T-10.V:The Denial of God

1. 1The rituals of the god of sickness are strange and very demanding. 2Joy is never permitted, for depression is the sign of allegiance to him. 3Depression means that you have forsworn God. 4Many are afraid of blasphemy, but they do not understand what it means. 5They do not realize that to deny God is to deny their own Identity, and in this sense the wages of sin is death. 6The sense is very literal; denial of life perceives its opposite, as all forms of denial replace what is with what is not. 7No one can really do this, but that you can think you can and believe you have is beyond dispute.

2. 1Do not forget, however, that to deny God will inevitably result in projection, and you will believe that others and not yourself have done this to you. 2You must receive the message you give because it is the message you want. 3You may believe that you judge your brothers by the messages they give you, but you have judged them by the message you give to them. 4Do not attribute your denial of joy to them, or you cannot see the spark in them that would bring joy to you. 5It is the denial of the spark that brings depression, for whenever you see your brothers without it, you are denying God.

3. 1Allegiance to the denial of God is the ego’s religion. 2The god of sickness obviously demands the denial of health, because health is in direct opposition to its own survival. 3But consider what this means to you. 4Unless you are sick you cannot keep the gods you made, for only in sickness could you possibly want them. 5Blasphemy, then, is self-destructive, not God-destructive. 6It means that you are willing not to know yourself in order to be sick. 7This is the offering your god demands because, having made him out of your insanity, he is an insane idea. 8He has many forms, but although he may seem to be many different things he is but one idea;—the denial of God.

4. 1Sickness and death seemed to enter the mind of God’s Son against His Will. 2The “attack on God” made His Son think he was Fatherless, and out of his depression he made the god of depression. 3This was his alternative to joy, because he would not accept the fact that, although he was a creator, he had been created. 4Yet the Son is helpless without the Father, Who alone is his Help.

5. 1I said before that of yourself you can do nothing, but you are not of yourself. 2If you were, what you have made would be true, and you could never escape. 3It is because you did not make yourself that you need be troubled over nothing. 4Your gods are nothing, because your Father did not create them. 5You cannot make creators who are unlike your Creator, any more than He could have created a Son who was unlike Him. 6If creation is sharing, it cannot create what is unlike itself. 7It can share only what it is. 8Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created.

6. 1Son of God, you have not sinned, but you have been much mistaken. 2Yet this can be corrected and God will help you, knowing that you could not sin against Him. 3You denied Him because you loved Him, knowing that if you recognized your love for Him, you could not deny Him. 4Your denial of Him therefore means that you love Him, and that you know He loves you. 5Remember that what you deny you must have once known. 6And if you accept denial, you can accept its undoing.

7. 1Your Father has not denied you. 2He does not retaliate, but He does call to you to return. 3When you think He has not answered your call, you have not answered His. 4He calls to you from every part of the Sonship, because of His Love for His Son. 5If you hear His message He has answered you, and you will learn of Him if you hear aright. 6The Love of God is in everything He created, for His Son is everywhere. 7Look with peace upon your brothers, and God will come rushing into your heart in gratitude for your gift to Him.

8. 1Do not look to the god of sickness for healing but only to the God of love, for healing is the acknowledgment of Him. 2When you acknowledge Him you will know that He has never ceased to acknowledge you, and that in His acknowledgment of you lies your being. 3You are not sick and you cannot die. 4But you can confuse yourself with things that do. 5Remember, though, that to do this is blasphemy, for it means that you are looking without love on God and His creation, from which He cannot be separated.

9. 1Only the eternal can be loved, for love does not die. 2What is of God is His forever, and you are of God. 3Would He allow Himself to suffer? 4And would He offer His Son anything that is not acceptable to Him? 5If you will accept yourself as God created you, you will be incapable of suffering. 6Yet to do this you must acknowledge Him as your Creator. 7This is not because you will be punished otherwise. 8It is merely because your acknowledgment of your Father is the acknowledgment of yourself as you are. 9Your Father created you wholly without sin, wholly without pain and wholly without suffering of any kind. 10If you deny Him you bring sin, pain and suffering into your own mind because of the power He gave it. 11Your mind is capable of creating worlds, but it can also deny what it creates because it is free.

