<font size="3"><u><strong>INTRODUCTION 序文 </strong></u></font>
<em><blockquote>This is a course in miracles.</blockquote>
これは奇跡のコースである。
<blockquote>It is a required course. </blockquote>
必修すべき道である。
<blockquote>Only the time you take is voluntary. </blockquote>
いつ取り組むかということだけはあなたの選択に委ねられている。
<blockquote>Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. </blockquote>
自由意思とは学ぶ内容を自分で決められるという意味ではない。
<blockquote>It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. </blockquote>
ただ好きなときに何を取りたいかを選べるだけのこと。
<blockquote>The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. </blockquote>
このコースは（神からあなたへの）愛の意味を教えることを目指しているのではない。なぜならそれは教えられることを越えているからである。
<blockquote>It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. </blockquote>
しかしながら、「愛は確かに在る」と自覚することをさえぎるもの（＝自我に基づいた誤った認識）を取り除くということはたしかに目指している。そしてその愛はあなたが生まれながらに受け継いでいるもの。
<blockquote>The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.</blockquote>
愛に反するものは（自我に基づいた無意識の罪悪感による）怖れであるが、すべてを含み持つものは相反するものを持ち得ないのである。
<blockquote>This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:</blockquote>
したがってこのコースは、次のようにごく簡単に要約することができる。
</em>
<strong>
<blockquote>Nothing real can be threatened.</blockquote>
実在的なものは何も脅かされることはない。
<blockquote>Nothing unreal exists.
（自我の投影による）非実在的なものは（本来は）何も存在しない。</blockquote></strong>
<em>
<blockquote>Herein lies the peace of God.</blockquote>
ここにこそ神の平安がある</em>
（奇跡のコース テキスト編 序文）
2014年10月21日火曜日
2014年3月8日土曜日
13-6 今を見出すこと Finding the Present
真に知覚するとは、あなたが本当の自分を自覚することによって、
To perceive truly is to be aware of all reality through the awareness of your own.
だがこうするために錯覚が生じてあなたの目にふれるということは
But for this no illusions can rise to meet your sight, for reality leaves no room for any error.
これが意味するのは、
This means that you perceive a brother only as you see him now.
その人の過去は今ここで何の実在性もないので、
His past has no reality in the present, so you cannot see it.
あなたが以前その人にたいして抱いた反応などもそこにはないのだ
Your past reactions to him are also not there, and if it is to them that you react, you see but an image of him that you made and cherish instead of him.
錯覚について疑問に思うときには、
In your questioning of illusions, ask yourself if it is really sane to perceive what was as now.
自分のきょうだいを見つめるにつれ、
If you remember the past as you look upon your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is now.
あなたは現在のことを判断するために、
You consider it 'natural' to use your past experience as the reference point from which to judge the present.
ところがそうした経験は妄想的なものなので、
Yet this is unnatural because it is delusional.
あなたがすべての人を過去に全く関係なく見るようになったなら、
When you have learned to look on everyone with no reference at all to the past, either his or yours as you perceive it, you will be able to learn from what you see now.
光に恐れを抱いていないかぎり、
For the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of light.
そしてただ光を恐れているときにのみ、
And only if you are would you choose to bring darkness with you, and by holding it in your mind, see it as a dark cloud that shrouds your brothers and conceals their reality from your sight.
こうした暗闇があなたのうちにあるのは確かである。
This darkness is in you.
今あなたに明らかなものとなったキリストに過去はない。キリストは不変なのだし、
The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release.
キリストは創造されたままだとすれば、
For if He is as He was created, there is no guilt in Him.
そんな自責の念の曇りが生じてキリストを不明瞭にしてもいないし
No cloud of guilt has risen to obscure Him, and He stands revealed in everyone you meet because you see Him through Himself.
生まれ変わるとは過去を手放し、
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.
神の子をあなたに見えにくくする曇とは過去のことであり、
The cloud that obscures God's Son to you is the past, and if you would have it past and gone, you must not see it now.
あなたがそうした過去を今も錯覚のなかで見るのなら、
If you see it now in your illusions, it has not gone from you, although it is not there.
時間というものは閉じ込めるばかりでなく解放することもできるの
Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it you use.
過去と現在と未来はあなたがそれに継続性を押し付けないかぎり、
Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you force continuity on them.
それを継続的なものとして見て取れるし、
You can perceive them as continuous, and make them so for you.
しかしだまされてこれはそういうものだと信じたりしないことだ。
But do not be deceived, and then believe that this is how it is.
実在は自分の必要におうじて、
For to believe reality is what you would have it be according to your use for it is delusional.
あなたは自分自身の目的のためには、時間を過去、現在、
You would destroy time's continuity by breaking it into past, present and future for your own purposes.
自分の過去の経験に基づいて将来を予測し、
You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it accordingly.
けれども、そうすることであなたは過去と未来を同調させており、
Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.
奇跡はあなたに自分のきょうだいをその人の過去はないものとして
The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again.
そのきょうだいの過ちはすべて過ぎ去ったことであり、
His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him.
そしてそのきょうだいの過去はあなたの過去でもあるのだから、
And since his past is yours, you share in this release.
自分の過去から付きまとう暗雲のために、
Let no dark cloud out of your past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there.
そしてそこを捜しさえすれば見出せるだろう。それがないところを捜しているので、
You have looked for it where it is not, and therefore have not found it.
では、真理のあるところにそれを捜し求めるようになってほしい。そうすれば見る目を持つものには分かってくる。
Learn, then, to seek it where it is, and it will dawn on eyes that see.
あなたは自分の過去を怒りのうちに作ったのだし、
Your past was made in anger, and if you use it to attack the present, you will not see the freedom that the present holds.
あなたには審きや罪の宣告は過ぎたことであり、
Judgement and condemnation are behind you, and unless you bring them with you, you will see that you are free of them.
愛を込めて今このときをよく見てみるがいい。今ここにこそ永遠に真実なるものだけがあるのだから。
Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.
今が継続するということは本当なので、
All healing lies within it because its continuity is real.
癒しは御子としての身分全体に同時に拡張するし、
It extends to all aspects of the Sonship at the same time, and thus enables them to reach each other.
今というときは時間が始まる前から存在しているし、
The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more.
ここにあるのはすべて永遠なるものであるし、
In it are all things that are eternal, and they are one.
そのうえそうしたものは過去によって分離されてはいないので、
Their continuity is timeless and their communication is unbroken, for they are not separated by the past.
ただ過去が分離できるだけであり、
Only the past can separate, and it is nowhere.
今この時が光のなかできょうだいたちをあなたに捧げるのであり、
The present offers you your brothers in the light that would unite you with them, and free you from the past.
それでも、
Would you, then, hold the past against them?
もしするとすれば、存在しない暗闇に留まることを選んでいるし、
For if you do, you are choosing to remain in the darkness that is not there, and refusing to accept the light that is offered you.
完全な洞察力による光は、
For the light of perfect vision is freely given as it is freely received, and can be accepted only without limit.
こうした変化することのない静止した時間の一次元、
In this one, still dimension of time that does not change, and where there is no sight of what you were, you look at Christ and call His witnesses to shine on you because you called them forth.
そしてキリストの証人たちはあなたのうちなる真理を否定すること
And they will not deny the truth in you, because you looked for it in them and found it there.
今こそ救いの時、
Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time.
あなたのきょうだいみんなに手を差し伸べ、
Reach out to all your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ.
時間を超越してみんなと一つになればこそ、
In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared.
罪なき神の子はただ光そのものである。
God's guiltless Son is only light.
神の子は完全であるから、その人のうちにはどこにも暗闇はない。
There is no darkness in him anywhere, for he is whole.
私があなたに加わって欲しいと呼びかけているように、
Call all your brothers to witness to his wholeness, as I am calling you to join with me.
一人一人の声に合ったパートが罪のあがないの歌にはあり、
Each voice has a part in the song of redemption, the hymn of gladness and thanksgiving for the light to the Creator of light.
神の子から輝き出る聖なる光が、
The holy light that shines forth from God's Son is the witness that his light is of his Father.
あなたの創造主を思い出すために、
Shine on your brothers in remembrance of your Creator, for you will remember Him as you call forth the witnesses to His creation.
あなたが癒す者たちはあなた自身癒されていることを証明してくれ
Those whom you heal bear witness to your healing, for in their wholeness you will see your own.
そしてあなたの賛美と喜びの歌声が創造主に達すると、
And as your hymns of praise and gladness rise to your Creator, He will return your thanks in His clear Answer to your call.
御子が創造主を呼び求めたのに、
For it can never be that His Son called upon Him and remained unanswered.
創造主からのあなたにたいする呼びかけは、
His call to you is but your call to Him.
そして創造主のうちに、
And in Him you are answered by His peace.
光の子よ、あなたは自分のなかに光があると分かってはいない。
Child of light, you know not that the light is in you.
けれどもあなたはその光の証人たちを通じてそれを見出すようにな
Yet you will find it through its witnesses, for having given light to them they will return it.
光の中に見える人たち一人ひとりが、あなた自身、
Each one you see in light brings your light closer to your awareness.
愛はいつも愛へと導く。病人は愛を願い求めており、それをありがたく思い、
Love always leads to love, The sick, who ask for love, are grateful for it, and in their joy they shine with holy thanks.
そしてこうした感謝を、
And this they offer you who gave them joy.
その人たちはあなたを喜びへと導く案内役でもある。あなたから受け取った喜びを持ち続けるつもりでいるのだから。
They are your guides to joy, for having received it of you they would keep it.
あなたはその人たちを平安への案内役と定めるわけだが、
You have established them as guides to peace, for you have made it manifest in them.
そしてそれを見ていると、
And seeing it, its beauty calls you home.
この世が与えてくれることのできない光というものがある。
There is a light that this world cannot give.
けれどもあなたはそうした光を与えることができる。それはあなたに与えられたものであるから。
Yet you can give it, as it was given you.
そのうえあなたがそうした光を与えるにつれて光は輝きを増し、
And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it.
あなたはこうした光にこの世の中の何ものも及ばないほどに、
For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do.
だからあなたはこの世を捨て、
And you will lay aside the world and find another.
この別の世界はあなたが与えておいた愛で光り輝いている。
This other world is bright with love which you have given it.
そしてここではすべてのものが、
And here will everything remind you of your Father and His holy Son.
光は遮られることなく、
Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
あなたの連れてきた人たちみんながあなたのうえに輝き、
All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in gratitude because they brought you here.
あなたの光はその人たちの光と一つに結びつき、
Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on them.
キリストに目覚めるとは自分の自由意志で愛の法則にしたがうこと
Awaking unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them.
光の魅力はあなたに自分から進んで近づかせるほどのものに違いな
The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving.
あなたからの愛を受け入れる者たちは、
Those who accept love of you become your willing witnesses to the love you gave them, and it is they who hold it out to you.
眠っているうちはあなたは一人であり、
In sleep you are alone, and your awareness is narrowed to yourself.
だから悪夢が生じてしまう。
And that is why the nightmares come.
目をとじているので孤立した夢を見る。
You dream of isolation because your eyes are closed.
あなたにはきょうだいたちが見えないし、
You do not see your brothers, and in the darkness you cannot look upon the light you gave to them.
とはいえ、
And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep.
それにあなたは自分で悪夢を見ている間じゅうずっと、
And you have followed them through all your nightmares, and have been faithful in your giving, for you were not alone.
キリストはあなたが眠っている時でさえ護ってくれているし、
Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake.
あなたのためにと、あなたの名によって与えたし、
In your name He has given for you, and given you the gifts He gave.
神の子は今なお御父と同じく愛に満ちている。
God's Son is still as loving as his Father.
御父に継続する存在なので、
Continuous with his Father, he has no past apart from Him.
