T-14.I:The Conditions of Learning

1. 1If you are blessed and do not know it, you need to learn it must be so. 2The knowledge is not taught, but its conditions must be acquired for it is they that have been thrown away. 3You can learn to bless, and cannot give what you have not. 4If, then, you offer blessing, it must have come first to yourself. 5And you must also have accepted it as yours, for how else could you give it away? 6That is why miracles offer you the testimony that you are blessed. 7If what you offer is complete forgiveness you must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless. 8How could you learn what has been done for you, unknown to you, unless you do what you would have to do if it had been done for you?

2. 1Indirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. 2You will perceive the need for this if you realize that to deny is the decision not to know. 3The logic of the world must therefore lead to nothing, for its goal is nothing. 4If you decide to have and give and be nothing except a dream, you must direct your thoughts unto oblivion. 5And if you have and give and are everything, and all this has been denied, your thought system is closed off and wholly separated from the truth. 6This is an insane world, and do not underestimate the extent of its insanity. 7There is no area of your perception that it has not touched, and your dream is sacred to you. 8That is why God placed the Holy Spirit in you, where you placed the dream.

3. 1Seeing is always outward. 2Were your thoughts wholly of you, the thought system you made would be forever dark. 3The thoughts the mind of God’s Son projects or extends have all the power that he gives to them. 4The thoughts he shares with God are beyond his belief, but those he made are his beliefs. 5And it is these, and not the truth, that he has chosen to defend and love. 6They will not be taken from him. 7But they can be given up by him, for the Source of their undoing is in him. 8There is nothing in the world to teach him that the logic of the world is totally insane and leads to nothing. 9Yet in him who made this insane logic there is One Who knows it leads to nothing, for He knows everything.

4. 1Any direction that would lead you where the Holy Spirit leads you not, goes nowhere. 2Anything you deny that He knows to be true you have denied yourself, and He must therefore teach you not to deny it. 3Undoing is indirect, as doing is. 4You were created only to create, neither to see nor do. 5These are but indirect expressions of the will to live, which has been blocked by the capricious and unholy whim of death and murder that your Father does not share with you. 6You have set yourself the task of sharing what cannot be shared. 7And while you think it possible to learn to do this, you will not believe all that is possible to learn to do.

5. 1The Holy Spirit, therefore, must begin His teaching by showing you what you can never learn. 2His message is not indirect, but He must introduce the simple truth into a thought system which has become so twisted and so complex you cannot see that it means nothing. 3He merely looks at its foundation and dismisses it. 4But you who cannot undo what you have made, nor escape the heavy burden of its dullness that lies upon your mind, cannot see through it. 5It deceives you, because you chose to deceive yourself. 6Those who choose to be deceived will merely attack direct approaches, because they seem to encroach upon deception and strike at it.

