T-12.VIII:The Attraction of Love for Love

1. 1Do you really believe that you can kill the Son of God? 2The Father has hidden His Son safely within Himself, and kept him far away from your destructive thoughts, but you know neither the Father nor the Son because of them. 3You attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and yet you are surprised that you cannot see it. 4If you seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. 5For if love is sharing, how can you find it except through itself? 6Offer it and it will come to you, because it is drawn to itself. 7But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for it can live only in peace.

2. 1God’s Son is as safe as his Father, for the Son knows his Father’s protection and cannot fear. 2His Father’s Love holds him in perfect peace, and needing nothing, he asks for nothing. 3Yet he is far from you whose Self he is, for you chose to attack him and he disappeared from your sight into his Father. 4He did not change, but you did. 5For a split mind and all its works were not created by the Father, and could not live in the knowledge of Him.

3. 1When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you. 2Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. 3It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. 4Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. 5What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. 6The definition of reality is God’s, not yours. 7He created it, and He knows what it is. 8You who knew have forgotten, and unless He had given you a way to remember you would have condemned yourself to oblivion.

4. 1Because of your Father’s Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. 2You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. 3A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. 4For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. 5God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. 6You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. 7Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. 8It is no more past than future, being forever always.

5. 1You have but to ask for this memory, and you will remember. 2Yet the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so. 3For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. 4You who cannot even control yourself should hardly aspire to control the universe. 5But look upon what you have made of it, and rejoice that it is not so.

6. 1Son of God, be not content with nothing! 2What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. 3God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. 4You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. 5Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. 6Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. 7You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. 8Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. 9By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. 10But it is not there. 11And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

7. 1Yet it does not matter how much distance you have tried to interpose between your awareness and truth. 2God’s Son can be seen because his vision is shared. 3The Holy Spirit looks upon him, and sees nothing else in you. 4What is invisible to you is perfect in His sight, and encompasses all of it. 5He has remembered you because He forgot not the Father. 6You looked upon the unreal and found despair. 7Yet by seeking the unreal, what else could you find? 8The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it can never be. 9And you who share God’s Being with Him could never be content without reality. 10What God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love remains irresistible. 11For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.

8. 1The real world was given you by God in loving exchange for the world you made and the world you see. 2Only take it from the hand of Christ and look upon it. 3Its reality will make everything else invisible, for beholding it is total perception. 4And as you look upon it you will remember that it was always so. 5Nothingness will become invisible, for you will at last have seen truly. 6Redeemed perception is easily translated into knowledge, for only perception is capable of error and perception has never been. 7Being corrected it gives place to knowledge, which is forever the only reality. 8The Atonement is but the way back to what was never lost. 9Your Father could not cease to love His Son.