したがって神の子は御父と自分自身の証人ではなくなったためしは
So he has never ceased to be his Father's witness and his own.
眠ったとしても、キリストの洞察力は神の子から去ってはいない。
Although he slept, Christ's vision did not leave him.
だから神の子は、決して眠らなかったと教えてくれる証人たちを、
And so it is that he can call unto himself the witnesses that teach him that he never slept.
To perceive truly is to be aware of all reality through the awareness of your own.
だがこうするために錯覚が生じてあなたの目にふれるということは
But for this no illusions can rise to meet your sight, for reality leaves no room for any error.
これが意味するのは、
This means that you perceive a brother only as you see him now.
その人の過去は今ここで何の実在性もないので、
His past has no reality in the present, so you cannot see it.
あなたが以前その人にたいして抱いた反応などもそこにはないのだ
Your past reactions to him are also not there, and if it is to them that you react, you see but an image of him that you made and cherish instead of him.
錯覚について疑問に思うときには、
In your questioning of illusions, ask yourself if it is really sane to perceive what was as now.
自分のきょうだいを見つめるにつれ、
If you remember the past as you look upon your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is now.
あなたは現在のことを判断するために、
You consider it 'natural' to use your past experience as the reference point from which to judge the present.
ところがそうした経験は妄想的なものなので、
Yet this is unnatural because it is delusional.
あなたがすべての人を過去に全く関係なく見るようになったなら、
When you have learned to look on everyone with no reference at all to the past, either his or yours as you perceive it, you will be able to learn from what you see now.
光に恐れを抱いていないかぎり、
For the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of light.
そしてただ光を恐れているときにのみ、
And only if you are would you choose to bring darkness with you, and by holding it in your mind, see it as a dark cloud that shrouds your brothers and conceals their reality from your sight.
こうした暗闇があなたのうちにあるのは確かである。
This darkness is in you.
今あなたに明らかなものとなったキリストに過去はない。キリストは不変なのだし、
The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release.
キリストは創造されたままだとすれば、
For if He is as He was created, there is no guilt in Him.
そんな自責の念の曇りが生じてキリストを不明瞭にしてもいないし
No cloud of guilt has risen to obscure Him, and He stands revealed in everyone you meet because you see Him through Himself.
生まれ変わるとは過去を手放し、
To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.
神の子をあなたに見えにくくする曇とは過去のことであり、
The cloud that obscures God's Son to you is the past, and if you would have it past and gone, you must not see it now.
あなたがそうした過去を今も錯覚のなかで見るのなら、
If you see it now in your illusions, it has not gone from you, although it is not there.
時間というものは閉じ込めるばかりでなく解放することもできるの
Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it you use.
過去と現在と未来はあなたがそれに継続性を押し付けないかぎり、
Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you force continuity on them.
それを継続的なものとして見て取れるし、
You can perceive them as continuous, and make them so for you.
しかしだまされてこれはそういうものだと信じたりしないことだ。
But do not be deceived, and then believe that this is how it is.
実在は自分の必要におうじて、
For to believe reality is what you would have it be according to your use for it is delusional.
あなたは自分自身の目的のためには、時間を過去、現在、
You would destroy time's continuity by breaking it into past, present and future for your own purposes.
自分の過去の経験に基づいて将来を予測し、
You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it accordingly.
けれども、そうすることであなたは過去と未来を同調させており、
Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.
奇跡はあなたに自分のきょうだいをその人の過去はないものとして
The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again.
そのきょうだいの過ちはすべて過ぎ去ったことであり、
His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him.
そしてそのきょうだいの過去はあなたの過去でもあるのだから、
And since his past is yours, you share in this release.
自分の過去から付きまとう暗雲のために、
Let no dark cloud out of your past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there.
そしてそこを捜しさえすれば見出せるだろう。それがないところを捜しているので、
You have looked for it where it is not, and therefore have not found it.
では、真理のあるところにそれを捜し求めるようになってほしい。そうすれば見る目を持つものには分かってくる。
Learn, then, to seek it where it is, and it will dawn on eyes that see.
あなたは自分の過去を怒りのうちに作ったのだし、
Your past was made in anger, and if you use it to attack the present, you will not see the freedom that the present holds.
あなたには審きや罪の宣告は過ぎたことであり、
Judgement and condemnation are behind you, and unless you bring them with you, you will see that you are free of them.
愛を込めて今このときをよく見てみるがいい。今ここにこそ永遠に真実なるものだけがあるのだから。
Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.
今が継続するということは本当なので、
All healing lies within it because its continuity is real.
癒しは御子としての身分全体に同時に拡張するし、
It extends to all aspects of the Sonship at the same time, and thus enables them to reach each other.
今というときは時間が始まる前から存在しているし、
The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more.
ここにあるのはすべて永遠なるものであるし、
In it are all things that are eternal, and they are one.
そのうえそうしたものは過去によって分離されてはいないので、
Their continuity is timeless and their communication is unbroken, for they are not separated by the past.
ただ過去が分離できるだけであり、
Only the past can separate, and it is nowhere.
今この時が光のなかできょうだいたちをあなたに捧げるのであり、
The present offers you your brothers in the light that would unite you with them, and free you from the past.
それでも、
Would you, then, hold the past against them?
もしするとすれば、存在しない暗闇に留まることを選んでいるし、
For if you do, you are choosing to remain in the darkness that is not there, and refusing to accept the light that is offered you.
完全な洞察力による光は、
For the light of perfect vision is freely given as it is freely received, and can be accepted only without limit.
こうした変化することのない静止した時間の一次元、
In this one, still dimension of time that does not change, and where there is no sight of what you were, you look at Christ and call His witnesses to shine on you because you called them forth.
そしてキリストの証人たちはあなたのうちなる真理を否定すること
And they will not deny the truth in you, because you looked for it in them and found it there.
今こそ救いの時、
Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time.
あなたのきょうだいみんなに手を差し伸べ、
Reach out to all your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ.
時間を超越してみんなと一つになればこそ、
In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared.
罪なき神の子はただ光そのものである。
God's guiltless Son is only light.
神の子は完全であるから、その人のうちにはどこにも暗闇はない。
There is no darkness in him anywhere, for he is whole.
私があなたに加わって欲しいと呼びかけているように、
Call all your brothers to witness to his wholeness, as I am calling you to join with me.
一人一人の声に合ったパートが罪のあがないの歌にはあり、
Each voice has a part in the song of redemption, the hymn of gladness and thanksgiving for the light to the Creator of light.
神の子から輝き出る聖なる光が、
The holy light that shines forth from God's Son is the witness that his light is of his Father.
あなたの創造主を思い出すために、
Shine on your brothers in remembrance of your Creator, for you will remember Him as you call forth the witnesses to His creation.
あなたが癒す者たちはあなた自身癒されていることを証明してくれ
Those whom you heal bear witness to your healing, for in their wholeness you will see your own.
そしてあなたの賛美と喜びの歌声が創造主に達すると、
And as your hymns of praise and gladness rise to your Creator, He will return your thanks in His clear Answer to your call.
御子が創造主を呼び求めたのに、
For it can never be that His Son called upon Him and remained unanswered.
創造主からのあなたにたいする呼びかけは、
His call to you is but your call to Him.
そして創造主のうちに、
And in Him you are answered by His peace.
光の子よ、あなたは自分のなかに光があると分かってはいない。
Child of light, you know not that the light is in you.
けれどもあなたはその光の証人たちを通じてそれを見出すようにな
Yet you will find it through its witnesses, for having given light to them they will return it.
光の中に見える人たち一人ひとりが、あなた自身、
Each one you see in light brings your light closer to your awareness.
愛はいつも愛へと導く。病人は愛を願い求めており、それをありがたく思い、
Love always leads to love, The sick, who ask for love, are grateful for it, and in their joy they shine with holy thanks.
そしてこうした感謝を、
And this they offer you who gave them joy.
その人たちはあなたを喜びへと導く案内役でもある。あなたから受け取った喜びを持ち続けるつもりでいるのだから。
They are your guides to joy, for having received it of you they would keep it.
あなたはその人たちを平安への案内役と定めるわけだが、
You have established them as guides to peace, for you have made it manifest in them.
そしてそれを見ていると、
And seeing it, its beauty calls you home.
この世が与えてくれることのできない光というものがある。
There is a light that this world cannot give.
けれどもあなたはそうした光を与えることができる。それはあなたに与えられたものであるから。
Yet you can give it, as it was given you.
そのうえあなたがそうした光を与えるにつれて光は輝きを増し、
And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it.
あなたはこうした光にこの世の中の何ものも及ばないほどに、
For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do.
だからあなたはこの世を捨て、
And you will lay aside the world and find another.
この別の世界はあなたが与えておいた愛で光り輝いている。
This other world is bright with love which you have given it.
そしてここではすべてのものが、
And here will everything remind you of your Father and His holy Son.
光は遮られることなく、
Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
あなたの連れてきた人たちみんながあなたのうえに輝き、
All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in gratitude because they brought you here.
あなたの光はその人たちの光と一つに結びつき、
Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on them.
キリストに目覚めるとは自分の自由意志で愛の法則にしたがうこと
Awaking unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them.
光の魅力はあなたに自分から進んで近づかせるほどのものに違いな
The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving.
あなたからの愛を受け入れる者たちは、
Those who accept love of you become your willing witnesses to the love you gave them, and it is they who hold it out to you.
眠っているうちはあなたは一人であり、
In sleep you are alone, and your awareness is narrowed to yourself.
だから悪夢が生じてしまう。
And that is why the nightmares come.
目をとじているので孤立した夢を見る。
You dream of isolation because your eyes are closed.
あなたにはきょうだいたちが見えないし、
You do not see your brothers, and in the darkness you cannot look upon the light you gave to them.
とはいえ、
And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep.
それにあなたは自分で悪夢を見ている間じゅうずっと、
And you have followed them through all your nightmares, and have been faithful in your giving, for you were not alone.
キリストはあなたが眠っている時でさえ護ってくれているし、
Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake.
あなたのためにと、あなたの名によって与えたし、
In your name He has given for you, and given you the gifts He gave.
神の子は今なお御父と同じく愛に満ちている。
God's Son is still as loving as his Father.
御父に継続する存在なので、
Continuous with his Father, he has no past apart from Him.
したがって神の子は御父と自分自身の証人ではなくなったためしは
So he has never ceased to be his Father's witness and his own.
眠ったとしても、キリストの洞察力は神の子から去ってはいない。
Although he slept, Christ's vision did not leave him.
だから神の子は、決して眠らなかったと教えてくれる証人たちを、
And so it is that he can call unto himself the witnesses that teach him that he never slept.
2014年2月24日月曜日
13-5 二つの感情 The Two Emotions
すでに述べておいたように、
I have said you have but two emotions, love and fear.
愛は永遠なるものによって、
One is changeless but continually exchanged, being offered by the eternal to the eternal.
こうして交換するうちに、その愛は拡張されている。それは与えるごとに増えるわけであるから。
In this exchange it is extended, for it increases as it is given.
その半面、一つ一つの錯覚の内容は著しく異なるので、
The other has many forms, for the content of individual illusions differs greatly.
けれども一つ共通して言えるのは、
Yet they have one thing in common; they are all insane.
そんなものは見えもしない光景や、
They are made of sights that are not seen, and sounds that are not heard.
そして分かち合うことなどできないような自分だけの世界を作り上
They make up a private world that cannot be shared.
そんな錯覚はそれを作った当人にのみ意義があるといえるので、
For they are meaningful only to their maker, and so they have no meaning at all.
この世界で、
In this world their maker moves alone, for only he perceives them.
