T-30.VIII:Changeless Reality

1. 1Appearances deceive, but can be changed. 2Reality is changeless. 3It does not deceive at all, and if you fail to see beyond appearances you are deceived. 4For everything you see will change, and yet you thought it real before, and now you think it real again. 5Reality is thus reduced to form, and capable of change. 6Reality is changeless. 7It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. 8It must transcend all form to be itself. 9It cannot change.

2. 1The miracle is means to demonstrate that all appearances can change because they are appearances, and cannot have the changelessness reality entails. 2The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. 3Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. 4It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality. 5The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health, his perfect freedom from all forms of lack, and safety from disaster of all kinds. 6The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed. 7This demonstrates that it was never real, and could not stem from his reality. 8For that is changeless, and has no effects that anything in Heaven or on earth could ever alter. 9But appearances are shown to be unreal because they change.

3. 1What is temptation but a wish to make illusions real? 2It does not seem to be the wish that no reality be so. 3Yet it is an assertion that some forms of idols have a powerful appeal that makes them harder to resist than those you would not want to have reality. 4Temptation, then, is nothing more than this; a prayer the miracle touch not some dreams, but keep their unreality obscure and give to them reality instead. 5And Heaven gives no answer to the prayer, nor can a miracle be given you to heal appearances you do not like. 6You have established limits. 7What you ask is given you, but not of God Who knows no limits. 8You have limited yourself.

4. 1Reality is changeless. 2Miracles but show what you have interposed between reality and your awareness is unreal, and does not interfere at all. 3The cost of the belief there must be some appearances beyond the hope of change is that the miracle cannot come forth from you consistently. 4For you have asked it be withheld from power to heal all dreams. 5There is no miracle you cannot have when you desire healing. 6But there is no miracle that can be given you unless you want it. 7Choose what you would heal, and He Who gives all miracles has not been given freedom to bestow His gifts upon God’s Son. 8When he is tempted, he denies reality. 9And he becomes the willing slave of what he chose instead.

5. 1Because reality is changeless is a miracle already there to heal all things that change, and offer them to you to see in happy form, devoid of fear. 2It will be given you to look upon your brother thus. 3But not while you would have it otherwise in some respects. 4For this but means you would not have him healed and whole. 5The Christ in him is perfect. 6Is it this that you would look upon? 7Then let there be no dreams about him that you would prefer to seeing this. 8And you will see the Christ in him because you let Him come to you. 9And when He has appeared to you, you will be certain you are like Him, for He is the changeless in your brother and in you.

6. 1This will you look upon when you decide there is not one appearance you would hold in place of what your brother really is. 2Let no temptation to prefer a dream allow uncertainty to enter here. 3Be not made guilty and afraid when you are tempted by a dream of what he is. 4But do not give it power to replace the changeless in him in your sight of him. 5There is no false appearance but will fade, if you request a miracle instead. 6There is no pain from which he is not free, if you would have him be but what he is. 7Why should you fear to see the Christ in him? 8You but behold yourself in what you see. 9As he is healed are you made free of guilt, for his appearance is your own to you.

