T-14.IX:The Reflection of Holiness

1. 1The Atonement does not make holy. 2You were created holy. 3It merely brings unholiness to holiness; or what you made to what you are. 4Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. 5Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. 6The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? 7The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. 8Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion. 9And the past, too, was changed and interposed between what always was and now. 10The past that you remember never was, and represents only the denial of what always was.

2. 1Bringing the ego to God is but to bring error to truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets. 2It is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. 3How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? 4What disappears in light is not attacked. 5It merely vanishes because it is not true. 6Different realities are meaningless, for reality must be one. 7It cannot change with time or mood or chance. 8Its changelessness is what makes it real. 9This cannot be undone. 10Undoing is for unreality. 11And this reality will do for you.

3. 1Merely by being what it is, does truth release you from everything that it is not. 2The Atonement is so gentle you need but whisper to it, and all its power will rush to your assistance and support. 3You are not frail with God beside you. 4Yet without Him you are nothing. 5The Atonement offers you God. 6The gift that you refused is held by Him in you. 7The Holy Spirit holds it there for you. 8God has not left His altar, though His worshippers placed other gods upon it. 9The temple still is holy, for the Presence that dwells within it is Holiness.

4. 1In the temple, Holiness waits quietly for the return of them that love it. 2The Presence knows they will return to purity and to grace. 3The graciousness of God will take them gently in, and cover all their sense of pain and loss with the immortal assurance of their Father’s Love. 4There, fear of death will be replaced with joy of life. 5For God is life, and they abide in life. 6Life is as holy as the Holiness by which it was created. 7The Presence of Holiness lives in everything that lives, for Holiness created life, and leaves not what It created holy as Itself.

5. 1In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. 2You can reflect Heaven here. 3Yet no reflections of the images of other gods must dim the mirror that would hold God’s reflection in it. 4Earth can reflect Heaven or hell; God or the ego. 5You need but leave the mirror clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness you have drawn upon it. 6God will shine upon it of Himself. 7Only the clear reflection of Himself can be perceived upon it.

6. 1Reflections are seen in light. 2In darkness they are obscure, and their meaning seems to lie only in shifting interpretations, rather than in themselves. 3The reflection of God needs no interpretation. 4It is clear. 5Clean but the mirror, and the message that shines forth from what the mirror holds out for everyone to see, no one can fail to understand. 6It is the message that the Holy Spirit is holding to the mirror that is in him. 7He recognizes it because he has been taught his need for it, but knows not where to look to find it. 8Let him, then, see it in you and share it with you.

7. 1Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of God, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the holiness that heals the world. 2The image of holiness that shines in your mind is not obscure, and will not change. 3Its meaning to those who look upon it is not obscure, for everyone perceives it as the same. 4All bring their different problems to its healing light, and all their problems find but healing there.

8. 1The response of holiness to any form of error is always the same. 2There is no contradiction in what holiness calls forth. 3Its one response is healing, without regard for what is brought to it. 4Those who have learned to offer only healing, because of the reflection of holiness in them, are ready at last for Heaven. 5There, holiness is not a reflection, but rather the actual condition of what was but reflected to them here. 6God is no image, and His creations, as part of Him, hold Him in them in truth. 7They do not merely reflect truth, for they are truth.