10. 1You do not realize how much you have denied yourself, and how much God, in His Love, would not have it so. 2Yet He would not interfere with you, because He would not know His Son if he were not free. 3To interfere with you would be to attack Himself, and God is not insane. 4When you deny Him you are insane. 5Would you have Him share your insanity? 6God will never cease to love His Son, and His Son will never cease to love Him. 7That was the condition of His Son’s creation, fixed forever in the Mind of God. 8To know that is sanity. 9To deny it is insanity. 10God gave Himself to you in your creation, and His gifts are eternal. 11Would you deny yourself to Him?

11. 1Out of your gifts to Him the Kingdom will be restored to His Son. 2His Son removed himself from His gift by refusing to accept what had been created for him, and what he had created in the Name of his Father. 3Heaven waits for his return, for it was created as the dwelling place of God’s Son. 4You are not at home anywhere else, or in any other condition. 5Do not deny yourself the joy that was created for you for the misery you have made for yourself. 6God has given you the means for undoing what you have made. 7Listen, and you will learn how to remember what you are.

12. 1If God knows His children as wholly sinless, it is blasphemous to perceive them as guilty. 2If God knows His children as wholly without pain, it is blasphemous to perceive suffering anywhere. 3If God knows His children to be wholly joyous, it is blasphemous to feel depressed. 4All of these illusions, and the many other forms that blasphemy may take, are refusals to accept creation as it is. 5If God created His Son perfect, that is how you must learn to see him to learn of his reality. 6And as part of the Sonship, that is how you must see yourself to learn of yours.

13. 1Do not perceive anything God did not create or you are denying Him. 2His is the only Fatherhood, and it is yours only because He has given it to you. 3Your gifts to yourself are meaningless, but your gifts to your creations are like His, because they are given in His Name. 4That is why your creations are as real as His. 5Yet the real Fatherhood must be acknowledged if the real Son is to be known. 6You believe that the sick things you have made are your real creations, because you believe that the sick images you perceive are the Sons of God. 7Only if you accept the Fatherhood of God will you have anything, because His Fatherhood gave you everything. 8That is why to deny Him is to deny yourself.

14. 1Arrogance is the denial of love, because love shares and arrogance withholds. 2As long as both appear to you to be desirable the concept of choice, which is not of God, will remain with you. 3While this is not true in eternity it is true in time, so that while time lasts in your mind there will be choices. 4Time itself is your choice. 5If you would remember eternity, you must look only on the eternal. 6If you allow yourself to become preoccupied with the temporal, you are living in time. 7As always, your choice is determined by what you value. 8Time and eternity cannot both be real, because they contradict each other. 9If you will accept only what is timeless as real, you will begin to understand eternity and make it yours.

