bewildering succession of moods, feelings and other annoying and perplexing changes that we notice in ourselves.
但是，赫尔墨斯者们把这个法则推到更广远的境地，知道它的显化和影响同样也是扩展到人类的精神活动上，
它揭示了那些我们注意到在我们之内的，混乱轮替的心态、感受，以及其它的烦恼和困惑的变化。
But the Hermetists by studying the operations of this Principle have learned to escape some of its activities by Transmutation.
但是，赫尔墨斯者们利用研习这个法则的运行，学会了通过转化去避开其中的一些影响。
The Hermetic Masters long since discovered that while the Principle of Rhythm was invariable, and ever in evidence in mental phenomena, still there were two planes of its manifestation so far as mental phenomena are concerned.
赫尔墨斯大师们久远以前就发现节律法则是永恒的，永远显化于精神现象，在涉及的精神现象上，它的表象有两个层面。
They discovered that there were two general planes of Consciousness, the Lower and the Higher, the understanding of which fact enabled them to rise to the higher plane
and thus escape the swing of the Rhythmic pendulum which manifested on the lower plane.
In other words, the swing of the pendulum occurred on the Unconscious Plane, and the Consciousness was not affected.
他们发现有两个普通的意识层面，较低的和较高的，对这个事实的理解，使他们能够提升到较高的，
这样得以避开在较低层面显化的节律摆动。
换一种说法，摆锤的摆动，发生在潜意识层面里，显意识层面不受影响。
This they call the Law of Neutralization.
这称为中立法则（Law of Neutralization）。
Its operations consist in the raising of the Ego above the vibrations of the Unconscious Plane of mental activity, so that the negative-swing of the pendulum is not manifested in consciousness, and therefore they are not affected.
它的运作由精神活动的潜意识层面的振动自我提升，钟摆的负向摆动，不显化在显意识上，他们就不受影响。
It is akin to rising above a thing and letting it pass beneath you.
这类似于你上升到超过某个事物，让它在你的下面通过。
The Hermetic Master, or advanced student, polarizes himself at the desired pole, and by a process akin to "refusing" to participate in the backward swing or,
赫尔墨斯大师，或者优秀的学生，在期望的极性极化他们自己，依靠类似”拒绝”的方法参与回摆，或者，
if you prefer, a "denial" of its influence over him, he stands firm in his polarized position, and allows the mental pendulum to swing back along the unconscious plane.
如果你愿意，去否定作用在他身上的影响。他坚定站在他极化的位置上，并且允许精神摆锤沿着潜意识的层面回摆。
All individuals who have attained any degree of self- mastery, accomplish this, more or less unknowingly, and by refusing to allow their moods and negative mental states to affect them, they apply the Law of Neutralization.
所有已经达到自我控制等级的人，都靠着拒绝让他们的心态和负面心理状态影响他们，或多或少无意识地这样做，他们在应用中立法则。
The Master, however, carries this to a much higher degree of proficiency, and by the use of his Will he attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness 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.
可是大师，把这带入到一个更高的精熟程度，靠着他们的意志，他们达到的平衡和心理稳固的程度，那是随着心态和感受的心理摆锤摇来摇去的人们，几乎无法相信的。
The importance of this will be appreciated by any thinking person who realizes what creatures of moods, feelings and emotion the majority of people are, and how little mastery of themselves they manifest.
这里的重要性为每位思考者认同，他们认识到大部分人是心态、感受和情绪活动的傀儡，在他们的显化上，能够把握的是如此微小。
If you will stop and consider a moment, you will realize how much these swings of Rhythm have affected you in your life
如果你愿意停下来思考片刻，你会认识到在你的生命中，这些节律的摆动多大地影响了你
--how a period of Enthusiasm has been invariably followed by an opposite feeling and mood of Depression.
——一个高度狂热的阶段如何总是跟随着一个消沉的反面感受和负面心态。
Likewise, your moods and periods of Courage have been succeeded by equal moods of Fear.
同样，你的勇敢的阶段被相等的恐惧心态追随着。
Scientists have offered the illustration of a rapidly moving wheel, top, or cylinder, to show the effects of increasing rates of vibration.
科学家们提出的对快速运动的轮子、顶盖、或者圆柱体的解释，显化了振动速率提升的效果。
The illustration supposes a wheel, top, or revolving cylinder, running at a low rate of speed--we will call this revolving thing "the object" in following out the illustration.
这种解释假设一个轮子、顶盖，或者旋转的圆柱是在一个低速运行状态
——我们要在下面的讨论中称这个旋转的东西为客体。
Let us suppose the object moving slowly.
让我们假设这个客体是在慢速运动。
It may be seen readily, but no sound of its movement reaches the ear. The speed is gradually increased. In a few moments its movement becomes so rapid that a deep growl or low note may be heard.
它已经能够被看到，但却没有运动的声响达到你的耳朵。速度逐渐增加，几分钟后运动变得很快，一个深沉或者低音可以被听到。
Then as the rate is increased the note rises one in the musical scale. Then, the motion being still further increased, the next highest note is distinguished.
然后，当速度提高，在音乐标度上的音频升高。
运动进一步加快，音频还在继续升高。
Then, one after another, all the notes of the musical scale appear, rising higher and higher as the motion is increased.
随着运动进一步加快，一个接着一个，音乐标度上的所有音符都出现了。
Finally when the motions have reached a certain rate the final note perceptible to human ears is reached and the shrill, piercing shriek dies away, and silence follows.
最终，当运动达到某个速率，人耳可以觉察的最高音符来到了，尖而刺耳的声音消失，平静到来。
No sound is heard from the revolving object, the rate of motion being so high that the human ear cannot register the vibrations.
再没有来自旋转客体的声音可以被听到。运动的速率如此之高，人耳无法再记录这个振动。
Then comes the perception of rising degrees of Heat. Then after quite a time the eye catches a glimpse of the object becoming a dull dark reddish color.
那么再来到对热的上升程度的感知上。经过一段时间之后，眼睛捕捉到客体迟钝、暗淡、红化色彩的感受。
As the rate increases, the red becomes brighter. Then as the speed is increased, the red melts into an orange.
随着速率的上升，红色变得明亮了。当速率再上升，红色溶入橘黄色。
Then the orange melts into a yellow. Then follow, successively, the shades of green, blue, indigo, and finally violet, as the rate of sped increases.
然后，橘黄色溶入黄色。再然后，当速率上升，继续跟随的，是绿色、蓝色和紫罗兰色的光亮。
Then the violet shades away, and all color disappears, the human eye not being able to register them.
然后，紫色消退，所有颜色消失，人的眼睛无法再记录它们。
But there are invisible rays emanating from the revolving object, the rays that are used in photographing, and other subtle rays of light.
但还是有不可见光从旋转客体发射出来，那可以被用在摄影上，以及其它种的射线。
Then begin to manifest the peculiar rays known as the "X Rays," etc., as the constitution of the object changes.
然后，当客体的构造改变，开始显化的特殊射线是所知的X光，等等。
Electricity and Magnetism are emitted when the appropriate rate of vibration is attained.
当达到振动的适当速率，会出现电磁辐射。
When the object reaches a certain rate of vibration its molecules disintegrate, and resolve themselves into the original elements or atoms.
当客体抵达某一个振动速率，它的分子破裂，分裂自身成为原本的元素或者原子。
Then the atoms, following the Principle of Vibration, are separated into the countless corpuscles of which they are composed.
然后是原子，遵循振动法则，分裂成无法计数的粒子，原子原本是由这些组成。
And finally, even the corpuscles disappear and the object may be said to Be composed of The Ethereal Substance.
最终，粒子也要消失，客体可以被说成，是由以太实质所构成。
Science does not dare to follow the illustration further, but the Hermetists teach that if the vibrations be continually increased the object would mount up the successive states of manifestation and would in turn manifest the various mental stages, and then on Spiritward, until it would finally re-enter THE ALL, which is Absolute Spirit.