人はそれぞれ自分の過去にもとづいて心に描いた姿で自分の世界を
だがその人の見るそんな姿は決して本物とはいえない。それはただその人のきょうだいたちに対する反応から作られたにす
それというのも、
こうした奇妙で影のようなすがたを通じて、
It is through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to their insane world.
そしてそんな答えはその者たちに呼びかけた当人以外にはだれにも聞
そういうわけであなたは自分自身をまず攻撃しなければならない、
I have said you have but two emotions, love and fear.
愛は永遠なるものによって、
One is changeless but continually exchanged, being offered by the eternal to the eternal.
こうして交換するうちに、その愛は拡張されている。それは与えるごとに増えるわけであるから。
In this exchange it is extended, for it increases as it is given.
その半面、一つ一つの錯覚の内容は著しく異なるので、
The other has many forms, for the content of individual illusions differs greatly.
けれども一つ共通して言えるのは、
Yet they have one thing in common; they are all insane.
そんなものは見えもしない光景や、
They are made of sights that are not seen, and sounds that are not heard.
そして分かち合うことなどできないような自分だけの世界を作り上
They make up a private world that cannot be shared.
そんな錯覚はそれを作った当人にのみ意義があるといえるので、
For they are meaningful only to their maker, and so they have no meaning at all.
この世界で、
In this world their maker moves alone, for only he perceives them.
人はそれぞれ自分の過去にもとづいて心に描いた姿で自分の世界を
Each one peoples his world with figures from his
individual past, and it is because of this that private worlds do differ.
だがその人の見るそんな姿は決して本物とはいえない。それはただその人のきょうだいたちに対する反応から作られたにす
Yet
the figures that he sees were never real, for they are made up only of his
reactions to his brothers, and do not include their reactions to him.
したがってその人は自分がそんなすがたに作ったということや、
Therefore,
he does not see he made them, and that they are not whole.
それというのも、
For these figures
have no witnesses, being perceived in one separate mind only.
こうした奇妙で影のようなすがたを通じて、
It is through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to their insane world.
というのもその人たちは、
For they see only those who remind them of these images, and it is
to them that they relate.
こうしてその人たちは、
Thus do they communicate with those who are not there,
and it is they who answer them.
そしてそんな答えはその者たちに呼びかけた当人以外にはだれにも聞
And no one hears their answer save him who
called upon them, and he alone believes they answered him.
投影することを知覚するようになるわけで、
Projection makes
perception, and you cannot see beyond it.
再三あなたが自分のきょうだいを攻撃したというのも、
Again and again have you attacked your
brother, because you saw in him a shadow figure in your private world.
そういうわけであなたは自分自身をまず攻撃しなければならない、
And thus
it is you must attack yourself first, for what you attack is not in others.
そうしたものはただ自分自身の心のなかには本当にあるわけで、
Its
only reality is in your own mind, and by attacking others you are literally
attacking what is not there.
妄想を抱く者たちは、
The delusional can be very destructive, for they do not recognise they have
condemned themselves.
死を望んではいないとはいえ、
They do not wish to die, yet they will not let
condemnation go.
だから、それぞれ自分だけの世界へと離れていくし、
And so they separate into their private worlds, where
everything is disordered, and where what is within appears to be without.
けれどもその人たちは内側にあるものを見てはいない。自分のきょうだいたちの真実のすがたに気づくことができないので
Yet
what is within they do not see, for the reality of their brothers they cannot
recognise.
あなたはただ二つの感情を持っているだけなのだが、
You have but two emotions, yet in your private world you react to each of them
as though it were the other.
愛はばらばらになった世界にとどまることはできないので、
For love cannot abide in a world apart, where when
it comes it is not recognised.
自ら抱く憎しみを自分のきょうだいのものと見なすなら、
If you see your own hatred as your brother, you
are not seeing him.
だれもみな自分が愛するものには近寄るし、
Everyone draws nigh unto what he loves, and recoils from
what he fears.
それなのにあなたは愛にたいして恐れをいだき、
And you react with fear to love, and draw away from it.
けれども恐怖心には魅惑され、
Yet fear
attracts you, and believing it is love, you call it to yourself.
あなただけの世界は自らそこに招き入れた恐ろしいすがたをしたも
Your private
world is filled with figures of fear you have invited into it, and all the love
your brothers offer you, you do not see.
目を開いて自分の世界を見つめれば、
As you look with open eyes upon your world, it must occur to you that you have
withdrawn into insanity.
そこにないものを見たり、
You see what is not there, and you hear what makes no
sound.
あなたがあらわにする感情はありのままの感情とは逆のもの。
Your manifestations of emotions are the opposite of what the emotions
are.
だれとも意思の疎通をせず、
You communicate with no one, and you are as isolated from reality as if you
were alone in all the universe.
狂気ゆえに実在を完全に見過ごしてしまい、
In your madness you overlook reality completely,
and you see only your own split mind everywhere you look.
神が呼んでいのに、それが聞こえないというのは、
God calls you and you
do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice.
そしてキリストの洞察力によってみる心の像が見えていないという
And the vision of
Christ is not in your sight, for you look upon yourself alone.
幼き者よ、あなたはこんな状態を御父に差し出すつもりだろうか。
Little child, would you offer this to your Father?
もしそんな状態を自分自身に提供するのなら、
For if you offer it to
yourself, you are offering it to Him.
ところが神はそんな状態をそのままで戻すようなことはしないだろ
And He will not return it, for it
is unworthy of you because it is unworthy of Him.
しかも神はあなたをそんな状態から解放し自由にするつもりでいる
Yet He would release you from
it and set you free.
神の正気の答えは、
His sane Answer tells you what you have offered yourself is
not true, but His offering to you has never changed.
自分で何をしているのか分かっていない者も、
You who know not what you
do can learn what insanity is, and look beyond it.
どのようにすれば狂気の沙汰を否定し、
It is given you to learn how
to deny insanity, and come forth from your private world in peace.
あなたは自分で否定したものをすべてきょうだいたちのなかに見る
You will see
all that you denied in your brothers because you denied it in yourself.
あなたはきょうだいたちを愛するようになるのだし、
For you
will love them, and by drawing nigh unto them you will draw them to yourself,
perceiving them as witnesses to the reality you share with God.
私はあなたと共にいるように、
I am with them
as I am with you, and we will draw them from their private worlds, for as we are
united so would we unite with them.
御父は我々みんなを喜んで歓迎してくれるし、
The Father welcomes all of us in gladness,
and gladness is what we should offer Him.
神が御自らを与えてくれているそのあなたに、
For every Son of God is given you to
whom God gave Himself.
そして自分に与えられた神の賜物を見分けるには、
And it is God Whom you must offer them, to recognise His
gift to you.
洞察力は光に左右される。
Vision depends on light.
暗闇で見ることなどできない。
You cannot see in darkness.
けれども暗闇、すなわち自分だけで眠っている世界でなら、
Yet in darkness, in the
private world of sleep, you see in dreams although your eyes are closed.
だからそこで、あなたは自分に見えるものを作ったのである。
And it
is here that what you see you made.
だがその暗闇を放つと、
But let the darkness go and all you made you
will no longer see, for sight of it depends upon denying vision.
けれども洞察力を否定すると見えなくなるというのではない。
Yet from
denying vision it does not follow you cannot see.
しかしこれこそ否認のなせるわざ。そうすることであなたは気違い沙汰に順応し、
But this is what denial does,
for by it you accept insanity, believing you can make a private world and rule
your own perception.
だがこのためには、光を締め出さなければならない。
Yet for this, light must be excluded.
光が射し込めば夢など消え失せ、あなたは見ることができる。
Dreams disappear when
light has come and you can see.
心に見えるものを自分のふたつの目で捜そうとしないことだ。あなたは暗闇のなかで見えるようにと、
Do not seek vision through your eyes, for you made your way of seeing that you
might see in darkness, and in this you are deceived.
こうした暗闇を越えたところ、
Beyond this darkness, and
yet still within you, is the vision of Christ, Who looks on all in light.
あなたの「心の像」
Your
'vision' comes from fear, as His from love.
そのうえキリストは実相の世界についてのあなたの証人として、
And He sees for you, as your witness
to the real world.
キリストは聖霊の顕現であり、いつも実相の世界を見つめ、
He is the Holy Spirit's manifestation, looking always on the
real world, and calling forth its witnesses and drawing them to you.
あなたの内に見えるものを愛しそれを拡張しようともするだろう。そのうえ御父のもとまであなたの知覚力を拡張させないかぎり、
He loves
what He sees within you, and He would extend it. And He will not return unto the
Father until He has extended your perception even unto Him.
そしてそこに着いたら、もはや知覚することはない。キリストはあなたを御父のもとへ連れ戻したのであるから。
And there perception
is no more, for He has returned you to the Father with Him.
あなたにはただ二つの感情があるにすぎず、
You have but two emotions, and one you made and one was given you.
それぞれの感情はものの見方であり、
Each is a way
of seeing, and different worlds arise from their different sights.
あなたは自分に与えられた洞察力で見てほしい。キリストは自らの洞察力によって自分自身をみつめるのであるから
See through
the vision that is given you, for through Christ's vision He beholds Himself.
そしてあるがままのすがたを見ることで、
And seeing what He is, He knows His Father.
あなたの最も暗い夢を越えて、
Beyond your darkest dreams He sees
God's guiltless Son within you, shining in perfect radiance that is undimmed by
your dreams.
そしてあなたはキリストと共に見つめるにつれて、
And this you will see as you look with Him, for His vision
is His gift of love to you, given Him of the Father for you.
聖霊は光であり、その光の中にキリストがはっきりと現れている。
The Holy Spirit is the Light in which Christ stands
revealed.
そしてキリストを見たいと思う者は、光を求めているので、
And all who would behold Him can see Him, for they have asked for
light.
それは一人ぽっちのキリストを見るのではない。その人たち同様、キリストは一人ではないのだから。
Nor will they see Him alone, for He is no more alone than they are.
その人たちは神の子を見たので、
Because they saw the Son, they have risen in Him to the Father.
そしてこうしたことを全部理解するようになるだろう。自分の内面をのぞき、
And all this
will they understand, because they looked within and saw beyond the darkness the
Christ in them, and recognised Him.
キリストの洞察力による正常な心で、
In the sanity of His vision they looked upon
themselves with love, seeing themselves as the Holy Spirit sees them.
そしてこうした自らのうちなる真理を洞察力でみることで、
And with
this vision of the truth in them came all the beauty of the world to shine upon
them.
13-4 時間の役目 The Function of Time
さてここで、
And now the reason why you are afraid of this course should be apparent.
それはこれが愛の教えそのものだということ、
For this is a course on love, because it is about you.
この世におけるあなたの役目は（真の）癒しであり、
You have been told that your function in this world is healing, and your function in Heaven is creating.
自我の教えによれば、
The ego teaches that your function on earth is destruction, and you have no function at all in Heaven.
かくして自我はあなたをここで破滅させ埋葬しようとするうえ、
It would thus destroy you here and bury you here, leaving you no inheritance except the dust out of which it thinks you were made.
その自我は自らの論法にしたがって、
As long as it is reasonably satisfied with you, as its reasoning goes, it offers you oblivion.
それが公然と残忍になったときには、
When it becomes overtly savage, it offers you hell.
ところがそうした忘却も地獄も、
Yet neither oblivion nor hell is as unacceptable to you as Heaven.
あなたの定義によると天国は確かに地獄と忘却であり、
Your definition of Heaven is hell and oblivion, and the real Heaven is the greatest threat you think you could experience.
それというのも地獄と忘却は自ら作り上げた観念であり、
For hell and oblivion are ideas that you made up, and you are bent on demonstrating their reality to establish yours.
そんなものの実在性を疑われたら、
If their reality is questioned, you believe that yours is.