1. 你既已蒙受祝福，却不知自己有福，表示你仍有待学习认出这个真相。
真知是无法传授的，纵然如此，你仍得备妥真知所需的条件，因那些条件早已被你抛到九霄云外了。
你能学习祝福，但无法给人自己没有之物。
换句话说，你若祝福别人，表示你已先蒙受了祝福。
而且你必已纳为己有，否则你又如何给出它？
为此之故，奇迹不过证明了，你确实已蒙受祝福。
只要你能给出彻底的宽恕，表示你已放下罪咎，亲自领受了救赎，而且明白自己的确清白无罪。
上天如何待你，你就如何待人。除此之外，你从何得知自己拥有你本来一无所知的福分？
2. 在这个“因否认真相而迷失方向”的世界里，你确实需要能为真理作证的间接证据。
但你得先识破“否认真相不过显现你决心不想知道真相”的企图，才会明白自己确实有此需要。
世界的思想逻辑必然导向虚无，因为虚无正是它的最终目标。
如果你决心只要梦境，也只分享梦境，甚至一生都活在梦里，那么你的思想理路自然会导入虚无。
如果你原本拥有一切，也与人分享一切，而且自身就是一切，那么你一旦否定了这一切，你的思想体系便会全面封闭，而与真理彻底决裂。
这就是疯狂世界最真实的写照，不要低估了它所导致的遗害。
你的所知所见无一不受它影响，为此，你的梦境才会变得神圣不可侵犯。
也为此，上主才会把圣灵放入你的梦里。
3. 看，往往是朝外的。
如果你的念头全然出于自己，那么你打造的思想体系便会永不见天日。
凡是出自上主之子心灵的念头，不论是投射或推恩，都具有他所赋予的一切能力。
圣子与上主共享的意念远超乎他自己的信念，而那些信念全是他自己打造出来的。
他绞尽脑汁所要保护的也只是这些信念，而非真相。
没有人会夺走他的信念。
除非他自动放弃，因为化解那些信念的力量仍在他内。
世间之物绝不可能告诉他世界的逻辑疯狂至极而且导向幻灭。
幸好，编出这疯狂逻辑的心灵里还有一位圣者，祂深知那些逻辑是空幻的，因祂知道一切真相。
4. 只要不是圣灵为你指出的方向，必然不知所终。
你若否定祂所了知的真相，等于否认了你自己的真相，而祂所要教你的不过是如何不再否认真相而已。
化解（undo）和造作（do）一样，只有间接的功能。
你受造的目的是创造，不是为了看什么或做什么。
看与做的能力不过间接表达出你的生存意志，你的生存意志已被死亡与谋害之念窒息了，而那些不洁且无常之念绝非来自天父。
你总想与人分享一些无法分享之物。
你若认为自己可能学会这一本事，自然不会相信你原本应该学会的事了。
5. 因此，圣灵所教的第一件事，就是让你明白什么是你绝对学不会的事情。
祂的讯息从不拐弯抹角，祂要帮你把单纯的真理引入你那复杂得不知所云的思想体系。
祂只需看一眼小我的立论基础，便会看穿它的底细而不予理会。
问题是你还无法识破小我思想体系的迷宫，化解不了自己的妄造，也卸除不下令你心灵窒息的重担。
小我欺骗得了你，只因你存心欺骗自己。
凡是存心自欺的人，必会攻击我这一针见血的教法，因为它不啻是对小我骗局的当头棒喝。
1.你如果有福，卻不曉得這點，就需要學會事實必然如此。
真知是沒有辦法教的，但是它的要件卻得被學會，因為被丟棄的正是這些。
你可以學習祝福，而你給不出自己沒有的事物。
那麼，一旦你獻出祝福，表示它必然已先來到你身上。
而你必然已接納並擁有了它，否則又怎能給得出去？
為此之故，奇蹟給了你「你是有福之人」的見證。
你所獻上的若是徹底的寬恕，表示你必已放下了罪咎，從而親自接受了救贖，且明白了自己的無罪。
除非你做了自己早該做的，否則又怎能明白上天在你不知不覺中為你完成的——即便那早已為你完成？
2.在一個出自否定、卻缺乏指引的世界中，真理的間接證據乃是必需的。
你如果發覺否定即是決意不去了知，就會看見這層需要。
為此之故，世界的邏輯必會導向虛無，因為它的目標就是虛無。
如果你決定擁有、給出、和成為的僅僅是個夢，就必會把自己的思維導向遺忘。
而你如果擁有一切，也給出並成為一切，而這一切卻遭到否定，表示你的思想體系已經關閉，且與真理徹底地分離。
這是個神智不清的世界，也別低估了它的神智不清。
你的感知沒有它滲透不到的地方，而你的夢在你眼裡亦神聖無比。
為此之故，上主在你心中置放了聖靈，因為你在那兒置放了自己的夢。
3.你一向會向外看。
你的思維若都出自於你，你所營造的思想體系就會萬劫不復。
經由聖子心靈投射或延伸的思維具有他所賦予的一切力量。
他和上主共享的心念超越了他的信念，但他造出的都是他的信念。
而他選擇喜愛和防衛的也是這些，而不是真理。
它們不會被人奪走。
但是他可以放棄它們，因為化解它們的神聖源頭就在他內。
在這世上，沒有什麼足以教會他世界的邏輯乃徹底地神智不清，且只會導向虛無。
然而，他雖然造出了神智不清的邏輯，他內的那一位卻知道這只會導向虛無，因為祂什麼都知道。
4.任何指引，只要是與聖靈的有所不同，就會使你哪兒也去不了。
祂所了知的任何真相一經你否定，你就會得不到它，為此之故，祂必須教你放下這樣的否定。
化解則是間接的，造作亦然。
你的創生是為了能去創造，而不是造作或者看見。
這些只能間接表達你活出生命的心願，而這一心願已被異想天開的死亡與謀殺所阻擋，但你的天父並未和你共享這些不神聖的妄念。
你給自己安排了共享不可共享之事的任務。
而只要你認為這麼做是學得會的，就不會相信任何學得會並做得到的事。
5.為此之故，聖靈必須使你明白什麼是你永遠學不會的，並由此開始祂的教導。
祂的訊息相當直接，但小我的思想體系已變得極為扭曲、極為複雜，令你看不出它不具意義，而聖靈卻必須在此引入單純的真理。
祂只會著眼於小我的根基，並加以忽視。
但你化解不了你造出的事物，也逃脫不了它壓在你心頭上的沉悶重擔，所以也無法看透。
它欺騙了你，因為你選擇自我欺騙。
選擇受騙的人只會攻擊直接的辦法，因為它們好似侵犯了欺騙，並打擊了它。