科学还不敢继续作进一步的讲说，但是，赫尔墨斯者们教导说，如果振动继续上升，客体会沿着显化的状态继续提高，而来到不同心理状态的显化上，在精神的方向上，直到最终再进入全能者，那是绝对的精神。
The "object," however, would have ceased to be an "object" long before the stage of Ethereal Substance was reached,
but otherwise the illustration is correct inasmuch as it shows the effect of constantly increased rates and modes of vibration.
无论如何，当客体到达以太实质阶段前很久，就已经不再是一个客体了，
但是在另一方面，这个讲说是对的，是在表示振动速率和模式的不断提升的效果上。
It must be remembered, in the above illustration, that at the stages at which the "object" throws off vibrations of light, heat, etc., it is not actually "resolved" into those forms of energy (which are much higher in the scale),
必须记住，在上面的讲说里，在客体抛出光、热，等等的振动的状态的阶段，在这个阶段，它不是实际被熔解进入那些能量形态（这些能量在标度上是更高的），
but simply that it reaches a degree of vibration in which those forms of energy are liberated, in a degree, from the confining influences of its molecules, atoms and corpuscles, as the case may be.
但简单地说，它达到了一个振动的等级，在那里，那些能量形态被从禁锢中释放出来，从它的分子、原子，和粒子的限制中，依照各自的形态。
These forms of energy, although much higher in the scale than matter, are imprisoned and confined in the material combinations,
这些能量形式，虽然在标度上远高于物质，是被禁锢和限制在物质的合成体里的，
by reason of the energies manifesting through, and using material forms,
因着能量显化的缘故，通过利用物质形式，
but thus becoming entangled and confined in their creations of material forms, which, to an extent, is true of all creations, the creating force becoming involved in its creation.
但是因此变得纠缠和禁锢在它们的物质形态的造化物中，在范围上，这对所有的造化都是真的，造化的力量变得纠缠在它的造化物里。
But the Hermetic Teachings go much further than do those of modern science.
They teach that all manifestation of thought, emotion, reason, will or desire, or any mental state or condition, are accompanied by vibrations, a portion of which are thrown off and which tend to affect the minds of other persons by "induction."
但是赫尔墨斯教导，比那些现代科学走得更远。
它们教导说，所有思想、情感、推理、意志、或者意愿，或者任何精神状态或情境，这些的显化，都是由振动相伴的，其中一部分是通过感应，对他人的思想进行推开或者吸引。
This is the principle which produces the phenomena of "telepathy"; mental influence, and other forms of the action and power of mind over mind, with which the general public is rapidly becoming acquainted, owing to the wide dissemination of occult knowledge by the various schools, cults and teachers along these lines at this time.
法则产生的现象，比如意念移物、精神影响，以及其它形式的，心理约束心理的行动和力量形式，这些普通大众已经很快变得熟悉了，这要归功于现在沿着这条道路上发展的不同体系、门派、教师，对奥秘知识的广泛传播。
Every thought, emotion or mental state has its corresponding rate and mode of vibration.
每一个思想、情绪或者精神状态，有它相应的振动速率和模式。
And by an effort of the will of the person, or of other persons, these mental states may be reproduced, just as a musical tone may be reproduced by causing an instrument to vibrate at a certain rate
--just as color may be reproduced in the same may.
依靠自己或者他人的意志的努力，这些精神状态能够被产生出来，正如一个音乐上的音调，可以通过让乐器的在某一个速率上振动而达成
——同样，颜色也可以被同样方式造就。
By a knowledge of the Principle of Vibration, as applied to Mental Phenomena, one may polarize his mind at any degree he wishes, thus gaining a perfect control over his mental states, moods, etc.
依靠振动法则的知识，应用到精神现象上，一个人可以极化他的心理到他希望的任何等级，那样就获得对他的心理状态、情绪，等等，的完美控制。
In the same way he may affect the minds of others, producing the desired mental states in them.
同样的方法，他可以影响其它人的思想，在他们之中造成期望的精神状态。
In short, he may be able to produce on the Mental Plane that which science produces on the Physical Plane
--namely, "Vibrations at Will."
简言之，他能够在精神层面上成就，而科学在物理层面上成就
——我们可以称为在意志上的振动。
This power of course may be acquired only by the proper instruction, exercises, practice, etc., the science being that of Mental Transmutation, one of the branches of the Hermetic Art.
当然，这个能力只能够通过正确的指导、锻炼和实践等得到，这是精神转化的科学，一个赫尔墨斯艺术的分支。
A little reflection on what we have said will show the student that the Principle of Vibration underlies the wonderful phenomena of the power manifested by the Masters and Adepts, who are able to apparently set aside the Laws of Nature, but who,
in reality, are simply using one law against another; one principle against others; and who accomplish their results by changing the vibrations of material objects, or forms of energy, and thus perform what are commonly called "miracles."
反思一下我们讲到的，将告诉学生这样一点，
振动法则是大师们和行家们展示的神奇力量现象的根基，他们能够明显地把自然法则搁置一边，
但是事实上，他们只是简单地使用一个法则对抗另一个法则；一个法则对抗其它法则；
依靠改变物质体的振动，或者改变能量的形式，而达到他们的效果，这样他们表演了大众称为的奇迹。
As one of the old Hermetic writers has truly said: "He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the scepter of Power."
正如一位古老的赫尔墨斯作者真诚地说的，那些理解了振动法则的，已经握住了力量的权杖。
Passing on from the Great Mental Plane to the Great Spiritual Plane, what shall we say? How can we explain these higher states of Being, Life and Mind, to minds as yet unable to grasp and understand the higher subdivisions of the Plane of Human Mind? The task is impossible. We can speak only in the most general terms.
讲过了思想这个大层面之后，我们该来讲灵魂这个大层面了。
对于一些甚至还没有理解和掌握人类思想层面中较高层面的人们，应该怎么向他们解释这些更高级状态的存在物、生命还有心理？要想向他们做出专业的解释简直是不可能的。我们只能用最通俗的语言。
How may Light be described to a man born blind--how sugar, to a man who has never tasted anything sweet--how harmony, to one born deaf?
这就像要向天生双目失明的人解释光明是怎么回事，向从没有吃过任何甜的东西的人解释糖是什么，以及向一个天生双耳失聪的人说明什么是和谐之音一样，这怎么能解释得清楚？
All that we can say is that the Seven Minor Planes of the Great Spiritual Plane (each Minor Plane having its seven sub-divisions) comprise Beings possessing Life, Mind and Form as far above that of Man of to-day as the latter is above the earth-worm, mineral or even certain forms of Energy or Matter.
因此，我们只能做出以下解释同物质层面、思想层面一样，精神层面也包括七个小层面，其下又各分成七个更小的亚层面。这些层面包含具有生命、思想和形式的存在体。它们和现在人类的关系就像人类和蚯蚓、矿物质或者其它一些能量和物质形式的关系相似，都是高级和低级的关系。
The Life of these Beings so far transcends ours, that we cannot even think of the details of the same; their minds so far transcend ours, that to them we scarcely seem to "think," and our mental processes seem almost akin to material processes;
这些存在体的生命目前超过我们，我们甚至无法想象；它们的思想也远超过我们，对于它们，我们根本不是在“思考”，我们的心智过程几乎可以低到与物质的过程相类比；
the Matter of which their forms are composed is of the highest Planes of Matter, nay, some are even said to be "clothed in Pure Energy." What may be said of such Beings?
它们的构造是由物质层面中最高级的组成，一些可以被称为“包裹在纯能量里。”对于这些存在体，还能说些什么呢？
On the Seven Minor Planes of the Great Spiritual Plane exist Beings of whom we may speak as Angels; Archangels; Demi-Gods. On the lower Minor Planes dwell those great souls whom we call Masters and Adepts.
