T-16.II:The Power of Holiness

1. 1You may still think that holiness is impossible to understand, because you cannot see how it can be extended to include everyone. 2And you have been told that it must include everyone to be holy. 3Concern yourself not with the extension of holiness, for the nature of miracles you do not understand. 4Nor do you do them. 5It is their extension, far beyond the limits you perceive, that demonstrates you do not do them. 6Why should you worry how the miracle extends to all the Sonship when you do not understand the miracle itself? 7One attribute is no more difficult to understand than is the whole. 8If miracles are at all, their attributes would have to be miraculous, being part of them.

2. 1There is a tendency to fragment, and then to be concerned about the truth of just a little part of the whole. 2And this is but a way of avoiding, or looking away from the whole, to what you think you might be better able to understand. 3For this is but another way in which you would still try to keep understanding to yourself. 4A better and far more helpful way to think of miracles is this: You do not understand them, either in part or in whole. 5Yet they have been done through you. 6Therefore your understanding cannot be necessary. 7Yet it is still impossible to accomplish what you do not understand. 8And so there must be Something in you that does understand.

3. 1To you the miracle cannot seem natural, because what you have done to hurt your mind has made it so unnatural that it does not remember what is natural to it. 2And when you are told what is natural, you cannot understand it. 3The recognition of the part as whole, and of the whole in every part is perfectly natural, for it is the way God thinks, and what is natural to Him is natural to you. 4Wholly natural perception would show you instantly that order of difficulty in miracles is quite impossible, for it involves a contradiction of what miracles mean. 5And if you could understand their meaning, their attributes could hardly cause you perplexity.

4. 1You have done miracles, but it is quite apparent that you have not done them alone. 2You have succeeded whenever you have reached another mind and joined with it. 3When two minds join as one and share one idea equally, the first link in the awareness of the Sonship as one has been made. 4When you have made this joining as the Holy Spirit bids you, and have offered it to Him to use as He sees fit, His natural perception of your gift enables Him to understand it, and you to use His understanding on your behalf. 5It is impossible to convince you of the reality of what has clearly been accomplished through your willingness while you believe that you must understand it or else it is not real.

5. 1How can faith in reality be yours while you are bent on making it unreal? 2And are you really safer in maintaining the reality of illusions than you would be in joyously accepting truth for what it is, and giving thanks for it? 3Honor the truth that has been given you, and be glad you do not understand it. 4Miracles are natural to the One Who speaks for God. 5For His task is to translate the miracle into the knowledge which it represents, and which is hidden to you. 6Let His understanding of the miracle be enough for you, and do not turn away from all the witnesses that He has given you to His reality.

6. 1No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want. 2Yet your relationship with Him is real. 3Regard this not with fear, but with rejoicing. 4The One you called upon is with you. 5Bid Him welcome, and honor the witnesses who bring you the glad tidings He has come. 6It is true, just as you fear, that to acknowledge Him is to deny all that you think you know. 7But what you think you know was never true. 8What gain is there to you in clinging to it, and denying the evidence for truth? 9For you have come too near to truth to renounce it now, and you will yield to its compelling attraction. 10You can delay this now, but only a little while. 11The Host of God has called to you, and you have heard. 12Never again will you be wholly willing not to listen.

7. 1This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase and peace will grow with its increase. 2The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness. 3And this has been accomplished in a mind firmly convinced that holiness is weakness and attack is power. 4Should not this be a sufficient miracle to teach you that your Teacher is not of you? 5But remember also that whenever you listened to His interpretation the results have brought you joy. 6Would you prefer the results of your interpretation, considering honestly what they have been? 7God wills you better. 8Could you not look with greater charity on whom God loves with perfect Love?

8. 1Do not interpret against God’s Love, for you have many witnesses that speak of it so clearly that only the blind and deaf could fail to see and hear them. 2This year determine not to deny what has been given you by God. 3Awake and share it, for that is the only reason He has called to you. 4His Voice has spoken clearly, and yet you have so little faith in what you heard, because you have preferred to place still greater faith in the disaster you have made. 5Today, let us resolve together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. 6Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything. 7There is no greater love than to accept this and be glad. 8For love asks only that you be happy, and will give you everything that makes for happiness.