1. 疾病之神有他严峻且怪诞的一套仪式。
那儿严禁喜悦进入，沮丧或忧郁才是与他同伙的标志。
沮丧表示你已经背弃了上主。
许多人害怕亵渎神圣，却不了解“沮丧”的真正内涵。
他们不明白，否认上主等于否定了自己的终极身份，因此圣经才会有“罪恶的代价是死亡”的说法。
此言确实一针见血，一旦否定了生命，所见的一切自然显得了无生机；不论哪一种否定，都不外乎以虚假不实来取代真实境界罢了。
这一企图是不可能得逞的，但无可否认地，你很可能自认为有此能耐，而且相信自己已经如愿以偿了。
2. 然而，不要忘了，否认上主之后，你只剩下投射一途，因而相信一切都是别人加诸于你的，而不是你咎由自取。
你接收到的必是自己送出去的讯息，因为那正是你想要得到的讯息。
你也许还会相信，你对弟兄的评判是根据他们传送给你的讯息，其实，你是根据自己传给他们的讯息而评判对方的。
不要把自己拒绝喜悦的账算在他们头上，否则你就无法在他们内看到原本会带给你喜悦的星星之火。
正因为否认了那小小火花，你才会活得如此消沉；你若无法在弟兄身上看到那星星之火，表示你已否认了上主。
3. 矢志否认上主，成了小我的宗教。
疾病之神理所当然会要求你否认健康，因为健康直接违反了它的生存法则。
不妨深思一下这事对你的影响。
除非你生病，否则如何保住你打造的疾病之神？只有罹病的人，才需要这类偶像。
因此，亵渎神圣其实是在毁灭自己，而非毁灭上主。
它意味着你为了要生病，宁愿不知道自己的真相。
这是你的神明向你索取的祭品，由于他是你在神智失常状态下所打造之物，故他最多不过代表你的一个神智失常之念而已。
即使他的化身千变万化，也都跳脱不出一个观念：否认上主的存在。
4. 疾病与死亡外表看来好似已违背了上主旨意而潜入圣子心中了。
这类“攻击上主”之念会使上主之子认定自己是失怙之人，沮丧的他自然只能打造出忧郁之神。
圣子宁可放弃喜悦而选择这一神明，只因他不能接纳自己虽是创造者但也是受造物这一事实。
失去天父的圣子自然感到举目无援，因为唯有天父才是他的唯一救援。
5. 我曾说过，凭你自己，你做不出任何事情的，更何况，你也不是出自于自己。
如果你是的话，你所打造的一切便成了真的，而你就永远摆脱不了它们了。
正因你不是自己造出来的，所以什么都用不着你来操心。
你那些神明根本就不存在，因为天父从未创造过他们。
你没有能力打造出任何异于你造物主的创造者的，正如祂也不可能创造出与自己不同的圣子，是同一道理。
创造是一种分享，故它无法造出与自身相异之物。
它只能分享自己所有的真相。
沮丧是一种孤立状态，因此不可能出自创造。
6. 上主之子，你并没有犯罪，你只是犯了不少的错误。
然而，这是可以修正的，上主会帮助你，祂深知你不可能犯下忤逆上主的罪。
你之所以否认祂，只因你曾经爱过祂，你知道自己一旦承认爱祂，就再也无法否定祂了。
因此，你对祂的否认恰好影射出你对祂的爱，你也知道祂对你的爱。
别忘了，你企图否认之物必是你一度相识之物。
如果你能接受这一“否认”，你必也能接受对它的化解之道的。
7. 你的天父从未否认过你。
祂也不会报复，只是声声唤你回家。
当你认为祂没有答复你的呼求时，其实是你没有答复祂的呼唤。
本着祂对圣子的大爱，祂会透过圣子奥体的每一部分向你呼唤。
只要你能听见祂答复你的讯息，而且听得正确无误，你便不难明白祂的真相了。
上主之爱临于一切造化之上，因为祂的圣子无所不在。
以平安之心去看你的弟兄吧！凭着你给上主的这份礼物，祂就会刻不容缓且满怀感激地进入你的心中。
8. 不要向疾病之神寻求疗愈之道，而应转向爱之真神，因为所谓疗愈，不过就是接纳上主而已。