在灵魂层面的第七个小层面上有一些存在体，我们可以称之为天使、天使长和半神人（Demi-Gods）。向下较低的一个层面包含一些伟大的灵魂，我们称之为大师和行家；
Above them come the Great Hierarchies of the Angelic Hosts, unthinkable to man;
and above those come those who may without irreverence be called "The Gods,"
so high in the scale of Being are they,
在他们之上是天使会的森严的等级，这是人类难以想象的。
再往上就是备受尊敬的众神，他们是存在等级中高高在上的神。
行家、大师、天使、天使长、天神、天使会、众神
their being, intelligence and power being akin to those attributed by the races of men to their conceptions of Deity.
他们的存在、智慧还有力量与人类头脑中关于神的观念是相近的。
These Beings are beyond even the highest flights of the human imagination, the word "Divine" being the only one applicable to them.
这些存在都是超乎人类想象的，也不是人们用神圣这个唯一合适的词语就可以形容的。
Many of these Beings, as well as the Angelic Host, take the greatest interest in the affairs of the Universe and play an important part in its affairs.
许多存在体以及天使会都对宇宙事物有很大兴趣，而且他们也在这些事物中发挥着自己的影响力。
These Unseen Divinities and Angelic Helpers extend their influence freely and powerfully, in the process of Evolution, and Cosmic Progress.
在万物进化过程中以及宇宙进程中，这些人类看不见的神与其天使助手可以按照他们的意愿强有力地扩大他们的影响。
Their occasional intervention and assistance in human affairs have led to the many legends, beliefs, religions and traditions of the race, past and present.
正是因为有了他们时常的帮助，人类社会才出现了许多传说、信仰、宗教，还有各种不同的传统，过去如此，现在依然如此。
They have superimposed their knowledge and power upon the world, again and again, all under the Law of THE ALL, of course.
他们一再地将自己的知识和力量传递到人间。当然，这些都是符合全能者的法则。
But, yet, even the highest of these advanced Beings exist merely as creations of, and in, the Mind of THE ALL, and are subject to the Cosmic Processes and Universal Laws. They are still Mortal.
即使是最高等级的存在物也都只是存在于上帝的精神中的，他们也都是宇宙进程中的一部分，是符合宇宙规律的。但是他们又是永存不朽的。
We may call them "gods" if we like, but still they are but the Elder Brethren of the Race,
我们也可以称他们为神。可另一方面，他们又只不过是人类的兄长
--the advanced souls who have outstripped their brethren, and who have foregone the ecstasy of Absorption by THE ALL, in order to help the race on its upward journey along The Path.
——超过了人类的更高一级的灵魂，为了帮助人类向更高一级发展，在上帝召唤时，他们放弃了这个机会。
But, they belong to the Universe, and are subject to its conditions--they are mortal--and their plane is below that of Absolute Spirit.
不过他们仍然是属于宇宙的，他们有自己的状态——他们是永存不朽的——他们位于仅次于绝对精神之下的层面。
Only the most advanced Hermetists are able to grasp the Inner Teachings regarding the state of existence, and the powers manifested on the Spiritual Planes.
只有最优秀的赫尔墨斯主义者才能领会关于存在状态的本质要义，以及显化在灵魂层面的力量。
The phenomena is so much higher than that of the Mental Planes that a confusion of ideas would surely result from an attempt to describe the same.
因为这里的现象要比精神层面的现象更加高级更加复杂了，在我们试图把它讲解清楚时必然会产生一些问题让大家迷惑。
Only those whose minds have been carefully trained along the lines of the Hermetic Philosophy for years--yes, those who have brought with them from other incarnations the knowledge acquired previously--can comprehend just what is meant by the Teaching regarding these Spiritual Planes.
只有信仰并仔细研读了赫尔墨斯哲学好几年，而且完全摈弃了以前所被灌输的知识的人才能理解以上关于灵魂层面的主张。
And much of these Inner Teachings is held by the Hermetists as being too sacred, important and even dangerous for general public dissemination.
这些内在教导中的一部分被赫尔墨斯们掌握着，因为太神圣，太重要，对于普通大众的传播甚至太危险。
The intelligent student may recognize what we mean by this when we state that the meaning of "Spirit" as used by the Hermetists is akin to "Living Power"; "Animated Force;" "Inner Essence;" "Essence of Life," etc.,
智慧的学生能够认识到我们所说的这些，我们所说的“灵魂”的意思，正如同赫尔墨斯者们用到的“充满活力的力量”，“给予生命的力量”，“内在实质”，“生命的实质”，等等，
which meaning must not be confounded with that usually and commonly employed in connection with the term, i.e., "religious; ecclesiastical; spiritual; ethereal; holy," etc., etc.
这些的意思千万不能与通常还有常识里的这些词联系起来，诸如“信仰的，神圣的，精神上的，天堂的，圣洁的，”等等，等等。
To occultists the word "Spirit" is used in the sense of "The Animating Principle," carrying with it the idea of Power, Living Energy, Mystic Force, etc.
对于神秘主义者而言，灵魂这个词被用于动力法则中，带有力量、充满活力的能量，神秘的力量等含义。
And occultists know that that which is known to them as "Spiritual Power" may be employed for evil as well as good ends (in accordance with the Principle of Polarity),
神秘主义者清楚他们所指的灵魂力量会被用于好的方面，同样也会用于坏的方面，这是遵循极性法则的。
a fact which has been recognized by the majority of religions in their conceptions of Satan, Beelzebub, the Devil, Lucifer, Fallen Angels, etc.
其实大部分宗教都意识到了这个问题，所以他们脑中都有像撒旦、别西卜魔王、恶魔、路西法、堕落天使等等这些观念。
And so the knowledge regarding these Planes has been kept in the Holy of Holies in all Esoteric Fraternities and Occult Orders,--in the Secret Chamber of the Temple.
鉴于此，关于所有层面的讨论都是仅限在所有隐秘修会和奥秘传承的至圣所——教会的密室。
But this may be said here, that those who have attained high spiritual powers and have misused them, have a terrible fate in store for them, and the swing of the pendulum of Rhythm will inevitably swing them back to the furthest extreme of Material existence, from which point they must retrace their steps Spiritward, along the weary rounds of The Path,
but always with the added torture of having always with them a lingering memory of the heights from which they fell owing to their evil actions.
The legends of the Fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts, as all advanced occultists know.
但是要在这里说的是，那些达到高级灵魂力量的，如果滥用，他们就是在积恶，韵律的摆锤不可避免地把他们带回到最原始的物质存在上去，从那里再开始回溯精神的脚步，开始新的轮回，但总是要经受更多的磨难，而且他们总有对高点处萦绕的记忆，从那里，因着他们的罪孽而跌落。堕落天使的传说有真实的依据，正如所有优秀的奥秘学者们所知的那样。
The striving for selfish power on the Spiritual Planes inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back as far as it had previously risen.
在灵魂层面上，自我力量的努力，无可避免的结果是自我灵性在它的平衡上的失落，直到跌回到他先前上升之处。
But to even such a soul, the opportunity of a return is given--and such souls make the return journey, paying the terrible penalty according to the invariable Law.
但是，即使是对这样的灵魂，上帝都会给他一次悔改的机会，
因而他们还是有机会达到被惩罚前的高度的，
但按照恒定的法则，他们都是要付出代价的。
In conclusion we would again remind you that according to the Principle of Correspondence, which embodies the truth: "As Above so Below; as Below, so Above,"
结语有必要再强调一下，根据一致法则向我们展示的真理：源头怎样，支流就怎样；支流怎样，源头就怎样。
all of the Seven Hermetic Principles are in full operation on all of the many planes, Physical Mental and Spiritual.