9. 1You have never given any problem to the Holy Spirit He has not solved for you, nor will you ever do so. 2You have never tried to solve anything yourself and been successful. 3Is it not time you brought these facts together and made sense of them? 4This is the year for the application of the ideas that have been given you. 5For the ideas are mighty forces, to be used and not held idly by. 6They have already proved their power sufficiently for you to place your faith in them, and not in their denial. 7This year invest in truth, and let it work in peace. 8Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. 9Think what you have really seen and heard, and recognize it. 10Can you be alone with witnesses like these?

1. 你也许认为不会有人了解神圣性这个东西，你也无法想象神圣性怎么能够推恩到每一个人身上。
然而，你却一再听到我说，它必须涵盖每一个人，才堪称神圣。
你无需为神圣性的推恩力量操心，因奇迹的本质不是你所能了解的，
也不劳你插手。
奇迹的推恩力量超乎你的知见所及，这一点恰恰证明了它们不可能出于你。
你连奇迹本身是什么都不了解，又何苦去为如何把奇迹推恩到整个圣子奥体而操心？
了解一物的特性未必会比了解它的整体更难。
只要是地道的奇迹，它的属性即属于奇迹的一部分，必然显得神奇无比。
2. 人们总爱支解真相，一味着眼于整体的某一部分。
这是避重就轻的伎俩，故意不从整体着眼，只去看自以为熟悉的那一部分。
这充分显示出你仍认为你的看法是你个人的事。
若要了解奇迹，不论是从局部或整体而言，对你最有益而且安全的途径乃是承认自己根本不了解奇迹。
然而，奇迹又需要透过你才能成事。
因此，你对奇迹的了解并非奇迹的关键。
问题是，你也不可能完成一件自己毫不了解的事。
由此可知，你内在必有某个“东西”是了解奇迹的。
3. 对你而言，奇迹似乎有违自然或你的天性；那是因为你已伤害了自己的心灵，与自己的天性背道而驰，它才会忘记那些原是天经地义的事。
即使别人告诉你那是你的天性，你也不可能了解的。
然而，你是明白每一部分都是整体，而整体也在每一部分之中的，这对你原是最自然的事，因为这是上主的思维方式；凡是合乎上主天性的，必然合乎你的天性。
你在这天经地义的知见之中会瞬间明白，奇迹之间不可能有难易之分，因这彻底违背了奇迹的本质。
一旦了解奇迹的真谛，你就不会为它这类特质而大惊小怪了。
4. 你已经行过不少奇迹，那显然不是单靠你自己的本领就能成就的。
唯有当你触动另一心灵而与它结合时，你才可能成就奇迹。
当两颗心灵结合为一，平等共享同一理念时，表示你已经跟一体性的圣子奥体建立了第一道连线。
只要你能遵照圣灵指点的方式与人结合，再把这关系交给祂发挥大用，这天经地义的知见会让圣灵一眼认出你的礼物，而你也会借用祂的慧眼洞见而大有一番作为的。
然而，你若相信凡是自己不了解之物就不是真的，我便无法让你相信奇迹确实是透过你的愿心而成就的了。