なぜなら、あなたは攻撃することが自分の本当のすがたであり、
For you believe that attack is your reality, and that your destruction is the final proof that you were right.
こんな事情だから、
Under the circumstances, would it not be more desirable to have been wrong, even apart from the fact that you were wrong?
死ぬということが、
While it could perhaps be argued that death suggests there was life, no one would claim that it proves there is life.
過証明する必要があるとすれば、
Even the past life that death might indicate, could only have been futile if it must come to this, and needs this to prove that it was at all.
あなたは天国のことを疑問に思うくせに、
You question Heaven, but you do not question this.
けれども、
Yet, you could heal and be healed if you did question it.
それに、たとえ天国を知らないとはいえ、
And even though you know not Heaven, might it not be more desirable than death?
あなたは選んで知覚してきたように、
You have been as selective in your questioning as in your perception.
開かれた心は、こんなことをするよりもっと正直である。
An open mind is more honest than this.
自我は時間について奇妙な観念を持っているので、
The ego has a strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your questioning might well begin.
自我は過去のことに重きをおき、
The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful.
罪責感を重視するということは、
Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present.
過去のつぐないとして、将来罰をうけるという観念によれば、
By the notion of paying for the past in the future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them continuous without an intervening present.
というのも、
For the ego regards the present only as a brief transition to the future, in which it brings the past to the future by interpreting the present in past terms.
「今」は自我にとって何の意味もない。
'Now' has no meaning to the ego.
今という時はただ昔味わった痛みなどを思い出させるだけであり、
The present merely reminds it of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past.
自我は過去から解放されることに耐えられないので、
The ego cannot tolerate release from the past, and although the past is over, the ego tries to preserve its image by responding as if it were present.
それにあなたが現在、
It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality.
その結果、あなたが自我の指図にしたがうとすれば、
In effect, if you follow the ego's dictates you will react to your brother as though he were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from recognising him as he is.
そしてあなたは自分の過去をもとにそのきょうだいから伝言を受け
And you will receive messages from him out of your own past because, by making it real in the present, you are forbidding yourself to let it go.
かくして、あなたは今きょうだい一人ひとりが、
You thus deny yourself the message of release that every brother offers you now.
過去からの影のようなすがた、
The shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape.
そんなすがたは本物ではないし、
They are not real, and have no hold over you unless you bring them with you.
そんなものがあなたの心のなかに、何らかの痛みを留めておき、
They carry the spots of pain in your mind, directing you to attack in the present in retaliation for a past that is no more.
そして、
And this decision is one of future pain.
過去の痛みは錯覚だということを学ばないかぎり、
Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present.
自我はあなたの悪夢を残しておいて、
The ego would preserve your nightmares, and prevent you from awakening and understanding they are past.
もしあなたが、
Would you recognise a holy encounter if you are merely perceiving it as a meeting with your own past?
あなたはだれとも遭遇するわけではないのだし、
For you would be meeting no one, and the sharing of salvation, which makes the encounter holy, would be excluded from your sight.
あなたはいつも自分自身と遭遇するのであり、
The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are.
自我は、あなたは常に自分の過去と出会うのだと教え、
The ego teaches that you always encounter your past, and because your dreams were not holy, the future cannot be, and the present is without meaning.
聖霊が時間をどう知覚するのかみてみれば、
It is evident that the Holy Spirit's perception of time is the exact opposite of the ego's.
その理由も同じようにはっきりしている。というのも聖霊と自我は時間の目標を真っ向から対立するものと知
The reason is equally clear, for they perceive the goal of time as diametrically opposed.
聖霊は、
The Holy Spirit interprets time's purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary.
時間の役目は一時的なもので、
He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only His teaching function, which is temporary by definition.
したがって聖霊は、無限に拡張し得る時間の一側面だけ強調する、
His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers.
過去や未来を除いた「今」こそ真実のすがたであるとするうちに、
It is in the reality of 'now', without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies.
あるのは「今」だけであって、ただ「今」
For only 'now' is here, and only 'now' presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.
その一方自我は、
The ego, on the other hand, regards the function of time as one of extending itself in place of eternity, for like the Holy Spirit, the ego interprets the goal of time as its own.
自らの指図のもと、過去と未来が継続するということこそ、
The continuity of past and future, under its direction, is the only purpose the ego perceives in time, and it closes over the present so that no gap in its own continuity can occur, Its continuity, then, would keep you in time, while the Holy Spirit would release you from it.
もしあなたが聖霊の救いの目標を分かち合うつもりなら、
It is His interpretation of the means of salvation that you must learn to accept, if you would share His goal of salvation for you.
そしてあなたも自分の役目を解釈するように、
You, too, will interpret the function of time as you interpret yours.
もしあなたが時間の世界において、
If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasise only the aspect of time in which healing can occur.
過去にもどって癒すことなどできない。
Healing cannot be accomplished in the past.
未来を手放すには、今ここで癒されなければならない。
It must be accomplished in the present to release the future.
こうした解釈が未来を現在に結びつけ、
This interpretation ties the future to the present, and extends the present rather than the past.
しかしあなたが自分の役目は破壊することだと解釈するなら、
But if you interpret your function as destruction, you will lose sight of the present and hold on to the past to ensure a destructive future.
そして時間はあなたが解釈するとおりになる、
And time will be as you interpret it, for of itself it is nothing.
And now the reason why you are afraid of this course should be apparent.
それはこれが愛の教えそのものだということ、
For this is a course on love, because it is about you.
この世におけるあなたの役目は（真の）癒しであり、
You have been told that your function in this world is healing, and your function in Heaven is creating.
自我の教えによれば、
The ego teaches that your function on earth is destruction, and you have no function at all in Heaven.
かくして自我はあなたをここで破滅させ埋葬しようとするうえ、
It would thus destroy you here and bury you here, leaving you no inheritance except the dust out of which it thinks you were made.
その自我は自らの論法にしたがって、
As long as it is reasonably satisfied with you, as its reasoning goes, it offers you oblivion.
それが公然と残忍になったときには、
When it becomes overtly savage, it offers you hell.
ところがそうした忘却も地獄も、
Yet neither oblivion nor hell is as unacceptable to you as Heaven.
あなたの定義によると天国は確かに地獄と忘却であり、
Your definition of Heaven is hell and oblivion, and the real Heaven is the greatest threat you think you could experience.
それというのも地獄と忘却は自ら作り上げた観念であり、
For hell and oblivion are ideas that you made up, and you are bent on demonstrating their reality to establish yours.
そんなものの実在性を疑われたら、
If their reality is questioned, you believe that yours is.
なぜなら、あなたは攻撃することが自分の本当のすがたであり、
For you believe that attack is your reality, and that your destruction is the final proof that you were right.
こんな事情だから、
Under the circumstances, would it not be more desirable to have been wrong, even apart from the fact that you were wrong?
死ぬということが、
While it could perhaps be argued that death suggests there was life, no one would claim that it proves there is life.
過証明する必要があるとすれば、
Even the past life that death might indicate, could only have been futile if it must come to this, and needs this to prove that it was at all.
あなたは天国のことを疑問に思うくせに、
You question Heaven, but you do not question this.
けれども、
Yet, you could heal and be healed if you did question it.
それに、たとえ天国を知らないとはいえ、
And even though you know not Heaven, might it not be more desirable than death?
あなたは選んで知覚してきたように、
You have been as selective in your questioning as in your perception.
開かれた心は、こんなことをするよりもっと正直である。
An open mind is more honest than this.
自我は時間について奇妙な観念を持っているので、
The ego has a strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your questioning might well begin.
自我は過去のことに重きをおき、
The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful.
罪責感を重視するということは、
Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present.
過去のつぐないとして、将来罰をうけるという観念によれば、
By the notion of paying for the past in the future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them continuous without an intervening present.
というのも、
For the ego regards the present only as a brief transition to the future, in which it brings the past to the future by interpreting the present in past terms.
「今」は自我にとって何の意味もない。
'Now' has no meaning to the ego.
今という時はただ昔味わった痛みなどを思い出させるだけであり、
The present merely reminds it of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past.
自我は過去から解放されることに耐えられないので、
The ego cannot tolerate release from the past, and although the past is over, the ego tries to preserve its image by responding as if it were present.
それにあなたが現在、
It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality.
その結果、あなたが自我の指図にしたがうとすれば、
In effect, if you follow the ego's dictates you will react to your brother as though he were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from recognising him as he is.
そしてあなたは自分の過去をもとにそのきょうだいから伝言を受け
And you will receive messages from him out of your own past because, by making it real in the present, you are forbidding yourself to let it go.
かくして、あなたは今きょうだい一人ひとりが、
You thus deny yourself the message of release that every brother offers you now.
過去からの影のようなすがた、
The shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape.
そんなすがたは本物ではないし、
They are not real, and have no hold over you unless you bring them with you.
そんなものがあなたの心のなかに、何らかの痛みを留めておき、
They carry the spots of pain in your mind, directing you to attack in the present in retaliation for a past that is no more.
そして、
And this decision is one of future pain.
過去の痛みは錯覚だということを学ばないかぎり、
Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present.
自我はあなたの悪夢を残しておいて、
The ego would preserve your nightmares, and prevent you from awakening and understanding they are past.
もしあなたが、
Would you recognise a holy encounter if you are merely perceiving it as a meeting with your own past?
あなたはだれとも遭遇するわけではないのだし、
For you would be meeting no one, and the sharing of salvation, which makes the encounter holy, would be excluded from your sight.
あなたはいつも自分自身と遭遇するのであり、
The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are.
自我は、あなたは常に自分の過去と出会うのだと教え、
The ego teaches that you always encounter your past, and because your dreams were not holy, the future cannot be, and the present is without meaning.
聖霊が時間をどう知覚するのかみてみれば、
It is evident that the Holy Spirit's perception of time is the exact opposite of the ego's.
その理由も同じようにはっきりしている。というのも聖霊と自我は時間の目標を真っ向から対立するものと知
The reason is equally clear, for they perceive the goal of time as diametrically opposed.
聖霊は、
The Holy Spirit interprets time's purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary.
時間の役目は一時的なもので、
He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only His teaching function, which is temporary by definition.
したがって聖霊は、無限に拡張し得る時間の一側面だけ強調する、
His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers.
過去や未来を除いた「今」こそ真実のすがたであるとするうちに、
It is in the reality of 'now', without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies.
あるのは「今」だけであって、ただ「今」
For only 'now' is here, and only 'now' presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.
その一方自我は、
The ego, on the other hand, regards the function of time as one of extending itself in place of eternity, for like the Holy Spirit, the ego interprets the goal of time as its own.
自らの指図のもと、過去と未来が継続するということこそ、
The continuity of past and future, under its direction, is the only purpose the ego perceives in time, and it closes over the present so that no gap in its own continuity can occur, Its continuity, then, would keep you in time, while the Holy Spirit would release you from it.
もしあなたが聖霊の救いの目標を分かち合うつもりなら、
It is His interpretation of the means of salvation that you must learn to accept, if you would share His goal of salvation for you.
そしてあなたも自分の役目を解釈するように、
You, too, will interpret the function of time as you interpret yours.
もしあなたが時間の世界において、
If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasise only the aspect of time in which healing can occur.
過去にもどって癒すことなどできない。
Healing cannot be accomplished in the past.
未来を手放すには、今ここで癒されなければならない。
It must be accomplished in the present to release the future.
こうした解釈が未来を現在に結びつけ、
This interpretation ties the future to the present, and extends the present rather than the past.
しかしあなたが自分の役目は破壊することだと解釈するなら、
But if you interpret your function as destruction, you will lose sight of the present and hold on to the past to ensure a destructive future.