这七个赫尔墨斯法则是存在于以上所有层面的，包括物质层面、精神层面和灵魂层面。
The Principle of Mental Substance of course applies to all the planes, for all are held in the Mind of THE ALL.
精神法则必然可以运用到所有层面，因为一切都是存在于上帝思想中的。
The Principle of Correspondence manifests in all, for there is a correspondence, harmony and agreement between the several planes.
一致法则显化于万物中，因为各层面之间存在着一致性、和谐关系。
The Principle of Vibration manifests on all planes, in fact the very differences that go to make the "planes" arise from Vibration, as we have explained.
振动法则显化于所有层面，事实上正如我们所解释的，产生各层面的差异本身也是源于振动的。
The Principle of Polarity manifests on each plane, the extremes of the Poles being apparently opposite and contradictory.
极性法则显化于每个层面，极端的极性是显然的对立和矛盾。
The Principle of Rhythm manifests on each Plane, the movement of the phenomena having its ebb and flow, rise and flow, incoming and outgoing.
节律法则显化于每个层面，现象的运动有它的涨起和消落，上升和下降，涌入和涌出。
The Principle of Cause and Effect manifests on each Plane, every Effect having its Cause and every Cause having its effect.
因果法则显化在每一个层面，有因必有果，有果必有因。
The Principle of Gender manifests on each Plane, the Creative Energy being always manifest, and operating along the lines of its Masculine and Feminine Aspects.
性别法则显化于每个层面，创造性能量一直显化着，这些能量在雄性和雌性方面起作用。
"As Above so Below; as Below, so Above."
This centuries old Hermetic axiom embodies one of the great Principles of Universal Phenomena.
源头怎样，支流就怎样；支流怎样，源头就怎样。
这句流传了几百年的赫尔墨斯格言揭示了宇宙现象的伟大法则。
As we proceed with our consideration of the remaining Principles, we will see even more clearly the truth of the universal nature of this great Principle of Correspondence.
当我们继续进行对其余法则的思考，我们将看得更加清楚，这个伟大的一致法则是宇宙本质真理。
The Plane of Energy (C) comprises seven sub-planes of energy so highly organized that it bears many of the characteristics of "life,"
but which is not recognized by the minds of men on the ordinary plane of development, being available for the use on beings of the Spiritual Plane alone--such energy is unthinkable to ordinary man, and may be considered almost as "the divine power."
The beings employing the same are as "gods" compared even to the highest human types known to us.
能量层面（C）下又分为七个层面，这些能量层面组织有序，具有许多生命体的特征。
但是该能量层面并不被处在普通发展层的人所认可（普通人），只有那些发展到精神层面达到一定境界的人才对其加以认可和使用。
在一般人看来，这种能量形式是不可思议的，几乎可以被看成是神的力量。
而可以利用这一层面能量的人，即使与最高级的人类形态相比，也几乎就是神了。
The Great Mental Plane comprises those forms of "living things" known to us in ordinary life, as well as certain other forms not so well known except to the occultist.
The classification of the Seven Minor Mental Planes is more or less satisfactory and arbitrary (unless accompanied by elaborate explanations which are foreign to the purpose of this particular work), but we may as well mention them. They are as follows:
大精神层面包含我们日常所指的有生命的物体形式，还有一些仅为神秘主义者所熟知的其他形式。
思想层面下的七个亚层面的划分也是具有一定任意性的，也许举一些具体的例子会更有说服力，但是那样会偏离我们的主题。
尽管如此，我们还是要提及一下，它的七个亚层面分别是：
1. The Plane of Mineral Mind
2. The Plane of Elemental Mind (A)
3. The Plane of Plant Mind
4. The Plane of Elemental Mind (B)
5. The Plane of Animal Mind
6. The Plane of Elemental Mind (C)
7. The Plane of Human Mind
I.矿物思想层面；
II.基础思想层面（A）；
III.植物思想层面；
IV.基础思想层面（B）；
V.动物思想层面；
VI.基础思想层面（C）；
VII.人类思想层面。
The Plane of Mineral Mind comprises the "states or conditions" of the units or entities, or groups and combinations of the same, which animate the forms known to us as "minerals, chemicals, etc."
矿物思想层面包含上述物质层面的组合实体、合成体。物质层面赋予了我们所知道的矿物质化合物等形式以生命。
These entities must not be confounded with the molecules, atoms and corpuscles themselves, the latter being merely the material bodies or forms of these entities, just as a man's body is but his material form and not "himself."
注意不要将这些实体与分子、原子和细胞等混淆了，分子、原子和细胞只是这些实体的物质部分或者形式，就像人类的身体只是人的肉体而不是人类本身。
These entities may be called "souls" in one sense, and are living beings of a low degree of development, life, and mind--just a little more than the units of "living energy" which comprise the higher sub-divisions of the highest Physical Plane.
从某种意义上讲，这些实体可以称作灵魂，它们是处于低级发展阶段的生命体，是生命与思想发展的萌芽状态，仅仅比包含位于最高级物质层面中较高级的小层面的生命能量的组合体高级一点点。
The average mind does not generally attribute the possession of mind, soul, or life, to the mineral kingdom, but all occultists recognize the existence of the same, and modern science is rapidly moving forward to the point-of-view of the Hermetic,
普通人一般不会认为矿物质层面具有思想、灵魂或者生命，但是所有的神秘主义者都这么认为，他们相信矿物质是有生命的。
in this respect. The molecules, atoms and corpuscles have their "loves and hates"; "likes and dislikes"; "attractions and repulsions". "affinities and non-affinities," etc.,
在这一点上，现代科学也转变了立场，接受了赫尔墨斯的观点。他们认为分子、原子和细胞都是有心理有感情的，它们都有自己的爱与恨、喜欢与厌恶，这样它们会相互吸引，或者相互排斥，等等。
and some of the more daring of modern scientific minds have expressed the opinion that the desire and will, emotions and feelings, of the atoms differ only in degree from those of men.
甚至现代科学领域有一些更大胆的想法，有人提出原子是有自己的愿望和意志的，它们是有感情和感觉的，而且它们的情感跟人类情感相比只是程度不同而已。
We have no time or space to argue this matter here.
All occultists know it to be a fact, and others are referred to some of the more recent scientific works for outside corroboration. There are the usual seven sub-divisions to this plane.
在此，我们就不再深入讨论这一问题。
神秘主义者认为这是无可争议的事实，其余的观点是近来科学界给出的证据。和前面的层面一样，这一层面也含有七个亚层面。
The Plane of Elemental Mind (A) comprises the state or condition, and degree of mental and vital development of a class of entities unknown to the average man, but recognized to occultists.
基础思想层面（A）也是指一种状态或者状况，以及这一类实体的精神上的至关重要的发展等级。这些实体是普通人所不熟悉的，但是神秘主义者却认识到了。
They are invisible to the ordinary senses of man, but, nevertheless, exist and play their part of the Drama of the Universe. Their degree of intelligence is between that of the mineral and chemical entities on the one hand, and of the entities of the plant kingdom on the other. There are seven subdivisions to this plane, also.
人们并不能看到也感觉不到这些实体，但它们却是实实在在存在的，并且在宇宙中发挥着它们特有的作用。它们的思维能力介于矿物质、化学物质实体和植物实体之间。同样，这一层面之下也包括七个亚层面。
The Plane of Plant Mind, in its seven sub-divisions, comprises the states or conditions of the entities comprising the kingdoms of the Plant World, the vital and mental phenomena of which is fairly well understood by the average intelligent person, many new and interesting scientific works regarding "Mind and Life in Plants" having been published during the last decade.
Plants have life, mind and "souls," as well as have the animals, man, and super-man.