1. 救赎并不能使人“变得”神圣。
你在受造之初已被“造成”神圣的了。
救赎只是将不圣之物带回神圣之境而已，也就是将你营造的自我带到你的本来真相前。
圣灵的唯一任务，即是将幻相带入真相，将小我带到上主内。
不要向你的天父隐瞒自己的妄造，否则你便无从得知天父与自己的真相。
唯真知境界才是彻底的安全，离开了它，毫无保障可言。
你打造出一种时间，企图取代永恒，表示你已作出不愿活出真我的决定。
从此真相变成了“过去”，“现在”开始为幻相效力。
于是，“过去”改头换面，插足于始终不变之境与现在之间，从中作梗。
你记忆中的过去，根本就不存在，它不过反映出你已否定了永恒不变之境而已。
2. 把小我带到上主面前，就是将谬误带到真理前，让小我面对那与自身截然相反的真相，因而得以修正。
两者之间的矛盾既然无法存在，小我只有自行化解一途。
当矛盾看出自己不可能存在时，它还能支撑多久？
小我在光明中只能知难而退，这并非受到攻击之故。
它之所以消失，纯粹是因自己本身不真实。
“不同的真相”这一说法毫无意义，因真相只有一个。
真相不会因着时间、心情或机缘而改变。
它的不易性衬托出自身的真实性。
无人解除得了真实之物。
只有非真之物才有被化解的可能。
也唯有真相能为你化解非真之物。
3. 真理仅凭自身的真相便足以帮你由一切非真之境脱身。
救赎是如此的温柔体贴，你只需向它悄悄示意一下，它就会全力以赴地伸出援手。
有上主与你同在，你一点儿也不脆弱。
没有祂，你什么也不是。
救赎就是把上主送还给你。
你一度拒绝的礼物，上主依旧为你保存于你心内，
而且还有圣灵负责为你看守。
上主从未离开祂的祭坛，纵然祂的信徒曾在那儿供奉其他神明。
圣殿依旧神圣无比，只因那神圣本体始终临于此地。
4. 神圣的本体留在圣殿，静候深爱它的人回头。
神圣的临在知道他们终将回归圣洁及恩典之境。
上主的天恩会温柔地领他们进来，以千古不易的天父之爱抚慰他们的痛苦和失落。
生命的喜乐会在那儿取代死亡的恐惧。
因上主即生命，故他们必然活在这一生命内。
这个生命和它的神圣源头同等神圣，因为它是由神圣本体创生的。
那一神圣性活在每一个生命里，因神圣本体创造了生命，故而不可能遗弃自己所造神圣如己的生命。
5. 在世上，你能成为一面纤尘不染的镜子，让造物主的神圣本质在你的明镜里大放光明，照亮周遭的世界。
你能够把天堂反映于人间。
切莫让其他神明的形相污秽你的明镜而反映不出上主的圣容。
世界能够反映天堂，也可能反映地狱；能够反映上主，也可能反映小我。
只等着你拭净自己涂抹在明镜上的阴森魅影。
上主必会在那儿大放光明。
人们在你的镜中只会看到上主的清澈倒影。
6. 只有在光明中，才可能看见倒影。
在黑暗中，它会变得模糊不清而难以显示自身的意义，只得依赖变化无常的诠释。
上主的倒影本来是不待诠释的。
它清晰明确。
只要拭净镜面，它的讯息便会昭然若揭，无人不识。
圣灵会在心灵明镜中向人展示这一讯息。
他会认出这讯息的，因圣灵已教他看出自己有此需要，他只是还不知该从何寻找罢了。
为此，让他在你身上看到这一讯息吧，他才可能将此讯息与你分享。
7. 只要你明白，照耀于你心内的上主倒影能带给世界的疗愈力量有多大，即使只是一瞬的领悟，也会让你迫不及待地拂拭内心的明镜，接受那足以疗愈世界的神圣倒影。
由你心里反映出来的神圣倒影既不模糊，也不会变形。
所有仰望它的人都会看到同一倒影，而且意义炯然。
他们会把形形色色的问题带入那个疗愈光明中，所有的问题都会在此同获疗愈。
8. 神圣本体对形形色色的错误，永远只有一个答复。
凡是出自神圣本体的答复不会自相矛盾的。
不论什么问题，它的答复只有一个，就是疗愈。
凡是看到了心内的神圣倒影而全心想学疗愈之人，表示他已准备好接受天堂了。
神圣本质在那儿已不再只是倒影，而是倒影的真身。