你一旦接纳了祂，才会知道祂从未否认过你；你的存在奠基于祂对你的肯定与接纳上头。
你既未生病，也不会死亡。
但你很可能误把自己当成生老病死之物。
请记住，这种自我观才是亵渎神圣，因为那表示你并未以爱来看待上主以及与祂一体不分的造化。
9. 只有永恒之物才能被爱，因为爱是不朽的。
凡是出自上主的生命，永远非祂莫属，而你确实来自上主。
难道祂会让自己受苦？
祂岂会把自己所不屑之物赐给圣子？
你若承认自己是上主的创造，就不可能受苦。
若要活得不苦，你必须先接纳祂是你的造物主。
这并不是因为你若不如此就会遭受天谴。
而是因为你接纳了天父，等于接纳自己的本来面目。
你的天父所创造的你是全然无罪、全然无苦、也不可能受到任何折磨的。
你若否认了祂，便等于迎接罪、痛苦及苦难进入自己心中，这是心灵的天赋本能。
你的心灵既然能够造出三千大千世界，必也能够否认自己造出的一切，因为心灵是自由的。
10. 你从不明白你为自己否认了多少东西，深爱你的上主是多么不忍见你如此。
然而，祂不会插手干预，因为祂的圣子若无自由，就称不上是上主之子了。
干涉你的行为等于攻击上主自身，上主可不至于神智失常到这一地步！
当你否认祂时，神智不清的是“你”。
你难道想与祂分享自己失常的神智吗？
上主对圣子的爱永恒不渝，圣子对上主的爱也永恒不渝。
这是上主之子受造的真相，永存天心，千古不易。
知道了这一真相，你的神智便恢复了清明。
否认这一点，表示你的神智已经疯狂。
上主在创造你之际已将自己赐给了你，而且这一恩赐是永恒不渝的。
你怎么忍心拒绝把自己献回给祂呢？
11. 因着你献给上主的礼物，圣子方能重获天国。
上主之子若拒绝接受天父无始以来为他所造的一切，以及自己因圣父之名所创造的一切，等于自绝于天父的恩赐之外。
天堂仍在等候圣子归来，因为天国是上主为他创造的居所。
除此之外，都不是你的家。
别再咎由自取了，接受上主为你创造的喜悦吧！
上主已赐你化解一切妄造的途径。
侧耳聆听吧！你终将学会如何忆起自己的真相的。
12. 倘若上主知道自己的儿女是全然无罪的，那么，你视他们罪孽深重便等于亵渎神圣。
倘若上主知道祂的孩子是不可能受苦的，而你却在任何地方看到他们受苦，便是亵渎神圣。
倘若上主知道祂的儿女是全然喜悦的，而你却感到沮丧忧郁，等于亵渎神圣。
不论你以何种形式亵渎，全是幻相，它们不过代表了你拒绝接受造化的真相而已。
倘若上主所创造的圣子是完美无缺的，你必须学习如此看他，方能得知他的真相。
你既是圣子奥体的一部分，你也应当如此看待自己，方能认出自己的真相。
13. 不要着眼于非上主所造之物，否则你等于否认了上主。
祂是唯一的天父，祂已将自己的“为父身份”赐给了你，使你成为万物之父。
你给自己的礼物无足轻重，但你给自己的创造物之礼则如上主恩赐一般真实，因为你只可能因祂的圣名而给予。
为此之故，你的创造才会如祂的造化一般真实。
然而，你必须先接受祂地道的“天父身份”，才可能知道圣子的生命真相。
你若把眼前种种病态形象视为上主儿女，就不能不相信自己确实造出那些病态之物。
唯有接纳上主的“天父身份”，你才可能拥有一切，因为只有祂的“天父身份”能赐你一切。
为此之故，否认祂，等于否认了你自己。
14. 傲慢即是否认爱，因为爱是共有共享的，而傲慢则有所保留。
只要这两种可能性对你都有吸引力，选择的概念便由此而生了，它绝非来自上主。
这一概念只存于时间领域，不存于永恒之境；为此，只要你心中还有时间的观念，你就有选择的余地。
连时间都是出自你的选择。