植物思想层面，下分七个亚层面，包含构成植物王国的实体的状态或者状况。这一层面上不可忽视的心理现象是具有一般理解力的普通人就能明白的。
过去十年有许多关于植物及其心理的科学成果发表，这些新出版的文章或者书籍都很有意思。
植物是有生命的，就像动物、人类和超人类有生命意义一样。 （加速，可在视频中看见植物如动物）
The Plane of Elemental Mind (B), in its seven sub-divisions, comprises the states and conditions of a higher form of "elemental" or unseen entities, playing their part in the general work of the Universe, the mind and life of which form a part of the scale between the Plane of Plant Mind and the Plane of Animal Mind, the entities partaking of the nature of both.
基础思想层面（B）下分七个亚层面，同样是指某种状态或者状况，是一些基础的、无形实体的更高级形式的状态或者状况。它在宇宙中发挥着独特的作用。这一层面处于植物思想层面和动物思想层面之间，同时具有两个层面的特征。
The Plane of Animal Mind, in its seven sub-divisions, comprises the states and conditions of the entities, beings, or souls, animating the animal forms of life, familiar to us all. It is not necessary to go into details regarding this kingdom or plane of life, for the animal world is as familiar to us as is our own.
动物思想层面下分七个亚层面，包含一些实体、生命体或者灵魂的状态和状况。正是这些实体、生命体和灵魂赋予了我们所熟知的生命以生命力和活力。关于动物王国这一层面我们就没必要详述了，因为人们对动物的了解已经像对人类自身了解一样了。
The Plane of Elemental Mind (C), in its seven sub-divisions, comprises those entities or beings, invisible as are all such elemental forms, which partake of the nature of both animal and human life in a degree and in certain combinations. The highest forms are semi-human in intelligence.
基础思想层面 (C)的七个亚层面包含一些实体和生命体的状态。这些实体、生命体和基础形式一样是无形的，同时具有动物和人类的特征。这一层面的最高形式在理解力和智力方面已与人类相当。
The Plane of Human Mind, in its seven sub-divisions, comprises those manifestations of life and mentality which are common to Man, in his various grades, degrees, and divisions.
人类思想层面，同样可以分为七个亚层面，包含生命和精神力的表征，这些都是人们所熟悉的。这些表征分为不同的等级、程度和类别。
In this connection, we wish to point out the fact that the average man of today occupies but the fourth sub-division of the Plane of Human Mind, and only the most intelligent have crossed the borders of the Fifth Sub-Division.
在此，我们想强调一点：今天的普通人只不过位于人类思想层面的第四个小层面上，只有最聪明的人才可以跨过这一层面达到第五个小层面。
It has taken the race millions of years to reach this stage, and it will take many more years for the race to move on to the sixth and seventh sub-divisions, and beyond.
尽管如此，人类是经过了数百万年的历史才发展到这一层面的。要想达到更高级的第六和第七甚至更高的层面，人们还得发展数百万以至更多的时间。
But, remember, that there have been races before us which have passed through these degrees, and then on to higher planes.
但是，我们应该知道，有些生物种类已经先于我们经过了这些发展阶段，达到了更高的层面；
Our own race is the fifth (with stragglers from the fourth) which has set foot upon The Path.
而人类才刚刚步入第五层面（与第四层面上的落伍者相伴）。
And, then there are a few advanced souls of our own race who have outstripped the masses, and who have passed on to the sixth and seventh sub-division, and some few being still further on.
尽管如此，人类当中还是有一部分精神境界高的人已经超过了大部分普通人，进入了第六和第七小层面，甚至有极少数领先的进入了更高的层面。
The man of the Sixth Sub-Division will be "The Super-Man"; he of the Seventh will be "The Over-Man."
进入了第六小层面的人可以被称为超人（The Super-Man），而进入了第七层面的人就可以被称为圣人（The Over-Man）了。
In our consideration of the Seven Minor Mental Planes, we have merely referred to the Three Elementary Planes in a general way.
We do not wish to go into this subject in detail in this work, for it does not belong to this part of the general philosophy and teachings.
以上我们讨论了思想层面的七个小层面，但是对于其中的三个基础层面我们只是做了概要介绍，本书不再深入探讨，因为它与普通哲学的相关内容关联不大。
But we may say this much, in order to give you a little clearer idea, of the relations of these planes to the more familiar ones
但是为了让大家对这些层面和大家更熟悉的基础层面之间的关系有一个更清楚的了解，我们再做一下补充说明。
--the Elementary Planes bear the same relation to the Planes of Mineral, Plant, Animal and Human Mentality and Life, that the black keys on the piano do to the white keys.
基础层面和其他层面，例如，矿物质、植物、动物以及人类思想层面的关系就如同钢琴键盘上的黑键白键的关系一样。
The white keys are sufficient to produce music, but there are certain scales, melodies, and harmonies, in which the black keys play their part, and in which their presence is necessary.
如仅供演奏之需，仅白键就足够了。
但是仍有一些音阶、旋律以及和谐之音是需要过渡的黑键来演绎的，这样黑键的存在就是必要的了。
They are also necessary as "connecting links" of soul-condition; entity states, etc., between the several other planes, certain forms of development being attained therein
同样，基础层面就像黑键一样，充当着不同等级的精神状态之间的连接角色，有一些发展实体形式已经达到了一个更高的等级。
--this last fact giving to the reader who can "read between the lines" a new light upon the processes of Evolution, and a new key to the secret door of the "leaps of life" between kingdom and kingdom.
如果读者可以领悟以上事实的言外之意，他就能明白这其实是一种进化过程，这样他也就掌握了从一个生命王国迈进另一个生命王国之门的钥匙，这里的每一步都是生命进化的飞跃。
The great kingdoms of Elementals are fully recognized by all occultists, and the esoteric writings are full of mention of them.
神秘主义者已经完全接受了这些基础层面的偌大的王国，这在他们历代的著作中都有充分体现。
The readers of Bulwer's "Zanoni" and similar tales will recognize the entities inhabiting these planes of life.
你如果有机会读一下十九世纪的英国大师布尔沃•利顿（Bulwer Lytton）的《扎罗尼》（Zanoni）或者类似的故事，你就会对这些生命层面的各种实体有一个新的认识。
CHAPTER VIII PLANES OF CORRESPONDENCE
第八章 不同层面的一致
"As above, so below; as below, so above."--The Kybalion.
源头怎样，支流就怎样；支流怎样，源头就怎样。 ——Kybalion
The great Second Hermetic Principle embodies the truth that there is a harmony, agreement, and correspondence between the several planes of Manifestation, Life and Being.
伟大的赫尔墨斯第二法则向我们揭示了这样一个真理：生命以及现象的各层面之间之存在着一致性，相互之间是一种和谐、统一与对应的关系。
This truth is a truth because all that is included in the Universe emanates from the same source, and the same laws, principles, and characteristics apply to each unit, or combination of units, of activity, as each manifests its own phenomena upon its own plane.
这一法则之所以成为真理，是因为宇宙间原本万物同源，各层面事物及其活动都遵循着同样的规则与法则，具有相同或类似的特征。
For the purpose of convenience of thought and study, the Hermetic Philosophy considers that the Universe may be divided into three great classes of phenomena, known as the Three Great Planes, namely:
为了思考和学习的方便，赫尔墨斯哲学主张将诸多宇宙现象划分为三类，即三大层面，取名为：
1. The Great Physical Plane.
2. The Great Mental Plane.
3. The Great Spiritual Plane.
I.物理（Physical）层面；
II.精神（Mental）层面；
Ⅲ.灵魂（Spiritual）层面。
These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale of Life, the lowest point of which is undifferentiated Matter, and the highest point that of Spirit.