上主也不再是一种形相，祂创造的生命既是自己的一部分，他们在真相里必然永远拥有上主。
而且不只反映真理，他们本身即是真理。
1.救贖並未令你聖化。
你已被創造得神聖無比。
它只會把不神聖帶往神聖；你之所造帶往你之所是。
聖靈的唯一任務就是把幻相帶往真理，小我帶往上主。
不要對天父隱匿你造出的事物，因為這麼做的代價就是失去對祂和對你的真知。
真知相當安穩，但少了它，你又怎能安穩？
一旦你決定不再是你之所是，就會造出時間來取代永恆。
真理於是成了過去，當下也被獻給了幻相。
過去變得有所不同，並被安插在了一向如此與現在之間。
你記得的過去從未存在，那不過表示你已否認了一向存在之物。
2.把小我帶往上主無異於把錯誤帶往真理，而它也會在那兒得到修正，因為它所遇上的是它的反面。
它會被化解，因為這種矛盾將難以為繼。
其荒謬的本質一旦被清楚揭露，它還能維持多久？
消失在光明中的並未受到攻擊。
它只是不見了蹤影，因為它虛假不實。
不同的實相並無意義，因為實相只有一個。
它不會隨著時間、心情、或機緣而變化。
使其成為真實的正是這種永恆不易。
這不會被化解。
化解是為了幻相而有的。
而且實相還會為你完成它。
3.真理只需如實存在，就能拯救你脫離一切非真之物。
救贖是如此溫柔，只需你一聲輕喚，它的大能就會傾巢而出，趕來支持與援助。
有了上主在你身旁，你就不會脆弱。
但少了祂，你就什麼也不是。
救贖給了你上主。
被你拒絕的禮物仍在你內由祂保留著。
為了你，聖靈已將其保留在那兒。
上主並未遠離自己的祭壇，即便祂的膜拜者已把其他神明擺放在那兒。
那座殿宇神聖依舊，因為安住於其中的臨在便是神聖性。
4.在那座殿宇中，神聖性默默等著喜愛它的人回歸。
那一臨在了知他們將歸於純潔和恩典。
上主的恩典將會溫柔地帶他們入內，並以天父之愛的不朽保證覆蓋他們心中的所有痛苦與失落。
在那兒，生命的喜悅取代了死亡的恐懼。
因為上主即是生命，而他們也安住於生命。
生命之神聖就如創造了它的神聖性一般。
神聖性的臨在就活在一切生靈之中，因為神聖性創造了如它一般神聖的生命，且從未遠離過它。
5.你可以成為這世上的無瑕明鏡，以便造物的神聖性能從你這兒光照周遭的一切。
你可以從這兒反映出天堂。
但你若想映出上主的倒影，就不能讓其他神明的形像倒影模糊了這面明鏡。
地上可以反映天上或者地獄；上主或者小我。
你只需徹底移除你令它映照出的所有隱蔽黑暗的形像。
上主自會光照其上。
只有祂那清晰的倒影才會被感知到。
6.光明中才看得見倒影。
黑暗裏它們便模糊不清，而其含義似乎也只取決於變幻的詮釋，而不是它們自身。
上主的倒影無需詮釋。
它十分清晰。
只需拂拭那面明鏡，就不會有人理解不了它輝映出的訊息，那是為了讓每個人都看見的。
它就是聖靈擺放在明鏡面前的訊息，而那明鏡就在他們之內。
他們認得出來，因為他們已經學會自己需要這一訊息，卻不曉得該往哪兒看，才找得到它。
那麼，就讓他們在你內看見、且和你共享吧。
7.上主的倒影就在你內閃耀，它能把療癒的力量帶給整個世界，對此你只需有片刻了悟，就會迫不及待地拂拭心靈的明鏡，以接納神聖性的形像來療癒這個世界。
在你心中閃耀的這一神聖性的形像並不模糊，也不會改易。
對於著眼於它的人而言，它的意義並不模糊，因為每個人眼裡的它都無二無別。
他們都會把各自的問題帶往它的療癒之光，而這些問題就必會在那兒得到療癒。
8.對於任何形式的錯誤，神聖性的答覆都是一致的。
只要是它喚來的，就不會有任何矛盾。
不論帶到它跟前的是什麼，療癒都是它唯一的回應。
神聖性的倒影就在你內，而你若可藉此學會僅僅給出療癒，就已為進入天堂做好最後的準備。
在那兒，神聖性已非倒影，而是真實的境界——在這兒，你只能見到它的倒影。
上主無形無相，而祂的受造既是祂的一部分，便在真理中涵融了祂。
他們不只反映了真理，因為他們就是真理。