そして時間はあなたが解釈するとおりになる、
And time will be as you interpret it, for of itself it is nothing.
2014年2月23日日曜日
13-3 罪のあがないに関する恐れ The Fear of Redemption
あなたは自分の抱く憎しみをよく見て、
You may wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon your hatred and realise its full extent.
それに聖霊にとっては、
You may also think that it would be easy enough for the Holy Spirit to show it to you, and to dispel it without the need for you to raise it to awareness yourself.
だが、あなたは自分自身と贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
Yet there is one more obstacle you have interposed between yourself and the Atonement.
前に述べたことだが、だれであれ、
We have said that no one will countenance fear if he recognises it.
けれども、心が乱れているときには、
Yet in your disordered state of mind you are not afraid of fear.
気にならないわけではないが、
You do not like it, but it is not your desire to attack that really frightens you.
自分に敵意があるとはいえ、心はひどく動揺してもいない。
You are not seriously disturbed by your hostility.
そうした敵意を隠し続けるというのも、
You keep it hidden because you are more afraid of what it covers.
もしあなたが、自我がなければ自分自身のなかに、
You could look even upon the ego's darkest cornerstone without fear if you did not believe that, without the ego, you would find within yourself something you fear even more.
実のところあなたは、
You are not really afraid of crucifixion.
あなたが本当に恐怖を抱いているのは、
Your real terror is of redemption.
自我のなぞめいた土台の下にあるのは何かといえば、
Under the ego's dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid.
というのは、
For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave.
あなたが抱いている攻撃にたいする恐れは、
Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love.
神の子を殺したいという野蛮な願いをよく見てみようとすると、
You would be willing to look even upon your savage wish to kill God's Son, if you did not believe that it saves you from love.
こんな願いが分離を引き起こしたのだし、
For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed.
そんな願いをおおい隠す暗雲を取りされば、
You realise that, by removing the dark cloud that obscures it, your love for your Father would impel you to answer His call and leap into Heaven.
あなたがそうするのを攻撃することが妨げることになるので、
You believe that attack is salvation because it would prevent you from this.
自我の土台よりさらに深く、
For still deeper than the ego's foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning love of God, and His for you.
これこそあなたが本当に隠したがっていることである。
This is what you really want to hide.
正直なところ、あなたには「憎い」と言うより「愛している」
In honesty, is it not harder for you to say 'I love' than 'I hate'?
愛を弱さと結びつけたり、
You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your own real power seems to you as your real weakness.
もしあなたが愛の呼びかけを耳にしたなら、
For you could not control your joyous response to the call of love if you heard it, and the whole world you thought you made would vanish.
そこで、聖霊が自分の要塞を攻撃しているように思えてくるが、
The Holy Spirit, then, seems to be attacking your fortress, for you would shut out God, and He does not will to be excluded.
あなたは（自我の）気違いじみた信念を全部体系化したわけが、
You have built your whole insane belief system because you think you would be helpless in God's Presence, and you would save yourself from His Love because you think it would crush you into nothingness.
その御愛があなたをあなた自身とはいえなくし、
You are afraid it would sweep you away from yourself and make you little, because you believe that magnitude lies in defiance, and that attack is grandeur.
あなたは、
You think you have made a world God would destroy; and by loving Him, which you do, you would throw this world away, which you would.
したがって、
Therefore, you have used the world to cover your love, and the deeper you go into the blackness of the ego's foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden there.
そしてこれこそがあなたの恐怖なのである。
And it is this that frightens you.
あなたが正気でない状態を受け入れることができるのは、
You can accept insanity because you made it, but you cannot accept love because you did not.
贖われた神の子であるより、
You would rather be a slave of the crucifixion than a Son of God in redemption.
一つとなって生きることより、
Your individual death seems more valuable than your living oneness, for what is given you is not so dear as what you made.
あなたは自我よりも神にたいしてもっと恐れを抱いているし、
You are more afraid of God than of the ego, and love cannot enter where it is not welcome.
ところが憎しみはそこに入り込んでしまう。というのも憎しみはいわば勝手に入り込み、
But hatred can, for it enters of its own volition and cares not for yours.
自分の錯覚を自分でしっかり見なければならないし、
You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation.
それが隠されていると、
In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained.
これが基本的な錯覚であり、そのうえにほかのが基づいている。
This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest.
そうした錯覚が隠されている間じゅう、
For beneath them, and concealed as long as they are hidden, is the loving mind that thought it made them in anger.
そしてこの心の痛みは隠しきれないほどのものであり、
And the pain in this mind is so apparent, when it is uncovered, that its need of healing cannot be denied.
あなたが思い付くごまかしやもくろみはどれもみなその心を癒せは
Not all the tricks and games you offer it can heal it, for here is the real crucifixion of God's Son.
ところが神の子は、はりつけにされてなどいないのである。
And yet he is not crucified.
ここにこそ神の子の苦痛と癒しが共にあるといえる。聖霊の洞察力は慈悲深いうえ、
Here is both his pain and his healing, for the Holy Spirit's vision is merciful and His remedy is quick.
苦しみを聖霊に見えないように隠したりせず、
Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him.
永遠に正常な心の状態にある聖霊の前にあなたの心の傷をみなさら
Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you.
どんな小さな痛みも聖霊の御光から隠しておかないようにし、
Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His Light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover.
聖霊はあなたが自分を傷つけるために保っているささいな思いをこ
For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God.
あなたは必死に虚勢を張ろうとするその裏で、
Beneath all the grandiosity you hold so dear is your real call for help.
御父があなたを御自身のもとへと呼んでいるがごとくに、
For you call for love to your Father as your Father calls you to Himself.
あなたは自分で隠れているその場所で、
In that place which you have hidden, you will only to unite with the Father, in loving remembrance of Him.
こうした真理の場を、
You will find this place of truth as you see it in your brothers, for though they may deceive themselves, like you they long for the grandeur that is in them.
そしてあなたはその崇高さを知覚するとそれを喜んで迎えるだろう
And perceiving it you will welcome it, and it will be yours.
崇高さは神の子の権利であって、
For grandeur is the right of God's Son, and no illusions can satisfy him or save him from what he is.
神の子の愛だけが本物であり、
Only his love is real, and he will be content only with his reality.
神の子を自らの錯覚から救ってほしい。そうすればあなたは御父がいかに大きな存在であるかを平安と喜び
Save him from his illusions that you may accept the magnitude of your Father in peace and joy.
しかし自分の愛の対象としてだれ一人除外することのないように。そうでないとあなたは心の中に、
But exempt no one from your love, or you will be hiding a dark place in your mind where the Holy Spirit is not welcome.
かくしてあなたは自分自身を聖霊の癒す力の対象から除外するよう
And thus you will exempt yourself from His healing power, for by not offering total love you will not be healed completely.
恐れがそうであるように癒しは完全なものでなければならない。愛は、ほんの少し恐れているために、
Healing must be as complete as fear, for love cannot enter where there is one spot of fear to mar its welcome.
正気でいるよりむしろ分離することを選ぶ者は、
You who prefer separation to sanity cannot obtain it in your right mind.
あなたが特別な願いごとをするまで、あなたの心は平安であった。
You were at peace until you asked for special favour.
そして神はその願いを聞き入れてくださらなかったが、
And God did not give it for the request was alien to Him, and you could not ask this of a Father Who truly loved His Son.
したがって、あなたは自分で御父を愛のない父親だとしておいて、
Therefore you made of Him an unloving father, demanding of Him what only such a father could give.
そして神の子の平安は打ち砕かれてしまったわけだが、
And the peace of God's Son was shattered, for he no longer understood his Father.
自分で作ったものを恐れていたが、
He feared what he had made, but still more did he fear his real Father, having attacked his own glorious equality with Him.
平安なときには御子は何も必要としなかったし、
In peace he needed nothing and asked for nothing.
争っていたときには、あらゆるものを要求したが、
In war he demanded everything and found nothing.
愛の優しさがそうした御子の要求に応じられるはずがないし、
For how could the gentleness of love respond to his demands, except by departing in peace and returning to the Father?
御子が平安のうちにとどまることを願わなかったのなら、
If the Son did not wish to remain in peace, he could not remain at all.
暗闇のようになった心は光のうちに生きることはできないし、
For a darkened mind cannot live in the light, and it must seek a place of darkness where it can believe it is where it is not.
神はこうしたことが起こるのを許さなかった。
God did not allow this to happen.
けれどもあなたはそれが起こるように要求したのであり、
Yet you demanded that it happen, and therefore believed that it was so.
「選り抜く」とは「一人にする」とのこと、
To 'single out' is to 'make alone', and thus make lonely.
神があなたをこんなめに会わせたのではない。
God did not do this to you.
神は御自らの統一されたすがたの中にこそ、
Could He set you apart, knowing that your peace lies in His Oneness?
苦痛を味わいたいとのあなたの願いだけは否定したというのも、
He denied you only your request for pain, for suffering is not of His creation.
創造なさったものはあなたに与えられたので、
Having given you creation, He could not take it from you.
あなたの気違いじみた願いには正気の答えでもってお答えになれる
He could but answer your insane request with a sane answer that would abide with you in your insanity.
神がこうなさったのは確かである。
And this He did.
神の答えを耳にしたなら、
No one who hears His answer but will give up insanity.
神の答は錯覚を越えた評価基準があるところなので、
For His answer is the reference point beyond illusions, from which you can look back on them and see them as insane.
こうした場はあなたが捜しさえすれば見つけられる。御愛はあなたのうちにあり、
But seek this place and you will find it, for Love is in you and will lead you there.
You may wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon your hatred and realise its full extent.
それに聖霊にとっては、
You may also think that it would be easy enough for the Holy Spirit to show it to you, and to dispel it without the need for you to raise it to awareness yourself.
だが、あなたは自分自身と贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
Yet there is one more obstacle you have interposed between yourself and the Atonement.
前に述べたことだが、だれであれ、
We have said that no one will countenance fear if he recognises it.
けれども、心が乱れているときには、
Yet in your disordered state of mind you are not afraid of fear.
気にならないわけではないが、
You do not like it, but it is not your desire to attack that really frightens you.
自分に敵意があるとはいえ、心はひどく動揺してもいない。
You are not seriously disturbed by your hostility.
そうした敵意を隠し続けるというのも、
You keep it hidden because you are more afraid of what it covers.
もしあなたが、自我がなければ自分自身のなかに、
You could look even upon the ego's darkest cornerstone without fear if you did not believe that, without the ego, you would find within yourself something you fear even more.
実のところあなたは、
You are not really afraid of crucifixion.
あなたが本当に恐怖を抱いているのは、
Your real terror is of redemption.
自我のなぞめいた土台の下にあるのは何かといえば、
Under the ego's dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid.
というのは、
For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave.
あなたが抱いている攻撃にたいする恐れは、
Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love.
神の子を殺したいという野蛮な願いをよく見てみようとすると、
You would be willing to look even upon your savage wish to kill God's Son, if you did not believe that it saves you from love.
こんな願いが分離を引き起こしたのだし、
For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed.
そんな願いをおおい隠す暗雲を取りされば、
You realise that, by removing the dark cloud that obscures it, your love for your Father would impel you to answer His call and leap into Heaven.
あなたがそうするのを攻撃することが妨げることになるので、
You believe that attack is salvation because it would prevent you from this.
自我の土台よりさらに深く、
For still deeper than the ego's foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning love of God, and His for you.
これこそあなたが本当に隠したがっていることである。
This is what you really want to hide.
正直なところ、あなたには「憎い」と言うより「愛している」
In honesty, is it not harder for you to say 'I love' than 'I hate'?
愛を弱さと結びつけたり、
You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your own real power seems to you as your real weakness.