这一划分多少带有些人为的痕迹，具有一定随意性。这三大层面其实都属于广义的大生命层，只不过现在按其级别高低将其再细化为三个层面。最低的一层是物质层面，所有的物质都是无差别的。
最高的一层是灵魂层面。
And, moreover, the different Planes shade into each other, so that no hard and fast division may be made between the higher phenomena of the Physical and the lower of the Mental; or between the higher of the Mental and the lower of the Physical.
而且，这三个层面是相互重叠的，我们无法将它们截然分开，也就是对于物质层面和精神层面之间的部分，还有精神层面和灵魂层面之间的部分，我们并不能划分出明确界线。
In short, the Three Great Planes may be regarded as three great groups of degrees of Life Manifestation.
简言之，这三个大在层面可以说是生命表征的三组等级。
While the purposes of this little book do not allow us to enter into an extended discussion of, or explanation of, the subject of these different planes, still we think it well to give a general description of the same at this point.
鉴于这本小册子的写作目的，关于这三个层面的详细内容我们不再赘述，但是有必要做一下简要介绍。
At the beginning we may as well consider the question so often asked by the neophyte, who desires to be informed regarding the meaning of the word "Plane", which term has been very freely used, and very poorly explained, in many recent works upon the subject of occultism.
在开始，我们考虑的是，和初学者们通常要问到的一样的问题，初学者希望知道“层面”这个词的意思，在许多现代奥秘学的作品里，这个词被很随意地使用，给出的解释并不合宜。
The question is generally about as follows: "Is a Plane a place having dimensions, or is it merely a condition or state?"
于是经常会有人产生这样的疑问：层面是指一个多维度的空间，还是指一种条件或者状态？
We answer: "No, not a place, nor ordinary dimension of space; and yet more than a state or condition.
我们应该这样理解：层面不是指一个地点，也不是一个具有普通意义上的维度空间，也不只是一种条件或者状态。
It may be considered as a state or condition, and yet the state or condition is a degree of dimension, in a scale subject to measurement."
我们可以把它理解为一种状态或情况，但是它是一种有维度的状态或情况，是一种可以测量的状态或情况。
Somewhat paradoxical, is it not?
很难理解，是吗？
But let us examine the matter.
我们来看看到底是怎么回事。
A "dimension," you know, is "a measure in a straight line, relating to measure," etc.
The ordinary dimensions of space are length, breadth, and height, or perhaps length, breadth, height, thickness or circumference.
维度一词的含义是：跟测量有关系的，可以用直线衡量的，等等。
我们通常所说的维度是指普通的空间维度，是可以用长、宽、高来测量的，或者说是由特定的长度、宽度、高度、厚度与周长所构成的维度。
But there is another dimension of "created things" or "measure in a straight line," known to occultists, and to scientists as well, although the latter have not as yet applied the term "dimension" to it
但是在神秘主义者看来，上帝的创造物，也就是宇宙万物，还可以用另一种维度来表示，用另一种方式来测量，科学家也这样认为，只是还没有将它称为维度。
--and this new dimension, which, by the way, is the much speculated -about "Fourth Dimension," is the standard used in determining the degrees or "planes."
这个新维度就是人们推测已久的第四维度，它就是划分层面等级的标准。
This Fourth Dimension may be called "The Dimension of Vibration"
It is a fact well known to modern science, as well as to the Hermetists who have embodied the truth in their "Third Hermetic Principle," that "everything is in motion; everything vibrates; nothing is at rest."
第四维度也可以叫做“振动维度”。
振动是现代科学经常提到的。赫尔墨斯主义者也在其第三大法则中向我们揭示了这样的真理：每一种事物都在运动之中；每一种事物都在振动，没有静止的事物。
From the highest manifestation, to the lowest, everything and all things Vibrate.
Not only do they vibrate at different rates of motion, but as in different directions and in a different manner.
所有表征，从最高级精神层面到最低级物质层面，所有的事物，无一例外，都在振动之中。
它们的振动频率不同，而且振动方向和方式也不同。
The degrees of the rate of vibrations constitute the degrees of measurement on the Scale of Vibrations--in other words the degrees of the Fourth Dimension.
振动频率的等级就构成了其振动衡量上的不同等级，即第四维度的不同等级。
And these degrees form what occultists call "Planes" The higher the degree of rate of vibration, the higher the plane, and the higher the manifestation of Life occupying that plane.
这些不同等级就构成了神秘主义者称作的“层面”。振动频率等级越高，层面等级越高，生命表征所居的层面就越高。
So that while a plane is not "a place," nor yet "a state or condition," yet it possesses qualities common to both.
所以说，层面不是一个地点，也不是一种状态或者状况，但它具有两者共有的特点。
We shall have more to say regarding the subject of the scale of Vibrations in our next lessons, in which we shall consider the Hermetic Principle of Vibration.
关于振动，我们在下一节中讲解赫尔墨斯振动法则时再详细论述。
You will kindly remember, however, that the Three Great Planes are not actual divisions of the phenomena of the Universe, but merely arbitrary terms used by the Hermetists in order to aid in the thought and study of the various degrees and Forms of universal activity and life.
大家应该清楚我们前面说过，这三大层面不是宇宙现象的真实划分，而是赫尔墨斯主义者为了思考和研究的方便人为划分出来的，这样能够更好地了解宇宙中各种活动和生命的振动等级和形式。
The atom of matter, the unit of force, the mind of man, and the being of the arch -angel are all but degrees in one scale, and all fundamentally the same, the difference between solely a matter of degree, and rate of vibration
物质的原子，力量的组合，人类的思想，还有天使长掌管的生灵，只不过是同一衡量标准的不同等级，它们的本质是相同的，不同的只是等级和振动频率。
--all are creations of THE ALL, and have their existence solely within the Infinite Mind of THE ALL.
一切都是上帝创造的，都是存在于上帝的思想里的。
The Hermetists sub-divide each of the Three Great Planes into Seven Minor Planes, and each of these latter are also sub-divided into seven sub-planes, all divisions being more or less arbitrary, shading into each other, and adopted merely for convenience of scientific study and thought.
赫尔墨斯主义者把以上三大层面进行了进一步划分，每个层面划分为七个小层面。这样的划分也有一些任意性，层面之间相互重叠，但都是为了科学研究和思考的方便。
The Great Physical Plane, and its Seven Minor Planes, is that division of the phenomena of the Universe which includes all that relates to physics, or material things, forces, and manifestations. It includes all forms of that which we call Matter, and all forms of that which we call Energy or Force.
物质层面，又分为七个亚层面，是对宇宙现象的划分，囊括了一切与物质、能量以及表征有关的事物。一切物质、能量或动力形式都属于物质层面。
But you must remember that the Hermetic Philosophy does not recognize Matter as a thing in itself, or as having a separate existence even in the Mind of THE ALL.
但是需要注意的是：赫尔墨斯哲学认为物质并不是指事物本身，而且在全能者的思想中物质也不能脱离精神而独立存在的。
The Teachings are that Matter is but a form of Energy--.that is, Energy at a low rate of vibrations of a certain kind. And accordingly the Hermetists classify Matter under the head of Energy, and give to it three of the Seven Minor Planes of the Great Physical Plane.
它认为物质只是能量的一种形式，也就是振动频率较低的能量形式。所以赫尔墨斯主义者将物质层面划归到了能量层面之下，并且其下的七个亚层面中有三个属于能量层面。
These Seven Minor Physical Planes are as follows:
物质层面的七个亚层面包括
1. The Plane of Matter (A)
2. The Plane of Matter (B)
3. The Plane of Matter (C)
4. The Plane of Ethereal Substance
5. The Plane of Energy (A)
6. The Plane of Energy (B)
7. The Plane of Energy (C)
I.物质层面（A）；
II.物质层面（B）；
III.物质层面（C）；
IV.以太（Ethereal）物质层面；
V.能量层面（A）；
VI.能量层面（B）；
VII.能量层面（C）。
The Plane of Matter (A) comprises the forms of Matter in its form of solids, liquids, and gases, as generally recognized by the text-books on physics.