如果你愿忆起永恒，你必须仅仅瞩目于永恒。
你若容许自己为无常事物操心，你便落入了时空。
你的选择必会受你的价值判断所操纵。
时间与永恒不可能同时存在，因为它们相互抵触。
如果你只接受“超时空”为真实的境界，表示你终于了解了永恒之境，且纳为己有了。
1.疾病之神的種種儀式既怪異而又極其嚴苛。
喜樂是絕不被允許的，因為抑鬱象徵著你對他的忠誠。
抑鬱意謂著你已拋棄了上主。
許多人對褻瀆心懷恐懼，卻不了解它的含義。
他們尚未領悟，否定上主無異於否定自己的真實身分，而在此意義上，罪的代價乃是死亡。
此處的含義相當直白；否定了生命，就會感知到其反面，因為所有形式的否定都是以不存在來取代存在。
沒有人能真的做到這點，但無可爭辯的是，你可以自認做得到，並相信自己已經做到。
2.但是，不要忘了，否定上主免不了會導致投射，而你也會相信對你做出這種事的是別人，不是自己。
你一定會收到自己給出的訊息，因為那是你想要的。
你可能會以為自己對弟兄的評斷是基於他們所給的訊息，但你的評斷其實是基於你給他們的訊息。
別把你對喜樂的否定歸咎給他們，否則你就無法在他們內看見能帶來喜樂的星星之火。
使你抑鬱的是你對這星星之火的否定，因為只要你眼裡的弟兄失去了它，你就是在否定上主。
3.忠於對上主的否定即是小我的宗教。
疾病之神顯然會要人否定健康，因為健康與它的存在背道而馳。
仔細想想，這對你來說意謂著什麼。
你若不生病，就維繫不了你營造的神，因為你只有在生病的時候才會想要他們。
那麼，褻瀆即是自我毀滅，卻毀滅不了上主。
這表示你寧可不認識自己，也要生病。
這就是你的神向你索求的奉獻，他出自失常的神智，所以也是個妄念。
他的形式多種多樣，但即便看似五花八門，他仍只是一念；也就是對上主的否定。
4.疾病與死亡看似進入了上主之子的心靈，而與上主的旨意相悖。
「對上主的攻擊」讓聖子自認失去了天父，而基於自身的抑鬱，他造出了一尊抑鬱之神。
他選擇了這些而非喜樂，因為他不願接納這一事實：他雖然是創造者，卻是上天所造。
但失去了天父的聖子只會孤立無援，因為只有祂才能施以援手。
5.我曾說過，你倘使獨自一人，就什麼也做不了，但你並非獨自一人。
否則你營造的一切就會成真，而你也將萬劫不復。
正因為你並未造出自己，所以也完全無需煩惱。
你的神什麼也不是，因為天父並未創造他們。
你造不出與造物相異的創造者，一如祂造不出與自己相異的聖子。
創造若和共享無異，就造不出與自己相異的事物。
它能共享的只有自己的本質。
抑鬱即是分離，所以也不可能被創造。
6.上主之子啊，你從未有罪，但你錯看了太多的事。
不過，這是可以修正的，而上主也會從旁協助，因為祂知道你不可能冒犯祂。
你否定了祂，因為你愛祂，你知道自己一旦認出對祂的愛，就再也無法否定祂。
為此之故，你對祂的否定意謂著你對祂的愛，而你也知道祂愛你。
不要忘了，你一定曾經了知你所否定之物。
而你若接納了否定，表示你也能接納它的化解。
7.你的天父不曾否定過你。
祂從不報復，但祂確實在喚你回去。
你若以為祂並未回應你的呼喚，表示你並未回應祂的呼喚。
祂會藉著聖子奧體的每一部分來呼喚你，因為祂愛自己的聖子。
你若聽見祂的訊息，表示祂已回應了你，而你若聽個明白，就會得知祂的存在。
上主的愛就蘊含在祂創造的一切之內，因為祂的聖子無所不在。
以平安的眼光看待弟兄吧，如此上主便會奔入你心底，並感激你給祂的禮物。
8.只往愛之神，而非疾病之神那兒尋求療癒吧，因為療癒即是你對祂的肯認。
一旦肯認了他，你就會明白祂從未停止對你的肯認，而這一肯認則蘊含著你的存在。