もしあなたが愛の呼びかけを耳にしたなら、
For you could not control your joyous response to the call of love if you heard it, and the whole world you thought you made would vanish.
そこで、聖霊が自分の要塞を攻撃しているように思えてくるが、
The Holy Spirit, then, seems to be attacking your fortress, for you would shut out God, and He does not will to be excluded.
あなたは（自我の）気違いじみた信念を全部体系化したわけが、
You have built your whole insane belief system because you think you would be helpless in God's Presence, and you would save yourself from His Love because you think it would crush you into nothingness.
その御愛があなたをあなた自身とはいえなくし、
You are afraid it would sweep you away from yourself and make you little, because you believe that magnitude lies in defiance, and that attack is grandeur.
あなたは、
You think you have made a world God would destroy; and by loving Him, which you do, you would throw this world away, which you would.
したがって、
Therefore, you have used the world to cover your love, and the deeper you go into the blackness of the ego's foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden there.
そしてこれこそがあなたの恐怖なのである。
And it is this that frightens you.
あなたが正気でない状態を受け入れることができるのは、
You can accept insanity because you made it, but you cannot accept love because you did not.
贖われた神の子であるより、
You would rather be a slave of the crucifixion than a Son of God in redemption.
一つとなって生きることより、
Your individual death seems more valuable than your living oneness, for what is given you is not so dear as what you made.
あなたは自我よりも神にたいしてもっと恐れを抱いているし、
You are more afraid of God than of the ego, and love cannot enter where it is not welcome.
ところが憎しみはそこに入り込んでしまう。というのも憎しみはいわば勝手に入り込み、
But hatred can, for it enters of its own volition and cares not for yours.
自分の錯覚を自分でしっかり見なければならないし、
You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation.
それが隠されていると、
In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained.
これが基本的な錯覚であり、そのうえにほかのが基づいている。
This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest.
そうした錯覚が隠されている間じゅう、
For beneath them, and concealed as long as they are hidden, is the loving mind that thought it made them in anger.
そしてこの心の痛みは隠しきれないほどのものであり、
And the pain in this mind is so apparent, when it is uncovered, that its need of healing cannot be denied.
あなたが思い付くごまかしやもくろみはどれもみなその心を癒せは
Not all the tricks and games you offer it can heal it, for here is the real crucifixion of God's Son.
ところが神の子は、はりつけにされてなどいないのである。
And yet he is not crucified.
ここにこそ神の子の苦痛と癒しが共にあるといえる。聖霊の洞察力は慈悲深いうえ、
Here is both his pain and his healing, for the Holy Spirit's vision is merciful and His remedy is quick.
苦しみを聖霊に見えないように隠したりせず、
Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him.
永遠に正常な心の状態にある聖霊の前にあなたの心の傷をみなさら
Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you.
どんな小さな痛みも聖霊の御光から隠しておかないようにし、
Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His Light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover.
聖霊はあなたが自分を傷つけるために保っているささいな思いをこ
For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God.
あなたは必死に虚勢を張ろうとするその裏で、
Beneath all the grandiosity you hold so dear is your real call for help.
御父があなたを御自身のもとへと呼んでいるがごとくに、
For you call for love to your Father as your Father calls you to Himself.
あなたは自分で隠れているその場所で、
In that place which you have hidden, you will only to unite with the Father, in loving remembrance of Him.
こうした真理の場を、
You will find this place of truth as you see it in your brothers, for though they may deceive themselves, like you they long for the grandeur that is in them.
そしてあなたはその崇高さを知覚するとそれを喜んで迎えるだろう
And perceiving it you will welcome it, and it will be yours.
崇高さは神の子の権利であって、
For grandeur is the right of God's Son, and no illusions can satisfy him or save him from what he is.
神の子の愛だけが本物であり、
Only his love is real, and he will be content only with his reality.
神の子を自らの錯覚から救ってほしい。そうすればあなたは御父がいかに大きな存在であるかを平安と喜び
Save him from his illusions that you may accept the magnitude of your Father in peace and joy.
しかし自分の愛の対象としてだれ一人除外することのないように。そうでないとあなたは心の中に、
But exempt no one from your love, or you will be hiding a dark place in your mind where the Holy Spirit is not welcome.
かくしてあなたは自分自身を聖霊の癒す力の対象から除外するよう
And thus you will exempt yourself from His healing power, for by not offering total love you will not be healed completely.
恐れがそうであるように癒しは完全なものでなければならない。愛は、ほんの少し恐れているために、
Healing must be as complete as fear, for love cannot enter where there is one spot of fear to mar its welcome.
正気でいるよりむしろ分離することを選ぶ者は、
You who prefer separation to sanity cannot obtain it in your right mind.
あなたが特別な願いごとをするまで、あなたの心は平安であった。
You were at peace until you asked for special favour.
そして神はその願いを聞き入れてくださらなかったが、
And God did not give it for the request was alien to Him, and you could not ask this of a Father Who truly loved His Son.
したがって、あなたは自分で御父を愛のない父親だとしておいて、
Therefore you made of Him an unloving father, demanding of Him what only such a father could give.
そして神の子の平安は打ち砕かれてしまったわけだが、
And the peace of God's Son was shattered, for he no longer understood his Father.
自分で作ったものを恐れていたが、
He feared what he had made, but still more did he fear his real Father, having attacked his own glorious equality with Him.
平安なときには御子は何も必要としなかったし、
In peace he needed nothing and asked for nothing.
争っていたときには、あらゆるものを要求したが、
In war he demanded everything and found nothing.
愛の優しさがそうした御子の要求に応じられるはずがないし、
For how could the gentleness of love respond to his demands, except by departing in peace and returning to the Father?
御子が平安のうちにとどまることを願わなかったのなら、
If the Son did not wish to remain in peace, he could not remain at all.
暗闇のようになった心は光のうちに生きることはできないし、
For a darkened mind cannot live in the light, and it must seek a place of darkness where it can believe it is where it is not.
神はこうしたことが起こるのを許さなかった。
God did not allow this to happen.
けれどもあなたはそれが起こるように要求したのであり、
Yet you demanded that it happen, and therefore believed that it was so.
「選り抜く」とは「一人にする」とのこと、
To 'single out' is to 'make alone', and thus make lonely.
神があなたをこんなめに会わせたのではない。
God did not do this to you.
神は御自らの統一されたすがたの中にこそ、
Could He set you apart, knowing that your peace lies in His Oneness?
苦痛を味わいたいとのあなたの願いだけは否定したというのも、
He denied you only your request for pain, for suffering is not of His creation.
創造なさったものはあなたに与えられたので、
Having given you creation, He could not take it from you.
あなたの気違いじみた願いには正気の答えでもってお答えになれる
He could but answer your insane request with a sane answer that would abide with you in your insanity.
神がこうなさったのは確かである。
And this He did.
神の答えを耳にしたなら、
No one who hears His answer but will give up insanity.
神の答は錯覚を越えた評価基準があるところなので、
For His answer is the reference point beyond illusions, from which you can look back on them and see them as insane.
こうした場はあなたが捜しさえすれば見つけられる。御愛はあなたのうちにあり、
But seek this place and you will find it, for Love is in you and will lead you there.
13-2 罪なき神の子 The Guiltless Son of God
投影する究極的な目的は、いつも（無意識の奥底の）
The ultimate purpose of projection is always to get rid of guilt.
だが自我はこれまた典型的に、
Yet, characteristically, the ego attempts to get rid of guilt from its viewpoint only, for much as the ego wants to retain guilt you find it intolerable, since guilt stands in the way of your remembering God, Whose pull is so strong that you cannot resist it.
そこで、この点から最も深い分裂が起こってしまう。もしあなたが自我のいいはるように罪責感を抱き続けるとすれば、
On this issue, then, the deepest split of all occurs, for if you are to retain guilt, as the ego insists, you cannot be you.
ただそれがあなただと説き伏せることで、
Only by persuading you that it is you could the ego possibly induce you to project guilt, and thereby keep it in your mind.
しかし自我の取り決めがいかに奇妙な解決方かよく考えてみるがい
Yet consider how strange a solution the ego's arrangement is.
あなたは罪責感から免れるためにそれを投影するが、
You project guilt to get rid of it, but you are actually merely concealing it.
罪責感にさいなまれていることは確かだが、
You do experience the guilt, but you have no idea why.
それどころか、あなたはそれを寄せ集めの奇妙な「自我の理想」
On the contrary, you associate it with a weird assortment of 'ego ideals', which the ego claims you have failed.
だが、あなたは神の子を有罪だと見ていることで、
Yet you have no idea that you are failing the Son of God by seeing him as guilty.
自分をもはや自分ではないと信じるので、
Believing you are no longer you, you do not realise that you are failing yourself.
あなたが罪責感を信じているということを自分で気づかないように
The darkest of your hidden cornerstones holds your belief in guilt from your awareness.
というのは、その暗い秘密の場所にこそ、
For in that dark and secret place is the realisation that you have betrayed God's Son by condemning him to death.
あなたはそこにこんな殺人的で気違いじみた考えが潜んでいるとは
You do not even suspect this murderous but insane idea lies hidden there, for the ego's destructive urge is so intense that nothing short of the crucifixion of God's Son can ultimately satisfy it.
自我は目が見えないので、だれが神の子なのか分かっていない。
It does not know who the Son of God is because it is blind.
しかしどこかに罪なきすがたを知覚すると、
Yet let it perceive guiltlessness anywhere, and it will try to destroy it because it is afraid.
自我の奇妙な振る舞いは、
Much of the ego's strange behaviour is directly attributable to its definition of guilt.
自我にとっては、罪の無い者たちこそ有罪とする。
To the ego, the guiltless are guilty.
攻撃しない者たちは自我の敵、
Those who do not attack are its 'enemies' because, by not valuing its interpretation of salvation, they are in an excellent position to let it go.
そのうえ自我の土台の最も暗く、
They have approached the darkest and deepest cornerstone in the ego's foundation, and while the ego can withstand your raising all else to question, it guards this one secret with its life, for its existence depends on keeping this secret.
そこで、我々はこの秘密をよく見てみなければならない。自我は真理に逆らってあなたを護れないし、
So it is this secret that we must look upon, for the ego cannot protect you against truth, and in its presence the ego is dispelled.
真理の穏やかな光のなかで、
In the calm light of truth, let us recognise that you believe you have crucified God's Son.
こんな「恐ろしい」秘密をあなたが認めていないというのは、
You have not admitted to this 'terrible' secret because you would still wish to crucify him if you could find him.
けれどもそんな願いが神の子をあなたから隠しているといえる。それは実に怖いことなので、
Yet the wish has hidden him from you because it is very fearful, and so you are afraid to find him.
こんな自分自身を殺したいという願いを、
You have handled this wish to kill yourself by not knowing who you are, and identifying with something else.
（無意識の奥底の）
You have projected guilt blindly and indiscriminately, but you have not uncovered its source.
それというのも自我は確かにあなたを殺したいと思っているし、
For the ego does want to kill you, and if you identify with it you must believe its goal is yours.
キリストのはりつけは自我を象徴するものだと述べたことがある。
I have said that the crucifixion is the symbol of the ego.
自我が神の子の本当に罪のないすがたに直面したとき、
When it was confronted with the real guiltlessness of God's Son it did attempt to kill him, and the reason it gave was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God.
自我にとっては、自我こそが神であり、
To the ego, the ego is God, and guiltlessness must be interpreted as the final guilt that fully justifies murder.
あなたは自分がこの奇跡のコースの教えに関して体験するかもしれ
You do not yet understand that any fear you may experience in connection with this course stems ultimately from this interpretation, but if you will consider your reactions to it you will become increasingly convinced that this is so.