物质层面（A）所指的大致相当于物理课本中所讲的物体形式，包括固体、液体和气体。
The Plane of Matter (B) comprises certain higher and more subtle forms of Matter of the existence of which modern science is but now recognizing, the phenomena of Radiant Matter, in its phases of radium, etc., belonging to the lower sub-division of this Minor Plane.
物质层面（B）包含一些更高级、更抽象的物质形式，比如发光显象，这一现象又可以做进一步划分，镭的发现就是其中一例。这些现象科学界才给予重视。
The Plane of Matter (C) comprises forms of the most subtle and tenuous Matter, the existence of which is not suspected by ordinary scientists. The Plane of Ethereal Substance comprises that which science speaks of as "The Ether", a substance of extreme tenuity and elasticity, pervading all Universal Space, and acting as a medium for the transmission of waves of energy, such as light, heat, electricity, etc.
物质层面（C）包括的物质形式是最为精细微妙的，科学家也承认其存在。以太物质层面包含的是科学界称作以太的物质，这是一种非常稀薄、延展性很好的物质，布满了整个空间，在光、热、电和磁等振动能量波动传递过程中起着媒介的作用。
This Ethereal Substance forms a connecting link between Matter (so-called) and Energy, and partakes of the nature of each. The Hermetic Teachings, however, instruct that this plane has seven sub-divisions (as have all of the Minor Planes), and that in fact there are seven ethers, instead of but one.
这种以太物质连接着两个方面，一个是物质，也就是振动能量形式方面；另一个是能量或者动力方面，而且它具有两者的特点。但是赫尔墨斯主义认为以太这一层面还包括七个更小的层面，而不是仅有一种以太物质。
Next above the Plane of Ethereal Substance comes the Plane of Energy (A), which comprises the ordinary forms of Energy known to science, its seven sub-planes being, respectively, Heat; Light; Magnetism; Electricity, and Attraction (including Gravitation, Cohesion, Chemical Affinity, etc.) and several other forms of energy indicated by scientific experiments but not as yet named or classified.
以太物质层面之上就是能量层面（A）。这一层面包含的形式与物理科学的主张相同，它有七个更小的层面，分别是：热、光、磁场、电场、吸引力（包括全能者引力、凝聚力、化学引力等等），还有几种其他形式的能量，这几种能量已被科学界证实，但是还没有命名归类。
The Plane of Energy (B) comprises seven subplanes of higher forms of energy not as yet discovered by science, but which have been called "Nature's Finer Forces" and which are called into operation in manifestations of certain forms of mental phenomena, and by which such phenomena becomes possible.
能量层面（B）包括七种更高级的能量形式，科学还没有发现，我们称之为自然界了不起的动力（Nature's Finer Forces）。这一能量层面在某些心理现象形式的实现中起作用，也正是由于它的作用，心理现象才有可能存在。
CHAPTER VII "THE ALL" IN ALL
第七章 全能者在万物之中
"While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE
ALL is in ALL. To him who truly understands this
truth hath come great knowledge."--The Kybalion.
万物存在于全能者之中，同样地，全能者也存在于万物之中。对于真正领会这个真理的人，他已经获得大智。
——Kybalion
How often have the majority of people heard repeated the statement that their Deity (called by many names) was "All in All" and how little have they suspected the inner occult truth concealed by these carelessly uttered words?
大多数人经常反复听到这样的陈述，即他们的造物主是一切的一切，而他们很少怀疑这绝对草率的话语所掩盖的内在的深奥真理。
The commonly used expression is a survival of the ancient Hermetic Maxim quoted above.
As the Kybalion says: "To him who truly understands this truth, hath come great knowledge."
这个普遍使用的表述是上面所引用的古代赫尔墨斯箴言的延续。
正如Kybalion所说：真正领会这个真理的人，他已经获得大智。
And, this being so, let us seek this truth, the understanding of which means so much. In this statement of truth--this Hermetic Maxim--is concealed one of the greatest philosophical, scientific and religious truths.
正是如此，让我们寻求这个真理，这个真理包含的意义极多。在这个真理的陈述中——这个古代赫尔墨斯箴言——隐含着一个最伟大的哲学、科学和宗教的真理。
We have given you the Hermetic Teaching regarding the Mental Nature of the Universe--the truth that "the Universe is Mental--held in the Mind of THE ALL."
As the Kybalion says, in the passage quoted above: "All is in THE ALL." But note also the co-related statement, that: "It is equally true that THE ALL is in ALL."
我们已经给你赫尔墨斯关于宇宙精神本质的神秘教导：宇宙是精神的，存在于全能者的思想中。
恰如Kybalion在以上引用的段落所说：万物存在于全能者中。
但注意与之相应的陈述：全能者存在于万物中，也同样正确。
This apparently contradictory statement is reconcilable under the Law of Paradox. It is, moreover, an exact Hermetic statement of the relations existing between THE ALL and its Mental Universe.
这个明显矛盾的陈述在似非而是的一致法则下是相容的。而且，它恰恰是赫尔墨斯关于全能者和它的精神宇宙之间存在的关系的一个陈述。
We have seen how "All is in THE ALL"--now let us examine the other aspect of the subject.
我们已经明白万物存在于全能者之中。现在让我们来验证这个主题的另一面。
The Hermetic Teachings are to the effect that THE ALL is Imminent in ("remaining within; inherent; abiding within") its Universe, and in every part, particle, unit, or combination, within the Universe.
This statement is usually illustrated by the Teachers by a reference to the Principle of Correspondence.
赫尔墨斯教导的大意是：全能者内在于它的宇宙中，它存在于宇宙的每一个部分、微粒、单元或组合之中。
这个表述通常被论及一致法则的老师举例阐释。
The Teacher instructs the student to form a Mental Image of something, a person, an idea, something having a mental form, the favorite example being that of the author or dramatist forming an idea of his characters;
or a painter or sculptor forming an image of an ideal that he wishes to express by his art.
老师指导学生形成一些事物、一个人、一个创意、一些具有精神形式的事物以及作者或戏剧家反映他喜爱的性格特征的精神形象；
或一个画家、雕塑家形成一个他希望用他的艺术来表达的理想形象。
In each case, the student will find that while the image has its existence, and being, solely within his own mind,
yet he, the student, author, dramatist, painter, or sculptor, is, in a sense, immanent in;
remaining within; or abiding within, the mental image also.
在每一个例子中，学生会发现，在这期间这个形象有它的存在方式，而且仅仅在于他自己的内心，
然而，在某种程度上，他、学生、作者、戏剧家、画家或雕塑家都是固有于内心的。
保持于内心，遵从于内心，精神形象也是一样。
In other words, the entire virtue, life, spirit, of reality in the mental image is derived from the "immanent mind" of the thinker. Consider this for a moment, until the idea is grasped.
换一句话说，全部的德行、生活、灵魂、精神形象中的现实都来源于思考者固有的内在思想。好好思考这一点，直到领会它。
To take a modern example, let us say that Othello, Iago, Hamlet, Lear, Richard III, existed merely in the mind of Shakespeare, at the time of their conception or creation.
And yet, Shakespeare also existed within each of these characters, giving them their vitality, spirit, and action.
举一个现代的例子，让我们说奥勒留、拉戈、哈姆雷特、李尔王、理查德三世等，在构想和创造他们的时间里，他们仅仅存在于莎士比亚的内心。
同时，莎士比亚也存在于这些角色中，并给他们生命力、灵魂和行动。
Whose is the "spirit" of the characters that we know as Micawber, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep
--is it Dickens, or have each of these characters a personal spirit, independent of their creator?