你既沒有病，也不會死。
但你能把自己和這類事物混為一談。
不要忘了，這種作法即是褻瀆，因為這表示你看待上主及其受造的眼光缺乏愛，而兩者卻一體不二。
9.愛不會死，所以只有永恆之物才可被愛。
屬於上主的則永遠非祂莫屬，而你就屬於上主。
祂豈會讓自己受苦？
祂豈會賜給聖子自己也接受不了的東西？
倘使你願意按著上主創造的模樣來接納自己，就會失去受苦的能力。
但你必須肯認祂作為你的創造者。
不是因為你若不這麼做，就會受到懲罰，
而僅僅是因為肯認天父就是在如實的肯認你自己。
天父創造的你既沒有任何罪，也沒有任何型態的苦與痛。
一旦否定了祂，你就會把罪和苦和痛都帶入自己的心，因為祂已讓你的心擁有力量。
你的心有能力創造出世界，但它也能否定自己創造的一切，因為它是自由的。
10.你並不明白你的自我否定有多深，而上主，基於祂的愛，又有多不願意如此。
然而，祂不願干預你的決定，因為聖子若不自由，祂就會認不得他。
干預你就是在攻擊祂自己，而祂並未神智不清。
一旦否定了祂，表示你已神智不清。
難道你要令祂共享你的神智不清？
祂一刻不停的愛著自己的聖子，而祂的聖子也一刻不停的愛著祂。
聖子的創生便是以此為前提，而這也永遠繫在了祂的天心之中。
了知這點便是神智清明。
否定它便是神智不清。
上主在創造你時已把自己也給了你，而祂的禮物永恆不易。
難道你要當著祂的面否定你自己？
11.藉著你獻給祂的禮物，天國便會恢復於祂的聖子。
祂的聖子已把自己排除在祂的禮物之外，因為他拒絕接納上天為他創造的一切，乃至他以天父之名所造的一切。
天堂既是被造來作為聖子的居所，就會等著他歸來。
只要離開天堂，或處在任何其他的狀態，你就不在家裡。
別讓自己無法以上天替你創造的喜樂來替代你為自己造出的悲慘。
上主已給了你方法來化解你所造出的一切。
傾聽吧，如此你才會明白該怎麼憶起自己的真面目。
12.上主倘使知道自己的孩子純潔無罪，將他們視為有罪便是種褻瀆。
上主倘使知道自己的孩子全無痛苦，在任何地方見到受苦便是種褻瀆。
上主倘使知道自己的孩子滿是喜樂，感到沮喪便是種褻瀆。
這所有的錯覺，乃至褻瀆可能呈現的種種形式，都是在拒絕接納受造的本來面目。
上主若把聖子創造得完美無缺，你就必須學習以這種方式看待他，從而得知他的實相。
而你既是聖子奧體的一部分，就必須以這種眼光自我看待，從而得知你的實相。
13.別去感知上主未曾創造的任何事物，不然就是在否定祂。
祂的為父身分乃是唯一，同時也非你莫屬，只因祂已將其賜給了你。
你給自己的禮物沒有任何意義，但你給自身受造的禮物卻與祂的肖似，因為這些都是以祂之名而給的。
為此之故，你的創造就如祂的一般真實。
然而，若想了知真正的聖子，就必須肯認真正的為父身分。
那些病態的事物都是你造的，而你也以為它們是你的真實創造，因為你感知到的病態形像已被你認定為上主之子。
只有接納上主的為父身分，你才可擁有任何事物，因為這一身分已給了你一切。
為此之故，否定祂就是在否定你自己。
14.傲慢就是在否定愛，因為愛只會共享，而傲慢則否。
只要二者在你眼裏皆屬可欲之物，抉擇的概念就不會離去，即便上主並未造出它來。
在永恆裏，它並不真實，但在時間中，它卻是如此，所以，只要時間還在你心中延續，抉擇就會存在。
時間本身即是你的抉擇。
你若想憶起永恆，就必須只著眼於永恆之物。
倘使讓自己沉緬於過眼雲煙，就會活在時間裏。
你的抉擇一向取決於你所珍視之物。
時間與永恆無法同時為真，因為它們彼此衝突。
倘使你只願接納永恆之物為真，就會開始了解永恆，並使其非你莫屬。