この奇跡のコースの教えは、あなたの幸せと平安を目標にする、
This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace.
けれどもあなたはその教えに恐れを抱いている。
Yet you are afraid of it.
その教えがあなたを自由にしてくれると何度となく言い聞かされて
You have been told again and again that it will set you free, yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you.
自我の思考体系を退けるより、
You often dismiss it more readily than you dismiss the ego's thought system.
では、
To some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the course you are protecting yourself.
とすると、
And you do not realise that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you.
贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood.
けれども私がそれをあなたのために解釈したとしても、
Yet even when I interpret it for you, you may reject it and do not accept it for yourself.
おそらくあなたは、
You have perhaps recognised the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want them, you may not yet look upon the alternative with gladness.
極端な場合には、罪のあがないに恐れを抱き、
In the extreme, you are afraid of redemption and you believe it will kill you.
こうした強い恐怖心を軽々しくみないことだ。
Make no mistake about the depth of this fear.
そんなことを信じるがゆえに、
For you believe that, in the presence of truth you might turn on yourself and destroy yourself.
幼き者よ、あなたの（自我に基づいて）信じていることなど、
Little child, this is not so.
あなたの「気をとがめる秘密」は取るに足らないことであり、
Your 'guilty secret' is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the Light will dispel it.
その後には、
And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die because he is immortal.
また、自分はその御子と共に贖われており、
And you will see that you were redeemed with him, and have never been separated from him.
こうしたことを理解するうちに、
In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love without fear.
天国では、
There will be great joy in Heaven on your homecoming, and the joy will be yours.
罪をあがなわれた人の子はすなわち罪なき神の子なのだから、
For the redeemed son of man is the guiltless Son of God, and to recognise him is your redemption.
The ultimate purpose of projection is always to get rid of guilt.
だが自我はこれまた典型的に、
Yet, characteristically, the ego attempts to get rid of guilt from its viewpoint only, for much as the ego wants to retain guilt you find it intolerable, since guilt stands in the way of your remembering God, Whose pull is so strong that you cannot resist it.
そこで、この点から最も深い分裂が起こってしまう。もしあなたが自我のいいはるように罪責感を抱き続けるとすれば、
On this issue, then, the deepest split of all occurs, for if you are to retain guilt, as the ego insists, you cannot be you.
ただそれがあなただと説き伏せることで、
Only by persuading you that it is you could the ego possibly induce you to project guilt, and thereby keep it in your mind.
しかし自我の取り決めがいかに奇妙な解決方かよく考えてみるがい
Yet consider how strange a solution the ego's arrangement is.
あなたは罪責感から免れるためにそれを投影するが、
You project guilt to get rid of it, but you are actually merely concealing it.
罪責感にさいなまれていることは確かだが、
You do experience the guilt, but you have no idea why.
それどころか、あなたはそれを寄せ集めの奇妙な「自我の理想」
On the contrary, you associate it with a weird assortment of 'ego ideals', which the ego claims you have failed.
だが、あなたは神の子を有罪だと見ていることで、
Yet you have no idea that you are failing the Son of God by seeing him as guilty.
自分をもはや自分ではないと信じるので、
Believing you are no longer you, you do not realise that you are failing yourself.
あなたが罪責感を信じているということを自分で気づかないように
The darkest of your hidden cornerstones holds your belief in guilt from your awareness.
というのは、その暗い秘密の場所にこそ、
For in that dark and secret place is the realisation that you have betrayed God's Son by condemning him to death.
あなたはそこにこんな殺人的で気違いじみた考えが潜んでいるとは
You do not even suspect this murderous but insane idea lies hidden there, for the ego's destructive urge is so intense that nothing short of the crucifixion of God's Son can ultimately satisfy it.
自我は目が見えないので、だれが神の子なのか分かっていない。
It does not know who the Son of God is because it is blind.
しかしどこかに罪なきすがたを知覚すると、
Yet let it perceive guiltlessness anywhere, and it will try to destroy it because it is afraid.
自我の奇妙な振る舞いは、
Much of the ego's strange behaviour is directly attributable to its definition of guilt.
自我にとっては、罪の無い者たちこそ有罪とする。
To the ego, the guiltless are guilty.
攻撃しない者たちは自我の敵、
Those who do not attack are its 'enemies' because, by not valuing its interpretation of salvation, they are in an excellent position to let it go.
そのうえ自我の土台の最も暗く、
They have approached the darkest and deepest cornerstone in the ego's foundation, and while the ego can withstand your raising all else to question, it guards this one secret with its life, for its existence depends on keeping this secret.
そこで、我々はこの秘密をよく見てみなければならない。自我は真理に逆らってあなたを護れないし、
So it is this secret that we must look upon, for the ego cannot protect you against truth, and in its presence the ego is dispelled.
真理の穏やかな光のなかで、
In the calm light of truth, let us recognise that you believe you have crucified God's Son.
こんな「恐ろしい」秘密をあなたが認めていないというのは、
You have not admitted to this 'terrible' secret because you would still wish to crucify him if you could find him.
けれどもそんな願いが神の子をあなたから隠しているといえる。それは実に怖いことなので、
Yet the wish has hidden him from you because it is very fearful, and so you are afraid to find him.
こんな自分自身を殺したいという願いを、
You have handled this wish to kill yourself by not knowing who you are, and identifying with something else.
（無意識の奥底の）
You have projected guilt blindly and indiscriminately, but you have not uncovered its source.
それというのも自我は確かにあなたを殺したいと思っているし、
For the ego does want to kill you, and if you identify with it you must believe its goal is yours.
キリストのはりつけは自我を象徴するものだと述べたことがある。
I have said that the crucifixion is the symbol of the ego.
自我が神の子の本当に罪のないすがたに直面したとき、
When it was confronted with the real guiltlessness of God's Son it did attempt to kill him, and the reason it gave was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God.
自我にとっては、自我こそが神であり、
To the ego, the ego is God, and guiltlessness must be interpreted as the final guilt that fully justifies murder.
あなたは自分がこの奇跡のコースの教えに関して体験するかもしれ
You do not yet understand that any fear you may experience in connection with this course stems ultimately from this interpretation, but if you will consider your reactions to it you will become increasingly convinced that this is so.
この奇跡のコースの教えは、あなたの幸せと平安を目標にする、
This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace.
けれどもあなたはその教えに恐れを抱いている。
Yet you are afraid of it.
その教えがあなたを自由にしてくれると何度となく言い聞かされて
You have been told again and again that it will set you free, yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you.
自我の思考体系を退けるより、
You often dismiss it more readily than you dismiss the ego's thought system.
では、
To some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the course you are protecting yourself.
とすると、
And you do not realise that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you.
贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood.
けれども私がそれをあなたのために解釈したとしても、
Yet even when I interpret it for you, you may reject it and do not accept it for yourself.
おそらくあなたは、
You have perhaps recognised the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want them, you may not yet look upon the alternative with gladness.
極端な場合には、罪のあがないに恐れを抱き、
In the extreme, you are afraid of redemption and you believe it will kill you.
こうした強い恐怖心を軽々しくみないことだ。
Make no mistake about the depth of this fear.
そんなことを信じるがゆえに、
For you believe that, in the presence of truth you might turn on yourself and destroy yourself.
幼き者よ、あなたの（自我に基づいて）信じていることなど、
Little child, this is not so.
あなたの「気をとがめる秘密」は取るに足らないことであり、
Your 'guilty secret' is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the Light will dispel it.
その後には、
And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die because he is immortal.
また、自分はその御子と共に贖われており、
And you will see that you were redeemed with him, and have never been separated from him.
こうしたことを理解するうちに、
In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love without fear.
天国では、
There will be great joy in Heaven on your homecoming, and the joy will be yours.
罪をあがなわれた人の子はすなわち罪なき神の子なのだから、
For the redeemed son of man is the guiltless Son of God, and to recognise him is your redemption.
13-1 罪なきすがた‐傷つけられざる状態 Guiltlessness and Invulnerability
以前私が述べたように、
Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know.
聖霊はただそうなることを望んでいるし、
The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father's Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.
平安と罪責感とは正反対であり、
Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace.
愛と罪責感を同時に抱くことはできないから、
Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other.
罪責感であなたの目にはキリストが見えなくなるが、
Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God's Son.
あなたが作った奇妙な世界のなかでは、
In the strange world that you have made the Son of God has sinned.
では、あなたにその神の子が見えるはずがない。
How could you see him, then?
神の子を目に見えなくしたことで、
By making him invisible, the world of retribution rose in the black cloud of guilt that you accepted, and you hold it dear.
キリストの潔白さが、自我は絶対に無かったし、
For the blamelessness of Christ is the proof that the ego never was, and can never be.
罪責感なくしては自我に生命はないのだし、
Without guilt the ego has no life, and God's Son is without guilt.
あなたが自分自身をよく見て自分のしていることを正直に判断すれ
As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless.
ただし、このことをよく考えてほしい。
Yet consider this:
時間のなかではあなたに罪がないとは言い難いが、
You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.
過去に「罪を犯した」とのことだが、
You have 'sinned' in the past, but there is no past.
常にある状態に方向はない。
Always has no direction.
時間は一つの方向に向かうように思えるが、
Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear.
神の子に罪があると信じるかぎり、
As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death.
そのうち「こんな旅路は長くて残酷なうえばかげている」
And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is.
神の子が自ら出発した旅路は実に無益なものだが、
The journey the Son of God has set himself is useless indeed, but the journey on which his Father sets him is one of release and joy.
御父は残酷な存在ではないし、
The Father is not cruel, and His Son cannot hurt himself.
報復されるものと恐れたり、
The retaliation that he fears and that he sees will never touch him, for although he believes in it the Holy Spirit knows it is not true.
聖霊は時間の終わりに立っているが、
The Holy Spirit stands at the end of time, where you must be because He is with you.
聖霊は神の子にふさわしくないものをすでにことごとく取り消して
He has already undone everything unworthy of the Son of God, for such was His mission, given Him by God.
そのうえ神が与えられるものは常にあったのである。
And what God gives has always been.
あなたは「神の子に罪はない」と分かるにつれて、
You will see me as you learn the Son of God is guiltless.
神の子はいつも自分の罪なきすがたを捜し求めてきたし、
He has always sought his guiltlessness, and he has found it.
だれもが皆、自分で作ってしまった（自我の）
For everyone is seeking to escape from the prison he has made, and the way to find release is not denied him.
それは自分のなかにあるので見出せたのである。
Being in him, he has found it.
いつ見出すか、それはただ時間の問題であり、
When he finds it is only a matter of time, and time is but an illusion.
神の子には『今罪がない』のだから、
For the Son of God is guiltless now, and the brightness of his purity shines untouched forever in God's Mind.
神の子はいつまでも、創造されたままのすがたでいるだろう。
God's Son will always be as he was created.
あなたは自分の（自我の投影された）世界をこそ否定し、
Deny your world and judge him not, for his eternal guiltlessness is in the Mind of his Father, and protects him forever.
あなたは自分自身のために贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
When you have accepted the Atonement for yourself, you will realise there is no guilt in God's Son.
そしてただ神の子は潔白だとみなすなら、
And only as you look upon him as guiltless can you understand his oneness.
罪の想念をもつゆえに、
For the idea of guilt brings a belief in condemnation of one by another, projecting separation in place of unity.
あなたはただ自分自身に罪の宣告ができるだけであり、
You can condemn only yourself, and by so doing you cannot know that you are God's Son.
神の子の本質、
You have denied the condition of his being, which is his perfect blamelessness.
神の子は愛によって創造されたのであり、
Out of love he was created, and in love he abides.
