S-1.in:Introduction

1. 1Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation. 2It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son. 3Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other. 4And in this, creation is extended. 5God gives thanks to His extension in His Son. 6His Son gives thanks for his creation, in the song of his creating in his Father’s Name. 7The Love They share is what all prayer will be throughout eternity, when time is done. 8For such it was before time seemed to be.

2. 1To you who are in time a little while, prayer takes the form that best will suit your need. 2You have but one. 3What God created one must recognize its oneness, and rejoice that what illusions seemed to separate is one forever in the Mind of God. 4Prayer now must be the means by which God’s Son leaves separate goals and separate interests by, and turns in holy gladness to the truth of union in his Father and himself.

3. 1Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God, and rising up as God created you, dispense with idols and remember Him. 2Prayer will sustain you now, and bless you as you lift your heart to Him in rising song that reaches higher and then higher still, until both high and low have disappeared. 3Faith in your goal will grow and hold you up as you ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace. 4For this is prayer, and here salvation is. 5This is the way. 6It is God’s gift to you.

1. 祈祷是上主创造圣子之际赐给他的最大祝福。
自那一刻起，它就成了造物主与受造物之间互通声息的唯一声音；它是圣子献给天父的颂歌，也是天父还报圣子的感谢。
他们永恒不渝的爱和谐地共振，欢悦地共鸣，而且无远弗届。
上主的造化在此圣爱中不断地推恩。
上主也透过圣子向自己的创造致谢。
而圣子藉天父之名继续创造，并向他的创造献上感恩之歌。
当时间一结束，祂们之间的爱便成了唯一的祷声，响遍永恒。
这原是时间幻相出现以前的真相。
2. 当你还滞留于时空世界里，祈祷的形式自然得配合你的需求。
其实，你只有一个需求。
凡是被上主创造成“一个”的生命，必须认出自己是不可分割的整体，你应庆幸那看来四分五裂的幻相在上主天心中永远是一个生命。
因此，上主之子必须借助于祈祷，才可能放下个别的目标与个别的利益，怀着神圣的喜悦，奔向天父与自己的一体真相。
3. 神圣的上主之子，舍弃你的梦境吧！重新活出上主所创造的你，废除你心目中的偶像，再度忆起你的上主。
只要你举心向祂，祈祷必会支撑着你，并祝福你，让你乘着歌声的翅膀，不断向上飞升，最后抵达那超乎上下分别之境。
你对此生的目标也会愈来愈有信心，义无反顾地循着天堂平安之门的光明阶梯扶摇而上。
这就是祈祷，这也是救恩。
这是上天之路。
这是上主赐你的礼物。
1.祈禱即是上主在聖子創生之初用以祝福他的最大禮物。
那時的祈禱已是它將成為的模樣；造物與受造共享的單一音聲；聖子對聖父吟唱的一首頌歌——後者亦會把這首歌獻上的感激還給前者。
這種和聲無窮無盡，而祂們不停獻給彼此的愛的喜樂和弦也無窮無盡。
此處蘊含著創造的延伸。
上主感激自己在聖子之內的延伸。
聖子也感激自己的創生，藉由他以天父之名行創造的唱頌。
時間一旦終結，祂們所共享的愛便是一切祈禱亙古不變的本質。
畢竟它在時間好似存在之前便是如此。
2.對你而言，祈禱則會採取最能符合需求的形式，因為你暫時還在時間之中。
你只有一個需求。
只要是上主創造為一的，都得認出自己的一體性，並欣然看清好似為幻相分離的在天心中仍永遠一體。
如今，上主之子必須藉助祈禱來脫離分別的目標與分別的利益，並懷著神聖的喜悅轉向天父和他一體的真相。
3.神聖的上主之子啊，放下你的夢境，並重生為你創生時的模樣吧，捐棄偶像，並憶起祂來吧。
如今，祈禱乃是你的支柱，它也會祝福你，只要你讓自己的心在扶搖直上的裊裊唱頌中昇往上主，直到上與下都消失殆盡。
你會愈發相信自己的目標，從而得到依託，以爬上光明的階梯，直抵天堂的草坪與平安的大門。
因為這就是祈禱，而救恩即在於此。
這就是道路。
它就是上主賜你的禮物。