5. 你若老想把真相弄得虚幻不实，怎么可能对真相生出信心？
难道坚持把幻相当真，会比欣然感恩地接受真相带给你更大的保障？
你该向上天赐给你的真相献上至高的敬意，并且庆幸自己对它一无所知才是。
对那始终在为上主发言的圣灵而言，奇迹乃是天经地义之事。
圣灵的任务即是把奇迹诠释回它所代表的真知，因你对真知依旧莫测高深。
圣灵对奇迹所作的诠释于你已经绰绰有余了，以此为足吧！也别再回避祂所赐你所有为祂真相作证的人了！
6. 凡是你故意不想看的，不论我提出什么证据都无法让你相信它的真实性。
然而，你和圣灵的关系却是千真万确的。
为此欢欣吧，不要害怕。
你一直在呼求的“那一位”其实就在你身边。
何不欣然邀祂前来，且向祂的见证献上崇高敬意，因他们为你带来了“上主已经来临”的喜讯。
只要你能认出祂来，等于为自己推翻了过去自以为是的一切；而这正是你的隐忧所在。
问题在于，你自以为是的那一切，无一是真的。
你紧抓着它们不放，宁可罔顾真相的种种证据，这对你究竟有何益处？
此刻，真理就近在你眼前，你无法否认它的存在，你迟早会臣服于它那难以抗拒的魅力的。
此刻你还想要拖延，但你逃避不了多久的。
你已听到了上主的居所──基督的殷殷呼唤，
你不能再像以前那样充耳不闻了。
7. 这是充满喜悦的一年，你的聆听能力会逐渐增强，平安也会随之增长。
你还会同时意识到神圣性的力量以及攻击的脆弱。
这个意识早已深植人心了，即使是坚信神圣是脆弱而攻击才是力量的人也不例外。
这个奇迹不正充分证明了那位“圣师”绝非出自于你？
不过你还得随时忆起自己每次聆听祂的诠释时所获得的喜悦之果才行。
诚实地想一想你的诠释曾经带给你的遗害，你还想继续留恋它吗？
上主一心愿你活得更好。
你岂能不仁慈地对待上主所爱之人？
8. 不要让你的诠释妨碍了上主圣爱的来临，眼前已有足够的见证为你清晰道出祂的爱，只有瞎子和聋子才会视而不见、听而不闻。
今年就下定决心不再拒绝上主给你的恩赐吧！
该觉醒了！与人分享这一觉醒吧，这是祂召唤你的唯一理由。
祂的天音铿然有声，只是你还不敢相信自己的所见所闻，只因你更加信赖自己打造出来的种种不幸。
今天，让我们一起下定决心接受这个喜讯：人间的灾难绝非真相，而真相也不可能是灾难。
真相必然安全无虞，且对万物慈爱有加。
没有比欣然接受这一真相更伟大的爱了。
因爱一心只愿你活得幸福快乐，它必会赐你一切能让你幸福之物。
9. 你交托给圣灵的问题，没有一件祂不曾替你解决，将来亦然。
你自己从未彻底解决过任何问题。
此刻不正是你作一总回顾而汲取教训的最佳时刻？
今年，你该把自己学到的观念学以致用一下。
因为观念具有无比的力量，等着你发挥大用，别再任其荒废了。
它们已向你展现了自身的力量，足以让你心悦诚服，别再否定它们了！
把这一年的精力投注于你对真相的了解吧，让真相得以安心地一展身手。
相信圣灵吧！因祂相信了你。
深思一下你真正看见及听见之事，好好洞察其中的深意。
有这群见证的陪伴，你怎么可能感到孤独？
1.或許你依舊認為自己不可能了解神聖性，因為你看不出它該怎麼延伸出去，並涵蓋每一個人。
而我已告訴過你，它必須涵蓋每一個人，才可成其為神聖。
不必擔心神聖性該怎麼延伸出去，因為你不了解奇蹟的天性。
你也施行不了奇蹟。
它們的延伸遠超過你所感知到的限制，而這恰恰證明了你施行不了奇蹟。
既然你不了解它，又何須擔憂它該怎麼延伸至整個聖子奧體？
一項特質不會比整體更難了解。
奇蹟要能存在，它們的特質就必然帶有奇蹟的屬性，因為那是它們的一部分。
2.你傾向於分裂，且只關注整體中一小部分的真相。
這僅是逃避的一種辦法，也就是把視線由整體上移開，投向你自認或許更能了解的事。
因為這僅是你仍在企圖獨攬真知的又一種方式。
就奇蹟而言，一種更好也遠為有益的看法是，你並不了解它們，不論是部分，還是整體。
但它們是藉著你而行的。
為此之故，你毋需了解。
然而，你依舊不可能完成你不了解的事。