谁是我们所知道的麦考白、《雾都孤儿》中乌拉•希普的灵魂
——是狄更斯，还是这些角色各自有自己的灵魂而独立于他们的创造者？
Have the Venus of Medici, the Sistine Madonna, the Apollo Belvidere, spirits and reality of their own, or do they represent the spiritual and mental power of their creators?
维纳斯•梅迪西、西斯汀•麦当娜、阿波罗•贝尔维德勒有他们自己的精神和现实，还是只代表他们的创造者的灵魂和精神力量？
The Law of Paradox explains that both propositions are true, viewed from the proper viewpoints. Micawber is both Micawber, and yet Dickens. And, again, while Micawber may be said to be Dickens, yet Dickens is not identical with Micawber.
矛盾法则指出，从各自的视角看去，两方面都是对的。麦克白既是麦克白也是狄更斯。此外，可以说麦克白是狄更斯，虽然狄更斯不同于麦克白。
Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: "The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me-- and yet I am not HE!"
人，就像麦考白，可能宣称：造物主的灵魂固然在我内心里——然而我不是他。
How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half-wise, who fill the air with their raucous cries of: "I am God!"
这和小智小慧者们的宣称有什么不同吗？他们满世界地叫喊：“我是上帝！”
Imagine poor Micawber, or the sneaky Uriah Heep, crying: "I Am Dickens"; or some of the lowly clods in one of Shakespeare's plays, eloquently announcing that: "I Am Shakespeare!"
想想可怜的麦考白，或鬼鬼祟祟的乌拉•希普，高喊着：我是狄更斯；或莎士比亚一部戏剧中一些小脚色夸张做作地宣称：我是莎士比亚！
THE ALL is in the earthworm, and yet the earth-worm is far from being THE ALL. And still the wonder remains, that though the earth-worm exists merely as a lowly thing, created and having its being solely within the Mind of THE ALL
全能者存在于蚯蚓之中，但蚯蚓远远不是全能者。
令人惊奇的还有，尽管蚯蚓只是作为低等动物而存在，但在全能者的内在思想里，它得以创造并独立存在
--yet THE ALL is immanent in the earthworm, and in the particles that go to make up the earth-worm. Can there be any greater mystery than this of "All in THE ALL; and THE ALL in All?"
——确实，全能者固然存在于蚯蚓之中，并在组成蚯蚓的微粒之中。哪儿能有比这个“万物存在于全能者之中，全能者存在于万物之中”更大的秘密？
The student will, of course, realize that the illustrations given above are necessarily imperfect and inadequate, for they represent the creation of mental images in finite minds, while the Universe is a creation of Infinite Mind
--and the difference between the two poles separates them.
当然，学生们会意识到上面所给的例证必定是不完美和不充分的，因为它们代表有限精神图像的产物，而宇宙是无限思想的产物
——两极之间的不同使它们各自分开。
And yet it is merely a matter of degree--the same Principle is in operation--the Principle of Correspondence manifests in each
--"As above, so Below; as Below, so above."
然而它们只是同一事物的不同等级——同样的法则在运行——一致法则显化在每一事物中
——源头怎样，支流就怎样；支流怎样，源头就怎样。
And, in the degree that Man realizes the existence of the Indwelling Spirit immanent within his being, so will he rise in the spiritual scale of life.
在等级上，人意识到自身固有的内在精神，因此他将上升到生活的精神层面。
This is what spiritual development means--the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us.
Try to remember this last definition--that of spiritual development.
It contains the Truth of True Religion.
这就是所说的精神发展的内涵——识别、实现和证明我们的内在精神。
一定要记住这个最后的释义——精神发展。
它包含着真正宗教的真理。
There are many planes of Being--many sub-planes of Life--many degrees of existence in the Universe.
在宇宙中有许多存在层面——生命的多个子层面——许多存在等级。
And all depend upon the advancement of beings in the scale, of which scale the lowest point is the grossest matter, the highest being separated only by the thinnest division from the SPIRIT of THE ALL.
一切都依赖于生存等级的进化。等级的最低端是粗糙的物质，最高等级的存在只能通过来自全能者精神的最稀薄的部分分离出来。
And, upward and onward along this Scale of Life, everything is moving.
沿着生命等级向上和向前，每一种事物都在运动之中。
All are on the Path, whose end is THE ALL.
万物都在路上，其终点是全能者。
All progress is a Returning Home. All is Upward and Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances. Such is the message of the Illumined.
所有的进程都是一种回家。一切都在向上和向前，无论一切显得多么自相矛盾。这就是先觉者（光明天使）的信息。
The Hermetic Teachings concerning the process of the Mental Creation of the Universe, are that at the beginning of the Creative Cycle, THE ALL, in its aspect of Being, projects its Will toward its aspect of "Becoming" and the process of creation begins.
关于宇宙精神创造进程，赫尔墨斯教导是这样的：在创化周期的开始，全能者，在它存在的方面，表明了它朝向显化的意志，然后创造的过程就开始。
It is taught that the process consists of the lowering of Vibration until a very low degree of vibratory energy is reached, at which point the grossest possible form of Matter is manifested.
它告诉我们，这个过程由逐渐降低的振动组成，直到一个程度非常低的振动能形成，在这一端点上最粗糙的可能的物质形态得以呈现。
This process is called the stage of Involution, in which THE ALL becomes "involved," or "wrapped up," in its creation.
这个过程叫做回旋阶段，在该阶段全能者在它的创造物中被卷入，或者投入。
This process is believed by the Hermetists to have a Correspondence to the mental process of an artist, writer, or inventor, who becomes so wrapped up in his mental creation as to almost forget his own existence and who, for the time being, almost "lives in his creation,"
赫尔墨斯主义者认为这个过程跟艺术家、作家或者发明家的精神过程很一致，他在他的精神创造过程中是多么投入，以至几乎忘记他自己的存在，直至当前，几乎生活在他的创造物中。
If instead of "wrapped" we use the word "rapt," perhaps we will give a better idea of what is meant.
如果不用投入而用全神贯注这个词，或许我们将可以提供一个这意味着什么的更好的概念。
This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring" of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "Indrawing."
不知不觉的创造阶段有时也叫做神圣能量的流露，正如进化状态被称为吸入一样。
The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be the furthest removed from THE ALL, while the beginning of the Evolutionary stage is regarded as the beginning of the return swing of the pendulum of Rhythm--a "coming home" idea being held in all of the Hermetic Teachings.
创造过程的极端被认为是最大限度地远离全能者，而进化阶段的开始被认为是钟摆摆幅有节律的回摆——一个回家的概念在赫尔墨斯神秘学说中贯穿始终。
The Teachings are that during the "Outpouring," the vibrations become lower and lower until finally the urge ceases, and the return swing begins.
教导指明，在流露的过程中，振动变得越来越小，直到驱动力停止，然后回摆开始。
But there is this difference, that while in the "Outpouring" the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole, yet from the beginning of the Evolutionary or "Indrawing" stage, there is manifested the Law of Individualization
但有这样一个区别，就是在流露的过程中，创造性的力量得到精确地显化，而作为一个整体，从进化或吸入阶段的开始，个性化法则得以显现
--that is, the tendency to separate into Units of Force, so that finally that which left THE ALL as unindividualized energy returns to its source as countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higher in the scale by means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Evolution.
——即，分化成各个能量单元的倾向，以致到最后它们离开全能者，作为非个体化的能量回归到它的原处，就像无数高度发展的生命单元一样，已经借由生理、心理和精神的进化而上升到越来越高的等级。
The ancient Hermetists use the word "Meditation" in describing the process of the mental creation of the Universe in the Mind of THE ALL, the word "Contemplation" also being frequently employed.
古代赫尔墨斯们使用“冥想”这个词来描述，在全能者的思想里的，宇宙的精神创化过程。“沉思”一词也经常被用到。