1. 表相虽有骗人的能耐，却是可以改变的。
唯有真相永恒不易。
它从不骗人，你若无法看穿表相，表示你已受骗了。
因为你所看到的尽是无常；你一度将它当真，如今又重新把它当真。
真相就这样再度被你贬为某种形式，沦为无常之物。
但真相是永恒不易的。
只凭这一点，它便足以为真，与表相不可同日而语。
真相必须超越所有形式才能成为真相，
因它永远不变。
2. 奇迹只是示范了：所有的表相都可以改变，因为它们只是表相，故无真相永恒不易的特质。
奇迹揭露了表相的变化无常，为那超越表相的救恩现身说法。
你的弟兄也具有永恒不易的本质，超越一切表相，不受任何蒙蔽。
是你对他朝三暮四的看法把他原有的永恒不易本质搞得暧昧不明。
他的幸福美梦仍需透过完美健全、毫不匮乏、无灾无难的形相来呈现。
奇迹只是证明没有一种损失或痛苦束缚得了他，因为奇迹能够轻易改变那些表相。
由此证明那些表相毫不真实，不可能源自他的真相。
真相是永恒不易的，天上人间没有一物改变得了它。
表相因着自身的变化无常而显示了它的虚幻不实。
3. 所谓诱惑，不过是想把幻相弄假成真的梦想罢了。
虽然它看起来并不像是一个“但愿真相不是真的”的梦想。
但它坚持某些偶像比你“但愿不是真的”的真相具有更难以抗拒的魅力。
因此，说穿了，诱惑不过是“但愿奇迹不要打扰你的某些梦境，不要揭露它们的虚假不实，而且还要让这些梦想成真”的祈求而已！
天堂不会答复这种祈祷的，它也不可能赐下奇迹来治愈你所嫌弃的表相。
那些限制纯粹是你的分别取舍打造出来的。
不论你求什么，你都会得到，但绝不是来自上主，因祂对有限之物一无所知。
是你自己画地自限的。
4. 真相是永恒不易的。
奇迹只是让你看见，你故意不让自己意识到真相的那个障碍，既不真实也碍不了大事。
但只要你还相信有些表相不可能改变，你自然会失落施展奇迹的一贯能力。
因为是你自己要求奇迹保留一些能力，不要治愈所有的梦境。
只要你真心渴望疗愈，任何奇迹你都施展得出来。
然而，除非你真心想要，否则你是无法得到任何奇迹的。
你若自行选择某一疗愈对象，等于限制了奇迹的那位“施主”，害祂绑手绑脚地无法给出祂想要给予圣子的礼物。
一旦陷入这一诱惑，圣子等于否定了自己的真相，
自甘沦为自己所选之物的奴隶了。
5. 正因真相是永恒不易的，故奇迹早已在那儿等着疗愈无常的万物，并让你看到万物不含一丝恐惧的幸福形相。
终有一天你会如此去看自己的弟兄，
但绝不是当你对他还抱存其他的期待或用心之际。
因这表示你还不想让他得到疗愈与圆满。
他内的基督完美无比。
你难道不想看到这样的他吗？
除了这样的他以外，别再梦见另一个他了。
如此，你才可能看见他内的基督，因为你终于允许祂现身于你了。
祂一旦现身于你，你再也不会怀疑自己是祂的肖像，因祂代表了你与弟兄内永恒不易的本质。
6. 只要你决心不再着眼于弟兄任何表相而宁可漠视他的真相，你必会看见在他内的基督。
勿被梦境所惑而把无常与不定引进此地。
即使你仍会被他的梦境所惑，也无需自责或畏惧，
只要你不赋予梦境力量，用他在你眼中的形相取代他永恒不易的真相即可。
你若能即时祈求奇迹相助，所有虚妄的表相都会悄然隐退。
你一旦让他活出真正的自己，他便能从所有痛苦解脱。
你为什么会害怕看见他内的基督？
你所见到的其实是你自己。
当他获得疗愈之时，你也由罪咎解脱了，因他在你眼中的模样其实代表了你的自我形象。
1.表象可以欺人，卻能被改變。
實相則從不改變。
它絕不會欺騙人，而你的眼光若不能超越表象，就會受到欺騙。
因為你眼裡的一切都會改變，但你曾以為它們真實不虛，而如今的你仍把它們當真。
實相於是淪為了變換不定的形式。
但它從不改變。
正是這點賦予了它真實性，並與所有的表象區隔開來。
它必須超越一切形式，才可成為實相。
它不能改變。
2.有了奇蹟，我們才可證明所有的表象都能改變，因為它們全是表象，也無法如實相那般永恆不易。
奇蹟可以使人明白表象能夠改變，從而證實你的救恩。
在你的弟兄內，有那永恆不易的實相，能夠一舉超越表象與欺騙。
你對他的看法變來變去，亦掩蓋了這一實相，但你卻以為那就是真實的他。
幸福之夢裏的他則會顯出如下的表象與形式：他的健康完美無缺，任何形式的匱乏都限制不了他，一切型態的災禍也傷害不了他。
奇蹟證實了他並不受制於任何形式的痛苦和失落，因為這些很容易改變。
這證明了它們從來就不是真的，也不可能出自他的實相。
因為那從不改變，而天上與地上的一切都無從改變其結果。
但表象則會顯出它們的虛妄不實，因為它們會變。
3.誘惑就是個把幻相弄假成真的願望，不然呢？
從表面上看，它並未冀求所有的實相為假。
但它卻認定某些形式的偶像具有強大的吸引力，比起你不願當真的事物而言，它們更難抗拒。
那麼，誘惑無非是種祈求；祈求奇蹟別來動搖某些夢境，以便它們的虛妄不實能被遮掩，從而獲得你所賦予的真實性。
天堂未曾回應這種祈求，而你也並未得到足以療癒你所不樂見的表象的奇蹟。
你樹立了種種限制。
你已得到了你所祈求的一切，但這些卻不出自上主，因為祂從不知限制為何物。
你已限制了你自己。
4.實相從不改變。
奇蹟則無非是讓你明白，你雖阻礙了自己對實相的覺知，但這一阻礙不僅虛妄不實，且並無任何作用。
你相信總有某些表象是改變不了的，而你為此付出的代價就是難以前後一貫地活出奇蹟。
因為你要求限制它的力量，以免所有夢境都被治癒。
你若渴求療癒，就沒有任何奇蹟是你得不到的。
但你若不想要它，就沒有任何奇蹟能被送到你手裡。
一旦揀擇了你所想療癒之物，施予一切奇蹟的那一位就無法自如的把禮物送給上主之子。
他一受誘惑，就會否定實相。
於是他便會自願受制於他所選定之物。
5.實相從不改變，因此奇蹟已在療癒一切無常之物，再把它們為你獻上，好讓你能一無所懼地看見幸福的形式。
上天已使你得以用這種目光看待弟兄。
但如果在某些方面你不願意，也就無法做到。
因為這正表示你不願他療癒與重回圓滿。
他內的基督完美無缺。
這是你願見到的嗎？
那麼，就別讓任何與他有關的夢境成為你更想著眼的事物。
如此你便會看見他內的基督，因為你歡迎祂前來。
一旦祂出現在你面前，你就會確信自己和祂肖似，因為祂就是你與弟兄之內的永恆不易。
6.一旦決意不以任何表象來取代弟兄的真實樣貌，這就是你將著眼之物。
此時，別忍不住選擇了夢境，以致引入了不確定性。
假使夢境使你忍不住錯認了弟兄，也不必為此感到罪咎和恐懼。
但別賦予它力量來取代你在他內見到的永恆不易。
你要的若是奇蹟，就沒有任何虛妄的表象不會褪去。
你若只願他活出自己的真面目，他就不致承受任何型態的痛苦。
你何必懼怕見到他內的基督？
不論你見到了什麼，你都會在其中見到你自己。
他一療癒，你便擺脫了罪咎，因為他的表象亦是你眼裡的自己。