所以，在你之內必有一確實了解它們的神聖存在。
3.在你看來，奇蹟一點也不符合天性，因為你之所為傷害了自己的心，也使其悖離了自己的天性，以致它記不起什麼才合乎天性。
你若得知什麼才符合你的天性，也無法真的了解。
認清「部分即是整體，而整體存在於每個部分」乃是完全符合天性的事，因為那就是上主的思維方式，而符合祂天性的便符合你的天性。
與天性徹底相符的感知則會即刻使你明白，奇蹟絕不可能有孰難孰易的區別，因為這違背了奇蹟的真諦。
而你若了解這一真諦，它們的特質就絕不致令你困惑。
4.你已施行過奇蹟，但顯而易見的是，它們不只出自於你。
只要觸及另一顆心，並與之結合，你就能做到這點。
兩顆心一旦合而為一，且平等共享同一觀念，聖子奧體是一的覺知便建起了它的第一道連結。
一旦你照著聖靈的指示，促成了它們的結合，並把這一結合在祂認為適當的時機為祂所用，祂對這份禮物的天然感知就會促成祂對它的了解，而你也得以令祂的了解為你所用。
你若相信自己必須了解那些顯然是藉著你的願心才得以完成的事，否則它們就不真實，那麼就沒有人能說服你它們的真實性。
5.你若一心想把實相變得虛妄不實，又怎能對它抱以信心？
堅持幻相的真實性又怎會比喜悅地接納真理之為真理，並為此心存感激，更令你安全無虞？
榮耀那天賜的真理吧，你該慶幸自己不了解它。
對於替上主發言的那一位，奇蹟乃是天然不過的事。
因為祂的任務就是要把奇蹟轉譯為它所代表的真知，因為你看不見它。
你應滿足於祂所了解的奇蹟，而非逃避祂帶給你的、關乎祂真實性的所有見證。
6.沒有任何證據能說服你相信你不想要的事物。
但是，你與祂的關係真實不虛。
別對此心懷恐懼，而應歡喜雀躍。
你呼求的那一位確實和你同在。
迎接祂的到來，並榮耀那些見證吧，他們帶來了祂已到來的喜訊。
確實，承認祂的存在無異於否定你自認知道的一切，而這正是你的恐懼。
但你自以為知道的一切從來都不是真的。
緊抓著它們不放，並否定真理的證據，對你又有何益？
畢竟你已相當接近真理，到了無可放棄的地步，而你將會屈服於其排山倒海的吸引力。
你仍可拖延，但也只能一小段時間。
上主的神聖東道呼喚了你，而你也已聽見。
你已不會再心甘情願的不去聆聽了。
7.這將是喜悅的一年，你會聽見更多，而平安也將隨之增長。
神聖性的力量與攻擊的脆弱則會同時進入你的覺知。
你原本堅信神聖性是脆弱，而攻擊才是力量，但這卻會在你的心中完成。
這一奇蹟難道不足以教會你，你的老師並不出自於你？
但也不要忘了，只要你聆聽祂的詮釋，其結果都能使你喜悅。
你如果誠實地想一想，你的詮釋都帶來了什麼結果，就不致偏向於此了吧？
上主願你活得更好。
你難道不會以更大的慈愛來看待上主以其完美的愛愛著的人？
8.你的詮釋不該與上主的愛相對立，因為你的眾多見證無比清晰地訴說著它，只有瞎子和聾子才會對此視而不見、聽而不聞。
這一年，你要下定決心，不再否定上主早已賜你的一切。
你要覺醒並加以共享，因為那是祂呼喚你的唯一目的。
祂的天音清晰無比，而你卻對自己聽見的一切毫無信心，因為你仍傾向把更大的信心投諸你營造的災難。
今日，讓我們一道下定決心，接納這一喜訊：災難並不真實，而實相也不會是災難。
實相必然安全無虞，它對一切人、一切事都無比的仁慈。
沒有比欣然接納這點更大的愛。
因為愛只要你幸福，它會帶來能使你幸福的一切。
9.只要是你交給聖靈的問題，沒有一個是祂不曾替你解決的，未來也是如此。
而你企圖自行解決的事，也沒有一件曾經成功。
是時候把這些事實匯集起來，並認清它們的含義了吧？
今年，你要好好運用我教給你的觀念。
因為它們蘊含著巨大的力量，你該好好運用，而非閒置在旁。
它們充分地證明了自己的力量，令你得以將信心投諸於內，而非用於否定它們。
今年，你應投資於真理，讓它在平安中運行。
對祂抱以信心吧，因為祂也對你抱以信心。
想想你確實見過並聽過的一切，並認出它們來吧。
既有這些見證在旁，你又怎會孤獨？