1. 你真的相信自己有杀害上主之子的能耐吗？
天父已将圣子妥藏于自己的生命内，使你的毁灭之念鞭长莫及；然而，你自己却因着这些念头作祟，再也无法得知天父与圣子的真相了。
由于你每日、每时、每刻都在攻击那个真实世界，你看不见它的踪影岂非意料中事？
如果你是为了打击爱而寻找爱，你是绝对找不到它的。
爱的本质既是分享，那么除非经由爱本身，你还能由何处找到它？
唯有给出爱，它才会来到你这儿，因为爱会被爱吸引。
你给的若是攻击，爱就会隐身不见，因它只能活在平安里。
2. 上主之子与他的天父一般安全无虞，因为圣子深知自己有天父的保护，故一无所惧。
天父的爱已将圣子护守于完美的平安中，故他一无所需，也一无所求。
他就是你的自性，你却感到他遥不可及，只因你心中仍有攻击之念，他才由你眼前遁迹，藏身于天父那里。
他始终未曾变过，改变的是你。
因为分裂的心及其一切妄造均非天父的创造，也不可能进入祂的真知。
3. 你若把原本非真之物搞得活灵活现，它原有的真相便会在你眼前遁迹。
但真相本身是不可能看不见的，因为它在圣灵眼中清晰无比。
你之所以看不见它，只因你的眼睛老是盯着其他的东西。
你没有权利决定什么才是真的；同理，什么是看得见的或什么是看不见的，你也做不了主。
所谓可见之物，其实就是指圣灵着眼之物。
真相的定义来自上主，不是由你界定的。
既然真相是祂创造出来的，故唯有祂了知真相。
你原本知道这些事的，如今已忘得一干二净；除非祂教你如何再度忆起祂来，否则“遗忘”会使你万劫不复。
4. 因着天父之爱，你永远无法忘怀祂的，只因上主亲自将它置于你的记忆中，没有人能忘得了。
你能够否定爱，却无法失落它。
有一种天音将答复你的每个疑问，有一种慧见会修正你所有的知见。
只因唯一的真相已被你搞得不复可见，那唯一的答复对你也不复可闻。
上主会帮你与你自己重新复合，祂绝不会弃你于痛苦而不顾。
你在等待的其实就是祂而已；只是你毫不知情。
然而，祂的记忆会始终在你心内照耀，不可能完全灭迹。
过去如此，未来如此，千古皆然。
5. 只要你祈求恢复这一记忆，你就会忆起祂的。
如果人心千方百计想要抹杀这个记忆，上主自然无法照耀此心。
因上主的记忆只可能降临于有心忆起它而且不再疯狂地想要操弄真相的心灵。
你连自己都掌控不了，实在不该怀有操控宇宙的野心。
只要看看你自己的杰作，你该庆幸自己没那本事。
6. 上主之子，不要认命于虚无之境！
凡是虚妄不实的，既不可见，也无价值。
上主不可能赐给圣子无价值之物，圣子也不会接受这类礼物的。
上主早已在你自以为遗弃上主的那一刻拯救了你。
你所打造的那一切也不曾存在过，你看不见它们，因为圣灵从不着眼于它们。
祂所着眼之物才是你该看见的，你的知见便如此被祂的慧见疗愈了。
你已经把这个世界的唯一真相弄得不复可见。
还把虚无当宝似地追求得不遗余力。
虚无被你弄假成真之后，你自然随处都只能看到它的踪迹。
其实它根本就不存在！
只因你满眼全是自己打造的虚无，基督自然由你眼前遁形。
7. 然而，不论你企图在自己的觉识与真理之间拉近多少的距离，全都无济于事。
你是可能看到上主之子的，因为人人具有这一慧眼。
圣灵在你身上所看到的就是这个上主之子。
你视而不见之物在祂眼中却历历在目。
祂始终记得你，因为祂不可能遗忘天父。
你以前只知着眼于非真之物，自然只会找到沮丧绝望。
你想要的若是非真之物，岂能期待找到他物？
非真的世界必然令人绝望，因它永远无法成真。
分享上主生命的你，若不活在真相内，是不可能心安的。
凡不是上主赐你之物，没有控制你的能力；而爱吸引爱的力量，则非你所能抗拒。
因为爱的任务乃是将万物结合于自身之内，又能把自己的圆满本质推恩于万物，使它们重归一体。
8. 上主在爱中赐给你一个真实世界，想要与你所造及所见的世界交换。
你只需由基督手中接收过来，正视一下它的存在。
它的真相便会使一切幻相当下破灭，因为注视真相，给了你一种全面性的知见。
你只要正视一眼，便会忆起原来它始终不曾改变过。
虚无当下便消失了踪影，因为你终于懂得如何真正去看了。
经过救赎的知见便轻而易举转为真知，因为唯有知见才可能错误，而知见根本就不存在。