それにいつも善良さと慈悲に伴われている。御父の愛をいつも拡張してきたのであるから。
Goodness and mercy have always followed him, for he has always extended the Love of his Father.
あなたは共に旅する聖なる仲間たちのことがわかってくるにつれて
As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realise that there is no journey, but only an awakening.
眠りにつくことのない神の子が、
The Son of God, who sleepeth not, has kept faith with his Father for you.
旅する道はないし、旅して通りぬける時間もない。
There is no road to travel on, and no time to travel through.
神はただの一時も御子がいないままにしておくつもりなどないので
For God waits not for His Son in time, being forever unwilling to be without him.
だからいままでずっとそうなっている。
And so it has always been.
あなたの心を暗くする自責の念をもたらす雲など、
Let the holiness of God's Son shine away the cloud of guilt that darkens your mind, and by accepting his purity as yours, learn of him that it is yours.
あなたに罪はないので傷つけられることはない。
You are invulnerable because you are guiltless.
「過去にしがみついている」とすれば、それは「
You can hold on to the past only through guilt.
そんな罪責感があると、
For guilt establishes that you will be punished for what you have done, and thus depends on one-dimensional time, proceeding from past to future.
こんなことを信じていては、「常に」
No one who believes this can understand what 'always' means, and therefore guilt must deprive you of the appreciation of eternity.
あなたは永遠なるものなのだから不滅であり、「常に」
You are immortal because you are eternal, and 'always' must be now.
では、罪責感はあなたの心のなかに過去と未来をとどめておき、
Guilt, then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the ego's continuity.
過ぎ去ったことが罰せられるようになるとすれば、
For if what has been will be punished, the ego's continuity is guaranteed.
けれどもあなたの永続性を保証するのは神であり、自我ではない。
Yet the guarantee of your continuity is God's, not the ego's.
それに不滅性は時間とは反対。なぜなら時間は過ぎ去るが、
And immortality is the opposite of time, for time passes away, while immortality is constant.
贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
Accepting the Atonement teaches you what immortality is, for by accepting your guiltlessness you learn that the past has never been, and so the future is needless and will not be.
時間においては、
The future, in time, is always associated with expiation, and only guilt could induce a sense of a need for expiation.
したがってあなたが神の子の罪なきすがたを自分のものとして受け
Accepting the guiltlessness of the Son of God as yours is therefore God's way of reminding you of His Son, and what he is in truth.
なぜなら、神は決して御子に罪の宣告をしてなどいないし、
For God has never condemned His Son, and being guiltless he is eternal.
罪を犯したのは本当だとしておいて、後でその償いをし、
You cannot dispel guilt by making it real, and then atoning for it.
これこそ自我のもくろみであって、
This is the ego's plan, which it offers instead of dispelling it.
自我は攻撃することで罪を償えるものと信じているが、
The ego believes in atonement through attack, being fully committed to the insane notion that attack is salvation.
罪責感を抱いているあなたもきっとそんなことを信じるのだろう。自我と一体感を持たずに、
And you who cherish guilt must also believe it, for how else but by identifying with the ego could you hold dear what you do not want?
自我は、あなたは有罪なのだから自分自身を攻撃するように、
The ego teaches you to attack yourself because you are guilty, and this must increase the guilt, for guilt is the result of attack.
ということは、自我の教えによると罪責感から逃れる道はない。
In the ego's teaching, then, there is no escape from guilt.
攻撃すると罪責感を本当に抱くことになるし、
For attack makes guilt real, and if it is real there is no way to overcome it.
聖霊は単にそんなことがあったためしはないと冷静に認識し、
The Holy Spirit dispels it simply through the calm recognition that it has never been.
聖霊は罪のない神の子を見ているので、これが本当だと分かる。
As He looks upon the guiltless Son of God, He knows that this is true.
こうしたことはあなたにとっても真実であり、
And being true for you, you cannot attack yourself, for without guilt attack is impossible.
では神の子に罪はないので、あなたは救われていることになる。
You, then, are saved because God's Son is guiltless.
全く潔白であるから、傷つけられることもないのである。
And being wholly pure, you are invulnerable.
Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know.
聖霊はただそうなることを望んでいるし、
The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father's Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.
平安と罪責感とは正反対であり、
Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace.
愛と罪責感を同時に抱くことはできないから、
Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other.
罪責感であなたの目にはキリストが見えなくなるが、
Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God's Son.
あなたが作った奇妙な世界のなかでは、
In the strange world that you have made the Son of God has sinned.
では、あなたにその神の子が見えるはずがない。
How could you see him, then?
神の子を目に見えなくしたことで、
By making him invisible, the world of retribution rose in the black cloud of guilt that you accepted, and you hold it dear.
キリストの潔白さが、自我は絶対に無かったし、
For the blamelessness of Christ is the proof that the ego never was, and can never be.
罪責感なくしては自我に生命はないのだし、
Without guilt the ego has no life, and God's Son is without guilt.
あなたが自分自身をよく見て自分のしていることを正直に判断すれ
As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless.
ただし、このことをよく考えてほしい。
Yet consider this:
時間のなかではあなたに罪がないとは言い難いが、
You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.
過去に「罪を犯した」とのことだが、
You have 'sinned' in the past, but there is no past.
常にある状態に方向はない。
Always has no direction.
時間は一つの方向に向かうように思えるが、
Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear.
神の子に罪があると信じるかぎり、
As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death.
そのうち「こんな旅路は長くて残酷なうえばかげている」
And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is.
神の子が自ら出発した旅路は実に無益なものだが、
The journey the Son of God has set himself is useless indeed, but the journey on which his Father sets him is one of release and joy.
御父は残酷な存在ではないし、
The Father is not cruel, and His Son cannot hurt himself.
報復されるものと恐れたり、
The retaliation that he fears and that he sees will never touch him, for although he believes in it the Holy Spirit knows it is not true.
聖霊は時間の終わりに立っているが、
The Holy Spirit stands at the end of time, where you must be because He is with you.
聖霊は神の子にふさわしくないものをすでにことごとく取り消して
He has already undone everything unworthy of the Son of God, for such was His mission, given Him by God.
そのうえ神が与えられるものは常にあったのである。
And what God gives has always been.
あなたは「神の子に罪はない」と分かるにつれて、
You will see me as you learn the Son of God is guiltless.
神の子はいつも自分の罪なきすがたを捜し求めてきたし、
He has always sought his guiltlessness, and he has found it.
だれもが皆、自分で作ってしまった（自我の）
For everyone is seeking to escape from the prison he has made, and the way to find release is not denied him.
それは自分のなかにあるので見出せたのである。
Being in him, he has found it.
いつ見出すか、それはただ時間の問題であり、
When he finds it is only a matter of time, and time is but an illusion.
神の子には『今罪がない』のだから、
For the Son of God is guiltless now, and the brightness of his purity shines untouched forever in God's Mind.
神の子はいつまでも、創造されたままのすがたでいるだろう。
God's Son will always be as he was created.
あなたは自分の（自我の投影された）世界をこそ否定し、
Deny your world and judge him not, for his eternal guiltlessness is in the Mind of his Father, and protects him forever.
あなたは自分自身のために贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
When you have accepted the Atonement for yourself, you will realise there is no guilt in God's Son.
そしてただ神の子は潔白だとみなすなら、
And only as you look upon him as guiltless can you understand his oneness.
罪の想念をもつゆえに、
For the idea of guilt brings a belief in condemnation of one by another, projecting separation in place of unity.
あなたはただ自分自身に罪の宣告ができるだけであり、
You can condemn only yourself, and by so doing you cannot know that you are God's Son.
神の子の本質、
You have denied the condition of his being, which is his perfect blamelessness.
神の子は愛によって創造されたのであり、
Out of love he was created, and in love he abides.
それにいつも善良さと慈悲に伴われている。御父の愛をいつも拡張してきたのであるから。
Goodness and mercy have always followed him, for he has always extended the Love of his Father.
あなたは共に旅する聖なる仲間たちのことがわかってくるにつれて
As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realise that there is no journey, but only an awakening.
眠りにつくことのない神の子が、
The Son of God, who sleepeth not, has kept faith with his Father for you.
旅する道はないし、旅して通りぬける時間もない。
There is no road to travel on, and no time to travel through.
神はただの一時も御子がいないままにしておくつもりなどないので
For God waits not for His Son in time, being forever unwilling to be without him.
だからいままでずっとそうなっている。
And so it has always been.
あなたの心を暗くする自責の念をもたらす雲など、
Let the holiness of God's Son shine away the cloud of guilt that darkens your mind, and by accepting his purity as yours, learn of him that it is yours.
あなたに罪はないので傷つけられることはない。
You are invulnerable because you are guiltless.
「過去にしがみついている」とすれば、それは「
You can hold on to the past only through guilt.
そんな罪責感があると、
For guilt establishes that you will be punished for what you have done, and thus depends on one-dimensional time, proceeding from past to future.
こんなことを信じていては、「常に」
No one who believes this can understand what 'always' means, and therefore guilt must deprive you of the appreciation of eternity.
あなたは永遠なるものなのだから不滅であり、「常に」
You are immortal because you are eternal, and 'always' must be now.
では、罪責感はあなたの心のなかに過去と未来をとどめておき、
Guilt, then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the ego's continuity.
過ぎ去ったことが罰せられるようになるとすれば、
For if what has been will be punished, the ego's continuity is guaranteed.
けれどもあなたの永続性を保証するのは神であり、自我ではない。
Yet the guarantee of your continuity is God's, not the ego's.
それに不滅性は時間とは反対。なぜなら時間は過ぎ去るが、
And immortality is the opposite of time, for time passes away, while immortality is constant.
贖罪（≒自我の「分離」
Accepting the Atonement teaches you what immortality is, for by accepting your guiltlessness you learn that the past has never been, and so the future is needless and will not be.
時間においては、
The future, in time, is always associated with expiation, and only guilt could induce a sense of a need for expiation.
したがってあなたが神の子の罪なきすがたを自分のものとして受け
Accepting the guiltlessness of the Son of God as yours is therefore God's way of reminding you of His Son, and what he is in truth.
なぜなら、神は決して御子に罪の宣告をしてなどいないし、
For God has never condemned His Son, and being guiltless he is eternal.
罪を犯したのは本当だとしておいて、後でその償いをし、
You cannot dispel guilt by making it real, and then atoning for it.
これこそ自我のもくろみであって、
This is the ego's plan, which it offers instead of dispelling it.
自我は攻撃することで罪を償えるものと信じているが、
The ego believes in atonement through attack, being fully committed to the insane notion that attack is salvation.
罪責感を抱いているあなたもきっとそんなことを信じるのだろう。自我と一体感を持たずに、
And you who cherish guilt must also believe it, for how else but by identifying with the ego could you hold dear what you do not want?
自我は、あなたは有罪なのだから自分自身を攻撃するように、
The ego teaches you to attack yourself because you are guilty, and this must increase the guilt, for guilt is the result of attack.
ということは、自我の教えによると罪責感から逃れる道はない。
In the ego's teaching, then, there is no escape from guilt.
攻撃すると罪責感を本当に抱くことになるし、
For attack makes guilt real, and if it is real there is no way to overcome it.
聖霊は単にそんなことがあったためしはないと冷静に認識し、
The Holy Spirit dispels it simply through the calm recognition that it has never been.
聖霊は罪のない神の子を見ているので、これが本当だと分かる。
As He looks upon the guiltless Son of God, He knows that this is true.
こうしたことはあなたにとっても真実であり、
And being true for you, you cannot attack yourself, for without guilt attack is impossible.
では神の子に罪はないので、あなたは救われていることになる。
You, then, are saved because God's Son is guiltless.
全く潔白であるから、傷つけられることもないのである。
And being wholly pure, you are invulnerable.
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