它一被修正，便会让位给真知，那才是唯一且永恒的真相。
所谓救赎，不过是领你回到那不曾失落之境的方便法门而已。
只因你的天父对圣子的爱永恒不渝。
1.你真以為自己可以殺害上主之子？
天父已把聖子安穩地藏在自身之內，令他遠離你的毀滅性思維，但這些思維卻使你認不得天父和祂的聖子。
每一天、每個小時、每一分鐘，你都在攻擊真實世界，卻又訝異於自己看不見它。
如果你尋求愛是為了攻擊它，就永遠也找不到它。
畢竟，愛如果是共享，除了經由它，你又怎能找得到它？
一旦給出它，它就會來到，因為它會被自己吸引。
但若給出攻擊，愛就會隱而不顯，因為它只能活在平安之中。
2.上主之子就如天父一般安安穩穩，因為他了知天父的保護，內心也一無所懼。
天父的愛令他保有完美的平安，而他一無所需，也一無所求。
然而，他雖是你的自性，卻遠在天邊，因為你選擇攻擊他，而他也消失在了天父懷裡，令你不得而見。
他並未改變，但是你變了。
因為分裂的心靈和它造作的一切都不出自天父，也無法在祂的真知裡存活。
3.一旦你把虛妄之物營造得有形可見，真實之物就會變得隱而不顯。
但是它本非如此，因為聖靈把它看得清清楚楚。
你之所以看不見它，是因為你正看著其他事物。
然而，何為可見，何為不可見，乃至何為實相的本質，這些都不取決於你。
聖靈見到的才是可見之物。
實相的定義出自上主，而不是你。
祂創造了它，也知曉它的本質。
你雖知曉，卻已遺忘，若不是祂提供了憶起的途徑，你就會令自己墮入遺忘。
4.基於天父的愛，你永遠也不會忘記祂，因為沒有人會遺忘天父親自安在他記憶中的一切。
你可以否定它，但你無法失去它。
天音會答覆你所提出的每一個問題，慧見則會修正你對眼前一切事物的感知。
因為你使之隱而不顯的才是唯一的真理，而你未曾聽聞的才是唯一的答案。
上主會令你與自己重新結合，且不會在你沮喪時棄你而去。
你在等的只有祂，而你卻不明白這點。
但是祂那不可抹滅的記憶仍在你心中照耀。
它既未過去，也非將來，因為它永遠都在。
5.你只需祈求這一記憶，就能憶起祂來。
然而，一旦抹滅了上主的記憶，且寧可遺忘，它就無法在心靈之中閃耀。
因為上主的記憶只能在選擇憶起的心靈之中浮現，它得拋棄掌控實相的妄念與欲求。
你連自己都掌控不了，就不該冀望掌控這個宇宙。
瞧瞧你把它營造成的模樣，並慶幸這不是事實吧。
6.上主之子啊，別再以虛無為足了！
虛妄之物既不可見，也沒有任何價值。
上主不能給予聖子無價值之物，祂的聖子也無法領受它。
你自認拋棄了祂的那一刻，你便已得到救贖。
你所營造的一切既從未存在，也並不可見，因為聖靈並未看見它們。
但祂看見的一切卻是你能著眼的，祂的慧見也能療癒你的感知。
你已把世間的唯一真相變得隱而不顯。
你珍視虛無，並四處尋求它。
你已把虛無弄假成真，從而看見了它。
但它並不存在。
而你也看不見基督，因為你已把虛無變得有形可見。
7.然而，你究竟想在自己的覺知和真理之間插入多大的距離，則無關緊要。
上主之子可以被看見，因為他的慧見是共享的。
聖靈正看著他，而在你內，祂也看不見別的。
被你視而不見的在祂眼中卻是完美，且充滿了祂的視野。
祂記得你，因為祂並未遺忘天父。
你卻著眼於虛妄，並尋獲了絕望。
然而，藉著尋求虛妄，你又能尋獲什麼別的？
虛妄的世界即是絕望的世界，因為它永遠無法存在。
而你既與上主一道共享了祂的存在，就只有實相才可使你滿足。
上主未曾給你的就無法動你分毫，而愛對愛的吸引則依舊難以抗拒。
因為愛的任務就是要令萬物與之結合，並藉著延伸自己的圓滿來維繫萬物的一體性。
8.上主懷著愛賜給了你真實世界，以交換你造出的世界和你眼裡的世界。
你只需從基督手裡接下，並著眼於它。
它的真實性會讓其餘的一切隱而不顯，因為看見了它就看見了一切。
而一旦你著眼其上，就會憶起它一向如此。
虛無將變得隱而不顯，因為你終於看見了真相。
蒙受救贖的感知則會輕易轉譯為真知，因為只有感知才會犯錯，而它從未存在。
一旦受到修正，它就會讓位給真知，而那一向是唯一的實相。
救贖不過是引人回歸不曾失落的一切。
你的天父亦止不住祂對聖子的愛。